smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 22 points 11 months ago (9 children)

No, mate. I don't need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.

"My product does x". Right now, x could be:

  • help you scam people
  • provide a meditation partner
  • help you learn how to code in Cobol
  • give travel tips
  • ...

What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer "it helps you make money", that does not explain anything.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

FWIW, I have no issues sending mails/having them be received from my self-hosted to Google mail

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I should have mentioned: liking bare-metal does not mean disliking abstraction.

I would absolutely go insane if I had to go back to installing and managing each and every services in their preferred way/config file/config language, and to diy backup solutions, and so on.

I'm currently managing all of that through a single nix config, which doesn't only take care of 90% of the overhead, it also contains all config in a single, self-documenting, language.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

YES, WATCH STEINS;GATE!

Not Steins;Gate Zero though, that's a sequel.

The most common criticism is that the first handful of episodes are slow, but I hard disagree. Every moment is either re-contextualized later on, or is important character work.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago

Nice. My partner has a Proxmox setup, so we've adapted the Nix config to spin up new VMs of any machine with a single command.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

NixOS :)

Maybe I should have clarified that liking bare-metal does not imply disliking abstraction

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Containers != services.

I don't think I am better than anyone. I jumped into these comments because docker was pushed as superior, unprompted.

Installing and configuring does not an expert make, agreed; but that's not what I said.

I would say I'm pretty knowledgeable about the things I host though, seeing as I am a contributor and / or package maintainer for a number of them...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They are using a hosting provider - their dad.

"The cloud" is also just a bunch of machines in a basement. Lots of machines in lots of "basements", but still.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (14 children)

OK, but I'd rather be the expert.

And I have no troubling spinning up new services, fast. Currently sitting at around ~30 Internet-facing services, 0 docker containers, and reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, I actually think that is a good analogy. If you just want to have something up and running and use it, that's obviously totally fine and valid, and a good use-case of Docker.

What I take issue with is the attitude which the person I replied to exhibits, the "why would anyone not use docker".

I find that to be a very weird reaction to people doing bare metal. But also I am biased. ~30 Internet facing services, 0 docker in use 😄

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