• 2 Posts
  • 127 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle


  • With 2 vehicles to charge and one being a 130kwh truck, I needed a second circuit at the very least.

    With how much I drive the truck (not a lot, I work from home, about to hit 3500 miles in 11 months), a 240v 20A is even more than enough. But I installed what the mobile charger you see is rated for (32A max, but the plug says 30A … ?) because I whole-ass anything I do. And now there’s a 14-50R for my dad to plug his camper into if he ever decides to visit his grandson.





  • “Hard” (high contrast) should use the bg0_h value for the background: #f9f5d7 or rgb(249,245,215).

    This is a light “off white”. If you have blue blocking mode or a night color mode enabled, the yellowing effect will be exaggerated.

    For what is worth, I don’t think gruvbox makes a good light theme because it’s pretty low contrast especially compared to a lot of more recent themes. I say this as a die hard gruvbox dark user.




  • We have a softener and a “commercial” reverse osmosis unit with a built-in diaphragm pump and a 14 gallon pressure tank. We have been doing yearly changes on the filters. Household of 3 though.

    The softener is a puronics brand, the RO unit is Ecosoft RObust 1500.

    Not needing to tackle hard water stains and build up every 2 weeks made it worth it, but it was a significant investment (plus we ran RO lines from the garage/tank to the kitchen).

    And with the pump set to 60psi, I can have infinite carbonated water without another expensive setup.








  • That’s basically the story of my desktop too.

    3rd PSU, 3rd motherboard and processor, 3rd graphics card, case fans, etc., but I still have the original dvd drive (which is unplugged). All in a BTX Antec P180 case I bought in 2007. The power button keeps falling out now, so it might be time to replace it too. But with the price of ram, it’ll be a straight parts swap.




  • It has been 7 or 8 years since I touched it, but yes. I extended some intern-built VMware automation to ovirt so we could validate KVM images and reduce VMware costs for internal dev and because that was the platform the manager decided on. We initially only dedicated 6U or 8U to it.

    In general, I’d say it worked just fine and the python sdk was approachable. It wouldn’t be my first choice knowing it’s Oracle Virtualization now, but that’s a moral stance instead of technical.

    As for maintaining it long term, I can’t really say. I left that team to go play in the clouds with terraform and kubernetes. But I also haven’t heard anything negative from that team since (and I’m still friends with one of the system engineers who is responsible for it). And there was a much needed fundamental rewrite of the bits I original extended that continued with ovirt that went smoothly.


  • It sounds like you want to create a vm template image.

    Some options:

    Both virsh and virt-manager have tools for managing libvirt xml files that you can turn into a template to use for launching additional images.

    Proxmox and ovirt both have template concepts and APIs you can interact with for automation.

    If you’re looking to create a golden image or just automate configuration, virt-clone, ansible, puppet, packer, and even pxe boot are good options depending on the methods you prefer.

    There are so many well-established ways to approach this problem domain. Just don’t get decision paralysis. There isn’t a best either.