Someone should keep an eye on Linus.

Why someone keeps chasing the latest gadgets when the old ones work just fine is beyond me.

Nobody is waiting every year for the brand new line of washing machines. Why is there a need to swap phones this frequently?

I imagine it wouldn’t take long until someone finds a way to disable that LED.

Sounds like the best way to cripple your scientific and tech sector.

Not a blog, but a way of discovering new blogs. I subscribe to the unofficial best hacker news submissions RSS feed.

https://hnrss.github.io/

I found the blog on an IT guy that works in a research station in Antarctica.

https://brr.fyi

For reference, looks like a variation of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_men’s_morris

https://twitter.com/OstapYarysh/status/1703853187478806669/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1703853187478806669¤tTweetUser=OstapYarysh&mode=profile

The ad they are referring to.

The CEO of Unity was also CEO, COO, and president of EA. So, is anyone surprised?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Riccitiello

Or even better: buy soon to expire put options just before the announcement. 10x your money.

A lot of people thought this was the case for VMs and docker as well, and now it seems to be the norm.

Yes, but docker does provide features that are useful at the level of a hobbyist self-hosting a few services for personal use (e.g. reproducibility). I like using docker and ansible to set up my systems, as I can painlessly reproduce everything or migrate to a different VPS in a few minutes.

But kubernetes seems overkill. None of my services have enough traffic to justify replicas, I’m the only user.

Besides learning (which is a valid reason), I don’t see why one would bother setting it up at home. Unless there’s a very specific use-case I’m missing.

Seems a bit overkill for a personal use selfhosting set-up.

Personally, I don’t need anything that requires multiple replicas and loadbalencers.

Do people who have homelabs actually need them? Or is it just for learning?

You’re not going to learn much from a phone app. Specially programming.

“Learning apps” are mostly gamified gimmicks. If you never learned programming, you need a good book explaining the concepts of what you’re trying to learn, a computer, a project, and the internet to search when you get stuck.

I know it’s the boring answer, but this is one of those skills that it’s basically a lot of tinkering, exploration, and nose to the grindstone.