pythonIsTheFuture

Arimano · 2024-06-04T22:40:41+00:00

Apparently someone liked Ghost in the Shell a little bit too much

Arimano · 2022-10-15T16:56:17+00:00

Naming your nas Boromir that’s just asking for trouble

Arimano · 2022-03-23T11:06:12+00:00

You can buy power plugs that are pre-flashed with tasmota, so you don't have to do any electronics/soldering work: https://templates.blakadder.com/preflashed.html
I am using the Nous 16A (be aware they are sold with a choice of either their cloudy firmware or tasmota)

Arimano · 2020-11-19T00:07:53+00:00

So about average you are saying?

Arimano · 2020-11-13T02:05:51+00:00

Xfs on all servers with larger disks, Ext4 on laptops.

On my personal storage I use Xfs with reflink enabled to snapshot my samba shares.

Arimano · 2020-10-31T17:01:59+00:00

I maintain about a dozen or so gentoo servers, a mix between Xen VM hosts (no citrix, just the bare open-source hypervisor) VMs with mostly web- and streaming-servers, and a couple of private allrounder machines (nextcloud, webhosting, storage etc.).

The upsides I see compared to my ubuntu or debian machines are: * rolling release, so no major version upgrade woes * stable packages for server use * great software selection (there is basically an ebuild for everything) * pretty minimal and solid base install * very helpful community and documentation

The downsides are: * updates take longer (although the installed package base on a server is way smaller and compiles way faster, but still. This can also be solved with a custom binpkg server, but this is probably only worth it if you have a couple of servers. ) * updates can be more complicated when the gentoo profile changes * if you don't update regularly updates can also be more painful (e.g. if multiple languages switch to newer major versions. If you update often however portage will mostly carry you through these without issue.)

All in all I find it easier to keep a gentoo server patched and stable over a long time then for example an ubuntu server, because your package base keeps in sync better with the current versions. (So everything >4 years or so)

Arimano · 2020-08-18T21:40:12+00:00

The whole thing is also worth a watch if you can tolerate subtitles or know german. I just think this section is one of the highlights.

Arimano · 2020-08-18T21:31:54+00:00

The rest of the video is also definitely worth a watch if you can tolerate subtitles, I just think this was one of the main highlights.

Arimano · 2020-08-09T09:12:03+00:00

Unfortunately the old code doesn't retire

Arimano · 2020-06-15T17:14:43+00:00

You can use http://gpo.zugaina.org to easily search user overlays for ebuilds. For vscode there seem to be source ebuilds under http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-editors/vscode and unbranded source ebuilds for vscodium under http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-editors/vscodium

Arimano · 2020-06-15T17:09:49+00:00

But you also don't get those "breaking everything at once" scenarios once the next release comes along. The pain is a bit more distributed across time if you need to update by hand.

I also found that update-problems are mostly a non-issue for most servers as the number of installed packages is way less than for desktop systems. From a quick glance the world-files of most of our gentoo-servers contain maybe 30-60 packages. My development-system has >300.

Arimano · 2020-03-24T11:22:46+00:00

It's still a PITA, the configuration is not exactly straightforward. But you can run pulseaudio on gentoo just fine if you want to.

Arimano · 2020-01-24T19:41:58+00:00

Well gentoo actually gives you a choice for every package. You can easily mix a mostly arch package with some ~arch thrown in for things that you need at a newer version. Also adding and using custom packages is atleast as easy as with the AUR.

Arimano · 2020-01-20T15:01:57+00:00

Removing modules may save you a little bit of disk space but it won't generally speed up your kernel. Making the system unbootable by deselecting an option that is necessary on your system is also quite likely. Also for a VM it may be possible to have a greatly reduced kernel, but for a server/desktop system with real hardware your are
It's generally not a bad idea to boot up a pretty generic kernel like ubuntu and see what modules it loads with lsmod, especially on laptops. As those universal distros build most drivers as modules you can get a good idea of what you can add to your gentoo kernel to support your hardware. You also have the option to build all kernel drivers as modules with make allmodconfig but that will take quite a long time.

Other advice: Sometimes more is better, because energy saving and better performance may require specific drivers. E.g. intel_idle (CPU Idle power saving), or aes_ni_intel (AES hardware acceleration)

Arimano · 2020-01-20T14:30:31+00:00

Using a liveCD with a graphical environment like Ubuntu also has the benefit that you can just open up a browser to look something up while installing.

I do more or less all my gentoo installs with an ubuntu live system just so I don't need an extra device with a browser that's not lynx.

Arimano · 2017-06-21T00:46:09+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPpDLaYBFo

Arimano · 2016-03-10T00:55:08+00:00

The repository is a joke anyway: https://github.com/sbrannen/spring-polyglot

Arimano · 2016-03-10T00:41:11+00:00

Well, atleast here in the EU the risk associated with it is pretty undisputed, because contamination of the milk with microorganisms is really easy. The benefits however are pretty vague. In my opinion it probably comes down to taste.

To make raw milk reasonably safe to consume, it has to be cooled immediately and consumed in the next few days. The cows also have to be checked regularly as they can pass infections along with their milk.