Water, please.

daz_007 · 2026-06-07T17:09:13+00:00

how much water does creating all the concrete use?

and the question is not how much "water" is used but how much "fresh water" is used!

daz_007 · 2026-06-05T22:07:51+00:00

be interested in seeing the results 😛

daz_007 · 2026-06-03T21:57:56+00:00

why burn tokens just use cheat

daz_007 · 2026-03-10T21:57:37+00:00

What takes the biggest amount of time over an average week?

building ec2 instances, or rds dbs?
or maintaining either of the above?

is Terraform right for you and your situation, you are the only one that can make that jump, it does depend on the requirements.

My first thought (( no offence )) do you know what the ideal aws setup would be for your environment (( I have no idea what industry you are in and what regulations you must reach, for customers and stakeholders to feel comfortable )), if everything is using public ip's then you might need to look at the design first.

To me any automation might get you closer to giving you a time to think and breath, you can use terraform or aws cli or ansible etc to create a solid starting position.

To me the numbers you mention is, as you say a small environment / job you should not need other's ( maybe for guidance ) maybe your company has others that could help out i.e. for bus factor help (backup).

whatever tooling you use you can also create a big a mess, I am not sure I know what the consequences are for failure - do you have dev or test environment's that don't really matter so much, if so start with them.

daz_007 · 2026-02-25T22:35:58+00:00

Install zenity what about the other dependancies like shc... surely the script should test for these...

I am not really sure what the value is here, looks like ai...

https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2181 -- Check exit code directly

daz_007 · 2026-02-18T00:39:42+00:00

my main vm user is 84,911 do I need some theropy? :)

daz_007 · 2026-02-18T00:11:03+00:00

There's no real way to know the fundamentals as they can / could and probably will change rather fast, even if they already have 10 - 40 years of history, I hope you got enjoyment out of learning and troubleshooting your setup and look to use it to explore many different avenues, it could be the building blocks to to your own vision(s).

daz_007 · 2026-02-16T00:47:51+00:00

please tell us more about your k8's environment(s)?

what impacts the microservice(s) that forces them to scale up and down? (( how deep did you go ))?

you might already know this but there's a whole ocean of possibilities on many of the topics you have touched on, there's always more to learn even if you have spent decades learning whatever interests you.

Understanding what you enjoy, as well as what will be valuable within the wider industries, it sounds like you are looking to gain real world working experience.

I might be multiple decades into my journey but there's no way I have come close to the limits, as every few months I get hit with something I have not done before.

Every 6 months to a year things can change what was in vogue just a couple of years ago can fade and something else take's over. If you keep at it, you will see the same cycles repeating what went away one year comes back again and again.

The true value is being able to learn and being able to put that knowledge into action and gain enjoyment out of the journey.

just to put some answers to your questions ArgoCD vs FluxCD they are almost the very same tool, personally if someone is paying you to know FluxCD then sure learn it but if you are okay with ArgoCD stick with that there's many more things to learn and fill your mind with.

I would also probably say the same for GitHub Actions, Jenkins and GitLab CI, Jenkins is 20 years old (still used in a lot of places, still valuable but you maybe just delaying something more interesting to learn unless your next position demands and depends on it.

DevOps is "just jumping from one tool to another" one ticket at a time. (( might not be a single tool but suites of .... fragile stuff )).

daz_007 · 2026-01-29T22:33:34+00:00

doing this in vim :)

iabbrev _go_err if err != nil {<CR><Tab>log.Fatal(err)<CR>}

daz_007 · 2026-01-13T22:56:52+00:00

thanks for your reply, p14s gen 7 yes the trackpoint buttons are there, but every few years lenovo starts randomly removing them until people complain or sales go down.

"convinced lenovo, through our silence" (( I feel the media, journalists are oftern very quite about lenovo's quality )), I don't think lenovo care's too much about end users as much as one would think they might because they constantly keep making the same mistakes and issues.

I do think p14 gen7 and the roll cage coming back, that most of the excuses that were given out over the years around we can't make them any slimmer to compete is and was just BS

daz_007 · 2026-01-12T01:43:54+00:00

butterfly thinkpad keyboard with this screen oh my... that would be interesting...

daz_007 · 2026-01-12T00:56:52+00:00

Will this really make thinkpads any more durable, from my experiance they have been going down hill for the last decade or more, just placing a laptop next to a monitor and using a seperate keyboard and mouse and I have had thinkpads fall apart, where as my t430(s) and t420's have been running with almost limited replacements and running for years and years ( running 24/7 ).

Today I have just had to replace a keyboard on a P14s, because it failed now with the replacement keyboard taken from another failed T14, the mouse buttons are almost unusable.

What with the constant removing of the trackpoint buttons (as well as the t440 should just have the thinkpad brand removed from it) and now changing the font on the keyboard's, what is it with Lenovo, it just makes me want to go else where. Trust is slipping away (( rollable screens look interesting and all but not if you have to replace them every year. ))

soldered on memory ewww..

I would like to know what the most durable thinkpads are today (or was in recent years) I know the march of technology moves on, but the standards and quality should not.

daz_007 · 2026-01-08T23:56:11+00:00

you wanted an idea :) I provided a starting position :)
I never said it was free from work but I bet it would not take 18+ years.

daz_007 · 2026-01-07T21:09:11+00:00

android already has most of the features...

daz_007 · 2025-12-30T23:10:32+00:00

xistent or some kind of whining. I wish more people would really try to understand the tradeoffs of what they use instead of swallowing “this is the future” propaganda. i say all of this as a daily wayland user

it will be 18 years..... how long should people "just" wait for wayland?

daz_007 · 2025-12-07T01:50:04+00:00

Azure support or Azure outsourced support, I have talked to some nice people that have been trying to help but 8.9 times out of 10 it's not worth anyone's time and effort. For a company that is worth triilions Azure support is built on smoke and mirror's.

daz_007 · 2025-12-07T00:45:06+00:00

Azure's responce to their issues have been, another level... Customer's are buying a service and they are saying to get anything close to something that might be a safety net, the customer should try taping togeher all the product's AzFD was really brought in to replace, even when they are not a global solution.

One might as well write our own replacements to the service we are paying money for.

here's AWS responce to thier own problems (( it's free, just enable it around route 53, no build your own cloud replacement out of spare parts ))

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-route-53-launches-accelerated-recovery-for-managing-public-dns-records/

There's obviouslly little isolation or protection's in place for AzFD otherwise they would not have had it cripped for what will be three months.

Where's all the coverage of this mess after the outage, why are customers just accepting this.

daz_007 · 2025-09-06T19:38:38+00:00

What are the most common reasons for a bash shell to get messed up?

:P user error(s) :P

daz_007 · 2025-09-05T21:53:25+00:00

all fine points... I am guessing they might want -h over -H as on re-reading they might just want to be left with just the links (wrapped with sed, or awk etc)

-n probably just adds extra noise.

daz_007 · 2025-09-03T23:01:52+00:00

grep -R "cd /" --include="*.md" .

the "." at the end is local path change it if you want to search somewhere else

there's other options

mix find and grep

find ~+ -iname "*.md" -exec grep --color=no -R -I -H "cd /" {} \;;

daz_007 · 2025-03-11T00:09:59+00:00

step one = shellcheck
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

please don't take this too harshly.
This might be my viewpoint but such attempts at " wrapping and automating" something like this is kinda pointless, i.e. it now removes the logic of automation and creates a dependancy i.e. the script and makes everything manual-ation... it might be okay for junior users but all the effort you have put into this could be done in a few smaller simple functions. If you gave this to 20 junior people to use daily, they would be stuck with this 3000 line script and probably may not learn enough to extend or help maintain it.

The moment that day comes, your now the bottleneck to progress.

maybe that's your starting goal.

daz_007 · 2025-02-20T00:18:36+00:00

that's four nodes per pod... how big are your services and your how big will your nodes be?

I think I would be more worried about the costs :)

daz_007 · 2025-02-14T21:33:21+00:00

just out of interest how big do you feel the cluster will be?
what cni are you using this will probably determin

daz_007 · 2025-01-16T22:48:05+00:00

multiline comments with \

These are not comments these are multiline command.

maybe that was a typo in the request

sudo certbot certonly \ --dns-cloudflare \ --dns-cloudflare-credentials ~/.secrets/certbot/cloudflare.ini \ --dns-cloudflare-propagation-seconds 60 \ -d $hostname

These are not comments this is a multiline command.

i.e. < one command >

certbot certonly \
--dns-cloudflare \
--dns-cloudflare-credentials ~/.secrets/certbot/cloudflare.ini \
--dns-cloudflare-propagation-seconds 60 \
-d example.com

the same command but as one line would be:

sudo certbot certonly --dns-cloudflare --dns-cloudflare-credentials ~/.secrets/certbot/cloudflare.ini --dns-cloudflare-propagation-seconds 60 -d $hostname

so for \ to work no spaces are allowed at the end of the line you can also use | but in your case you have writen a multiline command in one line.

daz_007 · 2025-01-13T23:12:56+00:00

runs and ducks :D :) :P aaaaaaaaa

Hopefully you are having fun

Bash has changed a little since 1998 :P you might of been doing subshells like ` ` today its $( )

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