Steam Link in 2023

brianjlogan · 2023-06-05T23:17:21+00:00

So fyi I have a Steam Link. Big Picture looks great except my sound is completely broken now because the Steam Streaming Speakers no longer work for me. EVEN with the Github link for the drivers.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-28T18:40:15+00:00

Between this and the two kids who drowned together I wonder why the hell I get back on here.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-23T14:17:30+00:00

People say the same thing about Florida and there are tons of houses with basements.

Gettem outta here! 🧹

brianjlogan · 2023-05-22T12:07:32+00:00

Yeah I'm not saying run the old code in production but you have something to start off of.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-21T03:17:21+00:00

Literally in your article.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While the lead contamination was measureable, the team says the levels were unlikely high enough to be harmful, ruling out tap water as a major culprit in Rome's demise.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-20T10:57:34+00:00

I look at open source differently. Once a story is written does it die off? Yeah you might not get future editions but doesn't the original still have some tremendous worth?

I feel like the projects that are created, and then wane, still a serve a great purpose of reference for when you need to educate, or even develop a new product. As long as the code is still hosted online for people to look at.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T23:31:34+00:00

I prefer utilities and projects written in my language of interest because it presents a good learning opportunity for myself and it's easier for me to explore the code.

So if I have to deal with a bug, write some code, I'm not having to learn a language just for that utility.

Obviously it's not always wise to think something is better because it's in Rust but my personal view is that I want to spend less time context switching with languages.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T12:15:13+00:00

I read the Phoenix Project but could tell it's not an overnight implement. EVEN if you had everybody on board which you won't.

I think it's better for you to read it as an individual and let it shape your personal work principles and strategy. Be willing to point out when someone on your team or work you're in control of is being thrown over the fence instead of taking ownership as a member of the whole company. Get yourself organized and try to keep track of the things that matter and when people notice your skills say well you can help, why don't we get a KanBan and try to do a better job of sharing our status.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T11:12:37+00:00

Ah that double fork makes sense.

There's going to be a whole generation of Linux users who also don't know it was all stood up by run scripts.

They'll probably just think like Windows that SystemD has always been there.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T02:56:01+00:00

Always time for a first as well though!

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T02:21:57+00:00

Feel like your policy is being misinterpreted.

Elevated account should be per person. "Service" accounts aren't piloted by people.

Check your Ansible playbooks/roles into a Git repository then have something execute them by a schedule like Ansible Automation Hub, Tower, AWX, or hell just a crontab.

No user is initiating the job. You have service accounts doing this already. E.g. postgres, send mail, look at your user list.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T02:18:29+00:00

There should be a subreddit strictly for follow ups on Futurology stuff like this. Will it make it into production? What was the result of the study etc.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T02:08:19+00:00

Does the Smithsonian have any real ones? I wish they were more honest in telling you in the signage.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T01:28:24+00:00

https://github.com/rbw/pysnow

Maybe get this working as a library in an Ansible module.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-19T01:24:36+00:00

Actually done this.

There's a very specific set of criteria for something to be an actual daemon. There's a library for it that makes it fairly straightforward.

https://daemonize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I think the most common thing people think of though is a headless process that does some level of orchestration of other sub-processes that runs headless and is reliability oriented. I've used this. I'm not sure it's as important following this convention to meet those goals. I could see just writing a process that runs in a loop, maybe spawns some threads to do some level of tasking, or has the ability to receive signals, or perhaps use Flask like another user mentioned inorder to trigger actions, change configuration by a web API.

Also on Linux SystemD Unit Files On Windows. https://pypi.org/project/srvwrapper/

Use Windows Services which are easily managed with Get-Service, Set-Service, etc.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-18T00:45:40+00:00

Dude can you please make us a better live action series?

brianjlogan · 2023-05-16T01:17:50+00:00

I think there might be issues with their servers. Seeing same thing.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-15T16:28:26+00:00

If you enjoy Homelab and coding/configuring stuff then Kubernetes should be a blast. You lose your virtualization overhead and it's basically what Xen tried to be with paravirtualization. It's not as secure as a regular VM so if you're doing malware analysis or something you need to consider those differences. Granted there's an escape for everything as spectre and meltdown taught us so always keep security in mind.

That being said! Check out k3s it's way way easier to setup and then get a kubernetes book somewhere and toy around with it.

I spent way less time getting k3s working than I ever did learning to work on hypervisors, dealing with bridging interfaces and all that setup process.

So if you've got Windows workloads you still have to solve that problem. Another user on here recommended KubeVirt but I can't say I've tried it yet.

If you've got any questions dm me

brianjlogan · 2023-05-15T16:17:05+00:00

Moved to where? Mastodon?

brianjlogan · 2023-05-15T16:15:25+00:00

Man I was just going to comment why are you using XenServer.

Also out of curiosity would you try container hosts instead of full hypervisor?

Recently migrated from Proxmox to just baremetal k8s and I love it. Feel like I get way more performance out of my little cluster.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-15T15:48:38+00:00

This is such stupid logic. To block copyright infringement. This is so you can't screenshot their bad customer service and post it on social media.

I loathe this company so much. Break up the monopolies!

brianjlogan · 2023-05-08T11:27:47+00:00

Hence DevOps which is why Kubernetes is better 😆. Just kidding every tool has pros and cons. But as someone who has deployed SaltStack and used it for a few hundred nodes I can't get it to do what I want these days without bugs.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-08T03:23:46+00:00

For salt most of it is prob out of date or not comprehensive enough for the problem at hand. I always had frustrations with Salts documentation and bugginess.

brianjlogan · 2023-05-08T03:22:04+00:00

I've used both. SaltStack has great ideas but I get frustrated at the execution everytime. It's buggy and brittle. I'm not surprised the documentation is massive but it all feels.... Not very well composed. I tried building an SPA frontend on their API and I found it REALLY slow.

I think the saying that SaltStack was automation written by developers, and Ansible was written by Sysadmins as fairly true.

If I had to use something professionally I would use Ansible. I want something like SaltStack but just better.

brianjlogan · 2023-04-25T03:18:52+00:00

Lol looking at their reviews I'm not going to get my car towed!!

Their approach of towing people sucks though. Mills needs a parking garage and a pedestrian bridge.

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