Onyx tablets reportedly phone home and send "data" to some servers in China. The manufacturer apparently refuses to publish the source-code modifications to the OS and the open-source apps they are using and they even go as far as violating GPL.
Of course I learned all that after buying this tablet. To ease my mind, I spent some time debloating it and then blocked the outgoing traffic to
Over the weekend, I decided to try running a Postgres database in my Homelab. In my current setup, the most convenient option for storage is NFS. However, NFS is especially tricky for databases. A misconfigured setup can lead to performance or data corruption issues.
After watching
brew services start colima. You can skip the following work-around.
cat <<-EOF | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/colima-start-fg
#!/bin/bash
I was once working with a client, and our team was facing a mix of technical and non-technical challenges in shipping a relatively simple web application. During one of our meetings, I cracked a silly joke: "At this rate, we might as well zip up the source code and send it to anyone who wants to try it." (note for the reader: our users were non-developer colleagues from the same organization)
Of course we chuckled and we moved on. But later, I found myself aching to try that silly idea out. Or a refined version of it:
In Kubernetes, controllers are control loops that watch the state of your cluster, then make or request changes where needed. Each controller tries to move the current cluster state closer to the desired state
Kubernetes provides the following controllers:
While experimenting with dqlite, I needed to create
multiple virtual machines from a custom template to manually test a few
scenarios. cloud-init combined with one of the cloud
images from here would have
worked, but I wanted to avoid waiting for the VM to boot and configure itself
each time I spun up a new instance.
After some research, I discovered virt-sysprep, which turned out to be the
Make sure network-online.target gets triggered correctly: https://systemd.io/NETWORK_ONLINE/
Run the following: