• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    How many docker containers would you deploy on a laptop? Also 128gb is tiny even for an SSD these days .

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      12 hours ago

      None, in fact, because I still haven’t got in to using docker! But that is one of the factors that pushes it down the list of things to learn.

      I’ve had a number of low-storage laptops, mostly on account of low budget. Ever since taking an 8GB netbook for work (and personal) in the mountains, I’ve developed space-saving strategies and habits!

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        7 hours ago

        I love docker… I use it at work and I use it at home.

        But I don’t see much reason to use it on a laptop? It’s more of a server thing. I have no docker/podman containers running on my PCs, but I have like 40 of em on my home NAS.

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          5 hours ago

          Yeah, I wonder if these people are just being grumpy grognards about something they don’t at all understand? Personal computers are not the use case here.

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            1 hour ago

            “Grumpy Grognard”. Do we have flairs on Lemmy? I can subtitle myself, grumpy grognard.

            Fair point that laptops aren’t really the use case, though there have been times I’ve wanted to try things out on my laptop - actually that’s a reason I still want to learn podman or docker, because I hope it’s a way to try server-y things on my laptop without polluting my system, and being able to cleanly uninstall.

            But okay, space on servers. I have a VPS with 20gb storage. And that has to include my backup data that lives there.