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Hoping to be constructive: how do you think search engines should operate? Or maybe how would you like one you consider "good" to operate?
Also wondering how you see something like Privacy Pass that Kagi announced recently: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
This is particularly useful in the context of a privacy-respecting paid search engine, where the Server wants to ensure that the Client can access the services, and the Client seeks strong guarantees that, for example, the searches are not associated with them.
Backup/Restore for iscsi volumes
I've started using iscsi volumes for kubernetes storage, and it seems to be working fine. I have volumes automatically created under Data/k8s/scsi/v
for each PV.
As a backup strategy I have periodic snapshots of every volume set up and I am also replicating the entire k8s
dataset to a different pool.
I've done this kind of thing for other "normal" filesystem datasets and restoring from snapshots or replications usually just entails copying files. However I'm new to iscsi and "volume" datasets, so if something went wrong with one of my iscsi volume datasets, and I have snapshots and/or replicated them, how do I go about restoring them?
I'm not sure if I'm even asking the right question :) Is the "right" thing to do here to do application-level backups, ie. run sidecars for my k8s workloads that back up the files inside the volumes rather than rely on backups at the TrueNAS level?
Picture of the setup for reference:
Oh, I've been tempted. It does seem like a little bit more than I want to take on right now, and I am really interested in multi material.
I ended up canceling my order and in the form let them know the reason. They refunded me my money and didn't respond.
Now I'm trying to figure out what two actually get to replace my ender 3, currently trying to do research on the K1C and the Sovol SV08. I'm fine with tinkering, but I really want multiple color support
I have an order for a P1S that hasn't shipped yet but am now considering cancelling it and buying a Creality K1C. Anyone have thoughts on that as an alternative? It seems their multi material thing is coming out soon
I can't wait for this. I've gone down a few rabbit holes looking into solar and battery storage, and even just battery storage by itself to replace the generator we have for when power is out and/or to offset peak use time rates. But batteries are really expensive and I've already got a hundred kilowatt hours sitting in my garage.
Would love to have seen OpenPilot form Comma on this list to how it compared.
Can anyone share settings for Kia EV9 integration?
I just installed the Kia Uvo integration via HACS but am concerned with settings causing 12v battery drain on the car. Anyone else have this set up and willing to share their experience with it?
I could never get hardware accelerated video working with Firefox on my Linux laptop, and Google Meet (used for work) doesn't work well ( but I guess I blame Google for that).
It looks like they've changed the way they do it a bit they now have these (this is light to med, there's another one for med-dark roast): https://happymugcoffee.com/products/roasters-choice-a
I have been buying from HappyMug for years, I do a subscription thing with them that gets me one bag of one of their blends that I picked and then one bag of single origin coffee every month. I'm very happy with it.
I don't know about natively, but I've played both FFXIV and EVE Online in Linux in the past, and they ran well, but it's been a little bit.
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From the downvotes it seems like many people might be this:
It's an XWing! 👍
Just out of curiosity, since I'm also considering bonds, what is "close to retirement" enough to consider non insignificant bod allocation?
hm, I'm not sure I know :) not really into jump scares, but do often love kitchy B horror. I also love scifi so blends of the two are good. Overall, I'll take any suggestions for what you've liked on the platform!
Thanks for the input! I've been thinking that'd I'd probably just stick to index funds and avoid (for now) individual companies. My financial advisor does do individual companies (to fit the allocation targets), and does do tax loss harvesting, but I think that might be a bit complicated for my initial attempts.
I had thought about doing something like S&P 500 fund + some set of small and medium cap index funds, rather than trying to identify individual companies that fit into "large/mid/small cap & industry spread", but even in those broad realms there's lots of "index 500" funds and lots of "medium/small cap" index funds, how do I figure out which ones to buy and how to compare them?
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Came across this tool on HackerNews last week and gave it a try and thought it was a really comprehensive (in my experience) tool for doing long term financial planning yourself.
It costs money, but you can even self host it for a certain price tier.
Resources on learning how to build a retirement portfolio?
About a year ago I hired a financial planner to manage assets in my retirement accounts but am starting to think about doing it myself.
I don't disagree with the general approach they're taking, but it seems like it should be simple enough for me to do myself every 6 months or whatever.
The gist of the strategy is a balance across large/mid/small cap and sectors at certain percents along with some % of bond funds and some real estate funds.
I think my main questions are how do I identify and compare various funds that fall into these broad categories to try and pick the ones I want to actually invest in.
Any other recommendations for what to watch on Shudder?
I'm confused. In the 5% bracket, a $16k tuition: this comes out to like a 900k/year job...is that where the top 5% is?
I would love a suggestion for a ups that could tolerate running off my generator when the power is out for extended periods, anyone have a decently priced recommendation?
I don't think that's a bad extension of the analogy
The Case for Developer Experience
How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?
Developers are operating and building in more and more heterogeneous and complex systems. This article offers some thoughts on how to think about "developer experience" in this world that's increasingly more like a "rainforest" than a "well tended garden".
Basically I get 30 minutes to an hour after they're in bed and that's about it :-(
Using Kubernetes for development?
I'd love to hear some stories about how you or your organization is using Kubernetes for development! My team is experimenting with using it because our "platform" is getting into the territory of too large to run or manage on a single developer machine. We've previously used Docker Compose to enable starting things up locally, but that started getting complicated.
The approach we're trying now is to have a Helm chart to deploy the entire platform to a k8s namespace unique to each developer and then using Telepresence to connect a developer's laptop to the cluster and allow them to run specific services they're working on locally.
This seems to be working well, but now I'm finding myself concerned with resource utilization in the cluster as devs don't remember to uninstall or scale down their workloads when they're not active any more, leading to inflation of the cluster size.
Would love to hear some stories from others!