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PlutoniumAcid ,
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Why can't we switch to thorium and molten salt instead? Much cleaner, much safer, same idea.

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Stuff you need for work don't usually need any ad blocking to start with so that would be good enough.

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Make the fuckers 2mm thicker, gain 10 hours battery life. 5mm more, two days life. Bam. Solved.

PlutoniumAcid ,
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No, that's what a rake does.

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Hey, don't diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.

Modern day crap though? Oh I'm with you!

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stop buying car parts first

Oof. Same, brother. Same. 🤜🤛

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What happens when you self host email but your home is offline just as someone tries to send you an email?

Will their mail bounce? Vanish?

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I said the same thing, until the kids needed to use Office365 for school.

And NO, Libreoffice won't cut it because the school is deeply entrenched with Microsoft - it's not just using Word or whatever, but all those OneDrive things that are so tightly integrated.

So they run Windows, and I hate it. My work laptop also runs Windows, and I hate it. But there's only so far you can take your idealism if you still want to be part of a normal functioning society.

My home server rocks Linux and Docker and whatnot. But work and school? Just accept it.

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The modern software industry is a blight upon this world. I should know; I'm part of it.

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My brother got a Mac for work. He couldn't get used to the fact that a simple press of the Home key wouldn't go to the start of the line; it goes to the start of the FILE.

Why??

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Drop the cameras, add lidar instead. That's true 3d vision, which no amount of cameras can replace.

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Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.

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As usual, Apple arrogantly knowns better than the experts and things their own weird way. Undocumented, even. Bravo...

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And every crappy app and website has 300 "legitimate interest" cookies 🤑🤮

PlutoniumAcid OP ,
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I see these posts everywhere, and they are friggin' annoying :-(

PlutoniumAcid OP ,
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This issue doesn't happen very often, maybe every few weeks. That's why I think a nightly reboot is overkill, and weekly might be missing the mark? But you are right in any case: regardless of what the cron says, the machine might never get around to executing it.

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Nope, haven't. It says I have 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB RAM system, and that seems reasonable.

Why would you recommend turning swap off?

PlutoniumAcid OP ,
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thank you! 🤩

PlutoniumAcid OP ,
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Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.

Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.

I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what's causing it. I'm running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there's nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.

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You know you are right, and I've tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn't happen just then. I don't know yet what causes it, I can only assume it's one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.

I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what's at the top when it happens.

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That's a good idea, didn't know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?

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Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.

Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...

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This insane torture is why there are post-it notes under the keyboards.

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Maybe if you all started voting...? For real, dudes, you need to wake up.

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You are right of course - your system is so fucked up that it's not even worth trying, just give up already and hand the keys to Pootin. /s!

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What's not to love? Then do the same with Suckerberg please, kthxbye.

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By that logic, anything can become a light-emitting component when you give is some amps :-)

Keep a fire extinguisher nearby, though...

PlutoniumAcid ,
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That's... not how load balancing is supposed to be done...

PlutoniumAcid ,
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It is a space, so it's correct that it shows up. Non-breaking means that something like line wrap won't happen.

Putting it in the middle of a word will show up. That trick must've been a different character.

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Read Big brother by Cory Doctorow while you're at it. It is excellent!

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Samsung has 89 different models

Yeah, and that's just one brand... Honestly, how the hell do I choose my next phone?!?

  • I generally pick "last year's flagship" because those are still very good several years after, but not as expensive as when just launched.
  • And flagships have the benefit of having lots of 3rd party accessories available.

But even with these limits, there's just too damn much to choose from...

PlutoniumAcid ,
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original smartphone

Nokia Communicator would like a word.

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Brother ADS-1700W is amazing!

  • no PC or USB required: place it anywhere
  • WiFi
  • scans a page double-sided to PDF in two seconds!
  • sends file to network share, ready to be consumed by Paperless
  • fully automatic, no button presses needed!
  • tiny footprint
  • document feeder
  • use with separator pages to bulk-scan many documents in one go

😍

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You are right, it's not cheap. I delayed buying one for literally years but once I did, it was a game changer.

How to remotely reboot a Linux host if SSH fails to connect?

Edit2: Thanks all for your responses! I have checked the logs, https://lemmy.nz/comment/6192604, and based on that removed tracker-miner-fs as it's a search/index tool which I don't need. No idea why it took over all memory. I'll also get a WiFi Smartplug as a kill switch. Hopefully that solves it....

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This is how you lose data. Hope you have a good backup on a NAS?

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Samsung, too.

I use it because I want my phone to last as long as possible, but the downside is that it won't last a day so I have to charge in between. Ironic, isn't it?

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