Justin

American imperialism mostly halted under Clinton and Obama. The cold war was over and they weren’t jingoistic like Bush or Trump.

They only started killing them in the 40s because they ran out of room. It’s the logical, horrific conclusion to permanent detention of millions of people.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. and allies struggle to counter China’s influence.

What allies? There are some regional actors in Asia opposed to the PRC’s imperialism, but the list of potential allies has gone down by a lot with Trump’s actions.

What allies? Not sure what motivation Europeans have to defend Taiwan when we’re already dying in a war against Russia with no help from the US.

Taiwan is a sovereign, democratic nation, but the PRC is more of an ally to the EU than Trump’s America right now.

Retire the penny, nickel, and dime, and only allow transactions in multiples of $0.25?

Unraid is very unstable and hard to repair when it breaks

I’ve met sysadmins who say that unironically 😅

Yup, same here. being able to skip all the networking and DNS hassle and have it automated for you is so nice.

Having databases fully managed with cnpg is AMAZING

I just have renovate set to auto update my argocd, so everything just runs itself with zero issues. Only the occasional stateful container that has breaking changes in a minor version.

If something OOMs or crashes, it all just self heals, I never need to worry about it. I don’t have any HPAs (nor cluster scaling obv), though I do have some HA stuff set up just to reduce restart times and help keep the databases happy.

The main issue with Kubernetes is that a lot of self-hosted software makes bad design decisions that actively make kubernetes harder, eg sqlite instead of postgres and secrets stored in large config files. The other big issue is that documentation only supports docker compose and not kubernetes 90% of the time so you have to know how to write yaml and read documentation.

Moving my hass from a statefulset to kubevirt sounds tempting. Did you have better reliability/ergonomics? I have been looking into moving my Hass automation to NodeRed, so that I can GitOps it all, since NodeRed supports git syncing.

Docker got popular because of dockerfiles. It really sucks at service management though which is why people run Kubernetes in production, not Docker.

Kubernetes is designed to improve reliability

psycho behavior

This is a total shutdown of the federal government for everything besides personnel. All science research in the US has stopped. States are losing their funding. Completely unconstitutional.

Yes, Graphene developers will not port Graphene to any other devices, because they’re insecure. You’ll need a new phone to use GrapheneOS.

It’s possible that your phone is supported by CalyxOS, which has a lot of the same degoogled feature, but a little less compatibility.