This is an extension of very helpful article Running Docker on WSL2 without Docker Desktop (the right way) by Felipe Santos. My post attempts to go further and solve a very specific issue within WSL - the absence of nftables support. This is something you might not encounter unless you start running docker in docker or attempt to run docker images that rely on nftables support in some way.

I tend to use Molecule quite heavily and I often end up using docker to emulate actual full blown linux systems or kubernetes cluster in a container, which is where the absence of some kernel features shows up.

There’s a plenty of articles out there on VFIO GPU pass through out there, so I’ll skip many of those details here to let us focus on stuff that’s somewhat specific to Dell R711.

Before we get to the nitty gritty details of the whole setup, just a short warning: If the GPU pass through is the only use case you want to cover, starting with Dell R710 is absolutely not the way to do it.

Here’s why:

Currently there's no official out-of-the-box integration available in Gitlab that would allow you to post messages via Matrix protocol. There are some 3rd party options available, like Gitlab plugin for Maubot, or the Slack-compatible Webhooks Matrix appservice, but it might not be ideal solution in some cases for one reason or another.

Note: The native support for including files from other non-public repositories was added in Gitlab 11.7, so this workaround is no longer needed.

Gitlab added new include statement for the CE edition of their product with the 11.4.0 release, which is great news. However there's this one minor thing mentioned in the documentation:

Note: The remote file must be publicly accessible through a simple GET request, as we don't support authentication schemas in the remote URL.

This makes it a little bit tricky to use the functionality if you want to fetch the file from private repository. Here's how I got it working. (TL/DR at the end)

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The sad fact about online shopping in Ireland is, that many sellers will ship to UK only. It often makes very little sense as they'll happily ship the parcel across Europe to northern Ireland just fine, but that's the status for now.

Personally, I'm trying to avoid such sellers to sort of vote with my wallet, but sometimes UK-only seller is the only option or the price difference is just way too big. Fortunately we now have couple services available that can give us "virtual" address in UK and then forward any received packages to Ireland.

I've been trying them out over the years and here's some comparison of Parcel Motel, Parcel Wizard and AddressPal.