With my continued efforts on my blog, I’m working on trying to get the whole Fediverse setup so people interested in my writing can tune in and follow. This comes the nature of Fediverse, and I’m currently now using WordPress for the main blog, this here, and for smaller thoughts, status updates, and just general chitter chatter, Friendica for the more simple shorter messages, a microblogger alternative to things like twitter was. In trying to get all this working, I’ve been running into numerous troubles. Problems to which actually have yet found a solution for. When I add myself via WordPress’s Friends/AcivityPub from my Friendica instance, I get errors. When I do the reverse from Friendica to WordPress, I get…

So I finally started doing it! With all my past dislike for Docker, my past failure with OpenShift, my long reluctance to Kubernetes and Containers and such, I’ve finally broken down and started really learning Kubernetes. To start, I investigated into the manual way to get into Kubernetes. See my one problem I always had with Kubernetes was storage. How does one handle storage in a clustered system, and actually get stuff done? I’ve tried a number of solutions for this over the years, and I’ve even implemented a few new approaches to some of them in this very project alone! First time I really got into it, Ceph was badly supported in Kubernetes. Now it seems, it’s much more…

So, I lied, apparently. Well, not really, just decided things were not as I’d like them to be, and some people were just not as they should be. I’ve chosen a different path and with many different reasons for it. I stopped working on and with Garuda. Certain differences of opinion, and certain people, well, more specifically, one person. Edu4rd, whom likes to hide under the hidden A Garuda Admin account, while being an insulting belittling and simply pompous rude person. Not just that, but because EndeavourOS does things very simple, and don’t make massive alterations to the distro like Garuda does. So I’ve been running the distro for several months now actually. I run it on my desktop, on…

To VPN or to PVN? That is the question. So to explain and translate these two as one of them is one I in particular made up based on what’s actually going on. VPN has been around for ages, and is generally used to bridge two private networks together, or at the very least bridge one private device into a private network, and do so securely with encryption. Public services like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, etc. These are not actually bridging two private networks together nor are they bridging a private device to a private network. Instead what’s happening is you’re setting up an encrypted tunnel from wherever you are, be it home, a hotel or some random public WiFi, to…

The path of Endeavour I had tried out EndeavourOS extensively as well in my path, and because it was down to the metal Arch Linux without overlaying atop it, it was something that should be investigated. But in the end, due to Telegram community base and due to YAD, and just due to the lack of overall experience and knowledge of the team as a whole. There’s no CI/CD implementation. There’s a guy that build the ISO every month, if they remember, and aren’t on vacation… There’s an honest lack of true commitment in that regards. I asked them about YAD, and got very little about it. Except they intentionally made YAD startup with a delay because it had mysterious…

So I’ve been working on Garuda Linux now for a bit, and started doing deep dives into the core parts of what makes Garuda… Well, Garuda. How it’s configured, how it’s packages are done, how it’s tuning things. Why it’s doing that annoying thing with Firefox that I don’t like… And so far, I’ve been making headways of changes to fix the concerns I have actually found. ONE of which I actually created byself by accident, (thanks Manjaro!) but it would’ve been nice to be not so ignored by the Garuda XFCE maintainer about it, so I would’ve found it faster? Well anyway, My Manjaro backup included light-locker from LightDM, but XFCE was already running it’s own xflock4. Together this…