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@hacksilon @foxbasealpha Yup, strongly recommend this approach as well. Raspberry Foundation have just announced a fresh round of price increases due to AI stupidity and the 8GB models are increasing by $50 ...
I'd personally look on ebay or similar for an old #TinyMiniMicro device (https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/) and run Home Assistant on that, either natively, or in a Proxmox VM (my personal solution).
Ok, I know it's cool to root for the underdog etc, and I find the Pi's I have to be really useful... but who is still buying these things???
Do yourself a favour, if you need cheap compute power to run something locally, check ebay, CEX, etc to get an old desktop from an office clearance...
I just check the price of the, admittedly fairly special, Raspberry Pi 500+ (which I lusted after on it's release but have ZERO use for) and it is currently (out-of-stock) £393.60!!!
Education pricing for the MacBook Neo is £499 (although, laughably the Pi comes with more RAM)
Attached: 1 image Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-4-3GB
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@lecroix74 Oh yeah, undoubtedly there is a tweak or a patch somewhere to add it... but why is it not there by default? How do folks live without it? Is Gnome-land just a sea of overlapping windows?
I'm more used to KDE, so taking a walk in another man's shoes at the moment.
@alex NGL, I'm totally stealing that. #coffeecoding
@Moaske Is that the Surface Pro 2? I thought that was a great device.
Terrible OS, but a nice device.
@pete Yeah, it's a Sonder Broken Road that I have, the parts aren't stamped though so I assumed they were copies.
@pete Oh wow ... I have a frame that I think uses a knock off PMW dropout and I'd always told myself that one day I'd upgrade it to the real thing.
Might need to make that day next week.
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@badnetmask I know the keyboard I want, but it seems they don't actually make it anymore.
I've got an ANSI layout Nuphy Air 60 with brown switches, and it's pretty good... not too loud, 60% size, low profile, hotswap Cherry-style switches in case I fancy a change, does multiple BlueTooth connections, has a 2.4Ghz dongle and even does USB-C wired connection!
However switching between the ANSI layout on that and ISO layouts on all my other devices is bending my brain (there is an extra key on an ISO layout, so I'm missing some punctuation that's normally easily accessible) so I want an ISO version.
Whilst they do list a UK ISO layout on some parts of their website, it's never in stock and I've never seen one on Youtube or anything. Shame as it's a reasonably dope keyboard and sensibly priced.
Had our council tax notice for the coming year.
Apparently, by law the max they can increase it by without special measures is 5% … our county council are a Reform majority council, and it’s going up by 4.9% …
So much for Reform lowering taxes.
@markstos If you use that inventory idea, you could reduce your plays to run the same tasks against each environment but pass in different variables for Prod, QA and Dev as appropriate.
So rather than have a play running against Prod with Task 1, 2 & 3 (with appropriate variables) only the then call the same tasks but against Test (with appropriate variables) and then again for QA ... you just have one set of plays, running against ALL hosts but passing in variables accordingly from their group membership.
I find it best to strip variables from playbooks and hold those at a host or group level and it's always good to remove duplication wherever possible.
@markstos Not sure I follow what you're trying to do here, i read this as "I've written a playbook that I run once and it targets every device i have, I then configure PROD using one role, then TEST using a different role and then QA using a third role"
If that's a correct analysis, then I don't think you're using the tool as it's intended.
The way I use it is, in my inventory file I have Ansible groups for PROD, TEST and QA and I have group_var files for each of these groups.
I have a single playbook with tasks or roles for all the components I wish to configure.
When I execute the playbook, it checks to see which group the host is in and loads the appropriate variables. You can also use this group membership to include or exclude tasks as appropriate.
If you share your playbook, I could perhaps help further or I can thoroughly recommend @geerlingguy book "Ansible for DevOps" and his accompanying YouTube series.
@markstos If you setup your inventory correctly, it's trivial to scope different variables to different environments and this allows for complex playbook / role execution.
Look into host_vars and group_vars ... if you apply vars at the host or group level, there is no need to specify them during a particular role, they're just there and customised for each device.
Inventory setup and variable precedence are one of the more complex parts to Ansible but are also one of its most powerful features.
@robpumphrey in my experience, professional drivers are usually the worst drivers.
Taxi drivers on mobiles, delivery drivers parking on double yellows or on clearways, HGVs weaving across lanes as if they've dozed off or just plain bullying car drivers with their size and excessive speed.
I always get surprised* that when I'm in a motorway roadworks and I've set my speed limiter to the actual limit... I'm always overtaken by some asshat in an HGV.
@rmblaber1956 @ChrisMayLA6 @HarriettMB if you're claiming that failings by staff at the DWP is caused by Labour being in power then you're not exaggerating, you're just wrong.
Staff at the DWP are civil servants and not political appointees. Over the period noted in the article there were incidents under the Conservatives and now under Labour and those civil servants have likely worked there for a decade or more.
The article points out valid grievances but the headline is "staff at DWP ignored guidance" ... jumping from that to "labour are evil and hate disabled people" shows far too much bias.
