I am pretty sure I have ADHD, but never been diagnosed. I had to learn certain things throughout school growing up and I almost failed out of my freshman year in high school. I was able to turn that around and figure out how to study and focus when needed. I basically used music and TV to help.

My kid has ADHD and I did get him diagnosed. I do not want to medicate him either. I would much rather help him learn how to control himself when possible instead of medicating him. It takes a lot of work. Especially in today’s age with avenues like YouTube where my kid will get absorbed into that for hours. Just like yours, he will forget to eat.

It takes a lot of work from my side to keep him focused. I have to sit down with him to do his homework. He goes to a school where it’s a bit more academically challenging as well, so what should only take 30 mins, might take 1-2 hours. He’s well ahead of his peers in certain areas like reading where he’s about 4 grade levels ahead. So, it’s not that he struggles with school or the material, it’s just focus. I have to make sure he does everything he needs to when getting dressed or ready. I have him in many activities to get him away from tv, YouTube, and other digital devices. It’s a lot of work on my end, but I do feel like it’s helping. In kindergarten we would probably spend 5 hours almost every night on homework. Now it’s 1-2 hours sort of spread out. He understands what is expected of him and he has better habits when it comes to studying.

The main reason I got him diagnosed was because of his school. This way they understand and can make any accommodations due to his behavior at times.

At the end of the day, for us, it’s all about routine. Even for myself. When I go on vacation and get out of a routine, I start going all over the place. Same for him. So, having a routine helps significantly. We do x homework first, then Y homework. We get our clothes on first, then brush our teeth for example. We go to x activity on this day at this time. This means I have had to become more organized myself, which is difficult for me.

Yeah, it’s actually really really stupid. If they say this is true, then you can say a website is changing the code of the actual browser as well

Cash me outside

Depends where you live. Where I am at, most schools end at the end of May, but then start around the beginning of August

You have a lot of responses here, but I’ll tell what k8s actually is, since a lot of people seem to get this wrong.

Just like k8s, docker has many tools. Although docker is packaged in a way, that it looks like it’s just 1 tool. This is docker desktop. Under the hood there is docker engine that is really a runtime and image management service and API. You can look at this more if you wanted. There is containerd, runc, cri-o. These were all created so that different implementations can all talk to this API in a standard way and work.

Moving on to k8s. K8s is a way to scale these containers to run in different ways and scale horizontally. There are ways to even scale nodes vertically and horizontally to allow for more or less resources to place these containers on. This means k8s is very event driven and utilizes a lot of APIs to communicate and take action.

You said that you are doing kubectl apply constantly and you say feels wrong. In reality, this is correct. Under the hood you are talking with the k8s control plane and it’s taking that manifest and storing it. Other services are communicating with the control plane to understand what they have to do. In fact you can apply a directory of manifests, so you don’t have to specify each file individually.

Again there are many tools you can use to manage k8s. It is an orchestration system to manage pods and run them. You get to pick what tool you want to use. If you want something you can do from a git repo, you can use something like argocd or flux. This is considered to be gitops and more declarative. If you need a templating implementation, there are many, like helm, json net, and kustomize (although not a full templating language). These can help you define your manifests in a more repeatable and meaningful way, but you can always apply these using the same tools (kubectl, argocd, flux, etc…)

There are many services that can run in k8s that will solve one problem or another and these tools scale themselves, since they mostly all use the same designs that keep scalability in mind. I kept things very simple, but try out vanilla k8s first to understand what is going on. It’s great that you are questioning these things as it shows you understand there is probably something better that you can do. Now you just need to find the tools that are right for you. Ask what you hate or dislike about what you are doing and find a way to solve that and if there are any tools that can help. https://landscape.cncf.io/ is a good place to start to see what tools exist.

Anyway, good luck on your adventure. K8s is an enterprise tool after all and it’s not really meant for something like a home lab. It’s an orchestration system and NOT a platform that you can just start running stuff on without some effort. Getting it up and running is day 1 operations. Managing it and keeping it running is day 2 operations.