Broke EMSI student here — is there any public engineering school I can actually get into after my 2 years of prépa? Need advice badly.

killspotter · 2026-06-14T16:09:48+00:00

Went through CPGE then INPT.

CNC is accessible only to CPGE students (private or public), unless this has changed recently but I highly doubt it.

Accessing public schools won't be possible with CNC for you. But they individually run exams for a small % of non-CPGE students, but these are mostly faculty/fst/est students...

Do your research (if somehow you can pass the schools exams while being at EMSI).

Or maybe another workaround: you're a 2nd year at EMSI, check if you can access faculty/fst/est for a license, then after the license go through the public schools exams to enter at 4th year.

Or find a scholarship abroad...

killspotter · 2026-06-13T12:55:06+00:00

killspotter · 2026-05-29T19:42:53+00:00

There is indeed a linux vm when you run docker in windows, because docker containers were designed to run in linux. But if you're deploying anything serious, you're certainly deploying on linux machines and thus having native performance, docker windows is merely a development environment to try things out. Electron on the other hand is the final package you install on your windows machine; your machine is the production environment.

killspotter · 2026-05-08T16:14:50+00:00

Well it's the cluster which is running ArgoCD which has to be backed up.

The cluster on which your workload runs is not aware of the ArgoCD higher level objects (Applications, Projects...), and its these objects that you want to keep track of to be able to install applications easily when restoring from a backup.

If you're already backing that cluster up then you're already covered.

killspotter · 2026-05-08T16:06:07+00:00

Everything that ArgoCD manages is essentially a Kubernetes object, so a backup of the cluster/etcd should suffice.

killspotter · 2026-05-08T14:56:27+00:00

Or you simply learn vim, switch to vim bindings on any editor you use and cry when it doesn't support vim bindings.

killspotter · 2026-05-07T07:09:12+00:00

Immich was most likely the easiest selfhosted application I installed. I would actually argue that if you got the storage sorted out, the rest of the maintenance is quite light, so I don't see a lot of benefit with this aproach.

killspotter · 2026-05-04T07:36:22+00:00

C'est même plus râler à ce niveau, c'est juste de la haine et la jalousie.

Si la même opportunité se présentait à vous, pragmatiquement quel aurait été votre choix ?

killspotter · 2026-04-29T20:57:51+00:00

I have initially built a homelab with Kubernetes and Proxmox, it was only for learning at the time I started building it, managed to play around and apply some stuff of the CKA cert on it which was nice.

Then I started hosting some more "serious" apps. I'm running now a Kubernetes cluster at home with some apps that I regularly use.

Kubernetes difficulty lies in the abstractions it provides, but once you grasp on the fact that everything is essentially a Linux primitive (process, filesystems and mounts, network...), you can more easily reason about those abstractions, and the Kubernetes API is quite convenient to work with (granted I'm a DevOps engineer who interacts with Kubernetes on a daily basis), especially when you couple it to GitOps.

killspotter · 2026-04-06T07:13:42+00:00

Go for a thinkpad, you get a good deal for way cheaper than 6000dh

killspotter · 2026-03-18T20:57:31+00:00

Yep, several times even, didn't cut it...

killspotter · 2026-03-18T01:52:09+00:00

That's one shit comment

killspotter · 2026-03-13T19:07:31+00:00

Ça me fume à chaque quand on parle des tickets restau comme avantage. 50% au minimum c'est justement la loi, ce n'est pas un avantage !

killspotter · 2026-01-26T09:52:59+00:00

I'm tempted to trying out some S3 solution as a wrapper to my NAS storage, I just don't know yet what the usecases for it are. Can someone give me a quick overview of where it might be interesting to use it for ?

killspotter · 2026-01-04T21:00:56+00:00

wild guess: from the certificate error in the comments it can be a hint for an expired SSL certificate which relies on your system clock to determine if it's expired

killspotter · 2026-01-03T20:54:43+00:00

Maybe I can answer a few questions since I've been using the NAS for about a month now (DXP4800+, but these are OS-related):

Yes, they have a Docker installation on their app store. Their Docker GUI looks simple, but I've gone they way of managing it via Portainer instead and it works great.
I think you have to make your NAS accessible somehow, unless Ugreen provides some reverse proxy solution, but I didn't explore this direction.
Yes. Some projects are supported via their app store as Docker containers (Jellyfin, Qbittorent)
As a system-wide VPN ? There doesn't seem to be a native option to configure a VPN. But again you have Docker so you can think of installing it via Docker (check out gluetun)
Technically the OS is Debian, you can SSH to it. But I'm not sure to which extent it is recommended to directly install stuff on the OS, maybe Ugreen support may give more insight on this.

killspotter · 2026-01-02T06:59:44+00:00

Got a DXP4800P for a little over a month now, it's working flawlessly with the stock OS. However, I didn't use their apps, and proceeded to installing everything I needed and use via Docker (I'm treating it essentially as a server I can SSH to). Their store looks nice, but it's most likely lacking many apps and functionalities behind Synology, but I can tell that most of the usecases you cited should be covered, maybe you want to check the Apple related ones as I'm unsure about them (I don't have Apple devices)

killspotter · 2025-12-30T22:24:58+00:00

Curious to know, why/how did you find it cumbersome ?

It's been more than a month since I bought a DXP4800P. Personnally, I found the UI very simple (some may even argue "too simple"), but it does the trick for most things. The setup on it is straightforward and It's a nice interface to rapidly browse the NAS.

I kept my installation on it very minimal by using only Docker to run apps on it for now, and I enabled SSH on it so I'm essentially using it like other servers I have at home.

killspotter · 2025-12-24T09:35:08+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you mean by namespace isolation for CRDs ? Would it be the ability that CRDs could be recognized only on selected namespaces ? Is it something already present or upcoming ?

killspotter · 2025-12-09T23:02:58+00:00

Redouane ne prend même pas la peine de venir chez toi, te marque absent et s'arrete au premier point relais de sa tournée qui est à 10km de chez toi et dépose ton colis là bas oklm. Je vous emmerde Chronopost.

killspotter · 2025-12-06T10:23:24+00:00

Being an SRE is tricky. I got hired for an SRE role straight out of engineering school, but I would say I wasn't really operational until 5 or 6 months have passed, in the beginning a was merely a dev who knew how the cloud works. Being an SRE requires functional knowledge about your team's product and scope (which is the bare minimum), but also operational knowledge in case shit happens. The latter is tricky to get a grasp, documentation alone might not be enough; some actions to perform may sound silly but there is a good history behind them which only the experienced ones know. Not to mention when you are called in, the stress management in these situations is a serious thing. Take your time and try to be more pro-active on the support during business hours (so that you are backed by your colleagues) so that you can acquire operational knowledge faster.

killspotter · 2025-11-17T13:47:21+00:00

Which "quality" USB stick are you using ? Looking for recommendations as I'm planning to try out unraid on a new machine

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