If you stood up k8s just for an IRC client that would definitely be silly, but honestly if you already have it (in this context presumably as the way you self-h

If you stood up k8s just for an IRC client that would definitely be silly, but honestly if you already have it (in this context presumably as the way you self-host stuff at home) then I don't really think there's anything silly about it. If anything it would be silly to have all your 'serious' stuff in k8s and then a little systemd unit on one of the nodes (or a separate instance/machine) or something for your IRC client! (Before I'm accused of cargo-culting: I don't run it at home, and just finished moving off it at work last week.)