digdilem @ digdilem @feddit.uk

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Same! HA is a really interesting thing to get into. I moved to it from Domoticz, which is easy to get going but you hit some hard limits after a while.

Because postboxes mean no origination, or at least, none that can get back to the poster.

The problem is - except for tracked parcels, nothing is traced and there's so many ways for something to go missing between sender and recipient. Hard to measure performance if you can't rely on that.

Yes. If you've not been using reddit for a little while, have you noticed any mental health changes?

It's also nice to be here whilst it's still got new-thing energy. I like that.

undefined> Postman to be paid for performance. Postman to be paid for performance. I don't think that works.

If it did, flyers and phonebooks (back when they were a thing) wouldn't be found dumped in hedges in bulk. Post is a little different, but not that much. and there have been many cases where bags and bags of undelivered mail have been found stashed in postmen's homes because they couldn't be arsed to deliver them.

We're rural, and often postman and couriers are the only people we see day to day, so we build a good relationship with them. It's a 20 minute trip to the closest postbox, so they often pick up our outgoing parcels too (I sell stuff through ebay so there's quite a few)

Two years ago our postie of 12 years said he was leaving because there wasn't enough staff, deadlines were too tight and management wasn't coping well. Local POs closing, even our regional sorting office closed and went elsewhere. Deliveries were missed, booked pickups too. The worst was when they came to collect a parcel, but it had been collected the day before. Instead they took one clearly marked "Hermes" from outside our house and only having the Hermes label, which was a £90 car heater I'd just sold. I immediately rang the number but despite the lady trying to trace him down, it vanished. If I hadn't had caught him on cctv I'd never have known where it had gone. I lost all that money, including the Hermes fee.

We had a few random postmen since then, changing every week, but now have settled down to a regular one and we're lucky in that he's one of the great ones who goes out of his way to be helpful. He's also a biker so we have have that in common too.

It is quite toxic, yes. But what major, commercial social media platform doesn't thrive from exactly those things you list? Work those human triggers and get nicely receptive advertising targets.

Yep! I have a reminder in my calendar: "Delete reddit user". 11 years of contributions gone. Already deleted all posts and comments, but kept the user back so that if anyone's keeping score, it counts.

Y'know, I felt that way to begin with and it certainly took a long time for my fingers to adjust, but I've grown to adjust to that.

And it's better - you can do: "systemctl restart Service1 Service2 Service3" Before, with "system Service1 restart" you could only action on service at a time.

Plus, it's linux, so you can set up aliases to change the order into anything you like, even carry on using the old muscle memory formats. (Although I don't encourage this if you intend working on multiple servers!)

Nah, it's fine. Boot times are considerably faster than sys.v in most cases, and it has a huge amount of functionality. Most people I work with have adopted it and much prefer it to the old init.d and sys.v systems.

People's problem with systemd (and there are fewer people strongly against it than before) seem to break down into two groups:

1. They were happy with sys.v and didn't like change. Some were unhappy with how distros adopted it. (The debian wars in particular were really quite vicious)
2. It does too much. systemd is modular, but even so does break one of the core linux tenets - "do one thing well". Despite the modularity, it's easy to see it as monolithic.

But regardless of feelings, systemd has achieved what it set out to do and is the defacto choice for the vast majority of distros, and they adopted it because it's better. Nobody really cares if a user tries to make a point by not using it any more, they're just isolating themselves. The battle was fought and systemd won it.

I've created a todo item for myself at work; "See how easily we can switch new builds to debian in our automation and management systems". Doesn't hurt to be flexible.

It is a worry, isn't it? I built two more Rocky 9 servers today and it certainly would be a major faff if Rocky went away. However, I have a lot of faith in them, and I also respect Alma. Both are strong, well run organisations with a lot of clever people working together for the benefit of the community. I think we'll be fine, even if the details have to change a little bit.

We certainly won't be trusting Redhat in any way though, but we're not big enough to be useful to them. They've proved they have complete disdain for the foss community they depend upon, and showing ones colours like that is not going to help their bottom line. It's a shame.

Honestly, I think they're worse. Oracle have actually done less evil in the past few years compared to before, whilst IBM/Redhat seem to be revelling in causing disharmony and aggressive business tactics.

It's crazy that we're even considering that, yet we are. Redhat have become so unpredictably malicious, it's really depressing.

Somehow I'd kind of not known who Jeff Geerling was until this. And damn, he does a good presentation. Succinct, very clear and gets his point across extremely well without too much heat. No way I could I do that!

I agree, it's my preferred distro and I run a couple of debian servers at home, and my personal laptop that I'm using now.

But work is all Centos and Rocky.

I'd just finished migrating around 70 Centos 6 machines to Centos 8, a month ahead of them killing the distro that was supposed to last until 2028. We went with Rocky, but the problem is the same as Alma's.

Fortunately both companies seem to have pretty well developed plans for coping with this, and no doubt Oracle and Amazon distros will too, so no need to jump ship yet.

That said, we're also considering a debian shaped future, at least in part. There's absolutely no way we'll sign up for Rhel accounts. Not because they're expensive, but because decisions like this undermine our trust in them as a business partner.

Unenforceable for individual users, maybe. But the distros that depended upon it will need to be open and honest about their sources so cannot do that. Users trust distros because of transparency.