Justin

Don’t forget the 80 hours a week of PoE2 grinding!

steam hardware survey shows 17% AMD and 8% Intel

Meanwhile, Ubuntu is switching to uutils

I have to actively tell my grandfather who wanted to switch to Fedora to stop trying to use the command line lol, it’s easier to remember the GUI. CLI isn’t some big looming threat like it was in the 2010’s.

The assumption was that nobody used win8 lol

But again I think people who grew up with 10/11 are more likely to use the windows store than you think. They used an iPad before they got a chromebook before they got a windows computer. My little cousins don’t play minecraft Java, they play minecraft bedrock. I don’t think they know what VLC is.

Ok fair, last time I used windows you had to install gpu drivers manually. I think you still are recommended to do so, since the windows ones are really old.

But yeah manual driver installation/specialized distros for Nvidia is a problem that’s in the process of getting fixed with NVK, Nova, and the official drivers. Intel and AMD are there already.

I would rather have one extra manual step like that than dealing with/paying for Windows 11

Yeah I think in the future, we’ll figure out how to make NixOS configuration modular enough to be viable for laymen, but Linux Mint works well enough for Windows refugees.

Linux mint has an app store like Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

I think it supports flathub, which has every app you could need, but I haven’t checked since I run a very customized NixOS.

People don’t really download .exes anymore, it’s just people who are used to windows 7 and earlier who still do that.

Pre-installed Nvidia drivers will likely be fixed in the next two years, but:

1. You’ll have zero driver issues if you use an Nvidia compatible distro like PopOS or Nobara

B. The 25% of gamers not using Nvidia GPUs do not have driver issues on Linux

III. Windows has tons of driver issues, so I’m not sure why Linux Nvidia drivers are a significant detail here. We don’t expect little Jimmy to know to install drivers, and know what to do when windows update fucks your drivers randomly. Linux actually soves those issues for you.

That’s a weird way to spell Linux Mint

AI summary

Religion is when you have corporate sponsored egg activities and military parades. Religion is when you send the poor to concentration camps and covet your neighbors’ land.

I’m not even religious, but I 100% believe Jesus would go in and flip the resolute desk if he saw trump in there.

not to mention there are 48 and 64gb dimms out now too that work with basically all alder lake atoms

it’s funny because it pokes fun at the latent sexism in our culture. It’s not glorifying it, it’s portraying it as silly.

Yeah, what you’re talking about is called GitOps. Using git as the single source of truth for your infrastructure. I have this set up for my home servers.

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b

nodes has NixOS configuration for my 5 kubernetes servers and a script that builds a flash drive for each of them to use as a boot drive (same setup for porygonz, but that’s my dedicated DHCP/DNS/NTP mini server)

mikrotik has a dump of my Mikrotik router config and a script that deploys the config from the git repo.

applications has all my kubernetes config: containers, proxies, load balancers, config files, certificate renewal, databases, clustered raid, etc. It’s all super automated. A pretty typical “operator” container to run in Kubernetes is ArgoCD, which watches a git repo and automatically deploys any changes or desyncs back to the Kubernetes API so it’s always in sync with git. I don’t use any GUI or console commands to deploy or update a container, I just edit git and commit.

The kubernetes cluster runs about 400 containers, most of them just automatic replicas of services for high-availability. Of course there’s always some manual setup steps outside of git, like partitioning drives, joining the nodes to the cluster, writing hardware-specific config, and bootstrapping Argocd to watch git. But overall, my house could burn down tomorrow and I would have everything I need to redeploy using this git repo, the secrets git repo, and my backups of my databases and container /data dirs.

I think Portainer supports doing GitOps on Docker compose? Never used it.

https://docs.portainer.io/user/docker/stacks/add

Argocd is really the gold standard for GitOps though. I highly recommend trying out k3s on a server and running ArgoCD on it, it’s super easy to use.

https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/

Kubernetes is definitely different than Docker Compose, and tutorials are usually written for Docker compose.yml, not Kubernetes Deployments, but It’s super powerful and automated. Very hard to crash once you have it running. I don’t think it’s as scary as a lot of people think, and you definitely don’t need more than one server to run it.

nah you’re probably not going to get any benefits from it. The best way to make your setup more maintainable is to start putting your compose/kubernetes configuration in git, if you’re not already.

First they came for the Palestinian supporters, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Palestinian supporter.

Ah, no, Kopia uses a shared bucket.

Seems like a good way to do it.

Keep in mind Kopia has some weirdness when it comes to transferring repos between filesystem and S3, so you’d probably want to only keep one repo.
https://kopia.discourse.group/t/exported-s3-storage-backup/3560

Backblaze B2 is a cheap S3 provider. Hetzner storage box is even cheaper, but it doesn’t support S3 natively, so you’re likely to run into issues with the kopia repo compatibility I mentioned.

Check out this website for information about multiplayer games on Linux:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

There’s only about 700 games that have broken anticheat and Hunt: Showdown’s anticheat system officially supports running on Linux.