I’m actually doing the opposite :)

I’ve been using vms, lxc containers and docker for years. In the last 3 years or so, I’ve slowly moved to just docker containers. I still have a few vms, of course, but they only run docker :)

Containers are a breeze to update, there is no dependency hell, no separate vms for each app…

More recently, I’ve been trying out kubernetes. Mostly to learn and experiment, since I use it at work.

What do you mean it’s hard to update containers?

How do you get the data on to the cloud storage? Maybe use something like restic, which can handle encryption, snapshots, etc.

Yup. I’m in a similar situation. I work from home and vape in my office. I do it non-stop… I lowered the nic concentration as much as possible, but still, it’s a lot. It’s too convenient. Better than cigarettes though.

I read somewhere that certain places have a very large amount of people with lactose intolerance, like north America. I used to drink raw milk, straight from the bucket my grandma used to milk the cow. Never had any issues. Grew up on a farm in Romania in the 80s.

• 5€/month for unlimited voice, text, net (romania) - I don’t use this, since i moved away, but i’ve had this number since '99…
• 35€/month for 25gb net, unlimited voice, text (germany) - it’s a bit more expensive since it includes a phone as well (i got the pixel 8 when it came out).
• 15-20€/month for 5-15gb and unlimited voice/text for my kids, also with phones (pixel 6a)
• 45€/month for home Internet - 1000 down / 200 up (cable), unlimited + landline (which is not connected/in use.

I do twitch a little when I hear someone saying bravi to a single person :)

We use digital ocean for a pre-production k8s environment, as well as other stuff, no complaints. Terraform works great with it. My only issue is that the worker nodes IPs change during/after an update, so we have to update our firewalls a few times, while the update is running, and after it’s over.

Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?

It’s uncomfortable for me too. I asked HR to keep mine private at work, but before this I would just react with a like to the wishes and write a short thatnk you all at the end of the day… The late wishes I would just ignore…

How is duckdns unreliable? I use it just to have wireguard access, been using it for years. Just curious about your issues…

Look into mattermost. Quite powerful, and free.

Andy Cooks - amazing chef, easy to follow recipes (he uses metric first), but also a nice, down to earth, no-nonsense guy.

I’m relistening to Max Brooks’ “Zombie Survival Guide” while commuting and High Howey’s “Dust” (from the Silo trilogy) when I can focus. I managed to listen to 15 books this year so far, and I am really proud of myself for that. :)

We’re using a self hosted Nexus instance at work. You probably don’t need all the features it offers, but it does its job really well. For free, too.