I have some machines in Nigeria. A disk failed in December. Today, we got the ETA for the replacement parts to arrive, end of month This is premier support, I’d hate to see what the less expensive support is. (We have not been hounding them, and we will get credit for the sla failure, but it’s still crap.)
I had a really cool idea for Docker Desktop. Now, hear me out, this may sound crazy! Here’s my thoughts:
it could start-up in less than 10 minutes
it could not freeze up when trying to look at the previously created volumes
when it stopped working (e.g. because you tried to use it to run a docker image), the service would actually restart instead of locking up indefinitely while it waits for “Docker Desktop stopping…”
I recommend using docker inside the WSL instead. Works nicely. And these days I somehow don‘t even need the port-forwarding script anymore to get at the stuff inside the WSL.
(Docker wanted money from corporate users for docker desktop at some point and so it was decided we were too cheap… same with everything oracle except for the database we use)
Caveat: my wsl is not quite as stable as I‘d like so I always have a powershell open to kill WSL (yes kill not shutdown) when my laptop returns from suspend and WSL as turned my laptop into „only fans“
At the moment, it’s to try to gain access to my IP KVM that requires old, insecure versions of Java on an embedded web server that doesn’t support modern TLS. And now that IE has been disabled on my computer (and the legacy browser extension for Edge doesn’t seem to sidestep TLS requirements), I can’t access my IP KVM at all.
Other people in my position have spun up “webtop” docker images with the necessary openjdk installed in order to maintain connectivity to their old, unsupported IP KVMs.
If this wasn’t specifically to access the compute hardware in my basement, I’d just run the container on one of the docker hosts that runs… on the compute hardware in my basement.
ouch. can‘t you … replace the jdk cacerts with newer versions on the switch ? (I am assuming that is the issue with the old jdk). In any case: docker in wsl is a good setup. I like it fine. And if you do not need it up and running all the time, I think it is more than enough.
It’s not the certs; those were always self-signed and caused warnings. It’s the actual TLS version and ciphers being offered by the server that are insecure and unsupported in modern browsers.
Starting the happy upgrade dance of Debian 11→12 (15 hosts at home including this one - that’ll get announced - then 6 more at work). As usual for Debian, nothing huge, but various little things nibble at me.
I find OS upgrades very painful. My work laptop went from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 recently (fresh rebuild + data restore + fix all the things), and it consumed a solid week of time. Some of that was prep time, making sure I had all my ducks in a row beforehand, and the OS rebuild itself was pretty smooth sailing, but even with a good proportion of my custom config being automated there were just so many things which needed attention afterwards before things were mostly back to normal (and I’ve encountered a few stragglers since then, as well).
Writing this post from my new ubuntu desktop I haven’t had a desktop linux installation in… years.
A a freelancer my freedoms are worth some money to me, so I bought a NUC that may end up serving as my new work computer and because I can I am trying to see if I can run it on linux just to spite the whole privacy invading virus scanner
It is really nice knowing that I can get better hardware via work. And if this doesn’t work out we were going to buy this exact product for our new home server. Well maybe 1 size smaller our homeserver wouldn’t need to be quite the latest processor generation. Until we need the homeserver in a couple of months I can see if this works for me. If it does: great.
If Linux doesn’t work out, I will try windows on the NUC next.
If that doesn’t work, I’ll ask for a work laptop.
My dsl modem maker announced they’ll offer 1-click VPN options to connect to home networks (they more or less named it the “netflix button”–we laughed so hard when we saw that) and so I might even still be able to work mobile with this from my laptop if the need arises which it usually does not. I will see if I trust AVM’s ideas for VPN when I need them. German company though so at least I trust in the privacy laws that should bind them.
…OK, when I last bought these they were easy to find. Anyone know where I can get a 24-port HBA with 6× SFF-8087 sockets on it? It’s a Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 that’s just failed, and a HighPoint 2760 in the backup machine (that isn’t 100% satisfactory).
I haven’t had a desktop linux installation in… years.