Deborah PickettMar 17

I updated the Wi-Fi controller software on my Linux home server and now my weather graphs stopped generating.

Stop making containers look attractive, everyone.

Show threadDeborah PickettMar 17
Ah-ha, the Wi-Fi controller needed to update the version of MongoDB that my server had installed, and the old version's repository was no longer signed, so apt-get update was failing silently, and that led to my weather graph generator library being linked against an old version of glibc.
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Show threadJustified Ancient of MoominMar 17
@futzle I’m guessing that it uses MongoDB because its web scale
Show threadDeborah Pickett
@ThermiteBeGiants Unifi, who knows, who cares? Normal people would just use a flat SqLite file.
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Show threadJustified Ancient of MoominMar 17
@futzle yeah but SQLite isn’t Web Scale
Show threadColinMar 17
@ThermiteBeGiants @futzle When I next refresh my network gear “isn’t reliant on MongoDB for management” is a selection criteria.
Show threadBradMar 17
@futzle @ThermiteBeGiants I ran the controller on the home server for a little while. Closest I’ve ever come to administering Mongo for any reason. Guess what? Update -> corrupted. Lucky I didn’t care about restoring from scratch.