Thanks
I love the old hardware. I like how physical it all is.
It has a much higher barrier to entry. If they can make it easy to get on a makeshift network made of old hardware then I might look more into it. I want to use it for personal use before I even think of prod. Proxmox has been in homelabs for a while which helps quite a bit to mature the product.
The problem isn't necessarily the GUI. The problem is there are a lot of admins who don't understand what is happening under the hood. I've talking to people of all ages who have no understanding of how basic things like networking work. I've also talked to to people of all ages that have a deep understanding of the system.
The biggest takeaway is that to be a good admin you need to understand the details. Don't be afraid to dig in. Either dig in, move to management or both
Are you Azure focused?
If you are an Azure shop go with Azure Stack HCI. I haven't use it personally but I see a lost of Reddit comments about it.
Nutanix is not my first choice...
They are almost as bad as VMware
As you all might be aware VMware is hiking prices again. (Surprise to no one)
Right now Hyper-V seems to be the most popular choice and Proxmox appears to be the runner up. Hyper-V is probably the best for Windows shops but my concern is that it will just become Azure tied at some point. I could be wrong but somehow I don't trust Microsoft to not screw everyone over. They already deprecated WSUS which is a pretty popular tool for Windows environments.
Proxmox seems to be a great alternative that many people are jumping on. It is still missing some bigger features but things like the data center manager are in the pipeline. However, I think many people (especially VMware admins) are fundamentally misunderstanding it.
Proxmox is not that unique and is built on Foss. You could probably put together a Proxmox like system without completely being over your head. It is just KVM libvirt/qemu and corosync along with some other stuff like ZFS.
What Proxmox does provide is convenience and reliability. It takes time to make a system and you are responsible when things go wrong. Doing the DIY method is a good exercise but not something you want to run in prod unless you have the proper staff and skillset.
And there is where the problem lies. There are companies are coming from a Windows/point in click background who don't have staff that understand Linux. Proxmox is just Debian under the hood so it is vulnerable to all the same issues. You can install updates with the GUI but if you don't understand how Linux packaging works you may end up with a situation where you blow off your own foot. Same goes for networking and filesystems. To effectively maintain a Proxmox environment you need expertise. Proxmox makes it very easy to switch to cowboy mode and break the system. It is very flexible but you must be very weary of making changes to the hypervisor as that's the foundation for everything else.
I personally wish Proxmox would serious consider a immutable architecture. TrueNAS already does this and it would be nice to have a solid update system. They would do a stand alone OS image or they could use something based on OStree. Maybe even build in a update manager that can update each node and check the health.
Just my thoughts
For a while I though it was from the SS from the Holocaust.
As it turns out I was thankfully wrong.
You got to force it then
Be the shitty admin you want to see
I would strongly not recommend a raspberry pi
Donate to gnome (especially if you are a company with millions to throw around)
As others have said gnome is better than Windows UI wise
Honestly you could look at an external touchscreen display. The idea is that you have a laptop and then a screen with a stylus.
Other option is a 2 in 1
Whoosh
I think they were talking about Chrome becoming obsolete. Unlikely but not impossible
I don't think many people use Vivaldi. Also it is mostly proprietary so that's a hard pass for me.
I've scene posts about Firefox enterprise from a business perspective. I wonder if we will see Firefox suddenly show up more in the business world. Ublock origin can save you from phishing links and malwarertizing
Am I the only one that smells DRM? Maybe this will become the new way Google can force stock Android with all of its spyware
Honestly they should just enable user namespaces. That would allow apps to create containers.
You do realize git is federated right? That's how it came about.
As for Forgejo itself they are working on instance to instance federation. I think it is Activity pub based so theoretically it could be compatible with Lemmy.
I have Grafana and Influxdb setup but it is fairly complex for what I am doing. I don't want to spend a bunch of time creating dashboards and thinking about the movement of data. I am looking for something simple.
I am looking to mostly monitor uptime and Ansible automations.
Edit:
Found this: gethomepage.dev
They straight up landed the rocket back where is started. This thing is 22 stories tall...
I don't really understand how ostree works from a use standpoint. What I am looking to do is create a custom immutable Linux where I make a filesystem image and then devices can pull the image if I make changes upstream I'm looking for a way to update a local image.
So basically I'm wanting to create some sort of OStree repo. I know rpm-ostree exists but I want something that is more distro agnostic. (I want to use Debian and maybe gentoo as the base)
Found on a meme community
Contribute to RickdeJager/cupshax development by creating an account on GitHub.
I hope this goes without saying but please do not run this on machines you don't own.
The good news:
- the exploit seems to require user action
The bad news:
-
Device Firewalls are ineffective against this
-
if someone created a malicious printer on a local network like a library they could create serious issues
-
it is hard to patch without breaking printing
-
it is very easy to create printers that look legit
-
even if you don't hit print the cups user agent can reveal lots of information. This may be blocked at the Firewall
TLDR: you should be careful hitting print
The critical zero-click vulnerability in MediaTek chipsets has been designated the label CVE-2024-20017.
She's very blurry for some reason
Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
That's sounds strange to say but hear me out. Before ransomeware there was no economic incentive for companies to worry about security. There was a strong "why would you hack us" vibe that made it hard to talk management into doing anything basic like locking down ports.
Nowadays everyone and there mom is worried about getting compromised. I've seen companies who historically didn't care at all about IT suddenly invest heavily in security. We are now much more secure than we were previously as everyone has suddenly realized that the internet had a huge risk. I doubt we will see any of the old style worms we had back in the day that would infect millions of machines.
I haven't heard anything in months. Maybe there is legal trouble?
DuckStation GPL Violation - Leah Rowe's Sleepless Rants
TL;DR the dev behind Duckstation arbitrary changed the license and is likely commiting GPL violations