u/kosta880

Hello,

just a sanity check.

I have been using GH Copilot for mainly:

- consultation chat in IT and general

- IT troubleshooting

- maintaining documentation (currently homelab, but company planned)

- writing automation scripts (ansible, powershell)

- maintaining IaC

No real programming/coding, no inline. I don't write the scripts, AI does, I understand them and use them. Most changes are done via prompting. I need a relatively large context for AI to be able to hold my git repo in the context, when for instance doing a documentation check over everything (doing this every now and then).

For how I understand it, I have pure token usage.

Copilot was great until now. From 1. June, I believe the pricing is going to be the same as Anthropic Claude Console, with two distinct advantages with Claude Console:

- with Claude Console, I pay per usage (and that can quickly leverage towards positive, as there are months where I use AI very little, like vacation months or just not doing much)

- larger context window, I believe Claude has the ability to context my whole repo, while Copilot does not

Why I am asking: I find the Copilot usage, especially when it comes to corrections, way user friendlier. While both Cline + Anthropic and Copilot fullfill this, Cline actually does it one step at a time, which takes a long time if there are many corrections, while the Copilot does it much quicker. Not sure whether that is a quality feature, but it makes corrections by "OK"-ing way simpler.

So, what is your take on this?

Thanks

Question to you sysadmins out there:

Would you use Azure Update for everything, just as it is, leave it update systems automatically? Would you rely on it?

Why I am asking:

I recently joined a company as a senior admin, and honestly, have my doubts. In my previous company, we exactly declined to use Azure Update due to it's uncontrolled behavior. You basically tell it go... and it will reboot at time it chooses... or maybe even? It's kinda like: "trust Microsoft". Which I don't, honestly.

The company I am in is "quite happy with it". Until I heard that the Linux systems were patched, but not rebooted... so CopyFail was still unpatched everywhere (due to patched kernel not being active). Gave me chills.

Personally, I am on the level of using what's best on both systems, be that Windows or Linux. For Linux I'd take nothing else but SemaphoreUI + Ansible. So much native control. For Windows, meh... either Ansible (works), or any other tool out there that does Windows Patching. The point being - I am in the control, what happens and when!

So, what is your stance towards Azure Update? Would you use it? Would you not? Would gladly hear your reasons for both why yes or why not!

Thanks

EDIT: I want to clarify that I looked last at Azure Update Manager last at least half a year ago. I have no *current* experience, so I might be out of date. This is merely about your opinion and experience.

Hello,

DISCLAIMER: due to this being a question regarding production environment inside of a company, I can't share any more details.

Would even remotely consider running OKD with additional support (independent external company) for a production environment, opposed to full licensed OCP managed by an MSP?

What questions should I be asking myself?

Thanks

I bought the Roam in 2019.
Until this year, I had 0 issues.
And this spring, it started acting up.
Doesn’t want to stay turned on, powers itself off just after couple of minutes even if battery fully charged and confirmed charged.
Sometimes dies just after „warming up“.
Did a hard reset, did factory reset.
If I leave it on the charger, I have a better chance of it staying up. Didn’t try biking with connected charger though.
I am quite pissed because it cost an arm and a leg, yet I drove it merely once in the rain, I usually only bike when the weather is nice.

Anything known? Anything I can do? Or is it time for a new one… which REALLY is pushing me away from the brand and making me look somewhere else for alternatives.

Or: how to move away from payware Outlook.

I installed OnlyOffice today, saw that I can actually completely replace MS Office suite, for which I am paying €100 per year. I have my complete Proxmox lab, so I am flexible.

My main OS is Windows, with Linux being the second. I only recently started Linux desktop dual-boot, but been on Linux Server couple of years now.

So much about the infra.

I see that moving to Outlook free would give me only 15GB of space. Which would be enough, I currently use 3,7GB over course of 21 years.

But, Outlook Classic/New is only in the subscription, so, I either constrain to using Outlook on the Web as PWA (which will most likely include ads - but I do have pi-hole in place, so that might help), or another program, email client.

OR, I might go nuclear, and go away from outlook.com, which would mean changing my email address to my official domain or gmail (I have both). This is the least desirable solution, as I have my outlook.com address involved with most likely more than 400 websites and logins.

Using official domain would mean I can never cancel it... which might introduce high(er) costs than outlook.com yearly.

Finally, I could host mail myself, which is most likely lots of pain, alone requiring some VPS with fixed and clean IP, to be able to send clean emails out. But not outlook.com (see above).

Using Thunderbird would most likely be ok-ish. I have to be honest, the best interface I find is the Outlook Classic one. I would also be OK with one-time payment for an email client, if it fits the need and it has the look (I for instance hate how the new outlook looks, mail readability is much lower due to higher contrast of the app in general, but that's just my opinion).

Sooo, I have no idea if this post is correct in selfhosted, because it covers a broad spectrum of thoughts.

Anyway, looking forward to your suggestions or ideas.

Thanks