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Oddly enough, Google’s LLM is the only one that has been answering my questions well on a research project these last weeks.

Google Search declined in quality when results started containing more noise (more ads, SEO spam) that required sifting through. Gemini isn't displaying all that garbage.. yet.

and price seems to have gone down

They sent an email a couple months ago stating prices were increasing as of Mar 27. The family plan went from $59.88 USD per year to $71.88 But it's still worth it IMO.

Thanks for the quick fix :) Nice to see more Discord alternatives these days.

A few other landing page issues if you feel like addressing them:

- Attempting to navigate with the Tab key results in tab order following nav elements once, where focus indicators aren't visible, and then the same elements get iterated over again but this time focus indicators are visible.

- Tab order doesn't include screenshots and jumps to the FAQ

- Clicking a thumbnail shows the larger image but without any elements for closing the overlay

- Pressing Esc doesn't close the overlay

- No skip links on any of the pages

My Homelab Setup 5 months ago

This would be perfect with TLS. The docs don't make this clear...

tailscale serve --service=svc:web-server --https=443 127.0.0.1:8080

http://web-server.<tailnet-name>.ts.net:443/ |-- proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080

When you use the tailscale serve command with the HTTPS protocol, Tailscale automatically provisions a TLS certificate for your unique tailnet DNS name.

So is the certificate not valid? The 'Limitations' section doesn't mention anything about TLS either:

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services#limit...

Pair it with Debian

A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pneqp4/kde_dev_do_n...

My wife was complaining about Windows issues so I ended up installing Fedora with KDE on her laptop. I would have preferred Debian but using Testing (as suggested by the dev) doesn't some ideal.

It's been ages since I used VirtualBox and reading the following didn't make me miss the experience at all:

Eventually I found this GitHub issue. VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests.

The list of viable hypervisors for running VMs with 3D acceleration is probably short but I'd hope there are more options these days for running headless VMs. Incus (on Linux hosts) and Lima come to mind and both are alternatives to Vagrant as well.

Learning effort aside, there’s also the ZFS hardware requirements issue. I bought a four bay NAS couple years ago and looked into TrueNAS. I (somewhat) remember coming across details such as ZFS benefitting from larger amounts of ECC RAM and higher number of drives than what I had. This post covers details about different types of caches and resource requirements:

https://www.45drives.com/community/articles/zfs-caching/

what your company likely needs is some implementation of libvirtd or proxmox. run your workloads on rootless podman or (god forbid) deploy to a single VM.

Even with a single VM, someone's company probably will also want a reverse proxy and certificate management (assuming web services), automated deployments, provide secrets to services, storage volumes, health checks with auto restarts, ability to wire logs and metrics to some type of monitoring system, etc. All of this is possible with scripts and config management tools but now complexity is being managed in different ways. Alternatively use K3s and Flux to end up with a solution that checks all of those boxes while also having the option to use k8s manifests in public clouds.