It’s for far more than just deploying VMs: you can create pretty much anything you can on a cloud provider, such as databases, network rules, access tokens, object storage, etc.

Terraform is part of a movement called “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC) which allows engineers to define their cloud infrastructure using code.

This is extremely useful as it allows you to:

• version infrastructure changes

• automate resource and configuration creation and management

• have reproducible environments (think production and staging envs, or deploying a new production env to another datacenter)

Terraform (and OpenTofu) is different to most IaC project as it is agnostic of cloud providers: you can use it to deploy infrastructure to multiple providers, where their competitors are limited to their own platform (I think of AWS’s Cloud Development Kit)

I find their enterprise laptops to be surprisingly good. I own a refurbished EliteBook and it has really nice keyboard and track pad as well as user-replaceable RAM, SSD and wireless card. My only issue is that most of their enterprise laptops come with screens with 45% support of sRGB, which is trash for web design and photo editing.

I might be lucky, my Gen 1 Pebble still works (though I have not tested how long the battery lasts in use, I only know it stayed on for under a week idle).

Only restic snapshots are backed-up to B2. ZFS snapshots are for undoing mistakes, though I enabled them recently and I have yet to use them.

My work flow is pretty similar to yours:

For my desktop and laptops: systemd timer and service that backups every 15 minutes using restic to my NAS.

For my NAS : daily backup using restic + ZFS snapshots.

All restic backups are then uploaded daily to Backblaze B2.

Which language are they going to use? Because for some languages (thinking of Java or Node) they definitely would want more than 4GB of RAM. And I’m not even speaking of IDEs that tend to store data in RAM for their suggestion features.

On that note, if the RAM isn’t soldered to the motherboard, I would strongly advice to upgrade the capacity.

I believe Linux Server builds images every day for most of their containers, even though there has been no code changes.

Chrome and Firefox do as well

Have you read the article? The fourth paragraph lists improvements systemd timers bring over cron:

Cron is easy, very simple and robust mechanism to execute periodic tasks on a *nix server, and is available by default on all popular Linux distributions. However, cron suffers from some issues:

• If the system is down when the cron needs to run, the cron will be missed

• There is no built-in status monitoring

• There are no built-in logs

• If you want to execute pre/post commands (for example by pinging an external service for success/failure) you have to do it inside the script itself

All of these issues are addressed with systemd services and timers, as the authors explains in details.

The author fails to mention you can also use timers to do schedules like “every 15 minutes, 5 minutes after the systemd started”. Very useful for scheduling automatic updates or backups.

The first one also has better code coverage and way more pulls on Docker Hub.

Jitsi Meet?

This is common in rolling releases

Happened to me on Ubuntu with minor kernel updates including regressions lol

Yep, introduced in Android 4.2, disappeared with Android 5.

What’s wrong with GTA V? The RTX 3080 fares better than the RX 9070 XT. The 9070 performances are also all over the place in Quake II RTX.

Meh, I don’t think that would fit the community.

I thought for a minute this was a /c/FuckCars meme. I’m disappointed.

What an absolute a-hole

I compiled the RSS feeds I follow here, with lots of web-dev blogs and newsletters.