Notices by waffles 🇨🇦 (waffles@masto.yttrx.com)

Today I broke a computer then bought a computer. Ugh

Was migrating my epyc system to a new case and busted it. Just finished buying a new system and trying not to think too much about it

@mmeier @rachel oh man. i remember back in 2004? i would do a "emerge world" over the weekend on my crappy little celeron workstation at the office and hope that it'd finished by monday morning.

Welp! I just made a few online purchases and by December I’ll be running 100Gb/s at home lol

(Point to point between my workstation and my nas for now. I dropped a *lot* on a special cable that’ll run 50m to my bedroom, but I don’t see needing a switch anytime soon)

Server got its upgrade! I’ll have to wait until I can run the fiber between rooms before I swap out my desktops NIC

Welp. After an hour of debugging it seems like I'm stuck at 25Gb/s between my workstation and my nas.

I'm not about to run a dedicated bare metal nas for this. I guess I'll just have to be happy with what I currently have!

Running the 100gb fiber in parallel with the 10gb fiber. The duct tape is definitely going to be a long term “temporary” solution.

@badnetmask @poleguy @homelab nice! I have several laptops that I routinely reprovision and then restore from backups.

I feel like I have a ship of Theseus computer. It’s the same UI and configuration that I’ve been using for years but I no longer remember setting it up, it’s just cobbled year over year

I love the form factor of my iPhone 13 mini, but I don’t love its battery life. If I’m out all day or will be out in the night, I need to also carry a battery pack.

I think I’ll keep my 13 mini with an active mobile service but get the 17 pro as my daily driver.

This’ll allow me to keep my 13 mini for running errands when I don’t want a bulky device, but otherwise I can have a nice bigger screen and big battery.

I’ll have my cake and eat it too please.

It’s the little things. One of my Pis has been grinding away; its active coolings bearing were trash and I’d almost gotten used to the sound.

Today I decided to swap its case out for a fully passively cooled one, and the sound in my bedroom is now so much nicer at night.

I was afraid to watch #alienearth as I’m a huge fan of the alien aesthetic and was concerned that seeing earth would ruin it for me. The movies always take place far away and really underscores the ugliness of the corporate endeavors.

But so far I’m really enjoying it!

Why its time to bring #irc back

https://www.newnet.net/article/why-its-time-to-bring-back-irc.php

Damnit -- something changed in my mailserver configuration and dovecot lmtp wasn't accepting connections for a while (about a week).

Crap.

I love/hate/love running email

Are there any #homelab mailing lists? I miss using mailing lists and homelabs feel like a great topic for back and for discussions.

@badnetmask @stefan I have a dedicated truenas machine which simply receives datasets from my main nas every night and then weekly syncs it to hetzner box via rclone (using file level encryption and sftp)

The initial sync took about 7h but now it runs in about 5min. I use it to archive my photos/vids/docs

It’s my version of 3-2-1 backups

@badnetmask the natural progression is

Slackware > gentoo > arch > Debian > centos

When it comes to choosing which os to run on your bare metal hosts :)

@mekkaokereke it’s human nature to protect yourself emotionally from the fear that you too could become homeless, and the best way to do that is to invent reasons why a person is homeless. Alcohol. Drugs. Mental illness. The reason doesn’t matter, so long as it can assuage your fears because “that would never happen to you”.

The things we tell ourselves when we’re living paycheque to paycheque and living life on the edge of homelessness.

@gnomon @cks @nev hahahaha I’m rooting for you!!

When I interviewed for my current job I did the programming solution in Perl.

“I don’t think that’s valid syntax” the interviewer said 🥲

@gnomon @cks @nev I just assumed that most network protocols using crlf was a teletype thing

I still remember learning Perl for that job with you gnomon— *shudders*

@badnetmask I do find that tools like these help to remove the tedium of writing unit tests. So much repetition that these tools often get that right with a few well placed tab completions

The web was born on a machine like this

https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/113632896900081547