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  • I literally can’t even.

    As someone who spent countless hours of my youth in hammer, laying out areas with props and lighting and doing play testing about areal movement with test npcs, it’s hilarious that these people see this slop and say, yes this is the future.

    also : ā€œI’m working on a theory that ā€œAI is artā€ boosters have some kind of limited ability to perceive details. Like they literally only perceive large shapes, colors, and noises. Anything remotely more detailed than ā€˜big thing go boom’ they actually lack the ability to see it.ā€ šŸ¤”šŸ¤”šŸ¤”

    also: after discussing with my brother I came to the realization that this rube was likely very into the ā€œplay2earnā€ bullshit during the nft era






  • there’s been something that’s really been rubbed me the wrong way about jeff in the last few years. he was annoying before and had some insights but lately I’ve been using him as a sort of a jim crameresque tech-take-barometer.

    What really soured me was after he started picking fights with some python people a few years back because someone dared post that a web framework? (couldn’t dig up the link) was a greater contribution to the world than S/O? His response was pretty horrid to the point where various python leaders were telling to stop being a massive dick because he was trying to be a bully with this ā€œdo you know who I amā€ attitude because he personally had not heard of the framework so it wasn’t acshually at all that relevant compared to S/O.

    and now this combined with his stupid teehee I am giving away my wealth guise look how altruistic I am really is a bit eugh



  • Your phrasing of the question implies a poor understanding. There’s nothing preventing you from running containers on bare metal.

    My colo setup is a mix of classical and podman systemd units running on bare metal, combined with a little nginx for the domain and tls termination.

    I think you’re actually asking why folks would use bare metal instead of cloud and here’s the truth. You’re paying for that resiliency even if you don’t need it which means that renting the cloud stuff is incredibly expensive. Most people can probably get away with a$10 vps, but the aws meme of needing 5 app servers, an rds and a load balancer to run WordPress has rotted people. My server that I paid a few grand for on eBay would cost me about as much monthly to rent from aws. I’ve stuffed it full of flash with enough redundancy to lose half of it before going into colo for replacement. I paid a bit upfront but I am set on capacity for another half decade plus, my costs are otherwise fixed.











  • Ive actually been personally moving away from kubernetes for this kind of deployment and I am a big fan of using ansible to deploy containers using podman systemd units, you have a series of systemd .container files like the one below

    [Unit]
    Description=Loki
    
    [Container]
    Image=docker.io/grafana/loki:3.4.1
    
    # Use volume and network defined below
    Volume=/mnt/loki-config:/mnt/config
    Volume=loki-tmp:/tmp/loki
    PublishPort=3100:3100
    AutoUpdate=registry
    
    [Service]
    Restart=always
    TimeoutStartSec=900
    
    [Install]
    # Start by default on boot
    WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target
    

    You use ansible to write these into your /etc/containers/systemd/ folder. Example the file above gets written as /etc/containers/systemd/loki.container.

    Your ansible script will then call systemctl daemon-reload and then you can systemctl start loki to finish the example