For real. Every. Damn. Time.

Like if you want privacy or control of your car in the US you have to buy cars slowly becoming antiques or rip and replace a bunch of electronics not built to be maintanced at all. Doesn’t matter the country of origin. I think I’d rather EU, Japanese, or South Korean spying at this point but what a hell of a choice…

Any good ones that we can comfortably say weren’t build with slave labour? Or which ones have actual power in their unions?

I’d love to check affordable options from them

All I want is to have a future advanced archeology mission discovery my MLP fanfics

I was way too excited for US too. Like good on the UK starting to straighten out but damn I wish it was us

Logos are a nightmare and UIs. I dont want a concept of the tools UI, just a picture please.

There is a dangerous hope of the US admin being just such a fucking heel that the world is forced to be on the side of good in just pure desperation and opposition.

They are killing real people though and we do have to stop them still. The silver lining of mushroom bomb cloud can provide some comfort but if we see it we have still failed.

But where will commit torture in legal ambuity if don’t have a site off the coast on a land that isn’t us jurisdiction but also not the jurisdiction of a country we recognize validty of their human rights laws?

Like it’s a really special plot of land if are really trying to specialize in human rights abuse in internationally and domestically legally dubius ways.

All that say, honest wtf is wrong with some of these people

Copyright liability as a Service (ClaaS)

Something’s are more inherent to git forges imho Like forking, merge requests, secret branches, and team permissions.

I would prefer those be behind an API and fed into a more flexible UI honestly with the other panels being user defined views to other tools. Like a UI for tekton. A UI for Caddy or hugo or something. A UI for your issues tracker. Etc.

Even better if it federates those backends…

Maybe let the site admin have a list of approved views and configs so people aren’t putting compromised views on the site.

Git forges provides a lot of features these days now. From Merge requests, forks, issues tracking, secret branches, to team management stuff.

A lot more stuff gets bolted onto but they are arguably more optional but for some are the point lol

Like ci/cd at the forge level is the best to me for dev centric flows

Wait wait. Actually can I just buy some and act like it’s a gpu preorder?

I think I’m biased towards .it.gov as an option because then you could have smaller orgs of a country fall under it

There is an ironically a huge opportunity for upheaval of corporations because they are actually giving up huge amounts of control and leverage on their part.

Like at what point is their essentially company who’s sole job being brand making and management of contracts going to be side stepped?

I had a manager tell the team that an LLM said we should be able to do a technical task so we should look into that.

I died a little inside.

I also use it, but exactly I know what I am looking for and what is BS…

Honestly it is pretty silly it’s still like that. Are the subdomains enforced in other countries?

The other option is expand .gov .mil for all UN nations and enforce country sub domains (ie .us.gov and .md.gov).

Lamp loves me

I really enjoy the pikvm and the switcher for my home lab. Redfish support gets fishy with a switcher if that is a concern though.

I do love a good mesh for a cluster block though. My next next next project is using KubeOVN to turn my cluster block into a switch with “out” connections to connection other devices (wifi, laptop, cameras, etc) to it as my network router and of course upstream from the modem and hotspot for Internet connection.

I would recommend 4-5 nodes. 5 if you want true high availability. 4 still requires some intervention in case of failure.

Just because it’s bare metal. Got to think of your Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) which is to say if a whole node goes bust how long will it take to potentially order and install a new one.

If you go kubernetes (k8s) I would recommend rke2 or k3s. They are really straightforward setups and pretty enterprise ready out of the box.

If you have a hard requirement for Ceph I would recommend doing Rook-Ceph which makes deploying and management a lot easier by letting k8s handle it. For simpler but less performant (in my testing) persistent volumes (PVs) like ceph Longhorn is really easy to deploy and manage.

For backups Velero is really nice for apps in your cluster, since it can be done per namespace and include PV data too. Rke2/k3s both have nice etcd (the backend data base for k8s) snapshoting and backup tools too for full disaster recovery.

Rke2/k3s both have ways to auto deploying charts from the filesystem too https://docs.rke2.io/add-ons/helm

This is a good stepping stone for GitOps imho. If that matters to you at all. Starting with just having a git dir for these files, then later doing some like ArgoCD

I would also recommend, since you are looking at hyper converged storage have dedicated network lines for it is generally recommended. So create a bond of two ports per node just for storage, tag them with their own vlan, and in your setup of rook or longhorn specific that vlan interface as the device for data to flow.

Pxe boot is also nice at this scale, either setup on your router (OpenWrt has decent support), you maintance laptop/machine, and/or do something like Tinkerbell (cloud native pxe from your k8s cluster!). It’s just nice to be able to blow away a node and rebuild if you are tinkering a lot.

Remember cattle not pets, and welcome to the range cowpoke!

The pikvm and pikvm switch are really fun tbh

If someone says you don’t need a lawyer or a union you probably need one