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Garmin Fenix 5s Sapphire: notifications from my phone with custom replies, 6 day battery life, buttons. No touch screen (operate it "blind" and in the wet), wat

Garmin Fenix 5s Sapphire: notifications from my phone with custom replies, 6 day battery life, buttons. No touch screen (operate it "blind" and in the wet), waterproof, scratchproof. You do need to pay extra for the sapphire screen. Swiss Army knife (they're sooo well made) Under armour underwear: no seams, last ages, extremely comfortable. Darn tough socks: extremely comfortable, last forever, never smell. Altra Lone Peak trainers: foot shaped, light, comfortable, quick-dry. Right now every pair of shoes I own are Altra (but I'm trying out Topo Athletic phantom 2 next) Gore-Tex. And Neoprene. Docker. People like to hate a winner, and they've gone the paid route, and they did just take already-available kernel features and wrap them up... But man, they did it well and they revolutionised software development and deployment. Debian, XFCE, Tailscale, Syncthing, rsync, ssh, ffmpeg

pxeger1 5y ago
What's your experience with Tailscale? Have you compared it to alternatives (ZeroTier, Nebula, OpenVPN...)?
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  What I like about tailscale is that it's a no-brainer to set up and use. I have no technical difficulty seeting up a VPN, but I really don't want the hassle of "doing work" at home. But the main reason is that my wife doesn't want me to over-complicate things. I've found myself looking only at simple solutions that work for both of us.
joconde 5y ago
> Docker. People like to hate a winner, and they've gone the paid route, and they did just take already-available kernel features and wrap them up... But man, they did it well and they revolutionised software development and deployment. They made design decisions that prevent simple things like "installing a .deb package from the host filesystem without keeping the package in an image layer", then fixed some of these with that weird buildkit thing that you need to enable in the settings. It's very useful for sure, but I wouldn't call its CLI interface well-design.
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  Nothing is perfect and it definitely presented problems, but what other technology made cgroups that easy back then? Your choice was: VMs. And they were a pain to build and haul around.
- oftenwrong 5y ago
  You don't need buildkit for that; you can use multi-stage builds without buildkit to exclude your deb file from the final image.
  - joconde 5y ago
    I don’t find it satisfying: I can copy files from one stage to another, but I can’t install a .deb (or any other package for that matter). Copying a list of paths will break if the package changes, and it can’t easily do anything done by pre-install and post-install scripts (like changing a file, registering a GPG key, etc.) The official excuse from Docker is that “multi-stage builds cover that use”, but that’s not true if you need to install local packages. I think the buildkit feature that lets you mount folder in the build container is a hidden admission that this is wrong, but it’s annoying that the build process will then only work on machines where a non-standard option is set.
    - oftenwrong 5y ago
      I think I understand your use case, although I don't follow the part about mounting a host dir in the build (how it would help). I do not really consider this limitation a design flaw of Dockerfiles; this is more of a mismatch between Dockerfile functionality and what you want to do. Dockerfiles are not designed to execute general-purpose programs, so there is an assumption in the design of Dockerfiles that you know (more or less) which files you want to COPY ahead of time. It sounds like you want a mechanism for COPYing all filesystem changes resulting from a RUN instruction without having to know what those changes are ahead of time. In the future, maybe a buildkit HLB language will provide a macro system that makes this sort of thing straightforward to implement.
jonplackett 5y ago
Just seconding Under Armour underwear - especially the mesh version. So comfortable and never sweaty!
Lhiw 5y ago
Gore-tex isnt that great these days, there are better options now. It requires dwr to function, as soon as the dwr fails (pretty fast depending on your usage levels) its ability to breath ceases to function, at that point you're wearing a heavy, expensive, water proof coat that doesn't breath so it rains on the inside instead. It's saving grace is that it's durable in heavy brush. For a better alternative take a look at Columbia outdry, it doesn't require dwr so its breathability lasts for the life of the garment instead of requiring retreatments of dwr. Frogg toggs are another option, way less durable but as far as breathable rain proof it doesn't get better. Both outdry and frogg toggs are also way lighter than goretext. Though look around for the outdry they have heavy duty and light versions.
thesmok 5y ago
My only complaint about the Swiss Army knife is the plastic plates on the handle didn't survive in a dishwasher – they've got warped. Still usable though.

pxeger1 5y ago

What's your experience with Tailscale? Have you compared it to alternatives (ZeroTier, Nebula, OpenVPN...)?

raffraffraff 5y ago
What I like about tailscale is that it's a no-brainer to set up and use. I have no technical difficulty seeting up a VPN, but I really don't want the hassle of "doing work" at home. But the main reason is that my wife doesn't want me to over-complicate things. I've found myself looking only at simple solutions that work for both of us.

joconde 5y ago

> Docker. People like to hate a winner, and they've gone the paid route, and they did just take already-available kernel features and wrap them up... But man, they did it well and they revolutionised software development and deployment. They made design decisions that prevent simple things like "installing a .deb package from the host filesystem without keeping the package in an image layer", then fixed some of these with that weird buildkit thing that you need to enable in the settings. It's very useful for sure, but I wouldn't call its CLI interface well-design.

raffraffraff 5y ago
Nothing is perfect and it definitely presented problems, but what other technology made cgroups that easy back then? Your choice was: VMs. And they were a pain to build and haul around.
oftenwrong 5y ago
You don't need buildkit for that; you can use multi-stage builds without buildkit to exclude your deb file from the final image.
- joconde 5y ago
  I don’t find it satisfying: I can copy files from one stage to another, but I can’t install a .deb (or any other package for that matter). Copying a list of paths will break if the package changes, and it can’t easily do anything done by pre-install and post-install scripts (like changing a file, registering a GPG key, etc.) The official excuse from Docker is that “multi-stage builds cover that use”, but that’s not true if you need to install local packages. I think the buildkit feature that lets you mount folder in the build container is a hidden admission that this is wrong, but it’s annoying that the build process will then only work on machines where a non-standard option is set.
  - oftenwrong 5y ago
    I think I understand your use case, although I don't follow the part about mounting a host dir in the build (how it would help). I do not really consider this limitation a design flaw of Dockerfiles; this is more of a mismatch between Dockerfile functionality and what you want to do. Dockerfiles are not designed to execute general-purpose programs, so there is an assumption in the design of Dockerfiles that you know (more or less) which files you want to COPY ahead of time. It sounds like you want a mechanism for COPYing all filesystem changes resulting from a RUN instruction without having to know what those changes are ahead of time. In the future, maybe a buildkit HLB language will provide a macro system that makes this sort of thing straightforward to implement.

jonplackett 5y ago

Just seconding Under Armour underwear - especially the mesh version. So comfortable and never sweaty!

Lhiw 5y ago

Gore-tex isnt that great these days, there are better options now. It requires dwr to function, as soon as the dwr fails (pretty fast depending on your usage levels) its ability to breath ceases to function, at that point you're wearing a heavy, expensive, water proof coat that doesn't breath so it rains on the inside instead. It's saving grace is that it's durable in heavy brush. For a better alternative take a look at Columbia outdry, it doesn't require dwr so its breathability lasts for the life of the garment instead of requiring retreatments of dwr. Frogg toggs are another option, way less durable but as far as breathable rain proof it doesn't get better. Both outdry and frogg toggs are also way lighter than goretext. Though look around for the outdry they have heavy duty and light versions.

thesmok 5y ago

My only complaint about the Swiss Army knife is the plastic plates on the handle didn't survive in a dishwasher – they've got warped. Still usable though.