NTP in practice. Mostly it works. Time to time it's like 8 hours off. Internet connection is working.

I already debugged unreliable NTP once and replaced the unreliable "ntp" NTP daemon with much more reliable "chrony" NTP daemon. But still unreliable.

"Old people don't like computers" - because computers are unreliable! Why would I use something that's unreliable? A tuning fork ground out of quartz, invented by Seiko, connected to a battery, semiconductor amplifier, 15-bit counter, few logic gates, stepper motor, cogwheels, hands and a clock face is much more reliable!

#ntp #unreliable #linuxfail #linux #chrony #ntpd #reliability

Nach einem kleinen Ausflug in die Welt der textbasierten Linuxkonfiguration hier ein Tipp für alle mit wenig Erfahrung mit `apt`:

Nutzt NIEMALS den `apt remove`-Befehl mit einer Widcard. *NIEMALS*

(Außer, ihr habt Lust, zufällige Komponenten eures Rechners zu entfernen. Zum Beispiel die graphische Oberfläche.)

#linux #ubuntu #apt #linuxfail

I decided to shrink a partition on my home server today, so I could move the home directory. New home directory mounted but I borked my other partition! Spent the whole day getting everything working again.

I did take the opportunity to do fresh install of Debian. I also realised my backup strategy was not as robust as I had hoped. One to fix tomorrow.

#linuxfail #lessonslearned

Just pulled my hair out for 30 minutes over why my Synology wasn't connecting to my Debian machine via rsync. Only to realize that I hadn't installed rsync on my Debian machine.

#AmateurHour #LinuxFail

@nrk9819 imagine not listing #Debian but listing those.. #linuxfail

The best distro is a reliable one.. so I vote Debian always