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Same experience here.

At least for SBCs, I’ve bought a few orange pi rv2s and r2s to use as builder nodes, and in some cases they are slower than the same thing running in qemu w/buildx or just qemu

If anything, this would be more of a way to act as a command and control server

There’s more to Docker Desktop than just “oh it’s just docker underneath”

1. Unified experience across Windows, Mac, Linux

2. The security posture is much stronger by default. Many people, who would probably be considered the “target audience” for Docker Desktop, don’t bother to make docker-ce rootless, or don’t use podman, so running it in a VM is better, though admittedly often annoying.

3. Not everybody is a CLI warrior. Docker Desktop gives a decent GUI, ways to monitor and control containers visually, and even deploy kubernetes with a single click.

> I have a small Alpine VM that I often forget about

“vmm” is a toy compared to kvm/libvirt.

> I also have Debian 12 on a Mac Mini and while it's systemd, it could be OpenRC for all that I care about it.

I assume Intel? I haven’t paid attention to Linux on Macs in a long time. But I love Devuan for this reason.

I’m not even arguing against systemd or not.

I’m just stating that Linux being technologically inferior because of something-something corporate overlords is… silly

Trying to act superior with your oft-broken OS.

“Inferior technology stack”. Didn’t I just read a few days ago about pf queues just now breaking 4Gbps? Look me up, I’ve written a lot about high speed networking.

How are those containers working out for you? Have you heard about these things called VMs? Which I moved on from like 8 years ago?

Not to mention ole Theo likes to alienate you folks at every possible opportunity, even when it doesn’t matter to the core philosophy of openbsd.

I mean, you do you, but at least demonstrate an ounce of intellectual integrity about it.

> Especially historically it was pretty hard to get the JVM to release memory back to the OS.

This feels like a huge understatement. I still have some PTSD around when I did Java professionally between like 2005 and 2014.

The early part of that was particularly horrible.

Reminds me of a time many years ago when I received a whole case of Intel NICs all with the same MAC address.

It was an interesting couple of days before we figured it out.

No kidding. Using cert-manager with my DNS on cloudflare or GKE is about the easiest and most mindless and zero-friction LE implementation I’ve ever used.

The author mostly lost me when he started doing comparative line counts between docker swarm and kubernetes.

And the docker swarm example didn’t even accomplish the same thing.

The author here repeatedly claims that teams would function identically on Swarm and are wasting resources using Kubernetes.

You don’t even need to be a mid-sized team to need stuff like RBAC, service mesh, multi-cluster networking, etc.

Claiming that kubernetes only “won” because of economic pressure is only true in the most basic of sense, and claiming it as a resume padder is flat out insulting to all its actual technical merits.

The multi-tenant nature and innate capabilities is part economics of it, but operators, extensibility, and platform portability across different environments are actual technical merits.

Claiming that autoscaling is optional and not required for most production environments is at best myopic.

It also greatly undersells the operational complexity that autoscaling actually solves, versus just the reactive script based solely on CPU. Metrics pipelines, cluster-level resource constraints, and pod disruption budgets.

As far as the repeated claim that it just “works”, great. Not working is more of a function of the application not the platform.

I dunno, this whole article frames kubernetes as a massive overhead and monolithic beast rather than the programmable infrastructure that it is.

It also tries to minimize many real world needs like multi-team isolation, extensibility, and ecosystem integrations

Good thing that smallpox wasn’t eradicated due to a vaccine.

> Well, even Republicans accepted that an insurrection was a bad thing:

Just not THIS insurrection?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

> The regime will simple classify pro-LBQT, anti-MAGA, and anti-Trump comments as "threats to national security" or as supporting terrorism.

Did they not already?

Antifa, which doesn't exist as a formal organization, literally means "anti-fascism" and is now a terrorist organization. Of course these are the same people who want to arrest people for treason when they said "You do not have to follow illegal orders"

It's just mental gymnastics of Olympic-level proportions.

My main exposure to this was just in a couple of online social communities.

1. AI happens 2. Every response (that are often memes in themselves), is complaining about the AI. Hell, some of them were clever in the way a brand new meme template was in 2015. 3. Memeing about the AI happens to the point where a few borderline freaking death threats start sneaking in. 4. Someone posts thoughtful original content, the whole place degrades into a “thank god it’s not AI” meme.

Or, let’s fragment our already tiny community into NO AI SLOP

I’ve seen this exact thing happen in three very niche communities.

Shrug. Sure.

Point still stands. It’s not going anywhere. And the literal hate and pure vitriol I’ve seen towards people on social media, even when they say “oh yeah; this is AI”, is unbelievable.

So many online groups have just become toxic shitholes because someone once or twice a week posts something AI generated

Shrug? Our experiences have been totally different then.

I bought an older version of Zorin, probably 15 or 16, to review for a blog, and I was totally impressed with the consistency of the theming.

To each their own, but Zorin is a cheap on-ramp for people coming from older Windows/Mac and looking for a somewhat apples-to-apples experience of Windows or Mac, with actual updates and not a bunch of ads or telemetry.

Not everyone is a Linux power user

$50 seems cheap for what they have probably put tons of money into to have consistent theming, in terms of both actual aesthetic and functionally.

I say this as someone getting annoyed daily by KDE inconsistencies over decades.

Protecting it before generic is fine, but the pricing doesn't make sense.

If it's $1000 per month cost per person when it's the name brand, how many people are on it? At this point just the diabetics and people with really good insurance?

Wouldn't they make a hell of a lot more money selling it for $100 during their protected period to 1000x the people.

Except that's not what happened was it

Probably more of lack of explicit liability in the license.

So if we are talking about "traditional consulting", that usually means MBB/Big Three

The value they add is their corpus of previous work to lean on and sell. And anybody at the firm can reference that. But it's always almost the junior level consultants doing the work, and a bunch of c-suites trying to manage it and sell it.

So when you work with a firm like this, you are going to get a team who has managed a similar project as yours, but it usually ends up being generic and trying to repeat past successes.

I really think that's where some of the boutique firms are being different.

Instead of just saying "here is our Lean Six Sigma team", they can say "we've got these four people who are perfect for technical implementation, and here is a project manager who has done almost exactly this before, and here is a RevOps person who has worked in your actual industry".

Maybe someone is an expert on some super obscure domain. They might not qualify for a full time consultant position at a big 3 firm, can suddenly be pulled in on projects that are their specialty.

Mostly these boutique firms can put together a more highly specialized and focused team than the prebuilt teams at a place like Bain or McKinsey.

I use a lot of `buildx` stuff. It ostensibly works in podman, but in practice, I haven't had much luck

I think part of that is a bit of a collapose of traditional consulting. There's been a huge transition into the boutique firms now.

Yep.

And meta/hack is probably the other huge mainstay of PHP outside of what the person you responded to said. And hack with HHVM was supposed to be the panacea for PHP

Just saying.

What people used to use PHP for tasks, has largely been replaced by Python.

And still nobody outside of Meta cares about hack.

The niche I think PHP had back in the day has largely been supplanted by Python.

Maybe it’s better now, but after moving on from it to basically anything else after a 25 year career, I don’t miss it.

I run KDE usually so I imagine it's xwayland.

For Wayland I just use this:

        alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
        alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'

I used to do the same thing on Xorg with xclip I think

Switching between macOS for job and linux for everything else, I’ve honestly never realized any difference.

That's really my problem with these kind of critiques.

EVERY language has certain pitfalls like this. Back when I wrote PHP for 20+ years I had a Google doc full of every stupid PHP pitfall I came across.

And they were always almost a combination of something silly in the language, and horrible design by the developer, or trying to take a shortcut and losing the plot.

Seems like calling something low effort is even lower effort.

But hey, let’s chat.

Is this not the opposite of trickle down, with clearly the transfer of wealth upward?