3 weeks ago I could get diesel at €1.60/l.

Now it is over €2 per litre and I am in the weird situation today I cannot fill my tank from empty because the bank does not pre-authorise enough. So fuel prices have absolutely gone up, at least to consumers in rural France, which is all I personally care about.

I thought he didn’t need any help with the war he had already won?

To be honest Ian Watkins and Jimmy Saville were probably more notorious. Although I am pretty sure neither were murderers though, my desire to research it could not be lower.

They had much higher profiles than Ian Huntley before being revealed as nonces.

I’ve been using Authentik for a while now and it works very well. There is also a Teraform provider to manage it as code. I do mostly OIDC, but also use it as a proxy for a few things that do not support that and just need to be locked down (Esp home and longhorn dashboards for example).

The disadvantage is that it is not the lightest option. If that is important to you, look at Authelia.

Well at least he wasn’t chosen as President

died of medical distress

Isn’t that how everyone dies?

Nah, that’s Linux from Scratch.

Gentoo is a Caterham 7

It need to be something elegant and powerful, but not unfortunately not perfect; all while still being available to most people. A Rover SD1 perhaps:

Hang on, please tell me there should be a /s at the end of your comment

We need less polarisation. The far left and far right are both wrong because the world is a complex place full of nuance.

Personally I consider myself left of centre, but I also find policies that are absolutely core to the left abhorrent. That means I have voted centre right in the past, or centre depending on the situation.

What is absolutely certain is this kid did not deserve to die and the people that did it should JUSTLY face the full force of the law.

I like James May’s description

A plane elegantly uses the laws of physics to fly. A helicopter just beats them into submission.

Or something like that.

I run k3s on my bare metal cluster and for a lab I think it is excellent. Gets the cluster up and running easily so you can learn about actual Kubernetes stuff.

Personally I run it on fedora coreos, but I would not recommend that for everyone. I would just use whatever distri you like. All the usual suspects will work perfectly.

That is absolutely true yes, I’m not sure you can even preview what you have downloaded in Pinchflat.

We use Jellyfin/Kodi for playback generally

I tried it alongside Pinchflat and ended up settling on Pinchflat.

Why? I’m not going to say TA is bad, it worked well, but Pinchflat’s logic works better for me. Also, I was using TA with an existing Elastic search cluster. When I switched my logs to Loki/Garage I decided not to keep the ES cluster around just for TA.

Just use switches and APs and I’m happy. Had 2 generations of AP and will eventually upgrade to the current ones, but am not in a rush.

I have no desire to expand beyond that, but the networking gear works well.

It is a VM so fully sandboxed. All the sharing is smoke and mirrors (often in pretty cool ways).

Truth is that security is not OP’s problem. Someone else (likely well above their pay grade) is shouldering that responsibility and they have decreed Windows for everyone.

Not only a skill issue, but also a time issue. Our security team is plenty of skill and COULD learn how to manage Linux, but they do not have the time to do so. Everything has to be prioritised and they choose to support Win and Mac and move on to something else.

Honestly WSL2 is pretty good now. I have Fedora running in it and use basically the same config files as my personal laptop. Neovim behaves exactly the same across both. The only problem I have is that CTRL+V get intercepted by the terminal before it get to vim. That means that block visual mode is not available to me.

That and multiple desktops feels REALLY clunky, even compare to Gnome.

WSL is reasonable bearable, you can install Fedora instead of the default Ubuntu/Debian too. My work PC started out on 10 and is now on 11. I think I changed the terminal program, but the one I use may be the default in Win11. Honestly, I think the only programs I run outside WSL are a browser, DaVinci Resolve and Reaper (replaced Kdenlive and Ardour, both of which I prefer).

I am able to use the same neovim config on both my home (fedora) and work laptops, which is pretty handy.

At the end of the day it is their computer, not yours.

2 problems this week

Accidentally had 2 Jellyfin pods trying to write to SQLite together and corrupted the DB. Not really anyway to fix it so just killed it and rebuilt the library.

Also, my son’s Minecraft server got corrupted. Longhorn backup to the rescue 🛟