Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

I see. Yeah, that compose file is gross unless you’re running this on a dedicated vps, and even then…

I haven’t run snikket before, but it looks straightforward to me. Maybe the documentation has improved?

It seems like the only time I encounter this oddness is when some upstream docker image maintainer has done a weird with users (I once went 3 image levels up to figure out what happened).

Or if I borrow a dockerfile and don’t strip out the “nonroot” user hacks that got popularized years ago.

More perspectives:

If you divided this amount equally across every human on earth (8,142,000,000), they’d each get about $61.

Only 9 sovereign wealth funds hold more value. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund

Just remember that actual profit isn’t important to investors. They’re only here make money on the growth of the investment.

Goddamn parasites.

5B run rate explains the wild 183B valuation better. The calculus is usually a solid return after 3 years and double or better by 5, so they’re being on something like a 500B valuation by 2030.

And they very likely won’t be profitable in the real sense even then.

I see. That definitely makes 13B way more sane.

$500 million in run-rate revenue

Absolutely astounding that they can raise $13B on a sixth round of funding on that.

For the less finance jargon savvy, “run-rate revenue” just means projected annual revenue.

All this means they spent 3 years of revenue to make this go away.

Absolutely not a profitable business lol.

887 thousands.

So, less than the Bronx (1.4M), but more than Staten Island (450k).

About the same as Indianapolis, IN, USA or Donetsk, Ukraine.

So, 1 medium city’s worth.

• Military-industrial complex
• War machine
• Merchants of death

There are many names.

Agreed! That would be a huge QoL improvement (and work just like the podman command does). Now I’m thinking about other commands that force this silliness, like pip.

The spec for quadlets has a few dedicated homes for the .pod, .container, etc. files. You can absolutely mount directories or files wherever (%h is $HOME for systemd unit files). See the Volume description for Container unit files: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html#volume

I’m now running quadlets on Garuda (my gaming/devbox), and Fedora. The impetus for this was needing to host service in an unprivileged way at work on RHEL9, so I got paid to do some learning with my own services.

My laptop is running Bazzite, but no services there. I’ll move the server to silverblue or another image based distro when I finish extracting the rest of my misadventures to containers.

I used podlet on my compose file. I was a little disappointed in the limitations, as a lot of things like variable interpolation isn’t available.

That said, the output made me wonder why I’ve waited! It was so much simpler than I imagined. It also helped demystify unit files a bit more.

I didn’t use that! I had a docker-compose file and used podlet to translate (which took a little massaging due to it not supporting interpolations).

/usr/libexec/podman/quadlet --user --dryrun was quite helpful though!

Ah, so that’s why the response from Iran was so meager: quid pro quo.

This is probably my first time ever using it for an appropriate purpose as this team’s technical docs are destined for the press (and digital distribution). They just have no idea how to software, so I was brought in to build bridges between and ultimately simplify all their tools.

https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/ seems to fit the bill. I can’t vouch for it.

PDF is such a curse. I say this as a person currently tasked with deploying new mysteriously complex enterprise PDF conversion software for technical documents. The rabbit hole is so deep.

If you need a deep dive on this hell hole (764), Popular Front did a massive episode a few months ago.

Hell on earth: the ultra sadism report