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  • its funny at one regional market here, the cashiers are fed up with people being stupid and neet help or are even stealing. so sadly its disabled most of the time. at a different place, there keeps being a loooong line, but literaly noone uses the self checkout. it is so useful. if i forgot something or just gotta get coffee beans, i quickly swing by that place because i know no matter how busy it is, i dont have to wait in line xD





    • On certain parts of the tchncs infra, an emergency-co-admin already got access, I should prioritize this more so that it also counts for the host lemmy runs on. Other than that, unless something happens to me, there will not be any surprise shutdown of service. In the highly unlikely event of a planned shutdown, there will be at the very very least half a year time for users to move to other instances.
      • The donation situation for tchncs is … fine, at least for securing cost coverage excluding my time. If cost cutting is required (which luckily has not happened yet), I of course try to prioritize on actively used services and try saving on services that are wasteful in terms of user/needed resource ratio. Something like peertube perhaps where terrabytes of video only get a handful of views.
    • Only instances that seem dedicated to lawbreaking/extensive rulebreaking content or unmoderated instances overrun by bots will be blocked. And ideally only if there is too much or risk of too much exposure to our instance, causing too much moderation effort required. There will not be an instance block against instances where I dislike people or similar (there are quite sensible admins in the network tho that would act like that or similar, sadly). If we have an instance on the list, that does not seem to belong there, I am open for reconsideration.

    And note: I keep trying to do whats best for the community. I am always open for ideas and opinions. :) If i don’t respond to something, it is very likely that I once again failed to manage my inbox and tasks. 😅



















  • Milan@discuss.tchncs.detomemes@lemmy.worldKeep it simple
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    3 months ago

    i keep telling myself what a timesaver ansible is, while at the same time my simple scripts got abstracted and puzzled into more files, much harder to quickly read and understand them and after hours of frustration, ansible actually works. there may be multiple minutes of delay between my tasks wasting time like hell but it works (as in not randomly fails to connect). except when it doesn’t. there still is a playbook where the host cannot be reached and i keep on failing to understand why as everything appears to be the same and looks correct. there will be more hours wasted.