Why call me out to hard, what did I do to you? I’d sit in the chair to calm down, but it’s obviously covered in clothing.

I suspect both are true.

That to me still feels like a variety of “scale”. All of these tools (Ansible is a great example) are of dubious benefit when your scale of systems is small. If you only have a single dev machine or server, having an infrastructure-as-code system or containerized abstraction layer, just feels to me like unnecessary added mental overhead. If this post had been in a community about FOSS development or general programming, I’d feel differently as all of these things can be of great use there. Maybe my idea of selfhosting just isn’t as grandiose as some of the people in here. If you have a room full of server racks in your house, that’s a whole other ballgame.

This is a big part of why I don’t use VMs or containers at home. All of those abstractions only start showing their worth once you scale them out.

I feel like this too. I do not feel comfortable using docker containers that I didn’t make myself. And for many people, that defeats the purpose.

Why would I want add overheard and complexity to my system when I don’t need to? I can totally see legitimate use cases for docker, and work for purposes I use VMs constantly. I just don’t see a benefit to doing so at home.

I do as well. No one ever knows what I am referencing :(

Same

haha that really brings me back.

The fact that you say using NFS makes you old makes me feel like fucking Yoda

Lol of course it isn’t that hyperbolic. I am still a functioning adult and in fact the main breadwinner of my family. I didn’t set out to be some sort of pop culture storage device, it happened naturally. I do still remember things, I just don’t write them down generally. My wife writes things down specifically because she will not remember them otherwise. Her journaling tendencies are why she has taken on the role of documenting things like appointments and such. If I was on my own again, I’d have to come up with my own method.

This is exactly the dynamic my wife and I have.

Seriously. The parking near my Costco is so bad I haven’t gone in two months. If it wasn’t worth the membership price for the tire service alone I’d probably cancel.