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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlTool to automate Linux reinstall?
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    13 hours ago

    The canonical method was with a kickstart, and if it looks like too complex, remember you should have one stashed in /root already that you just need to mod.

    Normally a kickstart is a bit much, otherwise, though. I use a suite of tools but the best one I used was a simple virtual package to bring in the others, drop configs in and start daemons. We did this in like 2001 to great effect.





  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlShould I vote?
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    6 days ago

    The USA is not a democracy

    This question is not relevant: you’re not voting based on how the country is now, or was last week. You’re voting based on how the country should be, each time. You’re picking the least-bad leader out of a small set of options, based on whether they’re even marginally better.

    In this case, a LOT of alternatives are better than the current setup, so I don’t understand the dilemma.

    …thus, the suspicion about trolling.


  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlShould I vote?
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    6 days ago

    Should I vote Republican to slow down full blown let it all hang out fascism because I don’t want to vote Democrat?

    1. Evolution means choosing the better option in each case to invoke slow but important beneficial change
    2. Harm reduction is a great short-term strategy
    3. There’s absolutely no reason to ever vote the elitist racist party of kiddy-diddlers
    4. If you’re feeling like not voting, or voting in a way that harms people for no gain ever, then you may be a victim of manipulation by the conservatives so you don’t vote against them. They’re good at this.

    Questions asking whether someone should vote in a way that causes harm can sound like a trolling question. I’m sorry if other respondents treat it as such.



  • There is a community edition but serious users will run into its limitations

    No true Scot, then?

    I’m running gitlab implementations at a few sites. I’ve not seen or heard of any performance limiter with a self-managed community edition that removes a tool the others still provide.

    and it does not integrate neatly with external solutions.

    Again, this sounds FUDdy. Which ‘external solutions’ are you using that a git-push fails on? Some spaghetti of saas tendrils seems to be already a risk, but I can’t think of any other external thing that it could mess up with.



  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlInit system comparisons?
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    9 days ago

    Dood. Boot times are useless ‘flex’ metrics more influenced by processor and disk speed than init systems. My el5 and el6 archive systems boot faster than my el7 ELS system, which itself is faster than el9; but not by enough to matter when you’re booting every week to a month. It’s never BEEN an issue.

    Compare complexity: Has your init system metastasized over the entire host and re-implemented (poorly) other core systems, so long-dependable features just simply don’t work, and everything has its own rinky-dink silly-walk to configure instead of /etc/fstab or /etc/exports, instead of staying in its lane? No? You’re good. Diversity and specialization will give you excellent results and security. Yes? You have systemd.

    There’s your comparison.