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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.

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johanneskastl, to grafana
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On to the next one: Learn 10x by Eric Salituro. Excited to finally learn the hidden treasures and wisdoms of Grafana after using it more and more in the last couple of years...

vwbusguy,
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@johanneskastl Percona ships a useful FOSS flavor of it, too:

https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-monitoring-and-management

It's geared towards databases, but not exclusively - it's grafana under the hood.

vwbusguy,
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@johanneskastl I've also been meaning to take some intentional time to dive deeper into prometheus, alertmanager, promql, Grafana, etc. I think there's a lot more potential of what I might do with it all if I understood the gears and cogs of the machines more.

vwbusguy, to random
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I can hardly wait to see what ad-sponsored AI results are going to do to the internet. 😩

st3fan, to random
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One day I’ll like the JavaScript language and ecosystem …

vwbusguy,
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@st3fan It's all about how you react to it and express that, but you have to bootstrap the conversation somewhere.

vwbusguy, to random
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The beagle finally took care of that highly industrious and elusive gopher that's been decimating our flower garden area the past week.

vwbusguy, to fedora
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The 40 Release Party just ended and it was great as usual to connect with familiar faces and get updates on current and upcoming things for the project. Fedora is alive and well with a thriving global community!

bark_maul, to Dog
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Puppy had her first meeting with a herd of cows today, the species her ancestors were bred to herd. It did not go well—she went into a blind panic and ran away as fast as her perfectly bred little legs could carry her. I hope her ancestors weren't looking.

(I didn't get it on video but here's her a minute into her flight looking back to see if the cow is in pursuit.)

Canis lupus pembrokensis, in a semi-panicked canter up a hill ławay from a herd of cows) looking nervously over her shoulder checking for pursuit.

vwbusguy,
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@flaki @bark_maul @DismalManorGang Yeah, I have a beagle, and she's pretty much never not in pack hunting mode in some way.

thomholwerda, to linux
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Attention all , , Intel graphics driver, and experts - if you have any free time, please take a look at this issue we're facing:

https://github.com/sonnyp/linux-minibook-x/issues/7

Loading the edid should've worked in enabling 90Hz, but it did not. Any help or insight would be so, so appreciated.

vwbusguy,
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@thomholwerda You'll get more eyes on this from Fedora users by asking in the Ask Fedora section of https://discussion.fedoraproject.org

vwbusguy,
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@thomholwerda On the flipside, those things are supported by Fedora and there may be other Fedora users with the same problem so you raising the question and getting help might help others out as well and possibly even for those not running Fedora that stumble in from a search engine about your issue. All that to say, you're definitely welcome to ask about it there.

vwbusguy,
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@thomholwerda It's a community distribution and not a commercial one. Think of it less as a support entitlement and more of an opportunity for the community to come together to help one another out and potentially make things better for users of those things in the broader Linux/open source world. Reporting bugs and problems is useful way to contribute, even if your immediate personal goal is just trying to get your laptop to work better with it.

passthejoe, to random
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Now that I have my first company computer since before COVID, my use of Linux and BSD will be more extracurricular.

On Friday I kept the personal laptop running OpenBSD all day because it's better behaved when it comes to reliably suspending and resuming.

Again, if you haven't run OpenBSD on the desktop in years, things have come a very long way.

vwbusguy,
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@passthejoe Collabora Online is LibreOffice in the browser and a good excuse for setting up your own nextcloud server.

vwbusguy,
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@passthejoe Yeah, that's a general rule for newer RPI. The performance is better with usb. That said, I'm still using a microsd for my Pi's. It's not so much that you can't, but that your experience will very likely be better with usb.

vwbusguy, to ai
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I haven't met a single person who doesn't work in tech or higher ed that is excited about . Most reactions I hear range from confused to frightened about it, but never excited.

vwbusguy, to television
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constantly interrupting streaming to show me ads for Paramount Plus is not going well for convincing me to keep subscribing to Paramount Plus.

maxamillion, to random
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I currently run RHEL everywhere on my personal infrastructure (desktops, laptops, servers, homelab, etc), but sometimes I consider moving to CentOS Stream on my desktop/laptop devices for the faster access to in-flight features and bug fixes that roll out between RHEL release windows. 🤔

vwbusguy,
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@komish @maxamillion My home server runs Fedora and I've kept it going, upgrading it continuously, since 2014.

grimalkina, to random
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Great day to be reminded that when you are creative and different and innovative, most business structures will basically do everything they possibly can to suffocate that and stuff you into their pre-existing little well controlled boxes.

Intellectual and knowledge work is no protection in a world where the meritocracy of intellect is a distraction narrative.

vwbusguy,
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@grimalkina Yup. Choosing who, when, and what you reveal about your plans for change and innovation is an entire skillset that isn't generally taught apart from having a number of hard experiences.

vwbusguy, to random
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Got to jam with a group today with the and it's got some neat tricks to it. It has some particular sweet spots with rhythm distortion. I can see now why this was popular with some grunge era guitarists. A little bolder and easier to tame than a Strat and not as overruling as a Les Paul.

vwbusguy,
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I still missed the PRS and Ibanez when it came to lead stuff, though. The Gretsch is plenty capable - I'm just spoiled with the others.

vwbusguy,
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One thing I really like about the #Gretsch is that I can crank up the tubes and it doesn't get muddy in a bad way. I'm not sure how to describe a "clean muddy" tone, but when Chris Cornell plays here you can get a sense of it:

https://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg

I generally play lead guitar, but I can definitely imagine this Gretsch becoming a staple for the occasions I'm on electric rhythm.

#guitar #SoundGarden #ChrisCornell #BlackHoleSun

vwbusguy, to random
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A lesson I have to keep relearning:

How busy I am and how productive I actually am is a very tricky and difficult balance to get right.

vwbusguy, to random
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#Atari has died and been reborn around a dozen times. Yes, the company as it currently exists isn't the same as when Pong came out. Neither was it the same company as when Warner Brothers piecemeal sold it in the 1980s to Jack Tramiel, Mitsubishi, etc. Nor the same company when it was a Naamco sub-brand. Nor when Hasbro owned it.

Sure, Atari today isn't the same as it was in the 1970s, but the same is largely also true for Activision, SEGA, Rare, Square, etc.

vwbusguy, to random
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The state of LLM right now is more or less that of a corporate-sanctioned Napster that hasn't (yet) been gutted by litigation. I'm curious to see what kind of more mainstream torrent/Spotify type thing emerges from this after the hype bubble inevitably pops. In the meantime, I suggest not betting the bank on any one major vendor. Copilot, ChatGPT, Llama, etc could all be one good lawsuit away from shutting down. Factor that into the business risk of adoption.

vwbusguy,
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@remanded I'm not equating Napster with Spotify. Napster was a culturally impactful tool that disrupted a highly litigious industry that was charging $20 for a CD. Napster got sued to death, but eventually paved the way for streaming services and bit torrent technology.

LLM services are coming at a time where search engines and websites are clustered with ads and copy edited ad nauseum. While on potentially legally dubious grounds, I'm interested to see the next iteration of things.

vwbusguy,
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@1dalm

https://www.slashgear.com/1552023/why-congress-banned-microsoft-copilot-ai/

https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/insights-from-the-pending-copilot-class-action-lawsuit.html

They're also facing various lawsuits on both sides of the pond, both for copyright abuse and that they're arguably de facto running OpenAI by proxy.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-launches-inquiry-generative-ai-investments-partnerships

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsofts-openai-partnership-could-face-eu-antitrust-probe-sources-say-2024-04-18/

fedora, to fedora
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What has the Fedora COSMIC SIG been up to? Find out at the Fedora 40 Release Party! @ryanabx, the lead of this effort, will give us an update.

Register to join the Fedora 40 Release Party, happening this Fri-Sat, May 24-25: https://fedoramagazine.org/registration-open-fedora-40-release-party-on-may-24-25/

Our friends at @system76 are super invited to join the party! 🥳

vwbusguy,
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@jwf @ahoneybun @ryanabx @fedora Oh, dang. I just missed the Cosmic SIG talk. I'll have to go back and watch it.

vwbusguy, to random
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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

vwbusguy,
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@gangrif https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/112397092635491649

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