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You're an Eternal September problem. A discussion starts getting technical, has specific content, & then all the new people come jumping in to the technical thread wanting to get filled in again from the start. The thread devolves into a less & less specific & interesting & unique discussion & turns into rehashing what the basic common knowledge is.

You might not like my phrasing, but asking you what you saw, what possibilities would arise to you is a general & sincere question & you being so mortally offended at being challenged doesn't feel fair either. It would have been interesting to see you either try to guess, or put in 3 minutes of looking around & state more clearly what was unapparent about how these might be related. I was hoping you'd work to carry a little water in the discussion, to help illuminate what your mindset was, after a little trying.

> Get ahold of yourself

This is weirdly aggressive.

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What? There was clearly no discussion, since my reply was made directly to your comment. I have a self-hosting environment that works well for me, but I would like to know from someone (presumably) more knowledgeable if Kubernetes would be helpful. Clearly I was wrong to assume that you, like a normal person, wouldn't mind sharing your knowledge with someone genuinely interested.

What an embarrassing shit show over an innocent question you could've simply ignored if you didn't feel like answering.

I gave you a slate of really good reasons for this. You're bring overdramatic. My initial ask, & further suggestion, that you try to say what does or doesnt make sense to you, is not the personal assault you keep taking it as.

Nothing you’ve said has been intelligible. The actual creators of PiBox have posted saying essentially that they used Kubernetes because that’s what the team was already working with and preferred personally, while adding that other people might want to use other software for similar reasons.

In my toaster analogy, when asked “what did you accomplish with the toaster?” they responded with (I’m paraphrasing here) “A better toasting experience for the PiBox team because of our existing toasting skillset” more or less.

It was a response that was easily distilled into a single sentence and moved past. Somehow they conveyed that without calling people “haters” or “problems” and I genuinely think that is because that poster had a good grasp of Kubernetes and its use cases.

I can understand that after this whole back and forth, but for your consideration, "What were your thoughts if any here" isn't exactly something you say to a stranger and expect them to not read it as an insult. Especially if it comes right after an affirmation ending with a question mark, in a "it's so obvious, how do you not know this?" tone.

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