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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/vwbusguy
Firefish: https://easymode.im/@vwbusguy

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nirik, to random
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kudos dell for adding a "paste into management console" option in newer DRACs.

Now, if you could just make it not $@&^$&^%# mangle what I tell it to paste. It looks like it's spewing it too fast and steps all over itself sometimes. Anoying.

vwbusguy,
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@nirik Especially with how unforgiving iDRAC can be for login failures.

vwbusguy, to random
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This is a first for me - someone on #Ebay is disappointed that I didn't hack a device that I'm selling there.

repeatro, to retrogaming
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...The authorities stated that the word Ninja doesn't fit into a comic series for children. ๐Ÿฅท

๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood

vwbusguy,
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@repeatro @berkough First time I knew about this was when I watched a German dub of it cartoon show.

vwbusguy, to random
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Welp, a plus side of this afternoon is that I got to learn a lot more about how to recover a corrupt postgresql database instance running on Kubernetes. It wasn't fun, but I eventually got something working again.

vwbusguy,
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There are less than fun ways to discover gaps in your current backup configs and to discover that the corruption was caused by a corrupt filesystem that had been slowly burning for days ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

vwbusguy, to random
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Kids these days can't possibly appreciate what the internet was like before we had browser tabs.

sjvn, to random
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The Osborne 1 was my first "portable" computer. If I'd tried swinging it like this, my arm would have come off in five minutes. It weighed almost 25 pounds.

vwbusguy,
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@sjvn I still have mine! It was out first family computer and is sitting on the desk next to my as I type. I also have "The Case for the Osbourne", which is a soft carrying case with a strap that makes it much easier to transport. I've taken it to work before like that.

vwbusguy,
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@sjvn Very cool! And we're in the CP/M club together!

vwbusguy,
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@richlv @sjvn I have pics on my Pixelfed.

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/426438982768129979

https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/428686033908032352

vwbusguy,
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@richlv @sjvn And here's my post where I'm recreating the ad.

https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/108278704694858893

vwbusguy, to linux
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Is there a waypipe for MacOS? Like, a way to run something like the geany IDE hosted on a networked Linux VM over ssh on a MacBook.

vwbusguy, to random
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Resisting engaging in certain online threads like

https://youtube.com/shorts/2R4GVkLys4w

vwbusguy, to Samsung
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Retrospective from a month with the 11 Ultra:

I'm now officially a fan of the Zenfone. It hits a certain sweet spot for me between the headphone jack, UI, camera, and battery life. It's the direction should have gone.

I don't like the larger size more than the size of the 9/10, but it is roughly the same size of my previous Samsung Galaxy Plus, so I can definitely live with it.

vwbusguy,
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And I do like it more than my 8. It has the things I like about the Pixel, but offers polish in the areas where I don't. Like, you can have the same navigation button order every other Android phone but Pixel has. You can hold down the switcher button for a screenshot, etc.

vwbusguy,
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@SomeGadgetGuy Crazy to think that all of those features used to be standard. Ever since the Samsung Galaxy 7, it's been a consistent story of paying more for less, with Apple and Samsung leading the race to the bottom.

vwbusguy,
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@SomeGadgetGuy Once they were well established as market leaders for their respective slices, they shifted from wow-ing with innovation to finding new ways to squeeze blood from a turnip and figuring out how to market-spin it after the fact.

Don't forget that phones used to have FM radio and universal TV remote control capabilities, too.

bentsukun, to fedora
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I wrote about my adventures with remix and its self-destructing file system.

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/fedora-btrfs/

vwbusguy,
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@release_candidate @bentsukun I've been using btrfs regularly since around 2015 on Fedora on several different machines and it's been great for me. Much of my day today at work was troubleshooting a corrupt lvm+ext4. Usually it's xfs that gives me trouble. There is no perfect filesystem for all use cases, but btrfs does a very good job for most of them.

(I'm also running it on my Asahi machines.)

vwbusguy,
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@release_candidate @bentsukun The regular Fedora installer does let you pick the FS. Asahi is a bit of a special case.

vwbusguy,
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@darkling @bentsukun Yeah, unfortunately, you're almost certainly right. Generally, this ends up being indicative of a failing disk scenario and not caused by the filesystem itself.

vwbusguy, to ADHD
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My poor wife. I literally did this to her last night.

https://youtube.com/shorts/syqCOGzEW-o

vwbusguy, to random
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If you run , there is an option to minimize to system tray on close, and setting this option means you won't need to keep a window open in the background for your browser integrations to keep working.

vwbusguy, to opensource
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The world would be a different place right now if:

  • IBM had made the CP/M deal
  • IBM open sourced DB/2 circa 2000
  • IBM had made the Sun deal
  • Rackspace had stayed independent and OpenStack focused
  • Google hadn't open sourced Borg, aka Kubernetes
  • Netscape hadn't open sourced its browser code
  • UC hadn't open sourced and defended BSD
  • Daniel never wrote/published curl

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Well, what was yours? ๐Ÿค”

vwbusguy,
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@itsfoss I was migrating a server and went to change the docroot owner from apache to nginx. I meant to run:

chown -R nginx:nginx ./

What I actually ran was:

chown -R nginx:nginx /

This broke ssh and sudo. I was eventually able to recover it by getting into a recovery and reinstalling every rpm and manually fixing /etc leftovers from there. It was an early cloud server, so I didn't have physical access. This was back when support was worth the premium you paid for it.

UniversalBlue, to fedora
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Yesterday at Red Hat Summit @jorge and @cgwalters presented to a full house of Red Hat employees to walk through the state of atomic / image-based Linux and where we can go from here.

Fedora and Red Hat are looking at what we're doing with bootable containers and are interested in carrying that forward!

vwbusguy,
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@UniversalBlue @jorge @cgwalters This is awesome!

vwbusguy, to music
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Listening to the Highwaymen today. An outlaw country super group with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jenkins, and Kris Kristofferson.

I'm not much into county music, but I definitely am into this.

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