I got approved a few months ago and will have solar panels installed in the next few months. I am happy to hear there will be a second stage as I want to get my windows replaced next. If AB could elect a competent government I would also replace my mid-efficient furnace.

I think it is the best option of all the possible choices I have seen and I can see how the ‘Open’ they tacked on is required for finding the project through searches. Adoption would have been be awful if they stuck with just ‘Tofu’. Adoption of tofu as a meat substitute could have improve, though.

The Terrawork (Terragrunt) people have posted their latest response. It looks like multiple companies have banded together and are fully behind forking Terraform, if required.

https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca

Yup, that is for the AWS CLI command. You could also use that from AWS Cloud Shell.

You can use aws iam list-instance-profiles to get a list of what is already created. I suspect there is something else wrong.

It cloud be looking for the default Beanstalk instance profile and role (aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role) as it isn’t auto-created anymore. It could also be a permission issue with the role’s policy.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/iam-instanceprofile.html

Elastic Beanstalk is one of the few AWS services I haven’t used as it just deploys a number of other services and resources behind the scenes. It is more of a up-and-running-quick demonstration tool than something you would use IRL. It can be used, but there are better options.

An instance profile is what I would call a legacy resource that really shouldn’t be needed, but is still there in the background for backwards compatibility. You can’t attach an IAM role directly to an EC2 instance. You need to have an instance profile in between that is named the same as the IAM role.

You can create one using every other interface (command line, CloudFormation, Terraform, SDKs, etc.), but not through the web console (browser). From the web console, you would need to recreate the IAM role and make sure you select EC2 as the purpose/service for the role. Only then will it create a matching instance profile along-side your new IAM role.

I picked up a Hakko desoldering gun many years ago to save me from this. It was pricey (~$300), but has been worth it over the years.

You would have to use an external tunnel service that will give you an IPv6 address on the internet. As you are sending your traffic through an external provider, it will be slower and they could be monitoring your traffic. Some ISPs even use these tunnelling service to quickly enable IPv6 access.

Tunnel brokers (RFC 3053) are organizations that provide, often for free, a manually or dynamically configured tunnel that encapsulates your IPv6 packets within IPv4 packets. The IPv6 packets at your home are encapsulated into IPv4 packets and sent across the IPv4-only ISP network to the tunnel broker service. When those packets reach the tunnel broker, they are decapsulated and the IPv6 packets are forwarded to the IPv6 Internet. This method can use a traditional GRE tunnel, an IPv4 protocol 41 tunnel, or might leverage the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) (RFC 5572).

It is looking like Hurricane Electric (https://www.tunnelbroker.net/) is the only one still providing this service, as far as I can find.

If you use a VPN that could be another option, if the VPN provider isn’t disabling IPv6 out of a potential privacy concern (PIA). Even if the VPN service supports IPv6, most VPN clients do not and your IPv6 DNS queries could get routed to your ISP. If you were using a VPN for privacy concerns, that would expose what websites you are accessing and defeat the purpose of a VPN. That is why VPN providers will sometime go out of their way to ensure IPv6 is disabled when the VPN is in use.

It is looking like Canadian ISP support for IPv6 is still patchy. I am on Teksavvy which uses the Shaw network in Alberta and RogShaw doesn’t like to provide their struggling micro competitors any perks. I give myself a 4% chances of getting IPv6 support to work.

If I have time this long weekend, I will try to see if I need to change anything on my Technicolor modem and setup the IPv6 DHCP service on my Mikrotik firewall. My self-managed hardware should support it, my Jekyll and Hyde ISP, probably not.

Use this to see if you ISP supports the latest 90’s technology. https://test-ipv6.com/

It is preferable to have the dock power the laptops. Then there is only 1 cable to plug in. If your personal laptop has a USB-C power, it can probably be powered through it. Plugging it in to you work laptop power supply shouldn’t break it as there is a lot of negotiating taking place before power is provided. You may want to search the internets first.

The Dell docks are also universal and will work. Avoid HP as they are proprietary. Some other brands (Plugable, Anker) work really well, but may not include the power adapter. Make sure you include the power adapter when comparing docks. I would get the new 100W USB-C adapters (UGreen or Anker) that can power your dock, devices, and laptop (by way of the dock).

I use a mix of Dell and Anker USB-C docks with Dell, HP, and Macbooks and run up to dual 4K displays and power the laptops (The HPs are limited).

There is a few things to watch out for. You laptop’s USB-C port needs to be a Thunderbolt port to work with a Thunderbolt dock. If it isn’t, you will need non-Thunderbolt USB-C dock.

The port needs to support Power Delivery (PD) and may still limit charging to 60W. You should get up to 82W after the dock takes its cut. Some laptops (Dell) support higher charging rates only with their own brand docks. If you are gaming, your battery will drain, just slowly.

The port should support Displayport even if you are using HDMI. Most docks will have a mix of DP and HDMI. You will need an ACTIVE DP to HDMI adapter. If one of your monitors has DP, use that insteaad of an adapter.

Are we the lobsters?

We have a slack channel where we dump a number of cloud/service outage RSS feeds into. Github has always dominated that channel.

Azul and its variations are the best match for a recent hit that is approachable.

Wingspan would be a recent game that has blown up, but there is a little learning curve.

Though not new, Dixit would be a game that is very approachable and that has been very popular. It is my go-to when gift giving. “The Game” (I know, terrible name) is another older one that people want to get after I introduce them to it.