| 20 Feb 2023 |
 Jonas Chevalier | First we need raitobezarius to make a proposal, then hash out the details, then we have to find 10k to buy the hardware, order, get it installed. If we do it all very quickly, one month seems to be the minimum. | 08:44:10 |
| Jonas Chevalier | I think config and deploy methods will be pretty much the same, except that we might have IPMI instead of the Hetzner API to control the server? | 08:45:01 |
 Mic92 | zowoq: you can still add disko for example as it would still apply to baremetal machines that we can now deploy with nixos-anywhere. | 09:25:02 |
| Mic92 | In fact I don't think our hardware configuration will be not significantly different from our current one. | 09:25:37 |
| Mic92 | I also think this would take longer than one month. | 09:27:46 |
| Mic92 | More like 3 months... Ordering server hardware also can take a while | 09:28:00 |
 zowoq | In reply to @joerg:thalheim.io
zowoq: you can still add disko for example as it would still apply to baremetal machines that we can now deploy with nixos-anywhere. Don't really see much point in doing this, seems unlikely that it'll be used? | 22:49:01 |
| 21 Feb 2023 |
| Mic92 | zowoq: we already installed 3 physical machines with it: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere/pull/50 | 05:48:11 |
| zowoq | In reply to @joerg:thalheim.io
zowoq: we already installed 3 physical machines with it: https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere/pull/50 What does this have to do with the nix-community hetzner machines? | 05:59:16 |
| Mic92 | it makes it easier when we retire their configuration and re-apply it to a baremetal instance. | 05:59:49 |
| Mic92 | but just a suggestion. this can be also done when we actually have those. | 06:00:25 |
| zowoq | Yeah, let's leave it until we have them, less churn. | 06:07:08 |
 mei 🌒& | Mic92: holy shit that PXE demo is soooo cool | 16:07:56 |
| Mic92 | ckie (they/them): pulled up in a day :) too bad my professor has now put me on teaching duty. Otherwise it would be already merged. | 16:12:53 |
| mei 🌒& | take your time! i'm imagining buildings with 100s of machines all rebooting and they go "dell pxe boot v1.5.8f432c9" or whatever and boot into a little lightdm and that's quite delightful | 16:14:21 |
| mei 🌒& |
- if it was combined with a p2p nix store once CA derivations are everywhere.. waoh
| 16:14:52 |
| mei 🌒& | * + if it was combined with a p2p nix store once CA derivations are everywhere.. woah | 16:14:55 |
| Mic92 | I guess when you go for big scale pxe installation you would probably setup a persistent server instead. For now the workflow is more optimized for small-scale setups where you can get something working with a single command and without having to configure a lot of different services. | 16:16:32 |
| mei 🌒& | yeah that particular scenario was more fiction for now but pxe booting to [re]provision a machine is already really cool | 16:17:18 |
| Mic92 | It's also nice for setting up a new laptop from your old one | 16:18:00 |
| Mic92 | like what macos can do. | 16:18:05 |
| mei 🌒& | ooh yeah. shame only tb3/usb4 has the nice host-to-host ethernet device | 16:18:31 |
| Mic92 | Didn't know this is a thing know | 16:18:52 |
| Mic92 | At least something to look forward to. | 16:19:05 |
| mei 🌒& | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/usb4-interdomain-connections | 16:19:06 |
| mei 🌒& | it's quite fast too! | 16:19:37 |
| Mic92 | Yes. I always was wondering why they did not have this already | 16:20:56 |
| Mic92 | 10GbE or more without expensive equipment | 16:21:10 |
| Mic92 | but is this just windows? Also the firmware would need to support USB4NET | 16:22:33 |
| mei 🌒& | i think it's in the spec? | 16:22:56 |
