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I don't really get this mentality targing K8s specifically nowadays - perhaps that was true in the early days but I'm managing several clusters that are all a few years old at this point. Cluster services like Cilium, Traefik, etc are all managed through ArgoCD the same as our applications... every so often I go through the automated PRs for infra services, check for breaking changes and hit merge. They go to dev/staging/prod as tests pass.

I think services take me literally half an hour a month or so to deal with unless something major has changed, and a major K8s version upgrade where I roll all nodes is a few hours.

If people are deploying clusters and not touching them for a year+ then like any system you're going to end up with endless tech debt that takes "significant planning" to upgrade. I wouldn't do a distro upgrade between Ubuntu LTS releases without expecting a lot of work, in fact I'd probably just rebuild the server(s) using tool of choice.

It's generally just a toggle in the account settings so no need for a phone call, but yes. It is default-on when you take out a new broadband connection or mobile phone contract.

Do you work with non-technical users? There are few (none that I'm actually aware of) static site generators that are friendly enough for a comms team in a large enterprise for example. I note that Strapi also puts key features such as SSO behind an Enterprise pay wall... so that's already a massive negative.

WordPress has it's place, a blanket no against one of the most popular CMSes on the Internet is a pretty hot take.

Honestly, there have been so many businesses and individuals that lose out on their domain because they just didn't buy it as soon as they saw it was available. I don't understand why - in the grand scheme of things a 5, 10 or even $100 domain isn't going to break the bank. Just buy the thing as soon as you find it and avoid this mess.

An operation as large as Wordpress.com or .org should be GDPR compliant. I don't see any cry for sympathy here but more that OP is holding someone to a baseline standard expected of entities operating in Europe.

Does this work well with Plex and if so, what binary are you replacing? Last I looked they used a customised fork of ffmpeg which meant replacing it was more awkward. It would be a nice way to avoid passing a GPU through to a virtual machine.

I can't help but feel the only way to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the UK at this point is to be a couple (alongside realistic expectations around housing location, too many people are hell bent on London for some reason). As a single person, getting on the property ladder and keeping your head above water on £60k would be difficult, yet as a childless dual income (DINK) couple it's a comfortable life in the Midlands or North of the country. If you add children to the mix, suddenly it's very difficult again.

The tax burden is insane nowadays. The 40% bracket is frozen at an insanely low level until at least 2028 AFAIK - it's hugely demoralising to know that anything I earn outside of my day job is taxed at 40% unless I want to squirrel the money away into a pension or buy shit I don't need to reduce my tax bill.

> Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it's a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become).

This is patently false, a narrative often parroted by people who don't understand or have never worked in the NHS.

There are many intelligent people in technical/digital roles in the NHS that innovate on a daily basis - heck, many build systems internally at a hugely reduced cost compared to outsourcing yet decisions come from parliament/gov agencies that overrule internal decision making and waste insane amounts of cash on vanity projects, or scrapping internal work to be redone by the likes of Accenture.

This conveniently misses out versions such as 2000, ME, and 8.1. The "miss" of Vista can also be largely attributed to lazy hardware manufacturers that didn't want to rewrite their device drivers.

> It is sort of defeats the purpose

but instead of 3 people stood serving customers you now have 1 helping 6+ place orders. I'm not sure I see how it defeats the purpose.

Yes - though we call them RCDs and they're typically located in the consumer unit. Up until recently they'd be shared across several circuits (a "split" or "dual" RCD consumer unit). Nowadays regs are pushing for each cicruit in the consumer unit to be protected individually by their own RCBO (almost the same thing as an RCD/GFCI)

Can wholeheartedly recommend OPNsense as an opensource firewall of choice. I run it at home, and we use it on a couple of Dell R210ii servers (4c/8GB RAM/dedicated Intel NIC) to run LAN gaming events ramping up to 1,200 active devices.

Migrated from pfsense because OPNsense actually had a usable API, so we can do things like add people into the Captive Portal programatically from our event check-in system.

> When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over.

Confused on that one.

You can expose Home Assistant to the internet (preferably using a reverse proxy like Traefik or Nginx, which is basically what your $6 gets you anyway) to make Google Assistant work properly with it.