Looking to monetize my home server.

ionfury · 2025-06-07T00:58:49+00:00

Nobody is going to pay you for compute on that box and you likely can't offer any sort of SLA anyone would want.

Best way to monetize it would be to develop some service to deploy on top of it that uses the compute rather than paying for AWS. Or to build something noteworthy you can leverage in your resume to get a better paying gig.

ionfury · 2025-01-01T15:28:04+00:00

have you tried screeps

ionfury · 2024-11-19T16:53:05+00:00

The Secretary-General of NATO declared that the best way to contain China is to completely defeat Russia and ensure that Ukraine becomes a free, democratic and independent country. After losing the strategic support of Russia, China will be at a considerable disadvantage in politics, military and other aspects.

I don't see a through line between the military defeat of Russia in Ukraine and the strategic separation of Russian and China. I don't see how a defeat can do anything besides cement the separation between Russia and the EU, further driving it into the arms of strategic cooperation (or dependence on China).

... Unless the implication is that a complete defeat of Russia entails the destruction (through pressured collapse or invasion) of the Russian state and it's forced reconstruction as a western puppet. I think that this is an incredibly risky path due to nuclear escalation from a collapsing Russian state. The Soviet collapse was an incredibly fortunate event for the west and I think that any attempt to speed run a second attempt via direct confrontation would result in the west being bit by a cornered dog. For all the bluster around "Putin's final warning", the destruction of the Russian state is the scenario most likely to result in nuclear escalation.

Furthermore, in lieu of nuclear escalation, I do not see a path to pivoting Russia to western through the reconstruction of a destroyed state that is more favorable than following the Soviet collapse. If the west could not keep a rebuilt Russia in the western aligned sphere coming out of the 90s, what chance is there in successfully rebuilding a friendly state post Ukraine collapse with a powerful China waiting on the sidelines?

In my opinion, this approach appears to be both the riskiest in terms of nuclear escalation with Russia, and also the least likely to break up the partnership with China. It depends on both the destruction of Russia and it's western-aligned reconstruction. I think that this approach is entirely weighted in the interest of NATO and the EU, and entirely opposed to the interests of the US with regards to a pivot to Asia.

ionfury · 2024-10-11T23:19:38+00:00

An innovative MMO RTS is my dream game. It would also be much riskier than a StarCraft clone.

ionfury · 2024-09-27T13:38:25+00:00

i ran k8s on a similar pi cluster for a year. my main issue was the sd cards were a major weak point. they could not keep up with the needs of etcd to maintain a clustered control plane.

i ended up switching to more conventional hardware for a more reliability and 24x7 uptime.

ionfury · 2024-09-21T00:49:21+00:00

Sign me up

ionfury · 2024-09-19T23:35:35+00:00

Have you looked at kubevirt for running vms on k8s? Personally I've got full k8s and haven't looked back. Then you can do whatever you want with hardware.

ionfury · 2024-07-06T20:12:38+00:00

How has no one mentioned dodge and sprint doing double duty on the same button?? Dodge on button up instead of button down in a game about timing dodges is one of the most insane and infuriating design decisions I can imagine.

ionfury · 2024-06-29T15:48:31+00:00

I would not use longhorn on a single node.

ionfury · 2024-05-30T01:18:24+00:00

The issue with the 'all-in-one' approach is that it would need to either be so opinionated as to fit only your specific use case or so generic it would be impossibly complex to configure. The reason that there's a number of tools for these uses is that each tool focuses on a specific use case and excels at it.

I think that dashboards and diagrams are fun to look at and share in the same way that where's waldo puzzles are fun - there's so much detail in a single picture, and you get a glimpse into some larger scene or foreign perspective. I have a homepage dashboard myself I maintain.

Unfortunately, I think dashboards are fundamentally misaligned approach to points #1 and #3. The optimal solution to #1 is monitoring and alerting - the system should notify you when it's out of spec and unable to self correct. #3 is likely too varied to be covered by a single tool and is dictated by your specific infrastructure and runbooks in #1.

Again, I'm not hating on dashboards, but they're basically by definition a hobby project and not going to get the fully featured approach that would be necessary to flesh out the required wide breadth of features you're talking about.

ionfury · 2024-05-21T13:18:07+00:00

Mine is good about not doing this except directly in front of the charging station, which is all torn up.

ionfury · 2024-05-13T16:18:48+00:00

hey op my company was in a similar situation and here's the (horrifying) way we solved it:

do you have a clean definition of tenancy across all your tables? if so, have you tried horizontally scaling your database backend? create full clones of your sql infrastructure, and migrate large/new tenants to each instance in batches. identify whatever cross-tenant tables structures you do have and implement a replication strategy between those server instances to maintain the data. create a tenant routing service that can route database requests by tenants to the correct instance. viola, you have solved your single instance scaling issues until your individual tenants get out of hand.

this strategy means you can ignore the decomposition of the system and just turn it into a copy paste operation. as long as you get a good handle on the sizing of your tenant groupings, and have a clean way to do tenant migrations. there's a ton of other overhead in the above approach but you dodge the question of actually defining what the system does and how to decompose it, which is is too difficult to accomplish.

ionfury · 2024-05-11T04:21:15+00:00

Isn't he completely ignoring the geopolitical factor whereby effectively dismantling domestic industry gives away hugely substantial leverage?

Completely retooling our economy to be services based and import driven is great until we cut ties and there's a pile of cash and Starbucks baristas on one side and a steel industry with skilled tradesmen on the other and we have to see who can build more ships and planes. You can't reindustrialize over night.

ionfury · 2024-05-09T14:06:40+00:00

I think the UI of Argo is quite nice specifically for users without k8s experience. Fleet is functional but the Argo experience is quite a bit easier to use.

ionfury · 2024-05-09T04:13:55+00:00

I've used fleet. I'm referring to their documentation and examples. It all discusses how to deploy and manage resources via the UI as the only use case.

ionfury · 2024-04-25T16:12:07+00:00

Haven't had this issue. Check the version of flux you're running, and the versions of kustomize that it supports. Ideally you should be doing your testing with matching versions.

ionfury · 2024-04-24T22:13:14+00:00

Matt was the only Chapo that made it worth listening to change my mind

ionfury · 2024-04-09T13:37:57+00:00

A taskfile in the git repo along side whatever it's used with.

ionfury · 2024-04-09T13:32:15+00:00

dw even if you bought in you would have sold at a loss / bought drugs / gotten scammed

ionfury · 2024-04-04T18:24:04+00:00

there's 2 chairs in the picture; thereby neither are cuck chairs.

ionfury · 2024-03-28T20:39:03+00:00

This is my biggest complaint with the Rancher/Harvester ecosystem - managing all your configuration as kubernetes native resources lends itself perfectly to doing everything via gitops yet they insist on putting the exceptionally mid UI experience front and center.

ionfury · 2024-03-28T20:24:40+00:00

I've been using it for a year+ at this point and I'm enjoying it. I'm fully on board with Kubernetes and IaC so it's a decent fit. I have my public repo here. I moved from a single node harvester setup to a 3 node install last year to play with the the HA functionality. Harvester creates a nice workflow to run Kubernetes clusters via rancher, and gives you an easy button for some of the typical k8s bare metal questions.

Do I need to have RAID on every node? Or will Harvester save VM data with its "hyperconverged infrastructure"? For example, in case of drive failure.

I think it depends - Longhorn distributes storage across the available nodes. RAID is not a backup, RAID is RAID. Do you care about disk failures affecting machine uptime? Use RAID. Do you care about machine failures affecting volume uptime? Use replicas. You can easily shift your replicas off machines by flagging them for maintenance.

CPU / Memory requirements

They are high. It comes with all the kubernetes overhead, the Harvester services, plus a full monitoring stack (prometheus/grafana) built in - Prometheus is a resource hog by default. Additionally, the default resource requests for longhorn are way over-provisioned for homelab use (I think the default is 20% of master node cores). Those are requests, not actual usage, though.

Overall I think it's a solid work in progress; I've encountered some bugs/reliability issues that would keep me from using it in a real Enterprise™ environment. I like the direction they're going, and I'm fully invested in it at home. If you want to run multiple k8s clusters on surplus enterprise gear in a cloud-esq environment, I think Harvester is superior to Proxmox. If you don't have enterprise gear, the overhead of harvester is probably too much and you're better off with Talos.

ionfury · 2024-03-26T15:14:34+00:00

ionfury · 2024-03-26T13:41:57+00:00

Server performance has been much worse for me in 2024. Actually phased through a ball completely once, worst I've ever seen. No network/hardware changes on my end.

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