Yup, routinely use different techniques to run Linux on my work laptop. I’ve been at places where they have official support for Linux distros, with AD integration through services like sssd. I’ve also been at places where running a virtual Linux machine was possible, others where I was allowed to unlock secure boot temporarily to be able to to add a new signed binary for a Linux distro, running on a USB stick.

More luck than anything really. It was probably because it had 6 months left and the fact that reading and writing felt slow. Everything else behaved normally and buying a new disk was an educated guess that turned out to be the correct choice.

I had a weird issue with a server SSD.

6 months ahead of scheduled swap, it didn’t die, it just started reading and writing really sluggishly, making the whole server behave really weird. Disk smart statistics looked healthy and disk self tests passed with flying colors. Anyway, had to swap it early and do a re-install of the OS.

The rest of my cluster temporarily took over running some pods and only saw downtime for a few pods that were dependent on some disks in the failing server.

I guess the incident has restarted my interest in distributed storage.

If you can’t beat them, deport them

I still have my reddit account, but I got all my data deleted via a GDPR request. I’m never at reddit at all, I actually prefer Lemmy way more.

Yup, came here after the API changes that basically blocked 3rd party clients.

I fully expected NATO to be on that list.

Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I’ve made and see if it helps. It’s not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.

Absolutely agree. I have been thinking of starting a selfhost guide that takes you through the different ways to selfhost and the basic concepts of it, but gave up because I’m a shit writer and my experiences are mostly docker, k8s and Terraform/OpenTofu.

This is the same strategy I use with my family as well, I refer to a service they know and then tell them it’s in our house.

Drone debris is no joke. Most likely they don’t destroy them to avoid damage to their infrastructure.

Currently rewriting my homelab into terraform and adding some redundancies using cloud environments, in case of power outages or network issues.

Ha, go fuck yourself cheeto (France probably).

Fuck right off Netanyahu!

Currently trying to figure out how to create and maintain an internal CA in order to enable pod to pod TLS communication, while using letsencrypt for my public ingresses.

Sure, come to Europe, we would love to restore some good old traditions, like the guillotine.

I think CEO salaries could go into r&d if they feel that department need more money.

This is hardly surprising since UN watch are basically a right-wing pro-Israel lobby group.

https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/UN_Watch/

Excellent point, thank you!

I use dperson/samba, which is both simple and comes with usage examples.