For me, more specifically, the problem is they took my data and made a tool to sell it back to me without paying me for it.

I have no real issue with current ai stuff, other than you’re effectively taking our stuff and want us to pay you for doing so.

If they weren’t freeloading on everyone, I suspect you’d have a lot less angry people.

So Apple is paying them in exposure? First time I’ve ever seen that where it might actually be worth something.

First-mover advantage, combined with a long tail of support and the cost of migrating to a new platform.

RedHat was, for a VERY long time, the only real commercially supported Linux with SLAs and long-term roadmaps and backported security patches: and yes, Debian does those, but they don’t offer any sort of guarantees that corpo management types really really like.

I’ll second that. Oracle sucks but they’ve given me thousands worth of free cloud shit over the last 3 years so I’m not displeased.

SuSE was kinda in some retail stores but mostly only really the ones that were mostly exclusively computer-related (at least in the states). But RedHat was EVERYWHERE: book stores, computer stores, electronics stores, and hell even my college bookstore had it.

They really did make impressive inroads in selling Linux, even if they did decide to bail out after 9 and moved from consumer to corporate focused.

That’s just barely thoughts-and-prayers level. They could at least schedule a mandatory meeting that interrupts everyone’s day for half an hour.

A big point of confusion that keeps happening in relation to OCI is that there’s actually two “tiers” of free, and one of the two is subject to resources vanishing.

If you convert to a pay-as-you-go account, all that shit stops, and you’re treated as an actual customer while keeping all the free tier stuff.

I suppose you could get hit with a surprise bill if you’re not careful and use things that have a free tier and then convert to billing (example: you exceed your object storage free amount), but if you don’t use anything outside of the compute resources, it’s just as good without the resource reclamation stuff.

If this is for 24/7 use, don’t do USB drives. The problem, typically, is that the SATA->USB chipsets will, at some point, shit themselves and you’ll have random things crashing or even data loss.

They’re really just not designed for constant load, and a server-esque workload is just asking for shit to break at random and data to be lost.

And yes, I know lots of people use them like this, but this is very much a case of it’s perfectly fine until it’s not.

Oh no, what a loss.

I guess no game is better than a shitty one, but can someone please make a modern sims game that’s not EA and their endless DLC crap.