We really do need better cable identification standards for usb-c. Like electrical and cat cables have had this better addressed for a while now.

Usb-c supports DisplayPort! Long live open standards!

I recently turned every old junker and some nicer ones into a Harvester cluster. The really old ones I use as cold storage devices that I actually shut off when I don’t need them.

Oh, I know I’m unhappy lol Tbf though, Lemmy/The fediverse has been MUCH better then ol rage book and xitter

This video confirmed one thing for me. The key to success and making a big contribution and staying sane is avoiding social media

My bad partner “Immunocore’s specialty, however, has been working in oncology. Its therapies induced industry giants including AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), GSK (NYSE:GSK) and Genentech to partner with the biotech over the years.”

I just learned about Internet2 at SuperCompute in my decades of being in the networking space

His foundation owns stocks in Immunocore who is an Astra partner.

Edit: immunocore does not own Astra that was a lazy read on my part

Yep! It uses open stacks Ironic under the hood, but tracks config and stack via k8s.

For OS building I’ve been moving to Elemental which builds OS images from container images and cloud init scripts into Suse Micro immutable OSs (which use btrfs for the snapshot management under the hood for updates).

https://investorplace.com/2024/03/billionaires-biotech-bets-3-stocks-dominating-bill-gates-portfolio/

He, through his foundation, own a significant portion of AstraZenica.

Its any position of power in my experience. People get power, justifying in their mind that they and people like them should be in power. Even games about being in charge run into that problem. Maintaining power becomes a major part of the game at some part.

AstraZenica COVID vaccine was going to be opensource but he used with weight as a donor to pressure the university to sell it to a firm he had ownership instead

Yep! Metal3 for servers with BMCs Tinkerbell for everything else.

I also have an ansible playbook that templates everything into a cloud init scripts as a boot strap server.

About 12 nodes in total now, from new servers to freebee junk laptops in it.

This is what I like about git ops and infra/config as Code personally.

Ideally everything is an a tofu/ansible/helm chart and git lab pipeline/Fleet job. I add comments for anything that I had to learn to make work to those files. Follow good commit hygenine (most of the time). And bam I can almost a year later half asleep stumble back into a thing I did.

Drivers are for the hardware. Its a separate app on Windows I think AMD adrenaline and whatever Nvidia does is their driver manager otherwise it’s another web hunt like most apps on Windows.

The biggest advantage for those groups was decades of ads and being the default. Trust me work IT for decades none of those groups are good with Windows, its arguably worse for them

Honestly software management on Windows is trash. Oh missing a feature? Go fuck yourself, maybe tweet them, they might listen (lmao). Oh you want to tweak something? You can with this 27 step process and it will revert back in the next update.

Honestly, there is something to experience on a given OS, but every time I’m stuck doing stuff on Windows I get slapped in the face with how fucking tedious it is do anything simple. Like to be update to date for games takes seriously 3 different installers, two of which you have to research and find yourself (game store and drivers app). That’s what it is good at…

Ahh I did misunderstand. Maybe concept you and I support would be better called Libre computing, with the stack that the FSF caring about being above the rest of the logic, but it is still logic that decides what does or does not happen to our data on our machines.

I do disagree with you. Proprietary firmware and proprietary hardware does make you less free. But if the rental agreement you have with them is good enough for you, why would I bash you for it, you know?

Its why RISCV is exciting in the CPU space to me. Its more free (even if the IP under it is proprietary). Every step we take towards it advanced the field to me. Again though, if you are renting any piece of the stack, it’s still better that you own what you can to do what you/want then just giving into the “you will own nothing” push.

Just gotta take the wins where we can, celebrate the work, and keep working, you know?

We need purists like the fsf. They are truly fighting the good fight, but I am also happy to see people be just more free too, even with some compromise.

I guess I like HA scaled stuff even if just for play. I hate hurdles though