DietPi (debian) on all my ARM servers, Fedora-CoreOS on all the x86-64 servers, a pi400 as my desktop running fedora, SteamOS on the steam deck.

Are you running them from your user session? If so, when you log out it will stop your processes, unless you have enabled ‘linger’ mode.

proficient at some point in the last 20 years:

• C
• ladder logic (for PLCs - dont take this from me)
• Verilog
• VHDL
• C#
• C++
• PHP
• Go (this is my daily driver)

I would hate to count JavaScript and friends.

Not cross country but northeast corridor is fantastic - DC to Boston, ezpz. Faster than flight with the BS you need to do on both sides. Also the stations are in the hearts of the city of DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston - get off the train and walk to your hotel or whatever - it’s just the best.

You could write a script that just restarts your container, make sure unprivileged users cannot edit it, and do one of two things:

1. make a sudoers entry for your unprivileged account to call just that script as a user in the docker group with sudo
2. use setuid on the script to have it execute from the docker group even when executed by users

American Pie by Don McLean

I would listen to it on repeat for what seems like an entire era of my life. Could sing the whole thing at some point!

beautifully done buddy

K8s has a mild solution to chicken and egg situations for nodes - the nodes support ‘static manifests’ which can be pods they know how to bring up before ever connecting to the API server. So you could have your wireguard peer be brought up this way. Downside is while those static manifests show up in k8s APIs, they aren’t fully manageable since they are defined by files on disk.

Sometimes I wonder if in 75 years people will look back on our caffeine use in this generation like we currently look back at cocaine use in products in the 19th century. Until then, I continue to slurp down coffee like that is my actual job.

The HOA is taking the ‘our responsibility is to keep a consistent curb-appeal’ stance so I think seemingly random houses not having grass at all may not be acceptable - though maybe that’s appropriate for the strip between the sidewalk and road.

Nomad is a breath of fresh air after working with k8s professionally.

Don’t get me wrong, love k8s, but it’s a bit much (until you need it)

Ceph is excellent as a distributed storage solution - but should really have 4 machines with 2 or more drives each to reach a good level of redundancy - which is a bit much for most people on this sub.

One nice feature is it deals with heterogeneous drives well, like if you need to buy a bunch of used ones on eBay for cheap.

Probably not a good solution for your case because of the footprint - but good to be aware of it.

I was just thinking about it actually - I feel like it’s going to be the sheer amount of caffeine we ingest, or caffeine at all.

which reminds me, I need a coffee!

Ok that’s pretty cool (good bot)

How excellent for my MQTT behind nginx next to my pihole

:)

Nanopi R5C

Nanopi R5C. Cute little buggers too.

I have 2 pi4 4GB boards and was waiting forever to get a third to run RAFT based services across.

I gave up last year and bought 3 chinese boards at $60/ea with 2x 2.5Gb Ethernet each, emmc, and a m.2 slot - and they run at half the temp of the pi4 boards.

I never needed the wifi/bt and form-factor the pi boards offered anyway - really no reason to stay as long as you can find software that boots on other boards.

I spent weeks installing Linux in 2002, finally got it up and running and was like wow this is barely usable.

Turns out I had a fundamental misunderstanding, and there were pre-made distributions of it for you to use! Took me two years to realize that. Picked up Ubuntu and it just worked (other than wifi)

Ceph (rbd,s3) on 4 poweredges.

Nomad, Consul servers running in a 3 node raft on some ARM SBCs.

Nomad clients on 2 poweredges and 3 arm SBCs running:

• s3 CSI (media and large file storage is all on s3)
• rbd CSI (all the stateful jobs have rbd block devices)
• NATS cluster with Jetstream to enable MQTT support
• mosquito mqtt (had to run mosquito for mqtt v5)
• mosquito<->nats bridge (via benthos)
• nodered (just for easy Google home integration)
• zwavejs2mqtt
• zigbee2mqtt
• frigate (can only talk mqtt v5 so had to run mosquito just for this)
• grafana
• gotify
• gitea
• drone CI
• postgresql
• BitTorrent client
• ceph rgw s3 gateways
• NATS based home automation lambdas - I wrote these in go
• Adguard home
• traefik as main ingress
• Prometheus
• prom node exporter
• jellyfin
• jackett
• a program I wrote that manages torznab->acquisiton->s3 lifecycle
• a website
• wireguard servers

And that is just in the server room - I also have more like the 3d printer and CNC machine controllers etc.