kaylynb

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by kaylynb 9mo ago
Not in my experience. I've run both Windows and Linux for the last decade and Windows is the only OS that I ever have problems with updates wasting my time and breaking things. I've been running image-based Linux for the last two
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by kaylynb 1y ago
My servers are pets not cattle. They are heterogeneous and collected over the years. If I used k8s I'd end up having to mostly pin services to a specific machine anyway. I don't even have a rack: it's just a variety of box sh
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by kaylynb 1y ago
It works pretty well. I've also found that some AI models are pretty decent at it too. Obviously need to fix up some of the output but the tooling for conversion is much better than when I started.
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by kaylynb 1y ago
Neat. I like to see other takes on this. Any reason to use rootless vs `userns=auto`? I haven't really seen any discussion of it other than this issue: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/137
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by kaylynb 1y ago
I've run my homelab with podman-systemd (quadlet) for awhile and every time I investigate a new k8s variant it just isn't worth the extra hassle. As part of my ancient Ansible playbook I just pre-pull images and drop unit files in
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by kaylynb 2y ago
Oh yeah I agree. There's a lot of fun problems to solve with Minecraft servers. I didn't mean to imply that there are no reasons for good chunk gen. I'm primarily into technical survival so my personal priorities wouldn'
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by kaylynb 2y ago
Chunk gen makes sense to implement last or never. If you want a performant Minecraft server you need to pregen all the chunks anyway. You can still later regen chunks that have never been visited to get new chunkgen on updates since chunks
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by kaylynb 3y ago
Another advantage of printed parts is it's easy to use alternative part designs. There are lots of variants on the standard parts that you most likely will start replacing stock parts with as soon as you get addicted.
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by kaylynb 3y ago
I really like Silverblue and run it on a couple of secondary machines (like in my workshop), but it’s still rough for anything off the beaten path. The largest pain points for me: - Any kernel modules. I know Ublue has images but I wish Red
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by kaylynb 3y ago
1 Gbps is nice when downloading games and updates. Since everything is digital it can be the difference between waiting 30 minutes or 3 hours. IE: You play a game the night it's released/updated or wait until after work the next d
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by kaylynb 3y ago
Linux is about as consistent as Windows these days. /etc isn’t really a “dumping ground” for everything and is quite static now. Just diffed a snapshot of /etc on my workstation from a month ago and there aren’t really any changes
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by kaylynb 3y ago
Sometimes breaking changes for ZFS are backported to LTS anyway.
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by kaylynb 3y ago
The article title is very misleading. This isn't bypassing FDE in any way. It's just getting a root shell on a machine you have physical access to with a particular boot configuration. Clever? Yes. But no encryption is bypassed. M
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by kaylynb 3y ago
Most people don't realize how dangerous automobiles really are. Accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the US until people get to be 45+ and cancer starts overtaking it. Even in 2020-2021 CDC data that probably has less pe
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by kaylynb 4y ago
This has been my experience in the US. C++ is my favorite language. I learned programming using it in the mid nineties. I still keep up with developments although I wouldn't consider myself the most skilled with it anymore. The only jo
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by kaylynb 4y ago
Sparse sets. They're often used in Entity Component System architectures since you have O(1) add/remove/find, & O(n) iteration. Iterations are also packed, which is a bonus for cache efficiency. Can be difficult to implem
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by kaylynb 4y ago
Ansible. I maintain 4 workstations (3 Linux, 1 Windows) from the same config. It's a bit overkill but it has the flexibility to deal with the hardware and OS differences. Linux is essentially automatic. Install OS using custom arch-iso
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by kaylynb 4y ago
Thanks. I've heard good things about them, but they were sold out for a long time. I actually did many days of research into assembling my own KVM. HDMI is surprisingly straightforward but DP is a nightmare of nested standards. Just on
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by kaylynb 4y ago
The mouse is a big problem for me. I didn't used to care either, but started using a 144Hz monitor years ago and now it's hard for me to go back. Even my TV is 120Hz. I just notice discomfort when my monitor isn't >90Hz or
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by kaylynb 4y ago
Same here. I can’t really use a monitor that’s less that 120Hz, even for engineering work. 60Hz monitors give me eye strain. It’s impossible to find any KVM at any price point that works with 120Hz, and certainly not 120Hz@3840x1600. Forget
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by kaylynb 5y ago
How do you tell if a dog is a service dog though? The ADA already allows excluding misbehaving service animals, which should cover a good portion of 'fraudulent emotional service animals' considering how well most people mistrain
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by kaylynb 5y ago
OPN/pfSense have been mentioned. Don't waste time with WiFi on the gateway itself as most WiFI chips you can buy are crippled in firmware for regulatory reasons. Just use a dedicated commercial AP hooked up directly or VLANed. Onc
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by kaylynb 5y ago
This is the way to do it. NAT is not really security and UPnP doesn't really do much to prevent malicious software already on your network from doing malicious things except perhaps hosting itself on your WAN to spread further. What di
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by kaylynb 6y ago
I saw this iCloud pushing in-person at an Apple store a few months ago: Someone had brought in their iPhone and it needed to be wiped for repair. The rep was pushing iCloud under threat of losing their data. It seemed like such a scam. I ca
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by kaylynb 6y ago
Not necessarily more power efficient. Modern desktop systems have quite good power management features. Depending on the workload, a device that consumes a lot of power but also goes into an idle state much faster could actually use less ov
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by kaylynb 6y ago
Take a look at any of Greg Kroah-Hartman's comments on patches that screw up ZFS. One of the biggest ones was removing exports of kernel functions that ZFS used for encrypted datasets: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&
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by kaylynb 6y ago
The Linux kernel devs hate ZFS and actively sabotage it even backporting changes specifically to break ZFS to LTS branches. It's fine if you use something like Ubuntu where it's officially shipped with the distro. If not, be prepa
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by kaylynb 6y ago
WireGuard is great, but I think it's really undersold when it's described as being just a vpn. It's really an encrypted tunnel that is configured like a network adapter in the Linux network stack. This lets you configure it w
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by kaylynb 7y ago
I'm not sure I would call them impractical for everyday wear. I wear N95 masks when commuting during active wildfires. The news always says not to wear them because you won't put them on properly, but it's really not that har
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by kaylynb 7y ago
Even if the mask doesn't actually protect you, it will prevent you from touching your face and mouth absent-mindlessly.

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