I just use a straight up general Linux image, such as debian or arch and then install what I need inside them.

Check out Distrobox.

More luck than anything really. It was probably because it had 6 months left and the fact that reading and writing felt slow. Everything else behaved normally and buying a new disk was an educated guess that turned out to be the correct choice.

I had a weird issue with a server SSD.

6 months ahead of scheduled swap, it didn’t die, it just started reading and writing really sluggishly, making the whole server behave really weird. Disk smart statistics looked healthy and disk self tests passed with flying colors. Anyway, had to swap it early and do a re-install of the OS.

The rest of my cluster temporarily took over running some pods and only saw downtime for a few pods that were dependent on some disks in the failing server.

I guess the incident has restarted my interest in distributed storage.

I still have my reddit account, but I got all my data deleted via a GDPR request. I’m never at reddit at all, I actually prefer Lemmy way more.

Yup, came here after the API changes that basically blocked 3rd party clients.

Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I’ve made and see if it helps. It’s not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.

Yeah, im in disbelief. It was just weeks ago when they reported a website was spamming the parliament with emails. Now fucking Denmark is trying again, WTF Denmark!!!

Absolutely agree. I have been thinking of starting a selfhost guide that takes you through the different ways to selfhost and the basic concepts of it, but gave up because I’m a shit writer and my experiences are mostly docker, k8s and Terraform/OpenTofu.

I run a pretty barebone Archlinux with several distroboxes. My main motivation for this setup is that I work on a lot of different projects that all have very different setups. Running them in distroboxes make sure I can just drop the box, once the project is finished, and all code and data is just wiped, without having any impact on my main setup.

This is the same strategy I use with my family as well, I refer to a service they know and then tell them it’s in our house.

My current project has a crontab with 216 entries.

Yeah, not for long, I’m quitting this company as soon as I can.

At work we have the following quote on the fridge

“A ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”

We are a software development company and my reply to this was basically that pot making hasn’t changed in a long time, it’s basically shaping and firing clay. Software development is comparatively new and has a vastly more dynamic landscape.

Also, the comparison is stupid because we don’t write code, realize it was shit and write a new one. If we did business like that, we wouldn’t be in business.

I use it sparingly and only to automate things I know how to do very well, so reviewing its work become easier.

Pretty sure it’s gonna be the stake

Noop, you have to install the man-db package

Currently rewriting my homelab into terraform and adding some redundancies using cloud environments, in case of power outages or network issues.

This seem less to do with preservation and more to do with capitalizing on an old game on a new platform.

Great read, thanks for sharing.