thelastknowngod

Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks

When you have it built, throw it in a container and run it in Lambda. You'll be able to run it anywhere if you package as a container.

Newegg used to sell this one dumb phone for like $12. Completely unbranded garbage but it made calls and did sms.

My brother used to lose his phone or drop it in the toilet constantly. We had like 3 or 4 of that crappy phone just because he kept doing stupid stuff.

Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that "works on both Windows and Linux!"

"I don't know what Linux is but it can't be worse that Windows."

I've been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.

I honestly don't know how windows works.. I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.

It's easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.

• configuration
• an executable
• a communication mechanism (dbus, networking, web server, etc)
• something that decides if the application runs or not (systemd, monit, docker/docker compose, kubernetes scheduler, or you as the user)
• a way of accepting input (keyboard and mouse, web requests, database queries, etc)
• a way of delivering an output (logging to unique log files, through syslog, or to stdout/stderr, showing something on a screen, playing a sound, returning a message to the client, etc)
• storage (optional)
• some cpu and memory capacity

That's really it. If something isn't working, it's pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.

I got a galaxy watch thinking I'd do all these cool things with it. Ultimately I only used it to set alarms to let me know my tea is ready..

I only really use the mechanical watch now.

Decouple!

CI should just build container images and do testing. CircleCI, Github Actions, Gitlab, Travis... Jenkins if you don't have any other choice..

CD should manage the deployment of that compiled code into a working environment.. Renovate Bot, Argo CD/Rollouts, Flux.. Ansible if you're still doing things the old way..

If you are still stuck doing stuff the old ways (bare metal, VMs, ansible, etc), packer is great for building immutable images so you can hopefully dump config management entirely.

A small container running in kubernetes on an old laptop.

My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the "cool" distros, I've settled on Mint and don't really have any motivation to do anything else.. I have real work I need to do and can't be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.

TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling.. I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.

It's fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation.. We wouldn't be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

Yeah agreed. I use copilot too. It's fine for small, limited tasks/functions but that's about it. The overwhelming majority of my work is systems design and maintenance though.. There's no AI for that..

Do I win?