I do think containers are a bandaid for having too many dependencies or a workaround for people who don't want to make their software easy to deploy. Like you shouldn't have to ship an entire inner OS with runtime and everything, it should just compile and run. Sometimes that's not feasible for valid reasons, but often it's a way to get away with having a bad release process or having your software too complicated to set up.

I dislike that it's tied to a Company

well the good news is that thanks to oci, it's tied to two companies, the other being red hat with podman

the bad news is both companies are in their enshittification stage, paywalling features and trying to sell you crappy ai shit

anyway, in theory i like podman more than docker. like the problem with docker is if you're root in a container, you're root in real life, and podman solves that with some file ownership abstraction thing or something. podman containers also run without a daemon, which is nice.

but when i've tried using podman for postmill development, it crashed, and for deploying services, i couldn't get ansible to work with it. which is weird, because ansible is also a red hat product.

so my take is that ansible will be nicer, when it's fixed.

Yeah, I get that. I think I'm an "old ways" person too (thank u weird people who got me into linux in 2009). Docker just feels like the "right" way for me to do the "old ways" things I've been doing.

Lots of gotchas (isolation but no security benefits at all ??? every container gets host root ???) but lots of "I-gotchya-buddy" too. (That's Docker saying "I gotchya buddy", because it loves u)

Shitting my hell

I hear Nintendo is partnering with Progresso for a "soup you can suck on" thing

I worked with it like 8 years ago and didn't like it; that's just down to it being much less mature back then, and also me not wanting to learn it.

The OCI standard is pretty mature now and there's a lot better tooling. I should stop being a curmudgeon and learn how to use it to be honest, but i'm a grouch who likes to do things the old way.

I'd love to hear more; I dislike that it's tied to a Company but I don't know enough to have qualms with the tooling. I'm still in the honeymoon phase with Dorker

:O

You have painted a beautiful future;;;

Shaking my head

1. yes I have the 64gb one that they don't do anymore and I really like it, specifically it's great for playing computer games from my childhood while in bed and one thing that all the other handheld gaming PCs lack are the touchpads. Mouse controls work really well and my most played games on the steam deck pretty much all use the touchpad mouse functionality. Emulates the gamecube too which is the most anyone should ever need.

2. not allowed a gun on account of united kingdom

3. yeah I have an HP laser printer and laser printing is very good but I'd not get HP they're a bit scummy. Big up front cost for toner but I've had mine for 5 years and only had to replace the starting toner pack, not gone through a whole regular pack at all and I do print fairly often.

4. nop

5. just a regular electric kettle but it's good, I drink tea every day, also on account of united kingdom

6-8. nop

9. When I was in university I decided to become the sort of person who always writes with a mechanical pencil and proceeded to take a few years' worth of notes entirely in mechanical pencil. I have a nice steel Parker one and it is really fun to write with.

10. Yeah I have a flashforge which I wouldn't necessarily recommend as the brand. Bambu are supposed to be the super great ones. I've been wrestling with mine for the past year or so but finally got it fixed properly. When they work they're amazing fun. What I say to everyone considering one though is that they are not an appliance, they are a new hobby. You will spend a lot of time troubleshooting and tinkering no matter how many automatic features your model promises. Super rewarding when you design something and get it to work properly though.

11-14. nop

15. JUST POST!!!!!!

i think docker's API is stupid; it's a bad wrapper around linux containers but there's not an actually good wrapper around it. so OCI is the best we have. and OCI is just like... docker but meant to be more open of a standard so we don't need docker specifically.

Containers are a good idea but I just don't like the tooling.

i call it dorker

hope they get the tide pods people involved

1) Yes, and I appreciate that it exists as the most important thing to happen to Linux gaming in a long time... but I barely ever use mine at all except as a portable setup to take to FGC events. It's too big to fill the void left behind by the GBC/GBA/DS I grew up on. Can't put it in my pocket, and just doesn't feel super comfy.

Instead I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus two years ago and I've spent way too much time curled up in bed with that. One day someone's gonna release a SteamOS device in this size that runs all my favorite 2D indie games and I'll be all over that.

now, if only i had something else i could call docker...

I own several items, some of which I like, some of which I think are too low of quality but not low enough that I get rid of them.

thank you for this gift

i bought some pants from a safetywear shop for work. it has like 40 pockets i can't even use them all

It's sort of a low whistle like that of a train! It builds up slowly then reaches an apex at just above speaking volume or thereabouts. It's not too disturbing but lets you know the water is ready. I like it because it's so much lower pitched than most kettles I've heard which tend to be quite high pitched!

was fun. hope i get to do it again

CONSUMER GOODS IDENTIFIED

also i guess 11 might cover my water bottle. Like that, it keeps water for when i get thirsty. convenient

ok these are easy enough items for me to have a few

12. idk if acoustic guitar counts as a "casual" instrument but i have one. I havent played it in too long, i need to get back on that. I would say: like it.

14 It serves it's intended purpose of cutting and/or slicing things. Like it.

I can't say i own 15, i merely contribute posts here. But like it, anyway.

• No
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• Yes and I love having one but am not overjoyed with my particular model
• Yes and there are days it is my most cherished possession
• Yes, after several cheap ones rusted out at the seam I got a seamless stainless steel kettle and it has been wonderful