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The Vegan GitOps lifestyle

Warum the fuck nicht?

Honestly, k8s + GitOps at home is my project that I’m just starting this week. I found a community around it (on Discord 🤮) called Home Operations.

Docker Hub sucks and is VERY strict with rate limits. Try ghcr.io or the aws container registry.

GitOps + Renovate

Gives you:

• automation of updates
• smart notification of updates that are below a certain confidence that it won’t break stuff
• rollback: simply git revert
• the whole shebang

Some stacks that work well with GitOps are:

• k8s + Flux or ArgoCD
• Nix(OS)

Mixing them is a LOT of complexity though. Just pick whichever you are most comfortable with. If you want a declarative immutable OS just for running k8s, check Talos Linux.

If you don’t want to deal with GitOps, Nix or k8s, and you don’t need recent versions, just run Debian and set a cronjob for auto updates. Then only deal with potential breaking changes just once every 5(?) years or thereabouts.

How to call xargs is typically one of those things I always forget. The foreach alias is a great solution!

My current solution was to use tldr for all of these tools, but yeah if I find myself having to do a for each line, I’ll definitely make it an alias.

Luckily (knocks on wood) I almost exclusively work with yaml and json nowadays so I should just learn yq.

You forgot the /s.

Or the helmet. I mean, if you’re not wearing a helmet, you’re not covering yourself appropriately and kind of asking to get hit in the head, right? I’m not blaming you if someone clubs you, but you do make it really easy and you should think about what kind of attention you’re asking and what kind of message that sends when you’re not wearing a helmet in public.

(Can’t find the source of the pastor that got this IRL)

Also don’t underestimate how easily many 15-year old boys “fall in love”. If it is really love or just a craving for intimacy, is only determined later.

Source: have 1 year of experience being a 15-year old boy

I think the Gripens are mostly good at operating in austere conditions. Snowy roads for runways, short distances, quick turnaround with one professional crew chief and a few conscripts, low operating cost per hour, etc.

You know, the most boring but most important part of warfare: logistics.

The French have (had?) a bit of a reputation in electronic warfare. I remember reading about (3rd gen) Mirage F1s (maybe it was Mirage 5) with Barrax jamming pods absolutely beating the shit out of fresh new 4th gen F-16A in the 80s in exercises, due to their jamming pods and BVR capabilities. Dassault still claim that their Rafale’s EW system is good enough to provide some sort of stealth.

But I don’t think anything made in Europe today gets close to what the US and Israel are doing in Electronic Warfare.

Obligatorische Homelander-Referenz

The closest to Mint in terms of:

• stability: only have breaking changes once every 6 months
• just-works-factor: shipping drivers and whatever proprietary code is necessary to have a smooth out of the box experience

That I know of, beside maybe OpenSUSE (have no experience with it) is Kubuntu 24.10. Yes apt will say weird things and you’ll want to uninstall snapd.

But Kubuntu 24.10, current latest, ships with Plasma 6.1. Current stable, Kubuntu 24.04 ships with Plasma 5 still.

But I assume you’re not a fan of the rolling release model like EndeavourOS (Archlinux based, KDE is the default). So if you want recent packages AND a versioned release model, that leaves only Fedora out of the distros I’m familiar with. They recently promoted the KDE version from a Spin to a full version beside the GNOME version.

But Fedora is much heavier on the FLOSS philosophy, and not as works-out-of-the-box as Mint or any Ubuntu flavor.

Debian isn’t, but it will take a long time for Plasma 6.3 to make it to Debian stable.

So yeah, I guess OpenSUSE may be your best bet EDIT: took a quick look, there’s a rolling release model of OpenSUSE called Tumbleweed. But you probably don’t like rolling release. And a versioned one called Leap. The current latest Leap version still ships Plasma 5 so that still isn’r nearly as recent as Fedora, which has had Plasma 6 in the last TWO versions.

Eurocanard fighter wants to go up -> canard pushes nose up like a boss

F-35 wants to go up -> elevator pushes tail down -> AoA increases -> nose goes up

Saab Gripen.

Not to be confused with the much more expensive twin-engined Eurocanards Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon

Check the sidebar.

It’s about self-hostable alternatives to closed online software. It doesn’t say anywhere that the hardware has to be in your own home, just that it is about self-hostable software.

Similarly, !selfhosting@slrpnk.net is about self-hosting services, the hardware part is (even with the slrpnk folk) only a prefetence.

So feel free to discuss hosting your own services on a VPS here

What is the F-35C doing in the popular club? The Canadians wanted an F-35 with a refuelling probe and a shorter landing roll, and they would sooner throw a chute and a probe on an F-35A than get a Charlie. Even the USN only got it because they were forced to, and clearly prefer their Super Hornet.

Nobody likes you, F-35C

Meanwhile Elf Ears has scored with Czech Republic, Hungary and Brazil. And the sexy but truly unbearably arrogant French gal has scored with Croatia, Egypt, Greece, India, Qatar.

Frømandskorpset sounds Danish. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Are you aware of the Greenland news this week?

The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am.

Top-tier sentence right there. Very well written, it just keeps getting better (or worse, for you)

Sei kein Arschloch

Can confirm. If you try to at least mumble some French words like “Bonjour, est-ce que… je…” before switching to English, 99% of French people are super nice.

1. Motion sensors. The mmWave are very sensitive but also expensive. Nice for rooms where you sit still or lie down for longer periods, such as an office or bed room. PIR sensors are the cheap ones, very useful for hallways, stairs, kitchen and toilets.
2. Some smart plugs measure current. Innr has a nice zigbee smart plug with a physical button and monitoring for around €20.

FYI If you have a Zigbee bridge, you can just connect most zigbee devices to it and you are not tied to the app or devices of the bridge’s brand.

Are you cooking on gas?

You might recall that carbohydrates hydrocarbons being burned release a lot of H2O.

IME, the humidity from cooking is much much less when using an induction stove