More luck than anything really. It was probably because it had 6 months left and the fact that reading and writing felt slow. Everything else behaved normally and buying a new disk was an educated guess that turned out to be the correct choice.

I had a weird issue with a server SSD.

6 months ahead of scheduled swap, it didn’t die, it just started reading and writing really sluggishly, making the whole server behave really weird. Disk smart statistics looked healthy and disk self tests passed with flying colors. Anyway, had to swap it early and do a re-install of the OS.

The rest of my cluster temporarily took over running some pods and only saw downtime for a few pods that were dependent on some disks in the failing server.

I guess the incident has restarted my interest in distributed storage.

My personal belief is that it’s mostly cool and won’t see any heavy commercialized use in the near future, due to heavy lobbying from the petroleum industry and the whole but-think-of-the-poor-oil-execs gang.

Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I’ve made and see if it helps. It’s not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.

Absolutely agree. I have been thinking of starting a selfhost guide that takes you through the different ways to selfhost and the basic concepts of it, but gave up because I’m a shit writer and my experiences are mostly docker, k8s and Terraform/OpenTofu.

Good fucking riddance

This is the same strategy I use with my family as well, I refer to a service they know and then tell them it’s in our house.

Pretty sure all of them have merged into a single one, cause no single one can be this weird.

Nice point, thanks for explaining further.

Very simple and eloquently put, thanks for providing more nuance.

Even though I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, I think it’s hard to break with money, since statistics show that almost every win is tied to who spent the most on campaigns.

TIL. Thanks!

Honestly, this behavior sounds more a cult than fascism.

Just wow! I can’t even express how dumbstruck I am by idiocy like this.

Currently rewriting my homelab into terraform and adding some redundancies using cloud environments, in case of power outages or network issues.

Who TF think medicaid goes to people choosing not to work?

It’s so weird to me that to become president, you need to be born American, but apparently you can do whatever the hell you want if you’re a south African moron with money.

This will have zero impact on the Cheeto, its all fake news to him.

However certainly there is a future where, if Europe can pull together, they can defeat Russia.

Okay, but this time let’s not invade in winter and make sure we bring supplies.

How is that not illegal?