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- Comment on Helm chart installable solutions? 1 day ago:
I have something similar to host paths with node selectors: an NFS provisioner for PVs. The provisioner is tied to the node with the large disk. It’s not resilient to node outages, but allows me to spread pods across the nodes. For my deployments, I’m preferring to use S3 storage wherever possible.
- Comment on Helm chart installable solutions? 1 day ago:
Excellent write-up. I had Nextcloud running on K3s with its files on a NAS which were shared with Minio and it worked well. I’m looking into Longhorn, but only have 2 nodes and it wants at least 3. I’m reevaluating my resiliency needs in favour of simplification.
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 1 week ago:
I’ve been looking to do this, but haven’t found a good, easy to use pull thru proxy for docker, ghcr.io and some other registries. Most support docker only.
This one looks promising but overly complicated to set up.
A few times now, I’ve gone to restart a container and the repo’s been moved, archived or paywalled. Other times, I’m running a few versions behind and the maintainer decided to not support it, but upgrading would mean a complete overhaul of my Helm values file. Ugh!
I was considering a docker registry on separate ports for each upstream registry I’d like to proxy/cache.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.
- Comment on Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth? 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not normal. We will reminisce about events during the pregnancy and birth as a way to suggest that our child’s personality was present well before birth.
Maybe go to the thrift store and get an old donated metal from track and field or something and etch something witty on it and maybe that’ll make your point for you.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 2 weeks ago:
Lots of great advice here and in the comments. To add some clarity to driving carefully, imagine that you are driving with an open fish tank on the floor of the passenger side and you don’t want to lose any fish.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any references to podcasts or books that articulate this well? I’m not interested in one person’s story, but the overall processes of a cult are fascinating.
I’ve been listening to the Conspirituality and You Are Not So Smart (specifically “how mids change”) podcasts, which are good and would enjoy any others.
- Comment on Little repost bot 2 weeks ago:
Generally speaking, I’ve found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.
- Comment on YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities 3 weeks ago:
I thought that this is how we promote Darwinism.
- Comment on Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause 3 weeks ago:
I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren’t cheap.
Oh, and I’m cursed for batteries. I’ve had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.
I’d love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
You forgot about all intra-continental internet cables going through US routers and oil being traded in USD.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 months ago:
I’m self hosting to learn. I’ve been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is “mission critical”, so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it’s helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 months ago:
Being Christian or going to church doesn’t make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.
- Comment on The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense 3 months ago:
Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 months ago:
You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of “lower traffic = AI is bad” is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It’s no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It’s nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 3 months ago:
This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn’t want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.
Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it’s just a headline? What if it’s the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it’s a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that’s all I need to know…unless I have a fantasy team.
- Comment on crop candles 3 months ago:
Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?
fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343
(Sorry for the full link, I can’t figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 4 months ago:
You just described most tech stocks.
As Cory Doctrow explains:
the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of “mature” companies.
- Comment on Street racers are not criminals 4 months ago:
I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I’ve ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.
Here’s an example race: www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 4 months ago:
This may not help at all, but I worked at a toxic workplace. I got good at recognizing when I was being manipulated. Eventually, I learned that if I hid the hurt and acted as if the jabs didn’t hurt, it would send the toxic folks into a toxic rage, but the ironic part is that they could not complain to management about me not being affected.
One day, I was called from one of the people from a recorded line (certain customer facing phones were always recorded, you could even hear the beeps). After the call, I told my manager, we went to HR, who pulled the recording and that person was moved to another area. I left shortly after for other reasons.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 4 months ago:
This contradicts what I’m reading in that AI model costs grow with each generation, not shrink.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
I came here to see if it was the early signs of the demise of YouTube. I secretly want all these content producers to move to a privacy-respecting platform, especially those who produce tech or privacy related content.
Now, for why I don’t watch videos anymore, the medium isn’t as easily consumed by me. I prefer text. At home, it’s noisy and I get interrupted every 90 seconds. I lose interest quickly and fast forwarding isn’t as easy as scanning text for a topic shift. My mind wanders on some topics, internally exploring that topic deeper. With text, i can just stop reading. With video, i need to realize that I’m processing a thought and hit pause, then rewind a bit. I get interrupted a lot. On the bus, I need to remember headphones and I hate when people shoulder surf. That’s harder to do with text. Give me a plain text RSS feed that I can read anytime.
- Comment on Pi NAS for multi-location backups 5 months ago:
I came here to say the same thing except that I have a pi locally and one at a relative’s house. I back up to the local pi and a nightly cron starts rsync to pull my local copy.
I chose this so that i could control the rstnc start time, bandwidth and stop time but also so I could leave the remote network vanilla with no open ports, etc. With bandwidth limiting, it may take a few days to catch up from full backups, but a differential is same day.
Be sure to use a RO filesystem or overlay FS on the Pi card. I’ve had them go corrupt.
- Comment on What would remain for a future species if humans were to vanish tomorrow? 6 months ago:
A totally not serious answer. Today, I was sitting across from a Starbucks and staring at the logo. It is really weird. I started thinking that if something were to happen to civilization, all these cups, sleeves, merchandise and plastic stir sticks emblazoned with the Starbucks logo may cause future archaeologists to think that we worshipped some half fish woman thing (or whatever the logo is supposed to be).
Alternatively, this xkcd could be fun to do.
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 6 months ago:
States have argued successfully to tax cross state commerce. That’s why you get charged local sales tax even when ordering from a company that does not have a presence in your state. I don’t see this as any different, but someone will need to go first to set the precedent.
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 6 months ago:
This is the FTC’s rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 7 months ago:
I keep my seedbox in the planter at the coffee shop down the road with free WiFi.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 7 months ago:
I couldn’t afford one of those fancy 2-cassette boomboxes, so I had my friend bring his tape deck and we put them real close together in the quietest room of the house and recorded that way. Having several siblings meant that there were no quiet places, so we used the empty garage when my parents were at work. The audio was autrocious, tons of echo and static, but I played that tape thin until it snapped.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 7 months ago:
Several countries require proof of ID to purchase a SIM card.
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 7 months ago:
My mantra is “plan to be hacked”. Whether this is a good backup strategy, a read-only VM, good monitoring or serious firewall rules.