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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you define grind? I went from zero to sixty hours in Rimworld in the span of a few weeks and IMO it plays quite well on the deck (not perfect, but surprisingly well for a traditionally M&K PC game).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly the issue here may be a lack of familiarity with how bare repos work? If that's right, it could be worth experimenting with them if only to learn something new and fun, even if you never plan to use them. If anything it's a good way to learn about git internals!

Anyway, apologies for the pissy coda at the end, I've deleted it as it was unnecessary. Keep on having fun!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even basic home care for someone with mobility issues is well beyond what can be expected from untrained amateurs forced into caregiving. Seemingly simple things like cleaning up after soiling, shower assist, lift assist, etc, require skill and physical fitness. Non-professionals should be neither trusted nor expected to do that kind of critical care work, nor should our elders be satisfied with those forms of basic dignity a couple times a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

While spending their time in power cutting social programs like the good neoliberals they are. Hoisted by their own petard, except the rest of us now get to pay the price as usual.

My only hope is that by the time I might need these services in 30-ish years (fingers crossed), necessary investments will have been made, likely after a series of avoidable tragedies...

Meanwhile, I pray my own elder family members don't end up with a severe cognitive impairment as, having seen the decline of my own grandmother, the idea of caring full time for an elder is terrifying and the long-term care environments that do exist are not healthy places to live out the remainder of one's life.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

With the NDP coalition that's not as true in Canada. Between the national dental care plan that's coming and subsidized childcare, among other things, real left-ish progress is being made. But as usual a) the media isn't always telling a balanced story, b) government comms are shit, and c) the Liberals keep fucking up in visible, spectacular, and stupid ways, which distracts from genuine victories.

Which, come to think of it, does echo the Biden administration over the last four years...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No. It's strictly more complexity.

Right now I have a NAS. I have to upgrade and maintain my NAS. That's table stakes already. But that alone is sufficient to use bare git repos.

If I add Gitea or whatever, I have to maintain my NAS, and a container running some additional software, and some sort of web proxy to access it. And in a disaster recovery scenario I'm now no longer just restoring some files on disk, I have to rebuild an entire service, restore it's config and whatever backing store it uses, etc.

Even if you don't already have a NAS, setting up a server with some storage running SSH is already necessary before you layer in an additional service like Gitea, whereas it's all you need to store and interact with bare git repos. Put the other way, Gitea (for example) requires me to deploy all the things I need to host bare repos plus a bunch of addition complexity. It's a strict (and non-trivial) superset.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Absolutely. Every service you run, whether containerized or not, is software you have to upgrade, maintain, and back up. Containers don't magically alleviate the need for basic software/service maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Agreed, which is why you'll find in a subsequent comment I allow for the fact that in a multi-user scenario, a support service on top of Git makes real sense.

Given this post is joking about being ashamed of their code, I can only surmise that, like I'm betting most self-hosters, they're not dealing with a multi-user use case.

Well, that or they want to limit their shame to their close friends and/or colleagues...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

This post is about "self-hosting" a service, not using GitHub. That's what I'm responding to.

I'm not saying GitHub isn't valuable. I use it myself. And in any situation involving multiple collaborators I'd probably recommend that kind of tool--whether GitHub or some self-hosted option--for ease of user administration, familiar PR workflows, issue tracking, etc.

But if you're a solo developer storing your code locally with no intention to share or collaborate, and you don't want to use GitHub (as, again, is the case with this post) a self-hosted service adds a ton of complexity for only incremental value.

I suspect a ton of folks simply don't realize that you don't need anything more than ssh and git to push/pull remote git repositories because they largely cargo cult their way through source control.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

The idea of "self-hosting" git is so incredibly weird to me. Somehow GitHub managed to convince everyone that Git requires some kind of backend service. Meanwhile, I just push private code to bare repositories on my NAS via SSH.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I can also recommend Keepass2Android, which I've been using for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

More accurate according to whom?

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