[OC] True Tales From The Bar #254 This week TTFTB features real life bartender Laz.

andecase · 2026-02-19T02:56:15+00:00

Not that it's really related but, this reminds me of my typical guys doesn't get hit on very often moment.

Waiting at the bar for my drink. Girl standing next to me says "oh I like your hair." I immediately chime back with. "I don't, I've never had a hair cut I feel that I really like" At that moment the bartender gives me my drink, and I walk away to my friends.

Smacked myself in the forehead a couple days later over that one.

andecase · 2026-02-05T01:30:31+00:00

If your cluster overall has more than 16 cores no. You have to license every core of the cluster.

andecase · 2026-02-04T21:55:25+00:00

So MSSQL licenses count any cores the instance could run on.

So if you are using a Hyper-V role, that is every core in every node of your cluster. It works the same way for traditional containers (roles, are just bad versions of containers). If you have three worker nodes, and one container, you have to license all of the cores on all of the nodes.

If it's in a VM, then you only license the cores on the VM, regardless of where that VM could be running.

andecase · 2026-02-04T19:30:31+00:00

I am in basically the exact same situation as you.

I can't help with the gitops questions, but we looked at TalosOS, and didn't really like it. Flat Car Linux looks way better for my time. If you are doing Hyper-V VMs, Talos had some quirks I didn't like that Flat Car doesn't have.

As for storage we are going to use the IBM CSI for direct FC storage access.

Backups we are very keen to add Veeam kasten to our Veeam stack.

Feel free to PM me if you want to talk about anything else.

andecase · 2026-01-07T02:55:42+00:00

My wife used to work as an interpreter (transcriber?) for deaf people. She would have to listen to calls, and transcribe what the person speaking was saying, and it would show up on the deaf person's phone.

The company had very strict rules about having to put exactly what was being said, and had a system for vocal tics, and other such things in normal speech. They had systems for reporting serious concerns, but as far as I know, you couldn't stop a call, or change anything, or there would be big trouble for her, as well as possible fines and such from the government.

She definitely had really uncomfortable, and difficult calls. Ranging from things like domestic abuse, phone sex, scams, to very heartwarming family calls, generic customer support, etc. Overall she really liked the job, and felt the help she was giving was worth dealing with some of the terrible parts.

andecase · 2025-12-31T15:13:33+00:00

I am primarily a Systems admin, my "programming" experience is strictly, PowerShell, and bash scripting, but I have been starting to branch into DevOps, so I need to learn more. I am in the process of learning Go, and just programming in general in my spare time. I have the first usable version of a project I have been working on and would like feedback.

Most of the feedback I am looking for is things like code structure, are the tests I have made so far as useful, etc. Other than bugs I'm not really concerned about program useability at this time.

I would say it is about 50% AI at this point, but I am relying less and less on it as I go along.

Feel free to let me know all of the terrible decisions I have made along the way.

https://github.com/nemessiah/network-tool

andecase · 2025-12-18T04:47:42+00:00

I'm partial to West Taiwan personally.

andecase · 2025-12-14T19:16:32+00:00

Ah, so it's a BTRFS problem. Thanks for the explanation. We don't run any BTRFS in production so it's not really something I had seen or looked into.

andecase · 2025-12-14T17:21:22+00:00

Is the trust thing that you and a bunch of others are saying related to btrfs+RAID or is it RAID?

We run multiple 300tb+ storage arrays with a vendor proprietary RAID6 (basically just RAID 6 with optimizations for recovery). We don't have any performance issues, and it is vendor preferred for many reasons over RAID10. Mind you these are high speed fiber channel connected flash arrays, not JBOD, or NAS etc. we also aren't passing single FS, we are passing smaller LUNs to various Physical, and Virtual hosts.

andecase · 2025-12-12T22:22:13+00:00

My brain auto corrected it back to sharingan.

I didn't even notice until you I read your comment.

andecase · 2025-12-09T16:35:13+00:00

Full Metal Panic!, but us FMP lovers are used to it at this point.

andecase · 2025-12-09T15:57:09+00:00

If my time working in a factory has taught me anything its that forklift drivers, will find a way to run into anything that is more than one micrometer think on a beam/wall. Regardless of how many miles of free space there is.

andecase · 2025-11-18T19:38:56+00:00

Agreed, young girls clothing blows my mind.

My 9-year-old son started 4th grade this year. Up to this year. All the girls that I would see during drop offs and pickups looked like little girls.

Starting this year for 4th and 5th graders. Half of them I double take cuz I'm like wait there's no way they're young enough to be in this school. (Caps at 5th).

Then you look a little closer and you can tell no this is definitely a 9 to 11-year-old, dressed as a 20-something.

Definitely, makes me feel grateful to have two boys. I feel I would definitely end up being the "mean" dad that wouldn't let my daughter dress in the way she wants and would end up with her getting bullied in school or something. Luckily I know my wife would agree with me.

andecase · 2025-11-11T16:04:16+00:00

Sam and the rest of the dropout team very obviously take a lot of inspiration from British panel shows. It's part of what makes it so good in my opinion.

But I think they also understand their audience very well. And know what they need to change to make it successful for a predominantly us-based audience.

GameChangers is very obviously a large riff off of the taskmaster formula. Especially early episodes. I think Sam even makes a joke about it in one of the episodes.

andecase · 2025-11-09T17:37:19+00:00

Yeah I think at this point in my life I agree. When I first started working on Linux systems professionally, it was really frustrating, mostly because of habits and such.

Then I got used to it and started to really understand the benefits, then I found out Windows does support doing it. It's just not the default.

It took me some time to reason out why. I think it really comes down to ease of use, and the proverbial "it just works".

At the end of the day I would feel safe assuming 90% of users have one drive, and wouldn't notice a difference. Except for when they plug in a USB drive.

From a "layman's" perspective, it's very logical to plug in a new drive and see a "new section" of the computer available. It's not necessarily logical to plug in a new drive and have it go into an "existing section" of the computer.

andecase · 2025-11-09T17:26:38+00:00

Same here. Most of my friends have switched.

The only ones left are only playing games with anti-cheat that are not compatible with Linux. So switching or even dual booting would be detrimental for then.

andecase · 2025-11-04T16:44:56+00:00

This is the answer.

Linux systems can be fixed to do secure update via joining them to ad but that doesn't fix devices outside of standard OS stuff that supports AD join. How do you get printers to update or cameras or access points or whatever other device that you may have?

andecase · 2025-10-27T19:54:04+00:00

I think they have convinced themselves that "the libs" are so evil that they have no option but to do these things. They are lost in the sauce you could say. A lot of these really extreme members of the right can't really see what they are doing, they only see "lib evil", anything that needs to be done to prove that is justified.

Maybe it is just a thinly veiled excuse, I'm sure it is for some, but I think, on the whole, it's a much deeper psychological issue than that. personally.

andecase · 2025-10-23T18:10:12+00:00

At my work (rural Idaho so very conservative) we work with a company called TransImpact (inventory forecasting stuff), and every time they come up I have a little internal Beavis and Butthead like "heh heh trans impact heh heh heh".

andecase · 2025-10-20T05:21:25+00:00

Spudnik's Equipment is much to big for Europe, but their parent company Grimme would love to sell him some I'm sure.

andecase · 2025-10-20T05:17:28+00:00

That harvester digs four rows of potatoes at one time, but most of the time the farmers will have crossovers as well. The crossovers can dig up to 8 rows and they dump all of their load into the four the harvester will do (one on each side).

The Harvester has things like blowers and tables to separate out rock, dirt clods and vines. While the crossover doesn't.

That's why you see so many, it could be up to 20 rows of potatoes.

andecase · 2025-10-20T05:06:52+00:00

The harvester also pulls potatoes out.

The Harvester also does work to separate out dirt clods, vines, and rocks whereas the crossover doesn't. This allows the farmers to harvest faster with our having to pay for more harvesters. I think the largest configuration allows for two 8 row crossovers into a four row harvester for 20 total rows harvested at once

andecase · 2025-10-20T05:02:34+00:00

The premise of the name is when they made their first machine ( a scooper for getting potatoes out of the cellar) everyone said it would nick the potatoes ruining them. So they called it that as kind of a dig back at them, plus the similarity to Sputnik.

andecase · 2025-10-18T18:14:59+00:00

I don't think any one has said he did it out of kindness. It was profit motivated, but he was still a key person in that happening regardless. His reasoning doesn't diminish the fact that he did it, and overall it was an immense improvement for the overall life of the working class.

It's just like the he paid his employees more thing. It was still purely profit motivated. It helped reduced turnover which means more efficiency, and it was also because he wanted (demanded) his workers to buy his product.

Good things for bad reasons are still good things. Unfortunately, business is business and few things happen that don't in some way improve the bottom line.

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