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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'v…

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 ev…

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 tha…

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/container…

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 play…

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 su…

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 nev…

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 pa…

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: …

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 re…

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 fr…

Sometimes breaking changes for ZFS are backported to LTS anyway.

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 configurat…

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 i…

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 consid…

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 cac…

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 …

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 straightfor…

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…

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…

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 a…

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 dedicat…

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 perhap…

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 t…