Heheh,… toot

BOOBAHS

Hello, yes, I’d like all my farmland to look like circles from high altitude photos, thanks!

Management people like that do deserve your ire. They’re shit people who make it hard for everyone else because they have an extreme authoritarian view of running the corpo and will do what they want at the expense of rationality.

It’s extra stupid because if someone they need (very specific need for a pet project basically) or someone they know personally comes along - that person would get all accommodations in a heart beat.

But your team means nothing, the project means nothing (unless it is the pet project of the dipshit who gets to make the decision). They’re a shit person and you can’t change that and it sucks.

Sorry the inflexibility of dipshit management is hurting you. It happens and it’s their fault, they will cause damage to the corpo, but they’re also probably too weak to tank the whole thing. Just a callous inefficiency. And you can hate them, they deserve it. It’s so easy to see a way towards a solution - but if bozo thinks bozo can get away with burning you to preserve some ephemeral corporate mandate for “in person”, bozo will burn you. The corpo mandate may disappear in a few years, but all that dipshit can do is think short term. And it sucks for you, it suck’s for your coworkers, and again, I’m sorry.

Be stronk, your labor is your power. You’ll have to leave with your power, and that sucks ass. But your partner will be happy, and that may be worth it to you - especially if this corpo has bozos like that in high places, you’d probably run into something stupid that would be a deal breaker at some point.

Lastly, no allegiance to the corpo, but your coworkers can be good. They may advocate for you, they may reference for you. Don’t trust anyone or any promises from corpo, including your local manager on up. Ideally that’s not how it should work - talent is talent even if you have to be flexible to keep talent - but corpos are authoritarian by nature and lack guardrails so dipshits get hooked on capricious short-term behaviour.

Be pissed, fuck em, don’t train your replacement & walk out before that, remember you’re worth keeping in a sane world, because you worth it

Edit: lastly, don’t dwell on it. Leave the shitstain where it is at your old job, don’t bring it in your mind. That’s really hard because it’s literally one capricious decision causing the issue - but do it for your sake. That’s the cost of living in authoritarian structures, don’t let it eat at you. You worth it, you’ll find something else

You can slam semicolons at the ends of lines in Python, interpreter doesn’t care

P sure you can do multiple lines in one line by slamming semicolons too, though idr for sure and I can’t be arsed to check

I highly recommend holding it within 3 feet of your body for 5 to 10 minutes; absolutely nothing can go wrong from holding a Cobalt-60 source with 3540 Curies in 1963 within 3 feet of your body for 5 to 10 minutes!

Temps up -> hydrate with lukewarm water -> fill back up -> infinite gaming, infinite hydration

Holy shot never thought to test used cast iron of unknown provenance.

You can def strip it, the lead contamination is in the seasoning but it’s not gonna get into the iron. Buuuut sanding that down will be a hazmat zone. I’d bunny suit/sealed goggles/P100/sand on plastic sheet cause that’s gonna be the worst case for lead dust. Idk if it’s worth it.

Check flurospec if you have some extra disposable cash for better lead tests https://www.detectlead.com/, I wonder if the types of tests you used turned red due to interacting with iron or something (unlikely but possible, they incorrectly react sometimes and it’s red so monk brain wonders…)

King, all you must do is set up root ssh access with a short password and port forward port 22 to it. Super easy, super quick!

For extra spice, I’d recommend also hitting your hard drives with a hammer once or twice a day. They just don’t like vibrations; you’ve gotta weed out the weak ones. Only the strong data will survive.

With the shitshow of the worl rn I bet the majority of people won’t notice a repost beyond a year, maybe even 6 months. So blast us with new-old shitposts

Reading that is wild

Why are you doing Arch on a server? You want to tinker forever and read the update notes like a hawk lest the server implode forever?

Arch isn’t gonna be noticeably leaner than Debian.

Get Debian, install docker and/or podman, set unattended upgrades, and then install Incus if you need VMs or containers down the line. You can stick on ZFS and it’ll be fine, you already have BTRFS for basic mirrors. Install Cockpit and you’ll have a nice GUI. Try not to think you have to fiddle with settings, the maintainers for each package/service have set it so it works for most people (and we’re most people!); you’ll only need to intervene on an handful of package configs. All set and it’s not proprietary.

Clearly disinfo, where’s the thicc pancakes??

That’s just winter with extra steps

If you’ve got Debian already installed, I cannot resist advocating for Incus (stable branch from Zabbly repo with web ui https://blog.simos.info/how-to-install-and-setup-the-incus-web-ui/) in lieu of proxmox. Does the same thing but you don’t have to rip out the kernel Debian uses.

With Debian 13 you have access to podman quadlets, use that for any non-vm needs. The ease of docker compose files easily removes reason for programs in LXC containers, and podman removes reason for docker in an LXC. LXC is left only for programs that aren’t containerized. VMs for security DMZ. Podman for bulk of stuff you want.

Good luck!

For context this is referencing this post https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/232347/ which apparently started beef I did not know about and was blissfully unawares until sad detective man told me several months later that it started beef and then I felt bad until he fashioned this accord and now I can sleep soundly at night again

Now is a bad time to buy hard drives price-wise. Massive price gouging going on with all storage pre-sold based on IOUs to “AI” companies.

If you must…

Buy used enterprise drives with a ~5 year warranty. In US there is serverpartdeals and goharddrives. I am not sure of the Europe equivalents but I am sure they exist. The enterprise drives should be cheaper than new drives and will last longer; they’ve been used out of their early failure bathtub curve but they’re young enough to be given a 5 year warranty. Make sure to get ones with SATA connectors not SAS, you’ll need a PCIe card to talk to the SAS ones, and maybe something for power idk.

They should be cheaper - I am not sure if price uncertainty has upended that.

Enterprise drives are louder, I have them in a quiet case with sound dampening padding (fractal define) and I do not hear them 5 feet away.

I have heard bad things about consumer drives longevity. I used several 1 TB barracudas for years with no issues in a server setting, I used 3 TB barracudas in a server setting and one failed early. I used a 4 TB Toshiba that failed early and I used an 8 TB blue that is fine in a personal computing setting. I have bought enterprise drives and none have an issue yet.

It seems luck of the draw, so the thing to maximize is cheapest per GB.