UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

I've been in love with the concept of ansible since I discovered it almost a decade ago, but I still hate how verbose it is, and how cumbersome the yaml based DSL is. You can have a role that basically does the job of 3 lines of bash and it'll need 3 yaml files in 4 directories.

About 3 years ago I wrote a big ansible playbook that would fully configure my home server, desktop and laptop from a minimal arch install. Then I used said playbook for my laptop and server.

I just got a new laptop and went to look at the playbook but realised it probably needs to be updated in a few places. I got feelings of dread thinking about reading all that yaml and updating it.

So instead I'm just gonna rewrite everything in simple python with a few helper functions. The few roles I rewrote are already so much cleaner and shorter. Should be way faster and more user friendly and maintainable.

I'll keep ansible for actual deployments.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago

Not sure what you're on about, most package managers have a literal database of most package manager installed files. Debian and derivatives have dpkg --verify or debsums to verify the files, arch has paccheck, I'm sure other distros have something similar. And fixing them is just a matter of reinstalling the package, which you can do from a chroot if the system won't boot.

Or you can just run your system on a checksumming FS like btrfs which will instantly tell you when a file goes bad.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was just introducing someone to Rodney last night because some actor in a show we saw looked a bit like him. Then I wake up and see this here. Life sure has funny coincidences sometimes.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago

It's not over... It's joever!

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 32 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Shame he didn't have a scandal on that stage. They would have stopped taking about it within the day.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

Someone found a way to weaponise bikeshedding.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Everyone just confirming aliteral's point.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I guess it's too much to ask the richest company on the planet to keep a list of a few accounts indefinitely. I'm sure that database is a whole gigabyte sized and maintaining it requires a whole person to check in on it once in a while. Obviously they can only afford that level of effort for a year or two. And we're only taking about removing access from millions of people to something they paid good money for, and also doing it because. Yeah, I'm with you on this one, totally not their fault.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I never said I don't enjoy spicy food. But it's so obviously a dick measuring contest for most people. No one talks about how much salt they can "handle", no one makes fun of people for not being able to stomach a really sweet energy drink. But with capsaicin it's so prevalent, it's a whole subculture dedicated to pissing in a line. I mean this whole thread is only popular because the initial proposed underlying thought is "haha, Denmark can't handle spice". It's all very juvenile.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get it. You're cordless, right?

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