Posts made by stacksofplates

@nadnerB said in One app to rule them all:

A local mob is looking to combine Dropbox, WhatsApp, and scheduling.
The complexities are that as it’s a non-profit volunteer organisation, so not everyone has a Microsoft, Apple ID, or Google account. There are less than 30 people.

They need document storage but <50GB, secure instant messaging, and a sensible way of rostering.

Rostering is currently done by a word document in Dropbox.

They have recently looked at Connecteam but that’s a lot of money for the features they’re already getting on free tier and the management ideal for how they do things.

I don’t know much about Slack, and Teams may not be ruled out it really depends on the other members hesitancy to get a Microsoft account.

Are there any other suggestions for a unified app?
I don’t think there will be opposition to paying for something that makes sense at a reasonable price.

EDIT: It'll have to be hosted/cloud based, as none of them have an inkling about technical setup/maintenance

If you're looking at Slack, Zulip seems to be another good choice. Instead of adding threads after the fact, you kind of have to start threads from the beginning to keep things organized. It sounds like a good idea. I haven't use it yet thought so take that for what it's worth.

@scottalanmiller said in TMUX: hype or function:

@stacksofplates said in TMUX: hype or function:

Once really nice thing about tmux is you can keep jobs running in the session after disconnecting from SSH

Which means, for those who miss the implication, that you can reconnect to the same session from a different location.

Yeah. You can even share the socket so that multiple people can view a single session. Good for pairing with others.

Which is how things like tmate operate

https://tmate.io/

Before using the buffers in neovim, I would have multiple windows open, usually one for each code base, and then I could have multiple panes open in each window for different files, a terminal, etc. Now I mostly just have a tab in the terminal for the codebase and then I will have buffers open for multiple files.

I used to use tmux very heavily. I recently mostly used Zellij, which is a similar tool but written in Rust.

However, now I almost exclusively use multiple buffers in neovim with a terminal overlay.

Once really nice thing about tmux is you can keep jobs running in the session after disconnecting from SSH. So if you have a long running job (like a large rsync) you can just disconnect from the session on the server but let it keep running.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

@stacksofplates said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

Their official image is here ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon

Yeah, that one was flaky. But is it official? Why's it on a different account?

Yes it's their official. Ghcr is the GitHub packages repo. It's similar to GCR, ECR, etc. Other OCI image repositories are more popular now since Docker has imposed limits on Docker Hub.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

I tried their Docker configs, but couldn't find any that worked and it isn't clear if they have an official Docker image or just third party ones.

https://github.com/mastodon/chart

Their official image is here ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon

@Pete-S said in Debian 11 & php8:

@scottalanmiller said in Debian 11 & php8:

Debian 12 "Bookworm" is, in theory, under a month away and is going to PHP 8.2. So that is very good. But the long release cycles are always going to be a challenge that there isn't really a reason for.

Not a challenge at all but the reason to run "stable" is for stability. Meaning an update will never break your system and you get bug fixes and security updates. You won't get new features but you won't get new bugs that breaks your system either or changed functionality.

If you don't want or need that stability and favor new shiny things then you just install debian "testing". It's a rolling release.

Debian is not just one distro. Many companies run "testing" on workstations and "stable" on production servers.

There is a third option and that is Debian "unstable". Then you get new packages as soon as they are available. This is for the enthusiasts and debian developers primarily and not recommended for the general user that just wants something that works.

And just run containers. Then new libs aren’t an issue. The host shouldn’t matter at this point, so run stable. Then run containerized workloads for the rest and they can stay up to date.

@Pete-S said in sssd and user ID mapping:

@Semicolon said in sssd and user ID mapping:

@Pete-S If it is an issue, its trival enough to prevent public key authentication for users or groups of users, even groups of AD users.

Sure, but the problem for developers and admins is that they usually need their keys. That's why I don't think ad/ldap integration with ssh users really works in that use case.

The other solution, which is what I think is more suitable for developers and admins, is to use your SSO/AD solution with MFA to pickup a short-lived ssh certificate. Then you use the ssh certificate to actually access things.
Many companies with huge infrastructures use this method because it's very scalable.

We forced kerberos for SSH auth after wen enabled AD integration. SSH works like keys then but you don't use the keys.

@scottalanmiller said in Project tracking:

@stacksofplates said in Project tracking:

We have Jira, but are playing with Linear.

Haven't used that one. Impressions?

We are pretty much using it strictly for kanban and it’s great for that. Everything has keyboard shortcuts/command searching.

We have Jira, but are playing with Linear.

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@JaredBusch said in Beelink PC issues:

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

This? Yeah, it does not compare, except price.

Wow, that can't be worth $40 new, but $240 used? What the heck?

It should be worth $40 and my guess for the higher price is economics. It was built well and keep on chugging along. It seems they are continually in demand for a basic pc that needs just a web browser or to act as a kiosk.

Yes, but you can get brand new with much more performance for that price. Why get something that is a decade old, AND used when new and new is possible? Much less flexible. And can that unit even run current Windows?

Because it keeps chugging along and fulfilling the purpose it was intended. If @stacksofplates doesn't have to do anything to it for 2-3 years other than updates and/or deal with any issues @Dashrender is having, then it could be worth the money.

It seems, based on this thread, the issues @Dashrender is having with the more powerfull/lower cost Beelinks are becoming more expensive than if he just paid $550 for a Dell Optiplex 5070 micro. I cannot be sure as only @Dashrender knows the true cost and if the Beelink's are working out better.

I like products that fulfill the purpose and require less maintenance. If that is Beelink or a new $1200 OptiPlex 5090 micro, count me in.

I guess it comes down to the old axiom, "Price is what you pay, value is what you get!"

Yeah I mean this is just running as a small server in my house for k8s. It has more than enough power for that and it runs like a champ. If it was a business I would have bought new and not thought about it, but it’s for my home dev work so it’s whatever.

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

The 9020 lists as running a Four Generation processor. That's eight generations old. That's dramatically old. Ten years, in fact. Those came out in early 2013.

Similar price for high end, brand new genuine AMD fro Beelink. The fact that it died sucks, so that's a real issue. But the two aren't comparable in performance.

Maybe you have the wrong Optiplex number of Dell has the wrong info on their spec sheet? That looks like a $20 computer to me....

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/optiplex-9020-micro-technical-spec-sheet.pdf

I went back and looked. It wasn’t a 9020 it was a 7050 but the point was, you can buy from reputable brands for very cheap.

This is what I bought https://a.co/d/gYoGzVe

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

magic wormhole

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

@Pete-S said in XO-Lite beta:

@travisdh1 said in XO-Lite beta:

I also think having XO Lite available will make XCP-NG more approachable for less experienced techs. I'll still use XO to manage my XCP-NG servers, but XO Lite will make that initial server rollout and XO install more approachable.

I feel that the world is moving towards automation and away from pretty web UI. And also away from self-hosting and towards services that someone else will be responsible for.

Having automation doesn’t preclude having a web ui. A lot of times (most of the time) the web ui uses the same API as the automation.

There are a lot of cases where you will have people interacting with the ui instead of automation so it’s still a valid option. And having a lighter weight version of the old xen orchestra stuff would be nice.

@flaxking said in Slack? What is it?:

At it's core Slack is a chat app. Think Teams without video calls or SharePoint integration.

Slack has had video/audio calls for a while now.

@Dashrender said in Dymo labelwriter 550 over IOGear print server installation:

your soul

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/f8/80/16f8804e47931bc42580a39bc5f518a3.jpg

@Obsolesce said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

@Obsolesce said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

not have the typical shitty editor like GitHub has

Huh? GitHub has VSCode as well for an editor now.

It does? When I hit edit, it uses the shitty editor. I don't see an option for VSCode?

Found it, "open in github.dev" does it. I never tried that option, but also it's rare I ever edit in the web browser.

Oh I never did that method. I just hit the period button and it opens.

@Obsolesce said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

not have the typical shitty editor like GitHub has

Huh? GitHub has VSCode as well for an editor now.

@Danp said in redSling?:

It seems relatively new based on a quick Google search. What made you consider it as a viable "no code" solution? What other options are you considering?

Also airtable is a pretty popular tool. I think that could count as no code.