Passerby6497 @ Passerby6497 @lemmy.world

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Yeah, I didnt think that was a realistic possibility. Given that it was a bitty fan less nuc style system, I'm leaning more to a heat death as I originally surmised.

E: though another person suggested a frigate misconfig could have worn the drive out early

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.

My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren't a bad thought either. I'd just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I've got another VM that's got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.

I might be able to hook it up to a usb NVMe reader, but when I initially tried I barely got any recognition of the drive from the OS. My primary system is windows, so I might get more info from one of my linux systems, just haven't had the fucks to give to the dead drive. As for a replacement drive, funds are scarce and time/learning is (comparatively) free. Someone else suggested kubernetes, so I might look into that to see if that can accomplish what I'm looking for.

I'm leery about using a USB for long term persistent OS storage due to lifespan issues I've seen when just running a hypervisor from one. A 'real' usermode OS is probably going to have a worse lifespan than what I was seeing at work.

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.

Realistically, I just want to have a system that can act as the hardware end point for a coral processor to do image recognition. I don't need to write a lot on demand, and what was being written previously was all to the NAS (other than the app's database)

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?

Yeah, it's hard. We had a miscarriage a few years before our kid, and nobody really gave a shit about the effect it had. Hell, my fuckstick boss made me take (bullshit noise) after hours alerts from the fucking hospital room.

One of the many times I've used malicious compliance to change policies.

Leave your porn on a network drive 5 times.

Though, surprisingly, watching porn on the plant computer isn't.

"You were very confident and I doubted my memory. I wanted to make sure I wasn't spreading misinformation."

One of the quickest ways to deflate the person's argument, especially in a social setting. It makes you look humble and makes them look like an asshole if they keep going at it. If you want to subtley needle then, you can also apologize if they felt attacked by being corrected.

More chemical food dyes are allowed by the EU.

But their regulations are more strict overall. There are a lot of US foods can't be imported without reformulating the product.

Which fascist did whatever EU country vote for this term?

Bruh, we literally just elected a fascist felon who tried to overthrow the government when he lost the last time who openly surrounded himself with fascists pushing project 2025. It's not even a close challenge...

Yes

Lol, Europe spanks us on both those fronts.

Suspend their license to do business, see how quickly they pay up. Lien their goddamned property or something at all for fucks sake.

Wow, even my pissant Midwest town has proper anti-vehicle roadblocks that they roll out for any parade or event

Preaching to the choir, friend. I knew she'd be homeless when I moved out, and still did it anyway. To add to the 'deserved situation' feeling, part of the reason I moved out was finding a shake and bake meth lab in the basement.

Judicial independence = we can do whatever our owners want us to do without recourse from the peons, fuck laws and morality

There are three popular reckonings for the 4 season model. The meteorological seasons, astronomical seasons, and solar seasons

If there are 2 things I hate, it's off by one errors.