Sucks man. Hope you find something soon

I was unemployed for a long time and things like eating and paying rent is nice. You can be all high and mighty and say you would never work for/with X, Y and Z, but if the only other option is to keep starving… You change your priorities quickly.

Yes. That is an other valid path to use. And you get pretty far with a medium single VPS as well, I mean it is unlikely your little app is going to be another Amazon over night. Starting on a VPS and then adding more, until eventually you might need automatic scaling is all fine.

AWS (and others, but I have used AWS the most) charges quite a bit of a premium but they package it for you. But there is also a big risk of vendor lock-in. Everything is configured for AWS, if they yank up the price you either have to spend a lot of time and money to migrate, or just pay up.

AWS and similar are very expensive compared to a simple VPS. However, AWS offer things that is hard to do on a VPS, not impossible of course but just hard.

Like automatic scaling, your site suddently gets on the frontpage of slashdot/hn/reddit/etc and get 1000x the normal traffic? Your VPS will probaly choke and render error pages for most of the traffic. On a correctly configured AWS scaling deployment, you won’t even notice it. And not only for your webserver, you can do the same for data

And other features like multiregional and easier CDN (also in multiregion) integration.

There are of course problems with AWS also, sometimes you don’t want your site to scale uncontrollably. If you get DDoSed without mitigatiln, for example, you could end up with a huge bill for nothing.

So, as with almost everything in life. It depends what your goal is and how much you want to spend.

Big tech pays them, that is all they care about. In general (there are very few exceptions) a politician’s only goal is to get elected. Everything else is secondary. Having loads of money helps getting elected.

In a lot of countries going to church wasn’t optional either, you had to. Where I am from it wasn’t abolished as early as you would think either.

Perhaps their regex engine is insultingly bad. But I assume they would use the basic js/ts which is not that bad.

Some croak on just about anything except basic matching, look ahead, look behind, no capture groups, etc… pfft. Too advanced

I lived at a place many years ago, and the landlord wanted to increase the rent from 900 to 1300. Which was just a fantasy number for the area. I countered with 1000, because moving is a hassle and it was an ok place. They said no, so we moved.

Then the place was vacant for years afterwards. I always chuckled when I walked past it. Great job, instead of getting a steady income, you try to gouge your tenant and get nothing! Art of the deal level right there.

this is precisely why i gave up on multiplayer PvP games for the most part. the era of casual PvP pubs is long go

And the rampant cheating. Every single game that has more than a few players will have cheaters. Rootkit-as-a-service or not, there will still be cheaters.

You could also actually just use it. Just because it is physically located on the root disk doesn’t mean you can’t add some directories and give your user full access to them.

I usually have a /mnt/scratch, usually on another disk (hence mnt). Or you could make another steam library in /opt/. Steam can have multiple data locations.

The purists might yell at you, but it is your system. If you have space to spare in root use it, just remember what is where if you need/want to reinstall at some point.

Edit: or just nuke the NTFS partition, and use that partition as extra storage. Usually you don’t need that much in root, and if you do you can always symlink to another dir to get around it. Just remember to copy anything that might be useful from the ntfs! User/<foo> has a lot of data, I would copy at least that. Reading ntfs data is not a problem from linux, writing is more hit and miss.

Well, to be fair a lot of people using windows are laughing at microslop too. Just with a few tears mixed into it.

The Bro!

Convenience mostly, like a lot of aspects of security there is no one correct answer. And it is never an option between total security and none at all. It all depends on your risk vs convenience level, and it is usually a sliding scale between those two (some times other factors as well)

You can enter lockdown mode before going through customs, or disable biometrics

Some services even have an option to only share a dummy email and not your real. Apple for example does this, so all the site gets is “36382618161@apple.com” (don’t know the exact format). And it is only tied to your real email address on apple’s side

And will they donate back even one percent of the fees they would have paid so the open source software can be maintained. Naaaaaah!

Well to be fair slack is quite expensive, and getting worse every year. Both in price and usability.

Peak capitalism!

.er .db

All two letter TLDs are exclusive to countries. So unless you make a country called Ergostan and Dbaseistan and get them internationally recognised you are out of luck. However, if you manage you don’t have to pay the fee!

Eat it.

Same here. Started around ham/slink and then just kept using it.

Mostly on servers but for over a year it has been the only booted OS on my desktop (maybe time to recycle the windows m2-drive soon). Sid on desktop is great.

You sound surprised?