Screw You Broadcom

The cloud computing evolution depicted as a cave of lies! At the surface, we've got that ancient PC gathering dust under some desk—you know, the one IT forgot about but somehow still runs your company's critical payroll system. Dig deeper and you find EC2 instances, the "I'm totally in control of my infrastructure" phase. Go deeper still and there's Kubernetes, where DevOps engineers spend 80% of their time configuring YAML files and 20% explaining why everything is broken. And at the very bottom? "Serverless"—the promised land where servers supposedly don't exist, but you're actually just renting someone else's servers while sacrificing all debugging capabilities. The deeper you go, the more you pay for "simplicity" that requires a PhD to understand!

Nothing says "I'm processing my emotions in a healthy way" like stacking five Dell servers in your bedroom and spending 72 sleepless hours configuring container orchestration. The sweet hum of overheating hardware drowns out those pesky feelings, and the electricity bill that rivals a small nation's GDP is totally worth it. Who needs a therapist asking about your childhood when you can debug YAML files at 3 AM? It's not hoarding if it's infrastructure .

The job market's final boss has arrived! On the left: a job description requiring mastery of 20+ technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, JavaScript, Python, Linux, security tools like CISSP and Palo Alto, plus NIST compliance and .NET. On the right: the actual job? Excel spreadsheet jockey. It's the classic tech industry bait-and-switch where companies demand you know how to build a nuclear reactor just to change the lightbulbs. The recruiter probably thinks "full-stack" means you can stack paper forms into a full pile.

You set up a cute little home server to host your personal projects, maybe run Plex, store your files, tinker with Docker containers... and suddenly everyone at the family gathering wants you to explain what it does. Next thing you know, Uncle Bob wants you to "fix his Wi-Fi" and your non-tech friends think you're running a crypto mining operation. The swear jar stays empty because you've learned to keep your mouth shut. But that "telling people about my home server when I wasn't asked" jar? That's your retirement fund. Every time you can't resist explaining your beautiful self-hosted setup, another dollar goes in. The worst part? You know you're doing it, but the urge to evangelize about your Raspberry Pi cluster is just too strong. Pro tip: The moment someone shows mild interest, you're already mentally planning their entire homelab migration. Nobody asked, but they're getting a 45-minute presentation anyway.

Who needs proper containerization when you can just document your chaos? The eternal dev dilemma: learning Docker's intricate orchestration system OR just taking 23 screenshots of your working environment like some digital hoarder. Nothing says "I'll figure it out later" quite like a folder full of PNG evidence of that one time everything actually worked. Future you will surely decipher those cryptic terminal screenshots taken at 2AM!

Developer: "It works on my machine..." Manager: "Then we'll ship your machine." The punchline? That's literally how containerization was invented. Docker is just your laptop in a trench coat pretending to be a production environment. Now instead of blaming the server, we blame the YAML file. Progress.