I have a real knack for finding problems that nobody else seems to have come across. Or if they did, they didn’t document it. Or if they did, well maybe I’m just rubbish at looking for the one article that would explain everything out to me. If anything it has trained me to get good at pulling information together to figure out these problems.

Case in point; I wanted to liberate a 256GB MicroSD card from my delightful uConsole. The only other MicroSD cards I had on hand were 32GBs, which I figured was sufficient for the uConsole, and I wanted the 256GB for my PlayStation Vita. Okay, easy. I’ll just shrink the partitions, back them up, and restore them.

Narrator:

It was not easy.

I was looking into alternatives to Docker Compose for Podman (yes, there is a podman-compose wrapper that brings similar functionality to Podman), and stumbled across the concept of Quadlets. Well, turns out they’re nothing like Docker Compose, perhaps more like Kubernetes or one of them fellas. Indeed, the name Quadlet was supposedly named after a squashed Kubelet. Geddit? Squashed kube? A quad? Ah, never mind.

There are a lot of questionable ethical behaviours going on with big technology companies these days. Hearing horror stories from Meta (formerly Facebook,) Alphabet (Google,) Amazon, Microsoft and Apple has left me with a rather sour taste in my mouth. I’ve personally been stung by bait-and-switch campaigns like when OneDrive revoked large amounts of free storage and LastPass nerfed their free tier subscription. The former was ultimately reversed with a workaround but I was shook; these big companies can make drastic changes to these services I rely on at a whim.