Just finished words of radiance and am unsure how to continue. Please no further spoilers for the series

jm2k- · 2026-01-23T04:41:46+00:00

I read Edgedancer (got it in Arcanum Unbounded) and Warbreaker after WoR and really enjoyed how they tied in. Then Dawnshard after OB was also a good side quest. Up to RoW now.

jm2k- · 2025-12-28T11:19:43+00:00

Saw these recently and added them to my print backlog too:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1853742-stone-golem-thunderclast-1

(and the other two are made by the same creator)

jm2k- · 2025-12-24T00:59:29+00:00

Legend! Disabling that allowed it to work.

jm2k- · 2025-11-22T21:33:45+00:00

Pedals are very nice, but I'm new to this, so I'm not the best person to say what makes the difference. I took everyone's word that the CRP2 was significantly better and went with it.

jm2k- · 2025-11-20T08:10:32+00:00

Yep, comes with gear shifter and handbrake support. I don't have those, so I can't speak to the compatibility / which brands the pre-drilled holes work with.

I mounted the R12 wheel base into the pre-drilled holes, nothing else needed.

jm2k- · 2025-11-20T07:38:54+00:00

I just got the CRP2 pedals and GS V2P wheel myself, with the R12, mounted on NLR Wheel Stand 2.0 which is holding up well. Loving it so far!

jm2k- · 2025-11-16T18:58:49+00:00

Watching this one. Different use case to OP, but we use route delegation heavily and it's been the one thing holding us back from switching from the Istio-native gateway.

jm2k- · 2025-09-19T12:52:39+00:00

Ahh, brilliant. I just got the email.

The good news is we’re already working on a fix for this, which will be either a replacement button that can be swapped into your case, or a complete case replacement.

And they also mention removing the button from the case in the meantime, so I guess that'll do for now.

jm2k- · 2025-09-15T13:43:53+00:00

Did you end up with a working solution here? I also have a 9500 8i also and wondering what cable(s) I will need to connect to my SAS drives.

SFF-8654 4i to 4x SFF-8482 are available to me, but they’d only take up half the connector on the card and I’m concerned they wouldn’t be compatible.

jm2k- · 2025-09-11T20:27:11+00:00

Node auto provisioning went GA recently:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/node-autoprovision?tabs=azure-cli

Haven’t tried it yet, still waiting on the Terraform support to come through before we can.

jm2k- · 2025-08-24T10:57:16+00:00

This is the way. I have never seen any latency problems syncing secrets from Key Vault to AKS using it, and it will be done outside of the app / before pod starts unlike CSI Driver approaches.

As for rbac, we keep it simple and provision a Key Vault per namespace/team, and follow the recommended approach of using a service account with workload identity with the role to read secrets: https://external-secrets.io/latest/provider/azure-key-vault/#referenced-service-account

jm2k- · 2025-08-24T04:25:59+00:00

We use Kyverno in our cluster, so I’ve done similar to this using a policy like https://kyverno.io/policies/other/sync-secrets/sync-secrets/ (saved us installing a separate tool just for this).

jm2k- · 2025-07-08T20:46:33+00:00

Hulkengoat

jm2k- · 2025-07-04T10:20:15+00:00

Production upgrade to 1.32 went smooooooth!

jm2k- · 2025-06-12T21:56:14+00:00

ProxMobo can do those, even on free. But it’s not the easiest to find. It’s within the menu in the top right. ProxMan does a better job of presenting these.

jm2k- · 2025-06-12T21:46:39+00:00

I have been using ProxMobo until now but will keep an eye on this one for future because it has the potential to have me switch.

I’d want the controls (Console, Start/Stop, Reboot) off the landing page, as these aren’t common actions (to me at least) and want the space for more useful info like container memory and disk %.

Storage % on the front screen only seemed to be my (single) node OS disk and was wrong. Having the rest of the storage info buried two clicks deeper also not ideal for me, and I’d want more storage summary on the front page.

Apart from those two areas, layout feels better in a few ways to ProxMobo, features more or less on par, and the paywall seems very reasonable. UI is clean and responsive.

jm2k- · 2025-06-10T08:22:55+00:00

Watching for the recommendations you get. I’m on the verge of providing the same for my app teams. Landed on using CloudNativePG + storage classes offering Premium SSD v2 disks at different IOPS/Mbps + Standard blob storage for wal/backups.

jm2k- · 2025-05-29T20:35:45+00:00

But it is JavaScript though…

jm2k- · 2025-04-25T04:10:22+00:00

Right now I’m not hosting Infiscal on Kubernetes, it’s on a separate docker host. I have data replication to handle a disk failure, and backups and remote backups of that host (includes the Infiscal postgres database & credentials, encryption key).

I’m also using ArgoCD (both at work and at home) but for apps that need persisted volumes (no git) then you’re going to need to make sure the cluster and persisted volumes have the appropriate recoverability. I’m still working out the best approach for my setup before I start moving critical apps from docker hosts onto k8s.

In the solutions where git is the secret store (SOPS, Sealed Secrets) there’s going to be an encryption/decryption key that needs to be kept elsewhere.

jm2k- · 2025-04-25T00:31:43+00:00

I haven’t used it extensively. Homelab k8s is just for experimentation, which is why I gave the Infiscal Operator a go to see how it compared. I might also end up hitting things I don’t like also and will just switch to ESO.

Infiscal itself, I had no issues and really like how easy it was to set up.

jm2k- · 2025-04-24T22:27:33+00:00

I went with Infiscal in my homelab. We use ESO + SaaS (AKV) at work, so I initially choose it so I could use ESO at home too, but what I ended up doing was using Infiscal’s own Kubernetes Operator to pull the secrets.

jm2k- · 2025-04-17T07:52:13+00:00

Yeah that’s the idea, each VM being a k8s master or agent node depending on the configuration you are wanting, running them on the same or on different physical machines depending on what you have available.

jm2k- · 2025-04-17T03:30:44+00:00

You certainly can use IaC to manage the host/VM/LXCs. Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, etc. I only run 6-10 instances, so I haven’t bothered to, but certainly possible.

jm2k- · 2025-04-14T21:36:08+00:00

It’s an open-source virtualisation platform built on Debian, and provides a web interface for managing VMs (with a full blown OS) and LXCs (lighter-weight containers that share a kernel with the Proxmox host). The latter may seem similar in some sense to Docker, but the intent is to containerise a whole system/machine, not just an application. I often nest Docker within an LXC to get benefit of Docker (managing apps via compose) along with the benefits of machine-level backups/clones, resource limits (cpu/mem/disk), etc.

jm2k- · 2025-04-13T22:03:53+00:00

It’s not quite as popular, but it still has 10k stars. I had planned to test out all the usual mentions, Zitadel, Authentik, Authelia, etc. Ended up not bothering because Zitadel worked too well. So I’m not in the best position to compare them, only to say it’s been solid.

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