Datacenter Move

Due to delays in getting network to new servers and various logistics, We are going to be moving the switcharoo week to the week of June 30th. It was set for June 16th, but thats just too close timing wise, so we are moving it out two weeks. Look for a community blog post and devel-announce post next week on this. I realize that that means that friday is July 4th (a holiday in the US), but we hope to do the bulk of switching things on monday and tuesday of that week, and leave only fixing things for wed and thursday.

We did finally get network for the new servers last week. Many thanks to all the networking folks who worked hard to get things up and running. With some network I was able to start bootstrapping infrastructure up. We now have a bastion host, a dhcp/tftp host and a dns server all up and managed via our existing ansible control host like all the rest of our hosts.

Friday was a recharge day at Red Hat, and monday is the US Memorial day holiday, but I should be back at deploying things on tuesday. Hopefully next week I will get a initial proxy setup and can then look at doing openshift cluster installs.

Flock

The week after next is flock! It came up so fast. I do plan on being there (I get into prague late morning on the 3rd). Hope to see many folks there, happy to talk about most anything. I'm really looking forward to the good energy that comes from being around so many awesome open source folks!

Of course that means I may well not be online as much as normal (when traveling, in talks, etc), so Please plan accordingly if you need my help with something.

Laptop

So, I got this lenovo slim7x snapdragon X laptop quite a long time ago, and finally I decided I should see if I can use it day to day, and if so, use it for the flock trip, so I don't have to bring my frame.work laptop.

So, I hacked up a aarch64 rawhide live with a dtb for it and was able to do a encrypted install and then upgrade the kernel. I did have to downgrade linux-firmware for the ath12k firmware bug, but thats fine.

So far it's looking tenable (I am typing this blog post on it now). I did have to add another kernel patch to get bluetooth working, but it seems to be fine with the patch. The OLED screen on this thing is wonderfull. Battery life seems ok, although it's hard to tell without a 'real life' test.

Known things not working: camera (there's patches, but it's really early so I will wait for them), sound (there's also patches, but it has the same issue the mac laptops had with there being no safeguards so you can easily destroy your speakers if you adjust too loud).

Amusing things: no discord flatpak available (the one on flathub is x86_64 only), but the web version works fine. (Although amusingly it tells you to install the app (which doesn't exist).

Also, no chrome, but there is chromium, which should be fine for sites that firefox doesn't work with.

I'll see if I can get through the weekend and upcoming week and decide what laptop I will take traveling.

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