I don't like Ansible, other tools can be easier to use. But I don't want to recommend something concrete.
Which ones do you like to work with? (Even though it's not a recommendation ;) I've only dabbled in Ansible so far and found it overkill for most of the things I do, but maybe one of yours isn't?
But as a result you’ll have a self-documented configuration-as-a-code that will allow you to scale your setup as you need. Reproducing something won’t require reading your notes, remembering your actions etc.
Until you realise that
you don't really need to scale a homelab that much
if something breaks, you just want to quickly fix it manually because "doing the Ansible" is more of a pain
now idempotency and documentation-as-code is out of the window. ;)
(I'm being tongue-in-cheek here. I don't doubt this may work for you, but it takes much more discipline than I have.)
As much as I'd like to assume these things happened out of conviction, they might just be free bargaining chips for the next clash with the orange moron. After all, reopening your airspace to American planes comes at zero cost and may at the same time convince him that he has "won" something.
Either way: it's good to see this become a phenomenon.
I fear they aren't trying (or likely) to "get" anything. I think we need to come to terms with the fact that for right-wingers, there's nothing rational about their political decisions. Yes, they will rationalise it after the fact when pressed by pollsters, claiming they're mostly concerned about migration or the economy. But if you really drill down, you'll find that many of them live in parts of the country where there are hardly any migrants, and that the economic policies of their favoured right-wing parties would hurt them more than anyone else.
Hence I specifically wrote "he and his government". But let's also not forget: ultimately, it was he who put that poorly camouflaged lobbyist into her seat.
To be fair, he and his government have been working tirelessly for this. They've been
lying about the necessity of new debt (then immediately taking up unprecedented amounts of it)
promising reforms that never came
calling the working part of the population lazy bums, all the while preparing tax breaks that will disproportionally benefit large companies and the top 10%
fucking up and slowing down the transition towards renewables amid yet another fossil fuel energy crisis
copying the disgusting populism of the far right all the while claiming to be trying to contain them (instead of doing the obvious and initiating a constitutional review of the party by the Supreme Court)
What annoys me more than the man himself is the fact that everyone paying even a modicum of attention could have seen this coming from a mile away. And they voted for his party anyway.
Google isn’t just making agents more efficient, there’s a bigger vision to build a system where websites are disassembled into its component parts, and reassembled by AI systems (Google and others) to best serve each individual user.
How long until this does not only "reassemble" pages, but also changes their content? Prescription medicine dosage got skewed because the agent hallucinated (5mg, 50mg, 500mg - doesn't matter, right?). Information on vaccines shifted to full-on anti-vaxx conspiracy bullshit because it was "what the user was actually looking for" and "research shows it improves user experience". References to the Epstein files got redacted by AI because it was trained to censor results provide politically neutral information.
Though he does provide a lot of fuel for it, the bubble exists independently of the grifter-in-chief. Also, blot clots are a thing.