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moonpiedumplings

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  • Hammers Without Handles

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  • Hammers Without Handles

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  • I really like this take on it: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/github-actions/#familiarity-instead-of-compatibility

    For all of these reasons, Forgejo Actions strives for familiarity instead of compatibility. We want users of GitHub actions to feel familiar using Forgejo Actions, even if there are some small changes here and there. Workflows should work with some minimal changes.

    I think the same thing applies to Linux DE's. Linux is not and never will be a 1 for 1 to windows workflows. If we chase perfect compatibility, we will be perpetually behind on a wild goose chase.

    But, doing things like what KDE does, where most of the common keyboard shortcuts are the same, and things like virtual desktops allow for similar workflows with very little adaptation, is very reasonable.

  • Access to the LanguageTool browser extension will become paid in 2 weeks, unless you are using a local model or selfhost it

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  • Unfortunately, the browser extension is proprietary. They used to have an open source one but they stopped maintaining it.

    Proprietary was a dealbreaker for me. There is no way to verify that it isn't selling everything I type even if I do have it configured to point at a local server.

    I'm also concerned that the extension may eventually no longer work against local servers as well.

    https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-browser-addon/issues/247

    As an alternative, there is harper by wordpress: https://github.com/Automattic/harper

    It is webassembly and runs entirely in your browser.

    EDIT:

    I will add that the rest of the languagetool ecosystem continues to work fine. Libreoffice now has a built in client, which you can point at your own hosted server. VSCode [1] also has their own languagetool extension. I use those and those work great. But in the browser I use harper nothing. I should probably install harper.

    [1] Well, technically I use [code-oss]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Visual_Studio_Code), which gets the extension from https://open-vsx.org/

  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • Well, I run a one node cluster...

    But yes, I did use ceph via rook-ceph, because Openstack (a locally hosted AWS alternative), at least the Kubernetes version, wanted a ceph "cluster" to store stuff on.

    Longhorn is much easier. Although again, my "cluster" was one node. I deployed it because I wanted snapshots.

  • Issue with xcp-ng management

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  • I like to use more uncommon tools (it often bites me afterward but it’s funnier this way

    I know the feeling.

    How about this: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/install-xcp-ng/#9-networking

    Try setting a static ip address on xcp-ng itself, during the install phase. (this was how devices got onto networks before dhcp). You'll have to make sure it doesn't conflict with anything else on the network.

  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • Kubernetes makes distributed storage easy.

    Basically, all the components get deployed for you, since that's part of what kubernetes is good at.

    And then, services/containers can provision storage by requesting storage via making a "claim" and whatever distributed storage providee you have gives it to you.

  • All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter

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  • https://sso.tax/

    It's unfortunately common, even though it probably shouldn't be.

  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • They don't have to support it. It's more that the database they are connecting to supports HA, and/or both are using shared storage. So when one container dies, kubernetes restarts another container on another node with the same shared storage attached.

    Docker is often configured to automatically restart containers when a container dies, just in case it's a one off bug or something like that, and kubernetes is like a more resilient version of that.

  • All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter

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  • You can do oidc with the proxmox ui itself.

    I use oidc with Incus, which is a fork of lxd and a similar software to proxmox, it can run vm's and lxd containers.

  • All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter

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  • How to do cross-compiling dev envs?

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  • How to do cross-compiling dev envs?

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  • Multiple options:

    Use flake-utils: https://github.com/numtide/flake-utils#example

    Create a helper function: https://ayats.org/blog/no-flake-utils (what I do)

    flake-parts: https://ayats.org/blog/no-flake-utils#option-a-flake-just-for-yourself , https://github.com/hercules-ci/flake-parts

    But this is one of the things I find annoying af about nix flakes. Reproducibility is a spectrum, and I think focusing on "purity" over being able to easily ship it to multiple architectures, or not being able to use the GPU is a step too far on that spectrum for the vast majority of usecases. I can understand why scientific computing or anything that needs absolute precision might want it, but most people only just want the same versions of packages installed in their development environment.

    EDIT: whoops forget everything I said, you are asking for cross compiliation of a dev env to Windows. Nix doesn't support Windows. It only supports linux. You can't make a nix dev shell that works on windows.

  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • When people say that linux adds a second life to bad hardware, they don't just mean making 8 gb of ram usable again. They also mean stuff like this, using dying hardware to it's last breath.

    Related: https://lorenz.brun.one/dealing-with-bad-ram-on-linux/

    You can mark the failing parts of ram as explicitly bad so Linux avoids them, just like with hard drives. Another way to get more lifespan out of this hardware.

  • Looking to build a K8s cluster, what are your strategies for finding affordable hardware?

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  • I run a single node cluster.

    My single node has 256 gb of ram and 24 cores. I do this because, if you want a lot of ram/cores/storage, it is cheaper to get a used "tower server" type device and then upgrade it as you go over time, than it is to buy entirely new devices for every bit of ram you want to add to the cluster.

    I like kubernetes because I like configuration as code, gitops, the way it abstracts over components so I can swap components out easily, the way that helm charts are an easier way of orchestrating containers, and a bunch of other things.

    Clustering is merely one of many benefits of kubernetes, one that isn't particularly important to me. Although, my opinion on that has changed somewhat recently. Waiting for a reboot is annoying, since I am rebooting the whole thing and I have to wait for each service to go down or come up before the machine reboots properly. But if I was running kubernetes as a virtual machines inside incus with multiple nodes, I could update each node one by one without the whole thing going down. Or, I could snapshot them, allowing me to reboot the host without waiting for kubernetes. But these things are mostly just somewhat nice to have, rather than a core feature I really require.

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  • Even used stuff is expensive nowadays.

    Anyway, you can buy these used refurbished small form factor business PC's.

    These things: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

    I was recently at a tech conference and I met a guy who was selling 16 gb ram one's for 30 usd, since they had managed to track them down that cheap in bulk somewhere. What happens is that corporations or govt get rid of them due to warranty expiry, so they need to be offloaded somewhere.

    You probably won't be able to find them that cheap but it's definitely more affordable than new stuff. It used to be cheaper but I mostly see 200 usd in my searches.

  • Managing System Extensions with sysextmgrcli

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  • I hope we get something that's not distro specific. Docker/podman work for a lot of stuff, but some apps/services aren't available via them, and I really would like an alternative to snaps, which often can ship those apps.

    Also, these and the fedora one mentioned in the other comment appear to target immutable distros. Snaps work on any distro.

  • The Famous Linux System Cleaner BleachBit Now Has a TUI (And I Tried It Out)

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  • Cuz there are more than just browser caches I would like to nuke.

    Cuz bleachbit is more granular, seperating out site data and cookies, enabling me to delete the 1gb alpine docker image downloaded by https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS without logging me out of anything that is using cookies. Firefox doesn't appear to have that option.

    Edit: cuz I use multiple browser profiles, and this can delete cache from all of them at once instead of me having to do it once per profile 2-3 times.

  • The Famous Linux System Cleaner BleachBit Now Has a TUI (And I Tried It Out)

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  • Show is better than tell:

    Often, when viewing images, firefox "caches" the image in order to be able to load it faster when visiting that site again. Left unchecked, this cache (of images and other assets) can pretty much infinitely grow. Many other apps also have big caches.

    Bleachbit actually is useful. Instead of hunting through your system and accidentally rm -rfing the wrong folder and losing all your precious firefox profile data, it enables you to quickly nuke all caches, freeing up a significant amount of space. I would probably free up 15gb+ if I ran it based on these images.

    EDIT: just ran it. I freed up 6gb of space. Not 15gb. Huh. Still, pretty good though, and if you are space starved (I used to use a machine with only 32 gb of storage TOTAL), then it's useful to keep things slim.