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The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab

Stand-up comedy about having a homelab.

A badly photoshopped screenshot of The End of Evangelion with a certain Linux distribution's logo over Rei's face while Shinji and Asuka look on in horror at the last sunset humanity will ever seeAt a certain point though, a few things happened that made me realize that I was going off course for what I wanted. Then the distribution I was using made…creative decisions in community management and I realized that my reach as a large-scale content creator (I hate that term) and blogger meant that by continuing to advocate for that distro in its current state, I was de-facto harming people. The cool part about this in my book though is that because I had a problem that was only exposed with the hardware my homelab uses (specifically because my git server was apparently running on rotational storage, oops), I got creative, made a solution, pushed it to GitHub, and now it’s in use to protect GNOME’s GitLab, SourceHut, small community projects, god knows how many git forges, and I’ve heard that basically every major open source project that self-hosts infrastructure is evaluating it to protect their websites too.

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