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- Comment on AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law 1 week ago:
Correction, hundreds of *billions" of dollars. >$400bn as of 11 years ago.
- Comment on AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law 1 week ago:
Not only that, they took the money to build out and pocketed it.
- Comment on Me when my parents told me they first met in the summer of 1999 & started dating the following year and I did the math (dad - 1959, mom - 1984) 3 weeks ago:
Your brother was half your dad? Man, that’s crazy.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 3 weeks ago:
I docker’d all of my systems a few years ago, and I’m so glad I did. So much easier to manage, and when I lost a system I was able to get most of my services back up and running with minimal configuration on a VM same day.
As for hardware, you might check and see if you’ve got a local reseller of retired business equipment. Before I moved, I had a place I went to from my work that accepted shit we were getting rid of that disposed of stuff and resold at a bargin the stuff that was still good. I got more than one hp tower from a few years previous that ran (and still runs) like a champ. Felt like night and day when I upgraded to that from my Pi setup.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren’t a bad thought either. I’d just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I’ve got another VM that’s got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
I might be able to hook it up to a usb NVMe reader, but when I initially tried I barely got any recognition of the drive from the OS. My primary system is windows, so I might get more info from one of my linux systems, just haven’t had the fucks to give to the dead drive. As for a replacement drive, funds are scarce and time/learning is (comparatively) free. Someone else suggested kubernetes, so I might look into that to see if that can accomplish what I’m looking for.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
I’m leery about using a USB for long term persistent OS storage due to lifespan issues I’ve seen when just running a hypervisor from one. A ‘real’ usermode OS is probably going to have a worse lifespan than what I was seeing at work.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to use a USB for storage, because those aren’t going to have a great lifespan in my experience. I’ve used them as the install media for something like ESX, but I’d rather not run a ‘real’ OS from a disk because I wasn’t impressed with overall lifespan on some of the systems we managed at work.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
Realistically, I just want to have a system that can act as the hardware end point for a coral processor to do image recognition. I don’t need to write a lot on demand, and what was being written previously was all to the NAS (other than the app’s database)
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
I’m actually not 100% what killed the drive. It could have been an issue with the drive wearing out, but my services didn’t write much locally and it wasn’t super old so I assume its a heat issue with a fanless micro system. I try to write everything important to my NASs so I don’t have to worry about random hardware failures, but this one didn’t have backups configured before it failed. Other than the drive issue its been solid for 1.5-2 years of near constant uptime.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 3 weeks ago:
So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.
Putting the image somewhere is easy. I’ve got TBs of space available on my NAS drives, especially right now with not acquiring any additional linux ISOs.
For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.
I’ll check that out. If that allows me to actually write databases to disk on the nfs backing volume, that would be amazing. That’s the biggest issue I run into (regularly).
This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.
I don’t think I’ve ever looked into kubernetes. I’ll have to look into that at some point… Any good beginner resources?
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- Comment on I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA 4 weeks ago:
What was it like watching a movie with Paul Reubens?
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
News papers are a physical item, not bits hidden behind a boolean set to true. Plus, I can go read a newspaper at the store if I want to.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
I’ve tried to use the playlist feature on my device a couple of times, but I still had to manually start the next episode. I might try again and see if I can figure it out.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
Yes, the android app is my preferred method of accessing my server. It works great, other than on rare occasions when it gets killed in the background for some reason, and my complaint about playlists from the previous comment is a much bigger irritation, but a very minor complaint.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 2 months ago:
Podcasts are my primary use case (my partner uses audiobooks exclusively), and while it works rather well, I want to put in the caveat that there’s no working playlist functionality in the app, and IME headset controls don’t work from FF for Android.
That’s not a deal breaker for me, but it was a massive disappointment when I switched over. But the lack of playlist functionality in the app only annoys me when I want to follow one of the shorter news feeds, since I have to stop and select the next track every 5 min as the episode ends. No issue with that feed from the browser, so meh.
Works great through my reverse proxy/cloudflare tunnel setup, so not too many actual complaints.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 2 months ago:
Accelerationist arguments always show that the speaker isn’t nearly as smart as they think they are.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 months ago:
AssCreed4 is the best game of the series. Black Flag’s combat was great and the ship combat keeps me coming back to the game years on.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 2 months ago:
A sex tourist
- Comment on Interview 3 months ago:
I was somewhat horrified at the stuff your mother let you read before I remembered her dirty stuff is under a pen name.
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 3 months ago:
While I see where you’re coming from, I need time to decompress and just do my own shit, so running the fam around and getting needed errands done was just more work vs actually refreshing my mental state
Burnout fucking sucks and getting recharge times stolen absolutely matters.
- Comment on The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow 3 months ago:
That’s rough. I took a “mental health” day that got turned into a day of running errands, so guess who basically worked all through their mental health day?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank 3 months ago:
"Why do one thing well when you can be bad at everything instead"
- Leon Kums
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 3 months ago:
This isn’t nearly that dumb, because the train isn’t actually riding directly on top of the solar cells.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m definitely not the biggest fan of HCI, especially the reporting aspect of it. I had to write my own damn reports just to see how badly we over provisioned disks once we found out it only reports on actual utilization.
I tolerate Microsoft products and admin them, but damn they’re annoying to use at times.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 3 months ago:
They also offer the Azure Stack HCI platform, which is the modern version of hyper-v, but goddamn is it a pain in the ass (and requires active connection and subscription to azure for onprem workloads).
- Comment on I'm going insane 3 months ago:
Heh, I don’t know that I would have put subnautica in that category, but I can see where you’re coming from on that one.
I might check out life is strange, thanks!
- Comment on I'm going insane 3 months ago:
What are some good games like that? I’m not a big fan of the jump scare horror games, so I tend to ignore most horror games on principle, but the genre is still fun when I find a gem.
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 3 months ago:
Not even Google Lens can scan it
Might be you, I just used lens to check the QR code man and it detected it just fine on my pixel 8.