Voroxpete @ Voroxpete @sh.itjust.works

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So, unfortunately, this latest update seems to have created a lot of issues. First off, MobaXTerm support appears to be borked. Second, attempting to connect directly to LXC containers throws an error because I haven't linked a WSL2 instance for X11, even though X forwarding is not enabled for the connection.

I'd suggest maybe testing with a plain Debian or Fedora install. Just enable KVM and install virt-manager, and create the environment that way.

Good resources to start with:

• https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17125825
• https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks-ten-reasons-for-modest
• https://youtu.be/By1Z1nk31iE

Remember that small acts of resistance build big acts of resistance. Every time someone stands up, a few more people stand up next time. Don't sit around waiting for "the revolution" or "the general strike" or whatever other thing feels "big enough" to you. At that point you might as well just be waiting for the rapture. You build heaven one brick at a time.

And equally importantly, getting involved in the small acts of resistance gets you connected to the people who are doing things. The first part of organized resistance is organizing and that's never going to happen by sharing a meme or two. You need to get into the Signal chats, and the person to person networks where the real action is being talked about, mostly offline. So signing up to protest against book removals at your local n library might not feel like "doing enough" but it's how you get started. Things will move from there.

Search around for any kind of leftist resistance happening in your area, no matter how small. Get involved at the local level. It will make a difference.

Your don't have to be the Tea Party in order to replicate their success.

It might be better if you got some glorious new socialist workers party that appeared out of nowhere, but Santa doesn't have any of those in his sack right now. Work with what you have.

Does someone need to sit this guy down and explain the concept of linear time to him?

Unfortunately, militaries are built around getting people to follow orders regardless of how they feel about them.

Many of the Russian soldiers invading Ukraine had Ukrainian family members.

It's Denmark that Trump has directly antagonized with all the Greenland stuff, not the Netherlands.

That said, the Netherlands is so ride or die for Canada that I wouldn't be surprised if they told the US to get fucked out of spite.

Yes, that's my point. Hence why Canada responded by saying "That's not good enough, remove the tariffs entirely and make a clear promise that they're not coming back, or else our tariffs will continue."

Original Unreal Tournament shock rifle. Nothing has ever been quite as satisfying as nailing a perfect shock combo.

But close second is the Tribes mortar. Tribes 2 especially. The teamplay potential with the laser designator was an incredible bit of design.

You need to try Darktide. It's the best bolter in any video game ever. It is massive, it is chunky, the magazines are huge, it makes big clunky mechanical noises every time you ready it, and on full auto it feels like you are unleashing the holy wrath of the Emperor with every round fired.

Ooooohhhh, the true connoisseur's choice.

Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with Cloudstack or Proxmox; we've always worked with KVM using virt-manager and Cockpit.

Our usual method is to remove the default hard drive, reattach the qcow file as a SCSI device, and then we modify the SCSI controller that gets created to enable queuing. I'm sure at some point I should learn to do all this through the command line, but it's never really been relevant to do so.

The relevant sections look like this in one our prod VMs:

    
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/XXX.qcow2' index='1'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='sdb' bus='scsi'/>
      <alias name='scsi0-0-0-1'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>
</disk>

  

    
<controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
      <driver queues='6'/>
      <alias name='scsi0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</controller>

  

The driver queues='X' line is the part you have to add. The number should equal the number of cores assigned to the VM.

See the following for more on tuning KVM:

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/epub/virtualization_tuning_and_optimization_guide/sect-virtualization_tuning_optimization_guide-blockio-multi-queue_virtio-scsi#sect-Multiqueue_virtio-scsi
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/epub/virtualization_tuning_and_optimization_guide/sect-virtualization_tuning_optimization_guide-blockio-multi-queue_virtio-scsi#sect-Virtualization_Tuning_Optimization_Guide-Introduction-7_Improvements

To any MAGA who still believes tariffs are a tax on the other country, not your own... Explain this?

Yeah, killing Nazis is always good. And very cathartic.

It's not just about what's easy / simple, it's also about our politicians understanding that having tariffs is actually less damaging than what Trump is doing.

More than anything, business hates uncertainty. You can invest in an uncertain future. Businesses actively prefer bad to uncertain. A world with tariffs is one where they make less money, sure, but they can factor that in. Raise their prices. Let the inflation happen. They'll be alright in the end. But a world with the possibility of tariffs, that's so much worse, because now they can't respond. Either way they bet, they could lose.

That's why Trudeau is taking this "Shit or get off the pot" stance. The most important thing is not just to remove the tariffs, but to get a guarantee that they stay gone, otherwise there will be continual economic damage, to both countries, for as long as this bullshit continues.

Of course any guarantee from Trump is nearly worthless, so the reality is that as long as America lets that idiotic narcissist remain in power, there will continue to be damage to both our economies just from the uncertainty his presence creates.

But thats not a problem we can solve.

Yeah, I was briefly starting to like him again. Reality always comes crashing back in at some point.

What are your disk settings for the KVM environments? We use KVM at work and found that the default configuration loses you a lot of performance on disk operations.

Switching from SATA to SCSI driver, and then enabling queues (set the number equal to your number of cores) dramatically speeds up all disk operations, large and small.

On mobile right now but I'll try to add some links to the KVM docs later.

I'm bookmarking this comment so I can just direct people to it in future. Thank you.

You're right and you should say it. Progressives in America need to execute a takeover just like the Tea Party did on the right. Primary out every moderate Dem.

You won't win em all, but you'll win enough to fundamentally change the direction of the party.

Listen, Canadians are very, very aware that we're Poland in 1936 right now.

We are literally begging Americans to wake the fuck up and realise this too, and hopefully stop this insanity before it gets that far.