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  • It sounds like you want to create a vm template image.

    Some options:

    Both virsh and virt-manager have tools for managing libvirt xml files that you can turn into a template to use for launching additional images.

    Proxmox and ovirt both have template concepts and APIs you can interact with for automation.

    If you’re looking to create a golden image or just automate configuration, virt-clone, ansible, puppet, packer, and even pxe boot are good options depending on the methods you prefer.

    There are so many well-established ways to approach this problem domain. Just don’t get decision paralysis. There isn’t a best either.




  • Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

    Case in point: I once got instructed to “enable EBS snapshots” for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.



  • Yep, the slidey shoe has teflon on the bottom. You find all sorts of new stabilizing muscles being on the ice with one of those on and trying to move around. You’d be thrown out quickly if you got near curling ice with skates. Hockey/Arena ice is fucking awful to curl on even with some serious prep. No where near flat and full of skate gouges that catch the rock/broom/sliding foot.

    Curling ice is also “pebbled” (intentionally sprinkled with water) and then “nipped” (peaks of the pebble shaved off) to further reduce friction for the rock. Sweeping affects the pebble in several ways affecting the “curl” of the rock (make it straighter or curve more) and the “weight” of the rock (make it go farther).




  • As another commenter pointed out, the current issue is due to the docker-desktop package being maintained outside the normal channels (AUR) and not getting updated when one of its dependencies moves forward (qemu). CachyOS seems to be letting you install from AUR as part of your normal pacman process and it’s going to lead non-experts into situations like this. I separate my installs from AUR and system packages for this reason (among others).

    Your choice is:

    • just wait for the person who maintains the docker-desktop package to update it
    • remove the docker-desktop package and update normally
    • potentially break things by temporarily ignoring the docker-desktop package so you can update normally.

    Honestly, I’d personally advocate for tossing docker entirely and migrating to podman which has its own podman-desktop GUI. Since it is maintained by red hat, you’ll always have the latest and greatest without weird issues.

    Beyond that, I’d say uninstall this package and install docker without the desktop GUI according to the guide.








  • Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.

    Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?

    To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?