nomad @nomad@hackers.town

I'll leave this pinned for a while...

I am glad so many people are interested in what I have to say but if you have a blank profile that's a problem. Please show you're a rational human being - and not a troll or nazi - by filling out your profile and posting some things first.

Time to #introduce myself here at h-town.

I'm a #sysadmin with more decades in service than I care to think about. I'm a Unix guy who deals with Linux when I have to.

I am heavily into musical theatre ( #musicaltheater ) but don't act/perform. I mostly do lighting - most recently as Master SpotOp for Seattle Musical Theatre.

I love to cook, mostly baked goods and meat proteins.

I'm gay, single, and live in Seattle.

I generally won't accept follow requests from blank profiles.

Any other questions? Just ask.

As usual, I woke up with a song snippet on loop in my brain. Unusually, this time it inspired a short story.

https://ctseawa.dreamwidth.org/149976.html

I stepped outside for a minute or two at most. The wildfire smoke was so bad my eyes were watering and I started coughing.

Welcome to the "new normal" for the US PNW. 😞​

Phantom of the Opera is closing on Broadway in February of next year. It's been running for ~35 years, which is a mere 36 years too long.

Any bets on how long until they stage a revival?

Disclaimer: I don't generally like boss fights in video games.

I just finished the main story in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Overall it was a very good game and I don't regret the 170ish hours I've put into it. I still have some quests to do and some abilities to unlock and I fully intend to do all of them.

That said, the final boss was tedious. Much more than in 1 or 2. I don't think I'll be going back to do that again.

I wish I had someone special to share this with.

Mind you, I probably wouldn't be quite so willing to consider XCP-ng if I didn't have a budget for licensing their XOA. I don't really like manually maintaining critical infrastructure.

I've been exploring alternatives to VMware due to a pending buyout by $EVILCO. So far I've looked at proxmox and XCP-ng. Next week's target it oVirt.

At this point XCP-ng is leading for our multi-hypervisor needs. If I were going for a single hypervisor I'd probably go with proxmox but their quorum system has significant drawbacks for us (both of our clusters have even numbers of hypervisors and that's just the beginning).

Hmm....

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23351414/patreon-layoffs-september-2022-operations-finance-security

LoZ Tears of the Kingdom, eh? Ok, I can buy that. (And I will.)