Readit NewsBut, I don't.
As background, I've done time as a professional sysadmin. My current infrastructure is all Chef-based, with maybe a dozen custom cookbooks. But Chef felt kinda heavy and clunky, and the many VMs I had definitely seemed heavy compared with containerization. I thought switching to Kubernetes would be pretty straightforward.
Surprise! It was not. I moved the least complex thing I run, my home lighting daemon to it; it's stateless and nothing connects to it, but it was still a struggle to get it up and running. Then I tried adding more stateful services and got bogged down in bugs, mysteries, and Kubernetes complexity. I set it aside, thinking I'd come back to it later when I had more time. That time never quite arrived, and a month or so ago my home lights stopped working. Why? I couldn't tell. A bunch of internal Kubernetes certificates expired, so none of the commands worked. Eventually, I just copy-pasted stuff out of Stack Overflow and randomly rebooted things, and eventually it started working again.
I'll happily look at it again when I have to do serious volume and can afford somebody to focus full-time on Kubernetes. But for anything small or casual, I'll be looking elsewhere.
5$ per month is $300 over a five-year time period, which might be the lifetime of, say, a newly bought laptop computer. Now imagine you're at an electronics store, looking at laptops, and there are two identical laptops sitting in front of you. One has a pricetag that says $1000. The other has a price-tag that says $1300. You ask the sales clerk: "What's the difference between those two?" The sales clerk answers: "This one comes with a piece of software that lets you SSH into remote machines." You answer: "But there's free software to do that." The sales clerk goes. "Well... But it's colorful and shit." Seriously?
I’m glad you guys are making a living, but I can’t justify yet another subscription.
Unless something absolutely amazing is happening in the living room, the smokers will be out back, a pair of introverts will be in the hallway, and everyone else will slowly gravitate towards the kitchen until everyone is in the way.
As an aside, I just checked the geolocation server I'd setup for the installer.
03:14:51 up 1357 days, 3:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
It's been up 4 years continuously on a Scaleway ARM box. I can't recommend them enough for such projects.
I am cautious of any government tampering in devices, but as it stands such tampering has not been found in huawei devices, but HAS been found in devices coming from US manufacturers... Yet no one is asking a ban on those?
[0]: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
While compromised hardware from _ANY_ player worries me, I worry more about American hardware than I worry about Chinese hardware at this point in time...
[1]: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
My favorite keyboard ever, though, is the current 'Magic Keyboard'. It's like the perfect medium between the old chicklet-style that felt rather mushy to me and the new butterfly mechanism that's almost too rigid.
Sadly, it seems Apple does not want to go back to that feel in their mobile line :(
The grip I have with the newer Pros is the *@($ Touch Bar. It's sad that the new Air has exactly what I wanted—addition of Touch ID but no Touch Bar—but the so-called Pros still have the Touch Bar. I have yet to find a touch typist who believes the Touch Bar to be a good reason to pay a few hundred extra for it.
Medicated or otherwise, the typical habit forming tactics don't work. Reward systems, identity based habit forming, habit trackers, leaving the gym shorts on top of my phone at night so I have to put them on before anything else, I can still kill a year long consistent habit overnight with a single disruption like an early meeting or by straight up forgetting. Gym shorts are there but I have to pee. Boom it's 10pm and I'm doing my habit tracker and damn I completely forgot to go to the gym today. Or I successfully pushed it off again and again until it was too late.
I have no solutions to offer. I keep thinking I've solved it and get ready to write my magnum opus how-to-have-adhd-and-still-be-a-productive-member-of-society blog post and then lose a habit again.
Probably pre planning times to do a habit a day ahead of time would help but I fail to do that daily, lol.
Oh well. I've managed to track my calories for 278 days consistently, but only because I can go fill in the previous day if I forget the day of. One day I'll forget two days in a row and that streak will die too.