stembolts

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well written, and I learned a few things from this story. I recently started a cloud of my own with 4 20TiB HDDs in a raid 5 configuration so this story felt very prescient to me. Makes me very grateful for the simplicity of Cockpit and LUKS2.. my setup felt so trivial to configure!

 

So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :

exit

in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.

I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

That is good but only shows the last 10-15 lines of the log, unless there is an arg to expand that, or a command to follow the log. I am aware of neither.

I usually use your suggested command to check if a service is up, then if it isn't, use journalctl to find out why.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

tbh my go to command is just.. journalctl -fe -u service

ex :
journalctl -fe -u jellyfin
journalctl -fe -u nordvpnd

so I'd also like to know the answer to this question. my other go to is dumping journalctl to text files and parsing with grep and awk and creating my own reports with that parsed information.

grep -E is my favorite, I love regex capturing groups.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

As long as the jackass doesn't sell, they're solid.

I had a roommate who invested, when his stuff went down more than 5% he'd sell it, "Don't wanna be too risky," he'd say, unaware that he was breaking the cardinal rule of investing..

Then, "Omg it's up again, I better buy high before it goes higher!" then repeat pattern A again.

Moral of the story, if you actually believe in a stock, unrealized losses are not something to react to. Or do, and become a warning tale told to others, ha. Them -5% hits add up QUICK.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We've all done it, I'm sorry if my joke wasn't apparent as well. Text is dumb.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

And no sense of humor over what was clearly a joke comment. Icing on the cake.

Now I believe you now, you do use Nano.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Prefers Nano over Vim? Why'd you have to go and commit a felony. Now I can't take anything you say seriously. Damnit.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with the comedy image.

The only thing worse than the squalor of addiction is the unearned confidence of people with glasses.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

It would be more accurate if you said, "This is not about right and wrong (for me)."

If you say it's not about right and wrong, dead stop, then you are pledging full faith to the institutions, the very ones we are critiquing.

Basically, you are dismissing my opinion as misguided, dismissing me as missing the point and I am telling you it was expressed exactly as intended.

In short, you are arguing on the wrong conceptual meta-level for me to respond without dismissing my own claim. If I take as True that "this isn't about right and wrong" (it is), then I am setting aside the power I have in a democratic society to say, "Fuck this I'm changing it." Maybe we've just been stuck in gridlock politics, with a ruling class that strips and monetizes every aspect of humanity that the society today doesn't realize the power citizens wield.

Not sure. Been fun to think and share thoughts with you though. Thanks for your time and have a nice night.

An impasse is a perfectly acceptable outcome on a sane platform like Lemmy.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a quote of an opinion, so in general I ignore them. I'm usually more interested in distilling ideas constructed with some line of reasoning.

But I guess we can look at this one. Find it's essence. Tho it doesn't seem very deep..

"Societies with rule of law are dictatorships. How leaders are selected and the existence of fundamental Constitutional rights is not a factor."

So in short.

Having laws at all is a dictatorship.

Yeah, that is one of the opinions I'd ignore. It's easy to have that opinion inside the walls of a lawed society.

Luckily it is valid to respond to an opinion with an opinion, and mine is that I imagine everyone (except the strongest with the most resources) would abandon that perspective as soon as they lived in a world with no laws.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I had nothing to say to that. I agree with it.

One paragraph discusses action, the other discusses philosophy. I only took issue with your regressive philosophy. I'm open to correcting misunderstandings, elaborate if you feel I continue to miss something.

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