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Anyone have recommendations for more films like Heavy Metal, or the stuff Ralph Bakshi made? There's a kind of sleaze to those low-budget animated movies that I find fun, but the art is also really compelling.

It doesn't have to be 70s/80s

I generally let my server do its thing, but I run into an issue consistently when I install system updates and then reboot: Some docker containers come online, while others need to be started manually. All containers were running before the system shut down.

• My containers are managed with docker compose.
• Their compose files have restart: always
• It's not always the same containers that fail to come online
• Some of them depend on an NFS mount point being ready on the host, but not all

Host is running Ubuntu Noble

Most of these containers were migrated from my previous server, and this issue never manifested.

I wonder if anyone has ideas for what to look for?

SOLVED

The issue was that docker was starting before my NFS mount point was ready, and the containers which depended on it were crashing.

Symptoms: journalctl -b0 -u docker showed the following log lines (-b0 means to limit logs to the most recent boot):

level=error msg="failed to start container" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 error="error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas/REDACTED': mkdir /mnt/nas/REDACTED: operation not permitted"
...
level=warning msg="ShouldRestart failed, container will not be restarted" container=fe98f37d1bc3debb204a52eddd0c9448e8f0562aea533c5dc80d7abbbb969ea3 daemonShuttingDown=true error="restart canceled" execDuration=5m8.349967675s exitStatus="{0 2024-10-29 00:07:32.878574627 +0000 UTC}" hasBeenManuallyStopped=false restartCount=0

I had previously set my mount directory to be un-writable if the NFS were not ready, so this lined up with my expectations.

I couldn't remember how systemd names mount points, but the following command helped me find it: systemctl list-units -t mount | grep /mnt/nas

It gave me mnt-nas.mount as the name of the mount unit, so then I just added it to the After= and Requires= lines in my /etc/systemd/system/docker.service file:

[Unit]
Description=Docker Application Container Engine
Documentation=https://docs.docker.com
After=network-online.target docker.socket firewalld.service containerd.service time-set.target mnt-nas.mount
Wants=network-online.target containerd.service
Requires=docker.socket mnt-nas.mount
...

I recently got a nice deal on a stereo microscope, and leapt at the chance. I've had a few projects in mind that would entail SMD soldering, and now all I need is a proper soldering station.

My current iron is pretty basic, but gets the job done for splicing wires and DIP work. Now I want something with temp control and a good supply of tips.

It seems like hobbyists are all talking about affordable Chinese T12 stations from brands like KSGER and Quecoo. There are just so many different models, it's hard to understand the features and differences. It also seems like there's a lot of "Reddit folk knowledge" where people just keep repeating what others have said. Eg: People say that some KSGER stations have no case grounding, but nobody says which models do or don't have the issue. All of them? Then people talk about the microcontrollers STM vs STC, but nobody says why it matters.

In our house, we generally go for variety in our coffee beans. That means when we are finishing one bag, we're going to open a different bag with totally different beans inside.

What do you do if there aren't enough old beans to make a full serving of coffee?

It may be heresey, but I mix the final old beans with a few beans from the new bag and call it my "bonus blend".

I think I'm reading this blogpost correctly: Mobian devs working on maintaining Linux kernel support for Pinephone painted themselves into a corner with tech debt, and may not be able to continue porting new kernel updates. Pinephone Pro runs a different chipset with wider community support, so it's not affected.

I didn't see any communities or articles talking about this, so either it's not a big deal, or nobody is talking about it.

I have a .ch domain name, but I am not a resident, citizen, or business of Switzerland. For now, this is not a problem, but it's always possible that the rules change and I am ineligible to renew it down the line.

Is there such thing as a domain holding company? I'm thinking of someone in Switzerland who will be the registered owner while I have a legal contract defining my rights to use the domain?

This is all very hypothetical, and I'm happy to just wing it for now (it's mostly hobby/personal stuff). More just curious.

Just for fun, I looked into what it would take to register a business in Switzerland. I'd need a Swiss work permit to file for a sole proprietorship, and then I'd still have to pay ~60 CHF a month for a virtual business address.

For years, I've gotten by with a desktop at home running Arch and a work laptop running Kubuntu. Now I want a laptop that's not owned by my job, so that I can use a computer outside the house and not have my workplace own the IP rights of whatever I do on it. My workload is basically just going to be emacs and web browsing, so basically any distro can do it.

I've already got the laptop (HP Elitebook 840 G5, secondhand), but now it's time for the distro. I don't plan to use this laptop often, since it'll mostly be when I travel a few times a year. I don't want Arch, because I don't want to install 6 months of software updates the night before a vacation and then hope that everything works.

Thus, I'm looking at Fedora Silverblue, since that can apply updates atomically on the system, and I can always roll back. I'm wondering if anyone else has good recommendations for a distro to serve my needs.