vwbusguy

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to linux

Just pulled a box from the e-waste bin that has PS/2 and 9-pin serial ports. If it boots, we'll see if #Linux or #BSD can give it a new purpose.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to RedHat

One of the hard things about the #RedHat thing is that #CentOS's existence as a community rebuild was so often touted by people at Red Hat as a testiment to Red Hat's commitment to #opensource. It wasn't whether or not they could shut it down, but that they knew about it and intentionally didn't. Of course, there were those at Red Hat who disagreed with that back then, but it was very much a pitch point for what Red Hat was about in the #Linux space.

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to Kubernetes

Putting special characters like @ at the beginning of a key in #YAML is a no-no. Fortunately, there's a way around this with a bit of unicode magic on a double-quoted scalar. #Kubernetes #helm

These get converted to @jupyterlab/extensionmanager-extension and @jupyterlab/jupyterlab-telemetry in this example:

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to openSUSE

I need an excuse to use #OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for something. #Linux

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to openSUSE

Looks like depending on how you install it, #wicked is sometimes the default instead of #NetworkManager on #OpenSUSE Leap.

vwbusguy, 7 months ago to openSUSE

I wish #SUSE/#openSUSE would just enable #dnf out of box for non-transactional variants. #zypper is comparatively slower/clunky and there's not a clearly unsolveable issue with their mutual co-existence. #Linux

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to random

I don't need an #Atari 2600+. I don't need an Atari 2600+. I don't need an Atari 2600+.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to random

It's sad and unfortunate that a number of #Fedora people have chosen to block or unfollow me over speaking about recent RHEL stuff, including some I have great respect for. I understand that tensions are high, but I hope bridges can be rebuilt in due time.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to python

Want to print a random #unicode codepoint in a shell for some reason? #Python to the rescue!

python -c 'import random; print(chr(random.choice(range(0,int(0x10FFFF + 1)))))'

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to Matrix

Since the #Libera / #Matrix bridge was severed, it's amazing to see how many simply have chosen to go back to IRC. The IRC users are still ghosts on the Matrix side, so the numbers of people left on Matrix are much higher than they likely are.

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to random

Anyone else remember how #MariaDB company adopting the "Business Source License" for MaxScale made MaxScale and the company super-profitable? No one? Oh yeah, that's because it didn't. #Hashicorp #BUSL #opensource

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3693711/after-job-cuts-mariadb-faces-uncertain-financial-future.html

vwbusguy, 11 months ago to random

This poor Mac Mini was born into the world with terrible out of box software*, despite having a very capable ARM processor. This experimental and invasive procedure might help this little Mac go on to live a highly productive and functional life.

• A little self-deprecating neuro-diverse humor going on here. 😉

vwbusguy, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Today's #Rancher #Kubernetes adventure was seeing what we could break and bring back to life using Longhorn and etcd snapshots on #RKE2 and #k3s.

vwbusguy, 9 months ago to random

Imagine the potential positive environmental impact change we could have if we all just fixed and optimized the terribly inefficient javascript libraries that so many websites and webapps use.

vwbusguy, 1 year ago to programming

Using #golang for a project since the SDK has really nice structs and instantiators for all the API calls where the #Python SDK for the project just phoned it in for all the payloads.

vwbusguy, 22 days ago to random

RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.

I haven't said it enough times, but I hope someone who needs it will get this message before it's too late.

• Someone who has had to troubleshoot 3 failed RAID5's in the last week in his dayjob

#storage #sysadmin #raid

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to linux

Did you know #AlmaLinux has a repo for things that aren't in RHEL or EPEL? They remove packages from it if it hits EPEL, but if you've ever wondered what #Pantheon desktop would be like on EL9, AlmaLinux has you covered! It'll also automatically enable EPEL and CRB for you when you enable it! #Linux

https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9/synergy/x86_64/os/Packages/

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to random

Something that irks me: When spellcheckers mark spellings wrong for officially recognized variants.

Example: counsellor and counselor are both correct spellings in English (with slight preference for one-l in America and two l's in UK English).

Both Cambridge and Miriam-Webster list both. There are several such examples where variant spellings are commonly accepted in American English.

vwbusguy, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to linux

How do you pronounce #SUSE #Linux?

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to random

All the cool kids are checking their email with @thunderbird. Spread the word.

vwbusguy, 8 months ago to random

I have never once eaten #curry and thought, "wow, that is spicy". Flavorful, yes, but spicy, no. Not in Europe, not from an Indian restaurant, not from a Thai restaurant. I'm beginning to suspect that to Brits, "spicy" just means "anything that has flavor". #food

vwbusguy, 10 months ago to random

Seems engineers at a previous employer have been getting emails from #Docker sales asking to help make sure they're "properly licensed" according to their developers' usage. I'm very happy that I pushed to standardize on #podman there instead. I'm sure they are right now, too. This is #Oracle style tactics.

vwbusguy, 6 months ago to ai

I asked #Bing if Bing is reliable.

#AI #BingAI

vwbusguy, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Seasoning your own cookware is highly underrated.

#cooking #castiron #wok #carbonsteel

vwbusguy, 4 months ago to windows

If you're a longtime #Windows user who might want to give #Linux a try but you don't know where to begin and are worried it will all be too overwhelming for you, then I suggest #Fedora #Onyx. You'll get a very similar desktop experience via #Budgie with a very low maintenance Linux experience under the hood. And yes, you can game with it 😎.

https://fedoraproject.org/onyx/