Mike Bell

I learnt very quickly there is no grace period cancelling your google workspace account, you get charged for the few days into your current period and then booted out. It’s a good thing.

This is going to be a series on how I plan on de googling my life. It’s not going to be easy but it’s becoming more and more necessary to get away from Google for my online services.

Bye bye Ubuntu Server 20.04 # I moved all my apps from Ubuntu Server to Debian 12 after testing it out for a few months. It’s faster and uses less resources. There’s also no snap which is great! Migration went fine it was tedious but gave me an opportunity to clean up some tech debt I’d made when I first set the vm up. Running sudo shutdown -P now was very satisfying. I still have a backup of the vm if I need to restore though.

It’s around 6 months since the pulmonary embolism and while recovery is going ok there’s still some things not right. I’ve come to think of them as things I’ve lost in the fire. They’re not coming back or at least not without hard work.

Since it’s important to practice what you preach (apparently) here’s my post incident report on a P1 homelab failure Timeline # 09:30 - Services slow, services down 10:00 - Attempt to upgrade Ubuntu and reboot VM 10:00 - CPU spiking 100% across all 8 cores 10:15 - Increase core count to 16 and reboot VM 10:30 - Slow recovery but some services still down 16:00 - Server not on network 18:00 - Server powered on but no response 18:30 - Server disassembled and left to cool - fans cleaned a bit 19:00 - Services recovered