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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • I use kvm switch and run into this issue.

    I am currently on Fedora 41, Gnome. I’ve seen this issue when running Arch on the same hardware without kvm switch to the point that I disabled suspend.

    The fix for me is Ctrl-Alt-F1. It simply brings display manager’s login screen. Gnome on Fedora 41 uses gdm.

    The rationale here is simple: the display manager should be resetting screen to display login screen.


  • I switched to XFS.

    The most important feature to me is support for file deduction which is supported by XFS through reflink. BTRFS supports reflinks as well.

    Snapshot in BTRFS seems like the most desirable feature, but in real life I ended up not using it.

    I usually prefer drive mirror setup, but it can give its own headaches.

    These days I simply have 2 disks and nightly rsync job copies content of one drive to another. This protects from drive failure.

    Rclone job sends most important data to offsite backup.

    The biggest loss is missing data checksums, but it is a unique feature of BTRFS that most filesystems manage without.

    I don’t have setup to expand partition beyond one drive. It comes with its own headache. I simply use large enough disks.






  • I am a software developer and work on Kubernetes based project.

    I was given a Mac laptop when I joined. It was a few OS releases behind, because corporate IT didn’t support newer versions.

    Macs have to run some sort of VM to do docker based development.

    VMs are not that great.

    When time came, I requested a Windows laptop. I installed Debian on WSL 2. Then got it to run systemd properly and installed Docker on WSL. Then vscode on windows host with remote ssh into WSL.

    Vscode ssh integration is probably best least known feature of vscode. However, initial connection setup always requires tweaking to get that best experience.

    By the way, official docker setup is through VM on windows. WSL is not a recommended route, but one can get it working.

    This setup beats Mac any day for me.

    I wish I could run Linux on work laptop, but corporate IT doesn’t know how to deal with it.










  • Nuclear war outcome

    All mega cities flattened. Hundreds of thousands of people next to nuke hits are blind and are fated to die as there is nobody to help them. Fires and destruction everywhere.

    Toxic cloud rain the size of large city like New-York near insta-killing everything on its path as it moves with the wind. Hundreds if not thousands (one per each nuke) of toxic rain clouds at the same time and there is nowhere to hide from them. The only solution is to avoid them, but it is impossible due to destruction, debris, and loss of transportation due to EMP from nearby nuke. Mountains will not be safe largely due to toxic rains.

    Loss of almost all food storage and drinking water to destruction and toxic contamination.

    Even physically intact buildings and their contents may be unsafe after toxic cloud rains. People would not know of what is safe, since most don’t have means to measure radiation levels.

    Inability to grow food for many years due to contamination.

    Nuclear winter (there are some doubts on this topic as well as contamination).

    Lack of food and drinking water. Deaths from starvation and dehydration. Deaths from taking contaminated water and food coming faster and more terrifying than from starvation.

    Later on deaths from lower doses of contamination.

    Survivors will envy the dead and follow the dead.

    Only people in bunkers with years in supplies will have a chance.




  • All mega cities flattened. Millions of people next to them blind. Fires and destruction everywhere.

    Toxic cloud rain the size of large city like New-York near insta-killing everything on its path as it moves with the wind. Hundreds of those at the same time and there is nowhere to hide from them. The only solution is to avoid them, but it is impossible due to destruction, debris and loss of transportation due to EMP. Mountains will not be safe largely due to toxic rains.

    Loss of almost all food storage and drinking water.

    Inability to grow food for several years due to contamination.

    Nuclear winter (there are some doubts on this topic as well as contamination).

    Survivors will envy the dead.

    Only people in bunkers with years in supplies will have a chance.