arcayne

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[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

I agree. Years back, when I was getting my CDL in the construction industry, my trainer recommended I get some overalls for comfort. I was in fairly good shape at the time, but man - the relief I felt from not having a belt digging into my gut while behind the wheel made it a lot easier to hop out of the cab and throw chain at a good pace, and I never had to worry about anything coming untucked. Was certainly a game changer.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

https://pulpproject.org/

Does docker, pypi, apt, ansible galaxy, etc. I use it at work as part of our undercloud for OpenStack. It's the go-to for StackHPC, too.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's a fair take. The pricing model has changed dramatically since I last looked at it, but at the same time, the dev has obviously put a lot of thought into these changes, so I find it difficult to fault him. He's gotta make a living somehow.

In general, if someone has more than one Proxmox node to manage, chances are they've got some type of homelab, which isn't exactly the cheapest hobby out there to begin with. If XPipe enhances their experience, I'd say that's worth a few bucks. If not, they can always git gud in the terminal and do the legwork themselves, but time = $, so...

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

It's a free tool that is relevant to a lot of users in both of those communities, and because of the support from those communities, the author was able to pivot to working on xPipe full-time. That's no small feat for a solo dev, and I for one appreciate seeing these updates.

If you decided to devote all your time and energy to a project that was supposed to pay your bills, would you just sit and twiddle your thumbs thinking "if you build it, they will come"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure if it'd fit your use case 100%, but this has been a nice middle ground solution for LE certs in my lab: https://www.certwarden.com/

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

No worries, gotta play the hand you're dealt. And thanks, me too. Even though I still miss 'em from time to time, the health benefits of quitting are stupid obvious - and my wife brings more joy to my life than smokes ever could. No regrets.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Eh, just the general stress of existance with some teenage angst sprinkled on top, I guess.

Grew up under the poverty line, was abused at a very young age, started working around the age of 7 to help keep food on the table, had multiple deaths in the family within a few years (one of which was the result of a horrific industrial accident - didn't witness it, but overheard enough detail that it still haunts me to this day), spent my early teens mostly on my own due to my mom spending most of her time caring for my grandma after she broke her knee, etc.

So yeah, the novel concept of being able to take the edge off by lighting up a smoke was pretty alluring.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Wow, that's wild. Never heard of that before, thanks for sharing.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 23 points 1 month ago (19 children)

I get that it's not for everyone, but damn... still kinda wild to hear people outright hating the experience.

Granted, I started smoking when I was 13. Heard it helped people feel less stressed, so when the opportunity arrived I figured why not give it a try.

Quickly got up to a pack or two a day and loved every drag for nearly 10yrs until my future wife asked me to stop. I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time. Eventually wound up settling on vaping as a compromise.

Tbh, the only part I don't miss is the dent it left in my wallet.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

My preferred way of solving this is to run a PowerDNS cluster with DNSDist and keepalived. You get all the redundancy via a single (V)IP.

Technitium is probably more user friendly for greenhorns, though.. and offers DHCP too. Beats pihole by a mile.

[–] arcayne@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wezterm is my primary. Love the built-in domain/sshmux features, especially for work. The LUA config rocks, sky is the limit. Highly portable when using something like Chezmoi or YADM.

That said, it's not always the most performant, especially with certain TUIs. I've been running my NVim workspace in Kitty lately just to avoid the minor UI lag (primarily with lazygit). Not a fan of Kitty (or its dev) otherwise, but it serves its purpose.

If Wezterm ever gets optimized, it'll be the GOAT for me.

Ghostty also sounds like it's got potential, but haven't gotten my invite yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

This mainly relates to tech communities, but certainly applies elsewhere. I'm just so sick of seeing a constant flood of basic questions being posted that would've been better off as a search query.

Instead of communities being a wealth of discussion and a place to learn/exchange knowledge and ideas, it feels like most have about 10-20% solid content at best, and 80-90% useless noise: "How do I X?", "What Linux Distro should I use?", "What does Y mean?"

Like, I'm all for asking questions, but I prefer to help those who help themselves. Is this all the result of iPad kid syndrome or something?

If you're willing to take the time to post a simple question that 50 other people have already asked within the last week instead of taking 5 seconds to search for an answer (that'll probably be the first result on any search engine), your thought process makes no sense to me and I can't see you as anything other than a complete nuisance to the community/fediverse.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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