SpudimusPrime
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Hi imgur, I briefly mentioned this one recently when talking about virtual machines (VMs) and a few apps to help you organize your media collection, but I can not understate the value of learning docker. Docker, for lack of the ability to properly explain it, is magic.
There are many things in the world that you might have looked at and wondered whether or not you really needed to pay for it. I'm not talking about movies, and this isn't a "you wouldn't download a car" thing. Over the last 20 years I'd imagine some of you picked up some external hard drives, and some of those still work. Of course, it's a shame they don't always fit easily into your pocket. So, having plenty of space at home we pay for cloud storage for the convenience of it.
Don't misunderstand me, using cloud storage is a great way to mitigate a lot of risk when it comes to fault protection. If Google's server loses a hard drive, you'll never know. If your server loses a hard drive, you'll probably never forget. Personally though I think there's room in the middle for critical things to be stored in a corporate cloud (google, onedrive, etc) and less critical things to be stored at home but still accessible. Once you get down the rabbit hole far enough you'll see easily enough there's ways to mitigate your own losses too.
Sorry, that was a tangent. Docker's role in this is the ability to transform that cluster of old external hard drives in to accessible storage when you're away from home. That's not the only thing it can do, but that's today's example. It took me years personally to wrap my head around docker, until recently I was using VMs to do many of the things I do today, with tremendously more resource waste by comparison. If you have an old computer laying around, desktop or laptop, it's a great candidate for learning something like this.
If you're in the IT space (professional or hobbyist), you're probably aware of docker, and just how useful it can be. If you're not in the IT space, something like docker can be intimidating. Personally, I like making use of what I have and spending the savings on other things, and docker is a great way to maximize my resources.
If docker seems outside of your ability today, try setting up a vm host. If that's too much, try a new operating system inside of a VM.
One step at a time, we've got this.
See you tomorrow imgur. Until then, if you see this, would you share something that just makes your day a little easier?
Previous Entries:
01. Bitwarden Password Management: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-f4GqUhb
02. Flameshot Screen Capture: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-2-utWyG3n
03. Krita Digital Painting: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-3-kkpMii8
04. Multi-tools: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-4-AMo33rR
05. Command line installers: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-5-EZbZe2O
06. Ventoy and YUMI Bootable USB: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-6-tsF4ONO
07. Clonezilla Drive backup and Recovery: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-7-IApGpkE
08. WinDirStat Windows space analyzer: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-8-tSaDOwf
09. 7zip archive manager: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-9-xB6Z5pQ
10. Advanced File Renamer: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-10-mo0JZyh
11. Discord: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-11-FD3KkmE
12. VMWare Worstation/Fusion: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-12-a6a4a4Y
13. Arr suite of tools: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-13-GrIyDXB
14. Docker: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-14-SU9S8v6
15. Markdown Formatting: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-15-c2RS0uu
16. Portainer: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-16-6CCaf1
17. CPUZ/CPUX: https://imgur.com/gallery/something-that-might-make-day-easier-vol-17-pu9zrJY
lamagra22
Bulk Rename Utility is another good file renaming tool. It's a bit on the advanced side, but allows full-blown regex matching, capture groups, and substitution. I use it for media file management.
fskn
This. I know f-all about RegEx, but still use all the other features of BRU. Also, if you have a bunch of MP3s, I recommend Tagscanner.
evilspock
Docker is damn handy, but magic goes a bit far. It's real superpower is really in distribution. It lets you package up a program and all of it;s dependencies in a mostly platform-agnostic manner, that's easily accessible by someone else running docker on the same cpu type. It makes complex installs one-liners. It lets you share a dev environment. It enables real software appliances. And there's a huge library of containers already published.
SpudimusPrime
I was more referring to the probably misquoted phrase "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", since I don't know it well enough to explain it simply for anyone to understand. I know the tool well enough to use it, and probably poorly, but getting into the deep end of how feels like it could be a setup for a bad time. I watch others with it and see Mages when I'm struggling with Lincoln Logs.
PatrickMcChunky
But can it play Doom? Oh hell yes, on a toaster.
lapus
I am IT ignorant. I'd like to move my pics off Google. Is this a good choice?
vandemiere
probably not - it would be a lot of overhead tech scaffolding to support that you don't need for your goal. buy a large USB drive and just download directly onto that, make 2 if you want a backup
lapus
Thank you.