SumGuy's Ramblings
The art of wasting time.
Docker, self-hosting, AI/LLM, Linux, and DevOps — explained by someone who learned the hard way. No fluff, no enterprise jargon, just practical stuff that actually works on real hardware.
Recent Posts
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Proxmox MCP: Read-Only Beats Root
Two Proxmox MCP servers can query your cluster over chat, but the real safety boundary is a scoped PVEAuditor API token, not a config permission flag.
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Home Assistant MCP: Server and Client
Home Assistant ships two MCP integrations, not one. One turns your house into a server for Claude and ChatGPT. The other is narrower than its name suggests.
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Komodo MCP vs the Docker Socket
Komodo's community MCP server beats mounting the Docker socket or handing an AI agent SSH: scoped auth, per-tool RBAC, and confirmation before deletes.
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Nano Banana Is Eating Its Own Images
Nano Banana's blurry images come from two causes: permanent generational loss from iterative editing, and a June 2026 outage Google fixed within 15 hours.
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IPv6 Dual-Stack: The Hard Parts
Dual-stack IPv6 for home labs: DHCPv6-PD delegation, stable addressing past SLAAC privacy extensions, real nftables firewall rules, and Docker IPv6 done right.
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RomM and EmulatorJS: Retro on a NAS
RomM vs EmulatorJS explained: RomM is a ROM library manager that embeds EmulatorJS for browser play. Docker setup, metadata scraping, and save states compared.
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Ghostty vs Kitty vs WezTerm in 2026
Ghostty hit 1.0 and everyone wants to know if it beats Kitty and WezTerm. A fact-checked 2026 look at rendering, config, SSH terminfo, and multiplexing.
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Tinyauth vs Pocket ID vs Authelia
Tinyauth vs Pocket ID vs Authelia compared for home labs: setup cost, forward-auth support, real OIDC, passkeys, 2FA, and when to move up to Authentik.
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Pterodactyl vs Pelican vs Crafty
Pterodactyl, Pelican, and Crafty Controller compared on container isolation, install steps, and RAM footprint, with verified versions and a real pick.
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Your Coding Agent Can't Draw
Coding agents write flawless code and leave hero.png blank. Compare self-hosted GPU image generation against subpixel, a ChatGPT-subscription CLI tool.
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Stratis: Red Hat's Answer to Btrfs
Stratis layers XFS over device-mapper thin pools instead of copying Btrfs. What the trade costs you on RHEL, Rocky, and Alma, and which one to run in 2026.
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Self-Hosted Maps Stack Picker
You don't need every map tool. A decision tree for picking the right self-hosted maps stack, geocoding only, routing, tiles, or the whole works.
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