gray
@gray@pawb.social
Linux & Azure cloud engineer. Sometimes a wolf, or a fuzzy dragon.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 4 days ago:
At least where I work, our cloud team is ~35 people who manage the whole thing.
The datacenter team? In the hundreds.
Cloud is not the answer to every infra problem, but the flexibility, time to market, and lifecycle burden are easily beneficial weighed against finops. I’m an Azure engineer myself, it’s no comparison the benefits to a managed solution vs rolling your own DC for a lot of regular business workloads and solutions. Beyond that personally I’ve been able to skill up in areas I wouldn’t be able to otherwise if I was stuck troubleshooting bad cables, rebuilding a dead RAID array, or planning VMWare scaling nonsense.
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 5 weeks ago:
This is still a struggle today.
Want to put a file on your iPhone or iPad from a non-mac? Good luck without some 3rd party app.
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 5 weeks ago:
Your reverse proxy should have a cert with HTTPS.
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 1 month ago:
A valid point, the main issue at hand is that the iPhone is locked down to Apple’s approved store - you can’t just install things like a regular computer. That’s really the core of the lawsuit regarding the insane 30% cut Apple forces on their mobile computing platform.
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 months ago:
Jellyfin equivalent which doesn’t require a subscription for your own media library.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 months ago:
Steam isn’t a monopoly.
The PC is an open platform, you can use any game store or launcher you want - unlike the iPhone, Android (without sideloading), PlayStation, switch, or Xbox.
- Comment on Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics” 2 months ago:
And costs a yearly subscription, also random features get removed every month.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 2 months ago:
Use SwiftFin app instead on Apple TV, but better than the Jellyfin app.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 2 months ago:
This ^
Simple, no ads, and handles HDR super well
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 3 months ago:
I’m sure google will fix that in chrome, like killing adblocker functionality.
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 3 months ago:
Less HTTPS = easier government & advertiser data collection
- Comment on Issues with Immich 4 months ago:
Corporate nets use 802.1X authentication, risk of a DHCP hijack is very low.
As someone who works in large corporate networks, we absolutely don’t assign static IPs outside of core network gear, it’s impossible to manage a fleet of servers in this way with scaling in mind.
- Comment on Issues with Immich 4 months ago:
Instead of doing a manual action in two different places and having to keep them in sync, just do it once on the DHCP server. Setting a static IP on the server is superfluous.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 4 months ago:
good general advice until you have to try to explain to your SO the VPN is required on their smart TV to access Jellyfin.
- Comment on Issues with Immich 4 months ago:
don’t do this, use DHCP reservations instead so you actually have a list of what all your servers are and most routers register hostnames in DNS for you which is even better.