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Welcome to my weblog: a bucket on the interweb in which to throw opinions, experiences and 'knowledge'

I recently encountered an error on a database server when using dnf (yum) on CentOS 8 Stream. Dependencies for MariaDB and borgbackup created a problem and there was an unusual fix which I hadn't previously been aware of.

I recently noticed a drive in my home NAS was pre-fail according to S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, when I replaced the drive I found it difficult to mount the remaining drives in the LVM VG to recover data.

This week I encountered the most bizzare support request: "Is it possible that our website would not load on iPhones?". Don't be silly, "that's not a thing" I told the customer ... It appears I was wrong.

Over the past few weeks I have been working to get this personal website and blog "on the indieweb" and in large part I have succeeded. Here is an account of my experience and the challenges I encountered.

Today I submitted a role to Ansible Galaxy "initialises MySQL/Percona/MariaDB Server software on a host". While not my first Ansible role, this was the first time I released a role on Ansible Galaxy.