Stability? Update management? Window tiling? What? Linux does have all of these things. In fact Linux is way more stable than Windows, has better update management. Mind you, it does depend on the distro and the amount of stability you want, but I have been running Debian servers for years and I hardly run into problems.

The only thing windows offers over Linux is gaming and a better UI. Even both of those are dwindling away. I hate the new windows 11 UI and most games work on Linux unless you require a rootkit for some anti cheat software.

This seems pretty fair and reasonable, although, we should ask why people do this in the first place? Why is there so much pressure to get good or decent grades? If you are just going to college to get a degree and all you want to do is pass, then why go at all?

College is a broken system right now. If things continue the way they are going, people will just learn how to use AI tools and go find a job. They don’t even need to think for themselves, they can just have a computer do it for them.

Yes there is. You need to be able to transfer heat to something else. It doesn’t just magically disappear. Space is a vacuum. I think you watch too many movies. You probably think that people will just instantly freeze in space without gear on.

I’ll give you an example. Do you have one of those water bottles that can keep your drink cold for like a day? The space in between is a vacuum. Why do you think that the liquid inside can say so cold for so long? It’s the same principle. Imagine a data center floating around in this space, there is nowhere for the heat to go.

The reason why earth is warm is because the sun radiates and heats up the ground on earth. This is also why it’s colder the higher you go within the first few layers of our atmosphere and hotter near the ground.

Basically, you have to radiate heat away from the data center in this case or transfer heat to one area or the other. It’s not as simple as being like, hey space, take my heat will you? There is nothing to transfer it to.

That’s not how space works though. It’s a vacuum. It doesn’t work the same way as on earth. What temperature do you think the side pointing to sun is? And what temperature do you think the side that is away from the sun is? Heat is just not going to magically transfer into space.

Are you suggesting that it’s easy to do this?

Ok? How does Elon, the man with the biggest brain cells, expect to cool these space data centers?

No it’s not. It’s very expensive to run and there are a lot of edge cases. It’s much easier to have regional redundancy for a fraction of the cost.

Just get a burner. That’s what I used to do when I travelled anywhere

Yeah, it’s actually really really stupid. If they say this is true, then you can say a website is changing the code of the actual browser as well

You never heard of be quiet!? They are actually pretty big. Even with that said, they do have some issues and there are better PSUs out there. I always use https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/ to see what’s going on at the current time.

You have a lot of responses here, but I’ll tell what k8s actually is, since a lot of people seem to get this wrong.

Just like k8s, docker has many tools. Although docker is packaged in a way, that it looks like it’s just 1 tool. This is docker desktop. Under the hood there is docker engine that is really a runtime and image management service and API. You can look at this more if you wanted. There is containerd, runc, cri-o. These were all created so that different implementations can all talk to this API in a standard way and work.

Moving on to k8s. K8s is a way to scale these containers to run in different ways and scale horizontally. There are ways to even scale nodes vertically and horizontally to allow for more or less resources to place these containers on. This means k8s is very event driven and utilizes a lot of APIs to communicate and take action.

You said that you are doing kubectl apply constantly and you say feels wrong. In reality, this is correct. Under the hood you are talking with the k8s control plane and it’s taking that manifest and storing it. Other services are communicating with the control plane to understand what they have to do. In fact you can apply a directory of manifests, so you don’t have to specify each file individually.

Again there are many tools you can use to manage k8s. It is an orchestration system to manage pods and run them. You get to pick what tool you want to use. If you want something you can do from a git repo, you can use something like argocd or flux. This is considered to be gitops and more declarative. If you need a templating implementation, there are many, like helm, json net, and kustomize (although not a full templating language). These can help you define your manifests in a more repeatable and meaningful way, but you can always apply these using the same tools (kubectl, argocd, flux, etc…)

There are many services that can run in k8s that will solve one problem or another and these tools scale themselves, since they mostly all use the same designs that keep scalability in mind. I kept things very simple, but try out vanilla k8s first to understand what is going on. It’s great that you are questioning these things as it shows you understand there is probably something better that you can do. Now you just need to find the tools that are right for you. Ask what you hate or dislike about what you are doing and find a way to solve that and if there are any tools that can help. https://landscape.cncf.io/ is a good place to start to see what tools exist.

Anyway, good luck on your adventure. K8s is an enterprise tool after all and it’s not really meant for something like a home lab. It’s an orchestration system and NOT a platform that you can just start running stuff on without some effort. Getting it up and running is day 1 operations. Managing it and keeping it running is day 2 operations.

I don’t think that’s what they meant. I think they are just saying that people are still buying EVs, but they are just going to Chinese and other manufacturers instead of buying a Tesla. The article specifically calls out the stupid shit Elon has been doing.