Do you have any resources on that kind of setup? I appreciate that constructive advice!

Do you have any info on the custom setup? Sounds like a fun project/learning experience.

And do you mean OCI like oracle cloud?

That’s really good to know. Do you ever have issues writing database files on those disks? Database files on nfs mounts have been the bane of my existence.

I docker’d all of my systems a few years ago, and I’m so glad I did. So much easier to manage, and when I lost a system I was able to get most of my services back up and running with minimal configuration on a VM same day.

As for hardware, you might check and see if you’ve got a local reseller of retired business equipment. Before I moved, I had a place I went to from my work that accepted shit we were getting rid of that disposed of stuff and resold at a bargain the stuff that was still good. I got more than one hp tower from a few years previous that ran (and still runs) like a champ. Felt like night and day when I upgraded to that from my Pi setup, and they were only like $35 each.

I don’t want to use a USB for storage, because those aren’t going to have a great lifespan in my experience. I’ve used them as the install media for something like ESX, but I’d rather not run a ‘real’ OS from a disk because I wasn’t impressed with overall lifespan on some of the systems we managed at work.

I’m actually not 100% what killed the drive. It could have been an issue with the drive wearing out, but my services didn’t write much locally and it wasn’t super old so I assume its a heat issue with a fanless micro system. I try to write everything important to my NASs so I don’t have to worry about random hardware failures, but this one didn’t have backups configured before it failed. Other than the drive issue its been solid for 1.5-2 years of near constant uptime.

So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.

Putting the image somewhere is easy. I’ve got TBs of space available on my NAS drives, especially right now with not acquiring any additional linux ISOs.

For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.

I’ll check that out. If that allows me to actually write databases to disk on the nfs backing volume, that would be amazing. That’s the biggest issue I run into (regularly).

This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.

I don’t think I’ve ever looked into kubernetes. I’ll have to look into that at some point… Any good beginner resources?

Podcasts are my primary use case (my partner uses audiobooks exclusively), and while it works rather well, I want to put in the caveat that there’s no working playlist functionality in the app, and IME headset controls don’t work from FF for Android.

That’s not a deal breaker for me, but it was a massive disappointment when I switched over. But the lack of playlist functionality in the app only annoys me when I want to follow one of the shorter news feeds, since I have to stop and select the next track every 5 min as the episode ends. No issue with that feed from the browser, so meh.

Works great through my reverse proxy/cloudflare tunnel setup, so not too many actual complaints.

Who doesn’t have multiple TB of videos just laying around?

I don’t know, if they manage to get a judgment against him for a couple billion dollars, that’s like 10% of his worth after he tanked Twitter.

Considering the first attempt on Trump’s life, and I hate to admit it, but he’s not that far off. I can’t tell you how large of a quantity it is, but trump sure riled up a bunch of mentally ill people who may or may not have a good grasp of their mental stability.

This isn’t news to anyone paying a modicum of attention, but glad those in power are finally stating the obvious…

Lol, whatever helps you cope.

It was really clear that this family is just scamming people left and right!!

Mainly right tho

I know there was some dingdong on here last week sure her campaign was going to blow up this week and her numbers were going to tank. I’m giving it another week or two before responding again just to drive home how big of a dingdong they really are.

Link to part 1 for those interested , and yeah, frustrating as fuck to listen to, considering what we’re watching go on in the American political dumpster fire.

LOL, you get the award for most uninformed and ignorant comment of the day. Did you get your views on and the history of the Internet from Ben Shapiro or something?

I can think of well over 400 billion reasons why private industry control of the internet infrastructure is a bad idea.

If Dick Cheney told you he thought wearing a seatbelt was a good idea, you’d argue against him because clearly an idea is bad if a bad person has it.

Evaluate an argument on its merits, regardless of who endorses it.

Why? Can’t you just play music and sway back and forth during the interview?

Let’s be fair to ol’ Gymnasium, he didn’t molest anyone, he stood by and let the team doctor do to many students over years and did nothing about it.

That’s almost worse in my mind, since he was protecting an asshole who was abusing kids and enabling that behavior.