Upgrading All The Things
Ubuntu's biannual upgrade drives many changes.
I have been patiently waiting for Ubuntu 24.04 and its derivatives, and the schedule of when various bits of the OS are “locked” drives changes across the entire FOSS world, as everybody scrambles to have their best work included.
Now I’ve got a May madness scramble ahead, which will include:
Transporting 4TB and 10TB drives to hosting facility.
Replacing blown boot drive in one server.
Splitting mirrored 4TB drive pairs in two servers.
Installing 24TB working space drives in two servers.
Fully retire Dell R610, recover 2.5” NAS drives.
Determine if new server #3 happens, decide if R430 or R730XD.
If R730XD, decide if it gets existing GTX 1060 or new RTX 4060.
Replace 1TB consumer NVMe in laptop with 2TB WD Red NVMe.
Cobble stable desktop out of existing parts.
Flaky desktop goes back to storage.
Replacement battery for elderly MacAir.
Migrate Android/Calypso 4 to GrapheneOS/Pixel 8.
Migrate servers to Proxmox 8.2.1.
Upgrade laptop to Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.
Install Qubes 4.2.1 on desktop.
Upgrade many VMs to Ubuntu server 24.04.
When the dust settles there will be 106TB of 3.5” spindles in the hosting facility, 7TB of spindles here, and 3TB of NVMe storage. That isn’t a flat 106TB total, that’s two machines with 44TB that mirror each other and random spare parts in a third. You need a trio to enable Proxmox redundancy but the third doesn’t need the same amount of storage, it just needs to be the tie breaker. When you are not allowed lose things you end up with at least doubly redundant storage, and if I land another good sized job I’ll be doing a pull backup to a 24TB drive here in my Qubes machine.
The big picture? I’m saying and doing the same sorts things I have been since 2009. But six and a half months before a U.S. election where the choices on the ballot are democracy or Christian Nationalism, suddenly I’m an experienced advisor, instead of a paranoid moonbat.
No actual McDonnell Douglas product was harmed in the making of this post.
