Grumpy
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Rants from the machine room.
Fix it. Build it. Zero it.
One angry engineer, a hundred rabbit holes. Building things that don't catch fire twice, wood that doesn't warp, relays that don't weld shut — and writing down what happened when they did.
Rant categories
pick your poisonAI & ML
Models, inference, the whole racket.
1 rant
Solar & Battery
Photons in, pill stacks out.
0 rants
IoT & Boards
Tiny chips, big opinions.
0 rants
Woodworking
Sawdust & precision.
0 rants
Security
Locks, logs & very bad boxes.
1 rant
Firearms
Range reports & respect.
0 rants
Homelab & Hardware
Servers, storage, who owns what.
1 rant
Latest dispatches
ARCHIVE →I replaced a faulted drive and the pool still sounded nervous
Resilvering, degraded-mode anxiety, and why you should plan for the second drive to die too.
Homelab & HardwareRead →
An approved-models registry nobody has to sneak around
SSO is a badge, not a lock. Build the wall so you don't have to watch the gate.
AI & MLRead →
The CentOS 6 box staring at the internet is winning
It only takes one unpatched thing nobody owns. A sobering field dispatch.
SecurityRead →
Most "outages" are just neglect with a timestamp attached.— the grumpy admin