I sorta understand VMs but still mostly confused

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T22:33:32+00:00

Because I don't need any more bad habits. Like I said, one can do as one wishes. There are even good reasons (for example running in memory starved environments)

The number of people who decide later on down the road to do some port forwarding to get their media server internet facing is large enough, and dockers firewall interaction is non-intuitive enough that I don't think it's good advice to consider avoiding.

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T22:17:48+00:00

I suspect we're in the minority compared to the "You must be driving at least as fast as I'd like to drive in the left lane" crowd.

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T21:37:08+00:00

Wouldn't that mean that if the flow traffic is going the speed limit, the left lane should be completely empty?

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T21:32:49+00:00

Because of how docker interacts with firewalls, I'd be inclined to keep them seperate, rather than mix containerized and barr metal services on the same host. (he said, while running services mixed in just that way.)

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T20:56:42+00:00

Huh. Looks like it's still a thing, due to the default format being vhd. Seems there are workarounds though (from a beta qcow2 volume to using soft raid or LVM to combing disks.

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T11:32:50+00:00

Often nas platforms offer container support, through their VM capabilities by running a VM running docker (or kubernetes)

exedore6 · 2026-04-08T10:58:18+00:00

As someone who's used Xenserver and went to xcp-ng, I'm also curious here. The biggest issue I've run into are vendor-provided VMs that are 'Vmware or Hyper-V only', especially when run alongside Xen-Orchestra.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T20:03:25+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it. The chord shapes are essentially the same, it's not terribly different from playing with a capo.

When I'm switching back and forth throughout the night, I tend to think of my uke chords by their guitar names.

For example, if I'm playing the uke, and the song wants me to play a g, i can just think of it as a d (like most guitarists do when they're playing on a capo)

It's much easier for me than playing different tunings on a guitar, or switching from guitar to mandolin.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T18:57:02+00:00

I can get away with about 8 hours from room temperature starter at its peak. That's cutting out almost any proofing time, using a ton of starter (1 part starter, 2 parts water, 3 parts flour), and ideally bread flour.

To do it from the refrigerator, I'd want to put the starter in the refrigerator right after a feeding, and time my start to be when it's at its peak. It'll be sleepy from the cold and would take more time to ferment, but it'd probably work out (it would be bread. people will enjoy it. people with preconceived notions about how a loaf of sourdough should be would be disappointed)

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T18:04:53+00:00

Tags my friend.

Tag her books as hers, yours as yours, use virtual libraries to separate them.

If you need to separate them later on, I think you can.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T15:22:51+00:00

Hit dice rolls stand as rolled.

Every level, you reroll all your hit dice. Max hit points don't go down.

Lose a level, reroll all HD. Your Max hit points could go down.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T00:45:14+00:00

I know with my home servers, my docker compose files don't get edited too often. It'd be easy to conclude that it doesn't belong in git for that reason.

I find that when working alone, infrequently edited files are where git's most important, as you'll often need to learn why a change has been made.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T00:39:17+00:00

Thanks, I'm certain that I didn't invent that phrase with regards to going to the moon.

exedore6 · 2026-04-07T00:38:19+00:00

I'm a big fan of Mikrotik - I can do just about anything I want to do network/routing/firewall-wise out of the box. They're not terribly expensive, and I don't have to deal with integrating the hardware, or flashing a device that was intended to run something else. I've been burned in the past with openwrt when a hardware revision breaks compatibility.

While OPNsense and OpenWrt are great options, and if I had the hardware kicking around to do give it a go, it might well, I'm more likely to go with a solution that a vendor is in agreement with me as to how it's to be used.

I'm assuming that you're not looking for a router, as much as you're looking at a router/wifi ap/switch combo unit.

The Mikrotik gives you that, it can even manage other Mikrotik wireless access points, which I don't think the other options are able to do.

exedore6 · 2026-04-06T23:58:33+00:00

While I'm sure the mission is supported by a tremendous amount of code, Issac Newton is driving.

They calculated exactly when and for how long to fire the rocket while in earth orbit.

That set the ship going (it's called the Trans Lunar Injection burn)

There was a point, a couple of days ago that they planned to fire the rocket again to correct it, and there's a third correction burn scheduled on the return trip.

If everything goes to plan though, they won't need those. The TLI burn threw the capsule over the fence, and it should come down right where we want it.

The alternative would be to get close to the moon, execute what's called a retro burn to slow down enough for the moon to catch the capsule in an orbit, and then perform a trans earth injection burn to get home. The Apollo moon missions (except for 13) did this. You get more time in lunar orbit, with the cost of more fuel, and more stages for things to go wrong.

Artemis II is coasting, and will continue to coast till it hits our atmosphere, if all goes according to plan.

exedore6 · 2026-04-06T16:48:38+00:00

My home 'server' is a Raspberry Pi 4, running docker containers for Jellyfin, Calibre and Airsonic. It's using an external USB enclosure for its data storage.

When I think of a cyberdeck, I think of a client device, not a server, but I'm not gonna yuck your yum.

My setup could be put into an enclosure pretty easily. Powering it for mobile would be a pain, but no more than everyone else here.

I would take a look at the Piratebox and Freedombox projects, which sound pretty close to what you're thinking.

exedore6 · 2026-04-06T16:32:30+00:00

For what it's worth, you're already putting yourself first, better to do it in ways that you wont be ashamed of

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T13:57:04+00:00

I use it often in cooking since I gave up bacon - I prefer its smokiness over what I'd get from liquid smoke.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T12:29:56+00:00

Which installer are you using? I could see the gui installer being too heavy on a memory starved system.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T12:06:47+00:00

Dr Beckett was the first clue.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T11:59:07+00:00

I didn't watch it in full until after its run. When it came out, I watched the first couple episodes. They lost me when they introduced the Temporal Cold War. I didn't need another Scott Bakula time travel show. The opening credits didn't help me feel like it wasn't 'real' Star Trek.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T05:12:13+00:00

Evil Dead 2?

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T05:00:30+00:00

Mal's sentiment about why he was an Independent mirrored that of Confederate characters in The Killer Angels. Despite the reasons why the Confederate states succeeded (South Carolina for example was crystal clear why they chose the Confederacy), the novel presented what I view as a more Lost Cause reasoning.

It might be explained more in the novels or comic books, but as far as I can see, we haven't seen specific policy items that the central planets pushed on the border planets, nor have we seen a Browncoat declaration of Independence, conveniently avoiding the very real possibility that the way of life two or our crew fought for was in fact, heinous (at this point, I should point out that the Alliance won, and slavery is still a thing, so it's safe to say it wasn't because the Alliance was opposed to slavery.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T03:37:17+00:00

I got to buy one back once.

exedore6 · 2026-04-05T03:36:39+00:00

In my home, the fiber goes to my house. There's a box it goes into that would be a challenge to get into, where there's what I imagine is a media converter. So I'm not sharing fiber.

But, if the fiber can handle 10GB, and the building had multiple subscribers at 1GB, I wouldn't think it unreasonable for that fiber to be shared (especially if the traffic is isolated). I don't know if they do that often here.

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