How did I become the parent of a high schooler? 🤯 I'm taking my son to high school orientation today. I'm old. Send memes.

Years ago in the HDD era, I swore on Western Digital. Samsung's SSD is top notch though.

I love how ssd makers got too lazy to innovate now they just give you ram

I now have all my tiny PCs, laptops and old desktops on one giant cluster

Almost bought a new server when I'm already sitting on 48 cores and 192gb of ram

Plenty of compute to run VMs 🤌🤌

Sys admin shit is hell.

Proxmox and its first VM working great... until it isn't. Spontaneously. Looks like everything is still running but the networking is getting knocked out.

Googling... specific ethernet controller + specific driver release = these failures. Sure, yeah, that classic "r8168 vs r8169" gotcha.

How do I install/revert to r8168? Enable `non-free-firmware` apt sources. But, what... can't resolve the domains? Total DNS failure... Oh, DNS server is set to localhost? Update to 8.8.8.8 (this is shit I'm surprised I know and am not happy it's taking space in my brain). Ah, now able to resolve DNS.

Cool, back to apt. Can't update from an unsecure repository? Okay, googling... edit `/etc/apt/sources.list` (again).

Nope, not there. Ah, remove the proxmox enterprise repos...

(endless spiraling sys admin hell continues)

MACBOOK, ser!!

Running proxmox

↳Running Ubuntu

↳Running bitcoin

Wasted the whole Sunday trying to set up simplex relay server and then found out that cloudflare doesn’t support smp protocols 😪

TEST. IN. PROD.

No clue what I'm doing. Let's go!

Saving them from the garbage man 🤣

What are you using it for?

Same, looking very affordable

The masculine urge to buy a server rack and build your own vm cloud

From the past week I started learning how to live different life.

A lot of things I have made wrong for the past few years in my family relationship that lead my wife to leave me last week. 12 years together 😔 We haven’t divorced yet and I will try to make everything I can to prevent that.

As of right now I am trying to discipline myself and switched fiat mining. So, if you are in #Chicago your Uber driver Yegor can make rides for #zaps

I also taking a pause of attending Chicago BitDevs. I stared working out everyday and eat healthy food. That’s already lead to 5.5 kg drop. Over a week I stopped drinking alcohol. I know I have made a lot of such promises but I did the same a years ago when I was smoking cigarettes and in the end I won!

I know everything will be alright but it’s hard to think how it might end up.

That’s an update. All good with me, I’m alive😉

🤢🤮