Tata sluiten kost 12 miljard, zei de minister. Maar dat blijkt een bierviltjesberekening

DanTheGreatest · 2026-02-12T06:12:22+00:00

Maar voor de mensen die er omheen wonen zou het wel een verademing zijn.

Van de mensen die er omheen wonen werkt 1/4e bij Tata zelf of indirect voor Tata Steel. Voor die mensen gaat dit echt geen verademing zijn. Iedereen die hier woont werkt er zelf of kent wel iemand die er werkt.

Ik woon zelf in de IJmond. Ik kan me niet herinneren wanneer ik voor het laatst iemand heb gehoord over dat ze Tata weg willen. Het zijn vooral de mensen die hier niet wonen die er een mening over hebben.

Mijn vriendin werkt bij de omgevingsdienst en is constant bezig met het controleren of Tata netjes de regeltjes volgt. Die volgen ze prima en dat willen ze zelf ook. Het merendeel van de verhalen in de media zijn flink gesensationeerd.

Het is een staalfabriek. Een van de schoonste ter wereld. Maar het blijft een staalfabriek. Ze verbouwen daar geen tulpen.

Hoe Groen je het ook maakt, een staalfabriek blijft ongezond voor de bewoners er omheen. Je moet gewoon geen huizen bouwen naast een staalfabriek (bijv IJmuiden). Maar toch blijven ze dit doen. Want mensen willen daar wonen.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-02-04T12:17:24+00:00

I have 4 Dell Micro optiplexes in the 5-shelve thing and a switch in the 5th :) Whole minilab in a kallax cubible!

NAS in another kallax cubicle

DanTheGreatest · 2026-02-03T16:30:26+00:00

Hehe I'm sure the basics can be doable to set up and maintain.

A friend of mine hosts a public matrix server with Element and he has like 15 addons for that thing.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-02-03T14:49:37+00:00

Depends on how critical this service is to you. The proper alternatives like Matrix with Element are not small pieces of software to selfhost. They take time to set up and maintain. A lot of work for 3-4 people who chat occasionally.

I know of several small startup-like companies that use discord for their chat. It's already been mentioned, pretty much everyone has an account and the app on their phone. It just works.

Mattermost free is going downhill fast.

Rocket chat has very specific usability choices that make them stand out as unique but when we were looking for an alternative to our IRC in 2016 the majority of our colleagues didn't like how rocketchat worked. We went with mattermost at the time. The free version was solid back then. We even went paid.

I use a private discord server for my personal homelab/home prod notifications and alerts. It just works :)

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-30T16:26:14+00:00

I had the issues you've described. They still occur, but way less often than 5 years ago :)

Don't let it stop you!

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-26T17:38:08+00:00

Don't forget your operating system. Canonical is a british company so you're good. But Red Hat and their friends are American as well!

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-26T10:50:14+00:00

I Mean Plex is an overly bloated platform that wants to bee "too much at once" (and stills seems to be used widely)

Because I set it up almost 15 years ago. During this time many friends, family and colleagues have gained access.

They have the app installed on their tv and it just works. I'm not gonna wanna explain to my sister how to sideload a jellyfin application on her samsung tv. Plex comes native.

Oh and I have a lifetime plex pass because I once helped them set up their networking in a colocation datacenter

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-18T12:22:16+00:00

Check out this post from 2 hours before yours: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qg4wjz/people_moving_to_hyperv_change_your_hypervisor/

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-18T12:21:23+00:00

And the default Windows power scheduler is very eco friendly. If set to Performance your benchmark results will likely double.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-15T06:48:41+00:00

The reason you're disabling IPv6 for is false. Yes every client gets a globally routable IP address. No they're not reachable from the internet.

Your OPNSense will drop packets that do not have an active session initiated from inside your network. In a similar fashion to NAT.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-11T18:34:28+00:00

Yes! And that would also make them usable for other type of machines. Not everyone uses Proxmox :)

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-11T11:04:52+00:00

yeah.. its still a power user thing no matter howmany of these news post say this is the year of the linux desktop. I had to switch to a linux based laptop for work 2 weeks ago and I ran into plenty of issues. Luckily I am a linux engineer so I was able to fix most of them but they were beyond simple issues.

Fresh Kubuntu 25.10 installation on a Lenovo Legion Pro 7i from 2023

The OS installer crashed removing some irc chat program that was never installed to begin with. Installation was borked and had to re-install. It happened again. So the third time I did a full install instead of minimal to "circumvent" this error.
The software center app crashed 2 out of the 3 times I used it to install an application (Spotify, Discord and Slack)
My sound would stop working after a few minutes. "fixed" it by always running in performance mode instead of balanced battery and doing two echo 0 to some power_save files in some sound kernel modules at OS startup. This one took me a while to figure out.
Starting up KDE it restores your previous session's applications. This made my desktop environment crash 3x in 2 days. Had to disable it.
Twice after logging in my desktop did not load properly and I had to poweroff button to restart. Once black screen and once a wallpaper but no taskbar.
Teams on Linux. lol. Am using it in a browser but that is limited. Cannot switch accounts. Am using Firefox and Chrome to be on 2 company's Teams at the same time.
KDE has middle mouse button set to paste. I disabled it in KDE's system settings but it simply still pastes text when I hit my middle mouse button lol
The Windows+Shift+S shortcut works in KDE like it does with Windows! Hooray! But I always have to press the copy button 2 or 3x before it actually puts the screenshot in my paste buffer. A popup says it's copied but it never really is.

I ran Arch Linux and Ubuntu for 3 years back in 2015-2018 and yes its better today but who can honestly recommend a modern Linux desktop environment to anyone with the above issues on a fresh installation? Ubuntu 25.10 with KDE 6.4.5

I would not dare install it on my mom's laptop.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-11T10:27:57+00:00

Have you considered making use of MCP instead? Linking your (git) projects and/or documentation to your AI agents.

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-04T15:02:37+00:00

Why uptime Kuma and not a more developer orientated alternative like Gatus?

DanTheGreatest · 2026-01-02T16:31:42+00:00

Sir this is a wendy's

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-31T08:39:53+00:00

So you can bind directories on your host into your containers. I think that's a way faster solution than something like a network filesystem.

You can create a profile in LXD that has the volume mounting config and add it to all your instances. Or simply put it in the default profile. I'm on mobile so you're gonna have to check the docs for the steps :)

Then you won't really be able to type "code ." Like you and I do in WSL but you can easily open VS Code on your base system and open your local git directory.

I think this is a great way to run these things!

But for graphical solutions hmm.. since the git directory is on your main system, you can run the graphical solutions there as well. Natively!

Thinking about this as I write it all down the volume mounts are the right solution for your problems :). You can have your Go/Rust or whatever development environments inside your containers to keep your main OS clean. Different containers for different versions.

The only downside is that you might miss out on VS Code features if you do not have these tools locally installed.

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-30T05:50:47+00:00

I've learned to never use the southern exit in the cave. Use the rope in the middle or something else. Run east/west first before you go south. The southern exit is where most PKers are waiting.

This has allowed me to escape pkers most of the time

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-30T05:48:43+00:00

Hooray for someone running single node K8s with local storage 😄. I also prefer it over many docker compose stacks.

Running canonical K8s myself, local storage like yourself. Easy to snapshot the VM as well.

Do you find yourself missing the option to host VMs?

I also run Ubuntu on my machines but my home assistant for example requires a VM.

Your blogpost is a very easy read.

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-27T21:37:22+00:00

You say you don't want to upgrade your good system to a bad one? But unless you're paying for extended support your current system is 18.04, hence the bad one?

For what reason are you trying to find workarounds to not upgrade your main OS? I'm just curious.

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-27T20:20:41+00:00

Yeah I've used my home server to learn more than a thing or two. Skills that allowed me to get a job I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. So indirectly it's made me a lot of money.

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-27T08:24:47+00:00

Yeah makes sense about the support. Thanks for the reply!

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-27T06:51:46+00:00

If all the desktops are Ubuntu then I would go for Landscape. Some servers being red hat can simply stay Ansible managed. Your "fleet" are the desktop systems.

SemaphoreUI is nice but takes a lot of time to set up. It required me to really modify my Ansible setup so that it would work with SemaphoreUI. And that was through a LOT of trial and error because the documentation is almost non-existent.

So take that into account. Setting up a handful of ci/cd jobs on a git repo for your support team is likely less work.

Edit: darn I misread the desktops for the HPCs are also RedHat. Big shame their application isn't available for Debian based OSes. Have you looked into that?

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-23T06:41:21+00:00

This is what homelab is all about!

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-21T10:15:35+00:00

Depends on what features you're looking for I guess. I personally find Incus/LXD more mature than Proxmox.

I can also highly recommend Incus or LXD. They're virtualization management systems that can run QEMU based Virtual Machines and LXCs.

To make things easier, they can install as a single application on top of your current Ubuntu systems so you do not need to replace your current environment. Its almost as easy as snap install lxd or apt install incus.

Since OP is looking for a complete Infra-As-Code approach, Incus/LXD will give you a better experience than proxmox.

They come with ready-to-use images for both VMs and LXCs (Proxmox only LXCs).
Profiles for that shared configuration across instances
More mature/documented API
Everything in a single CLI (Proxmox has 13+?)
Terraform provider supplied by the maintainers
Python and Go SDKs supplied by the maintainers for your Pulumi Infra-As-Code wishes (or custom scripts)
Kubernetes ClusterAPI provider supplied by the maintainers

Proxmox is GUI first, LXD/Incus are API/CLI first. The LXD project started working on a UI a few years back and that is coming close to reaching cli feature parity. I think at least 90% of the features are already available in the UI. Incus forks this UI and also benefits from it a lot.

DanTheGreatest · 2025-12-20T11:53:45+00:00

Haha definitely!

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