Debugging

I listen to “Stuff You Should Know” podcast every night falling asleep. Has been my routine for years. My girlfriend got used to it. Now she requires it too. The problem: waking up at 2am and needing to restart it. “Hey Google, play Stuff You Should Know for 30 minutes” — that voice command is loud enough to wake the other person. Defeats the purpose of a sleep aid. ...

When ‘systemctl status’ says everything is fine but your network is down, you learn that hard NFS mounts and critical services don’t mix.

A 404MB log file growing at 160MB/day. 87% of it was mDNS traffic. One thermostat was sending 66,000 queries with zero responses. The fix wasn’t log rotation - it was understanding why.