IcedRaktajino

Interesting. So any strong negative feeling, either receiving from others or having themselves, has that effect.

Building from that, maybe strong negative feelings breaks the link somehow? I'll have to re-watch, but when they all seized after Carol yelled at them it seemed a lot like the initial infection.

Yep, that's why I haven't messed with Kubernetes either; way overkill for a homelab and especially so since I downsized due to soaring electricity costs here.

The only reason I gave up on Docker Swarm was that it seemed pretty dead-end as far as being useful outside the homelab. At the time, it was still competing with Kubernetes, but Kube seems to have won out. I'm not even sure Docker CE even still has Swarm. It's been a good while since I messed with it. It might be a "pro" feature nowadays.

Edit: Docker 28.5.2 still has Swarm.

Still, it was nice and a lot easier to use than Kubernetes once you wrapped your head around swarm networking.

Relevant: https://startrek.website/post/30605562

I had 15 of the 2013-era 5010 thin clients. Most of them have had their SSDs and RAM upgraded.

They've worn many hats since I've had them, but some of their uses and proposed uses were:

1. I did a 15 node Docker Swarm setup and used that to both run some of my applications as well as learn how to do horizontal scaling.
2. After I tore down the Docker Swarm cluster, I set them up as diskless workstations to both learn how to do that and used them at a local event as web kiosks (basically just to have a bunch of stations people could use to fill out web based forms).
3. One of them was my router for a good while. Only replaced it in that role when I got symmetric gigabit fiber. Before that, I used VLANs to to run LAN and WAN over its single ethernet port since I had asymmetric 500 Mbps and never saturated the port.
4. Run small/lightweight applications in highly-available pairs/clusters
5. Use them to practice clustered services (Multi-master Galera/MariaDB, multi-master LDAP, CouchDB, etc)
6. Use them as Snapcast clients in each room
7. Add wireless cards, install OpenWRT, and make powerful access points for each room (can combine with the above and also be a Snapcast client)
8. Set them up as VPN tunnel endpoints, give them out to friends, and have a private network

Of the 15, I think I'm only actively using 4 nowadays. One is my MPD+Snapcast server, one is running HomeAssistant, ,the third is my backup LDAP server, and one runs my email server (really). The rest I just spin up as needed for various projects; I downsized my homelab and don't have a lot of spare capacity for dev/test VMs these days, so these work great in place of that.

this whole concept is kind of a "Rick & Morty" idea (i.e. the character of Unity)

I can't believe I didn't make that connection, but yeah. It also fits with my suspicion that there is definitely either a "will" or a controlling intelligence behind the collective. It's presented like it's the combined will of humanity, but I'm not really buying that (nor is Carol it seems).

1. Like in WandaVision, I think we'll eventually learn that the infected are still conscious/aware while under the control of the hive. At present, they're just puppets of the hive that has full access to their memories.

2. Somehow Carol is going to get through to "Pirate Lady" / Zosia and either free her from or weaken her link to the collective (ala Seven of Nine from Voyager)

3. The way the collective is so accommodating to the immune is just its defense mechanism. Once "they" figure out the fix for the immunity, things will get much darker.

Edit: I really hope #1 does not turn out to be true. Thinking about the guy with the harem brings some some truly horrifying implications.

Two thoughts:

1. I'm genuinely surprised. What's the catch? Are they just waiting for a better case like the one in Texas?
2. Eat shit, Kim Davis.

I had the same thought.

Couple of possibilities:

:::spoiler

They also seem to do 100% of everything they're told to do.

I'm also wondering if that is just to placate the immune until "They" figure out the fix. Assuming "they" truly cannot intentionally cause harm to another living thing (and nothing so far has indicated that to be untrue), then the immune population (no matter how tiny) could be considered a threat and acting like a doormat is just "their" way of dealing with that.

Since they don't consider assimilation to be harm, once "they" figure out how to infect the immune, I think things could turn quite a bit darker after that (but still with the creepy cheerful demeanor).

Edit/addition: While "they" seemingly cannot cause harm to people, they don't seem to be limited such that they're forced to prevent harm from occurring.

Evidence:

1. Carol was close to heat exhaustion when burying Helen. "Pirate Lady" only suggested she drink some water but did not force her to.
2. "They" don't seem to care that the dangerous zoo animals mauled/killed people
3. "Pirate Lady" flat out said "they" could not protect Carol and the other "immune" from each other.

Between that and the "biological imperative to spread" loopholes, I'm definitely curious where those go.

:::

I'm genuinely excited to see where this goes.

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