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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • This is pretty rad! Thanks for sharing. I went down the same road with learning k3s on about 7 Raspberry Pis and pivoted over to Proxmox/Ceph on a few old gaming PCs / Ethereum miners. Now I am trying to optimize the space and looking at how to rack mount my ATX machines with GPUs lol… I was able to get a RTX 3070 to fit in a 2U rack mount enclosure but having some heat issues… going to look at 4U cases with better airflow for the RTX 3090 and various RX480s.

    I am planning to set up Talos VMs (one per Proxmox host) and bootstrap k8s with Traefik and others. If you’re learning, you might want to start with a batteries-included k8s distro like k3s.










  • Cheaper is one aspect. Less physical things to have to keep track of and manage is what I am really after. I want a singular device that is capable of all the things/modes that I want. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this, but what I see is a singular device capable of all sorts of things being eventually small enough to be embedded inside a body, essentially like cyborg. Like 100 years from now assuming society doesn’t collapse by then.



  • Why have one device or why desktop mode?

    One device because it would reduce the burden on me of maintaining multiple devices, the security updates, passwords, etc.

    Why desktop mode? Because when I try to do what I would call “serious work” (probably a bad name for it, but think something requiring extended periods of deep focus), the interface of smartphones is not conducive for it. Precision of a mouse is required, ability to type 100+ words per minute is required, so that necessitates mouse and keyboard. Then there’s the UX itself. Smartphones have tiny screens so they can’t have many menu items or controls in the apps that are used for “serious work”. That requires larger screen real estate, so necessitates an external monitor.

    I don’t want to start rambling so I’ll just leave it at that.









  • I’m really not sure. I’ve heard of people using Ceph across datacenters. Presumably that’s with a fast-ish connection, and it’s like joining separate clusters, so you’d likely need local ceph cluster at each site then replicate between datacenters. Probably not what you’re looking for.

    I’ve heard good things about Garbage S3 and that it’s usable across the internet on slow-ish connections. Combined with JuiceFS is what I was looking at using before I landed on Ceph.