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  • Yeah, similar sized environments here too, but had good experiences with Ansible. Saw Chef struggle at even smaller scales. And Puppet. And Saltstack. But I’ve also seen all of them succeed too. Like most things it depends on how you run it. Nothing is a perfect solution. But I think Ansible has few game breaking tradeoffs for it’s advantages.


  • Wow, huge disagree on saltstack and chef being ahead of Ansible. I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

    Ansible is just so much lower overhead and so much easier to understand and make changes to. It’s dominating the configuration management space for a reason. And nearly all of the self hosted/homelab space is active in Ansible and have tons of well baked playbooks.









  • The general idea is that you use it to take notes on research papers or websites (optionally though it’s Zotero integration), then when the time comes to write a technical paper, you can research from the comfort of your Zettelkasten, directly cite the research you took notes on and automate proper citations with BibTex, write in raw markdown if preferred, create tables natively, embed charts and graphs directly and properly track them using figure notation, do full layout templates in LaTeX, support LaTeX math equations, and a lot more.

    Basically it solves the fragmentation problem researchers have had for a long time by integrating all the standards instead of trying to centrally replace them or declare them unnecessary.



  • Switches both look to be linear. Would you be happy with linear, or would you want tactile / clicky / silent etc?

    Also, no declaration of swappable switches, so you’re likely stuck with them. For beginners I really recommend swappable switches or at minimum a switch tester to be sure you have some idea what you want before you commit.

    Keyboard is wireless, so no guarantee it will work on Linux, but most do flawlessly. Bluetooth interoperability nearly guaranteed.

    Materials look nice but I know nothing of the brand. Usually not recommended to stray too far off the beaten path while new to mechanical keyboards. Lots of junk out there.

    What about it is so attractive to you? The layout? Key caps? Some particular features? None of these look particularly unique.