What do you do if you want a private social media experience for you and friends or family? Facebook has Groups, and lesser-known apps like Band exist that can also fill that niche, but you’re still handing over all your content to a 3rd party. For some, that’s untenable, and completely understandable. Furthermore, I wouldn’t have anything of interest to write if the answer was “Make a Group. Now set it to Private....
OK, this is actually about Docker and disk space, but close enough. While trying to download ultra high definition Linux ISOs, I encountered an error from Transmission, running in Docker: “No space left on device.” Odd, considering I was pretty sure I had a few TB free. Let’s see if the logs have anything useful to say (also, yes, I checked around the lines in question to see if there was other information):...
Not exactly SRE/DevOps, but I need to write something, so here we are. Also, while I receive no kickbacks from anyone, and don’t have sponsored links, I am definitely being a cheerleader for Ubiquiti here. It’s not exactly a secret that consumer networking equipment is hot garbage. Back in the day of the WRT54G, it honestly wasn’t that bad, but it’s hard to say if the reliability was a result of the simpler hardware and software, or the far fewer clients per AP - IoT wasn’t really a thing in the early 2000s....
For a school project, I had to install mongoDB. OK, no big deal, docker pull mongo. Since I run a home server, and the purpose of this mongo installation was to create an app that uses it, I figured installing it there and making it available to the rest of my group would be beneficial/helpful. Hmm, might want to also install some kind of GUI management tool - nosqlclient looks like it’ll work....