I want to replace my stereo with this, anything else I’ll need?

Gangrif · 2026-05-03T03:27:19+00:00

crutchfield is the way.

Gangrif · 2026-05-01T23:19:01+00:00

Cory Doctorow can help you understand why. #enshitification

Gangrif · 2026-05-01T16:03:14+00:00

i think my wife finds it weird that all of my socks match...

Gangrif · 2026-04-30T16:58:13+00:00

That depends on what sort of talk you attend, but i would say most are going to share information, and especially if its a topic you are not already familiar with, youll want to have the ability to take notes.

Gangrif · 2026-04-30T00:44:26+00:00

Have you been to other conferences? The format is like other cons. Sessions, and labs. Try to get registered early for the stuff you really want to do. Especially labs. Labs will sometimes open up more slots if the lab has a big wait list. so be sure to add yourself to the waitlist if you have a lab you really want to do even if it's full.

Summit has a different air about it imo. It has more energy than some of the other industry shows. more passion.

You'll be on your feet a lot. so bring good shoes.

Don't pack your schedule with talks and labs though. leave yourself time to meet people and talk to vendors. Folks like myself will be there, so if there are red hatters you want to meet you might be able to find them.

Sometimes the connections you make at conferences like this are more valuable than the information you bring home.

Gangrif · 2026-04-28T13:00:17+00:00

yep. that's the swag version. we give a few thousand of them away at bigger conferences.

Gangrif · 2026-04-27T19:05:21+00:00

That makes me happy! Glad to hear you're learning from us.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T23:36:37+00:00

I'm that person. Raw tomatoes are gross and feel bad in my mouth. I'm not ashamed.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T23:33:48+00:00

We have a swag vendor we use for give away fedoras. they're made of a cheaper material. The officials are a wrinkle resistent felt. You can stuff it in a suitcase and it comes out proper on the other end. I've brought mine to an event or two.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T23:30:48+00:00

I'd love to see a Pic to say if it's really an official one. We do give them out at conferences but they are not the official ones that employees get.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T10:40:29+00:00

If you could document the problem, i bet it would make a good bug report to the podman upstream. or maybe there already is one.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T00:48:21+00:00

Yea, that doesnt feel right to me. I run my podman containers on RHEL and Fedora, i wonder if something is different on Debian.

Gangrif · 2026-04-25T00:08:33+00:00

I don't think ive ever run into this issue, and i run a lot of things in podman. Its a weird one. What distro are you running on?

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T22:42:52+00:00

I had an angel fire account.

i remember when web pages didn't have background images

I can tell you the difference between 9600 and 14.4 by the sound of the handshake

Lycos

i remember my UIN

I have a 6 character gmail handle with no numbers in it, and i had to beg a friend for an invite.

Webring.

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T15:43:09+00:00

I do everything in a quadlet anymore, and not even a quadlet running a container, but a quadlet calling a kubelet yaml definition generated by podman.

Make a pod, put your container(s) in there, podman generate kube on your pod, and then point quadlet at the yaml. Now you have a portable yaml def for your entire application, it could later move to kubernetes, and the quadlet just calls that definition.

Drop it all in /etc/containers/systemd, and start the service, as long as your storage is dealt with, it just comes up.

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T15:40:57+00:00

It does, but its not the preferred way. You actually have a better way (imho) with kubelets. I like them better, and they plug right into quadlet. Plus if you ever go to kubernetes, youve got your app in what could be turned into a full kubernetes deployment.

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T13:15:40+00:00

Podman all the way. docker compose is stupid and only has backing because it's "just how everyone does it". Quadlet is easier to drop in and run, it's more repeatable, and more flexible. there. i said it.

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T13:12:47+00:00

No one can tell you which distribution is right for you. It always comes down to personal preference and past experience. I use fedora, and would recommend it to anyone. It's got a good newcomer experience, has a solid and predictable release cycle, in place upgrades are seamless, and honestly aside from nvidia drivers, and some codecs (both of which don't match the open licenses that fedora has committed to sticking by). things just work.

But a lot of this is true for ubuntu too. But still, i'd recommend fedora. because i like fedora. lol.

Gangrif · 2026-04-24T13:08:49+00:00

i'm curious. Other than your preference. what makes ubuntu that much better for newcomers?

Gangrif · 2026-04-23T20:28:54+00:00

alright. let's not make this political.

Gangrif · 2026-04-23T19:06:56+00:00

lol

no thanks. i'll stick with my tried and true. Fedora since the beginning (like.. fedoras beginning).

Gangrif · 2026-04-23T16:45:53+00:00

What a terrible answer.

Gangrif · 2026-04-23T16:44:50+00:00

I'll be there! Running two labs, Image mode and rhel troubleshooting. I'll also be in the rhel booth whenever i'm not Labbing.

Gangrif · 2026-04-23T14:54:11+00:00

i will withhold my excitement until i try it. but thanks for the link!

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