Look, the boot tastes perfectly fine. Besides, how will the millionaires eat if I don’t spend my attention to get them paid? What’s another ad. And another ad. Ads when I drive, ads when I park. Ads when I’m reading the news and ads when I’m watching TV. Anyone else hungry for <insert chain restaurant here> lol.

Not everything I view online deserves money. I decide what is worth it to give money to and I decide what news articles I’m allowed to read.

Lol. That’s not even bootlicking. There’s actual Nazis for you to go rail against and you’re here sowing division among your allies. You shitlibs are the Fascists helpful idiots.

Lol. Making a profit isn’t oppression. You wanna be leftists are so delusional. Why not go study real theory rather than spouting Tumbler platitudes?

These guys are too dumb to realize there’s a difference between a guy who owns the Asian market near my house making 400k and the Fascists worth billions.

These are the idiots that will burn middle America when they revolt. Just like the Khmer Rouge they’ll kill the intellectuals they ignored in the first place.

It’s a weird time wondering if I’ll be sent to a death camp by fascists or burned at the stake by some neolib trust fund baby for being a successful Engineer.

People who would have gone into finance or received an MBA have been going to tech for a decade now. Every one of them pushes out someone who would have been a real developer.

I’ve also had the pleasure of watching a lot of the generation who’s now complaining as they grew through their journey as developers. I think a lot of them are sugar coating their own abilities. I struggled with many a now illustrious developer whole they banged their head against the wall for hours.

You’re supposed to gatekeep code. There is nothing wrong with gatekeeping things that aren’t hobbies.

If someone can’t explain every change they’re making and why they chose to do it that way they’re getting denied. The bar is low.

Lame platitude

Sr Architect. Lol.

I’m not asking you to. Those are rhetorical. You either pay for them and are wrong about your costs or you don’t pay for them and you’re a hack, your software is a joke, and you don’t belong in tech.

You’re either lying or not knowledgeable on the topic enough to have an informed opinion.

You don’t pay for electricity or pay a fee for using the data center? You don’t pay an engineer to do maintenance? You don’t pay for your own alerting system? You don’t pay for the network security tools? You don’t pay for your subscription to Docker Hub? You don’t pay for a second physical location you can swap to in an incident?

I do these migrations for a living. I know you’re a liar. Cloud beats on prem everytime. You simply cannot compete with their economy of scale.

You can also just have an application designed to do that do it more accurately.

If you can’t do that you’re not an engineer. If you don’t recommend that you’re not an engineer.

If they think AI is working for them then he can. If you think AI is an effective tool for any profession you are a clown. If my son’s preschool teacher used it to make a lesson plan she would be incompetent. If a plumber asked what kind of wrench he needed he would be kicked out of my house. If an engineer of one of my teams uses it to write code he gets fired.

AI “works” because you’re asking questions you don’t know and it’s just putting words together so they make sense without regard to accuracy. It’s a hard limit of “AI” that we’ve hit. It won’t get better in our lifetimes.

I work in tech and can confirm the the vast majority of engineers “dislike ai” and are disillusioned with AI tools. Even ones that work on AI/ML tools. It’s fewer and fewer people the higher up the pay scale you go.

There isn’t a single complex coding problem an AI can solve. If you don’t understand something and it helps you write it I’ll close the MR and delete your code since it’s worthless. You have to understand what you write. I do not care if it works. You have to understand every line.

“But I use it just fine and I’m an…”

Then you’re not an engineer and you shouldn’t have a job. You lack the intelligence, dedication and knowledge needed to be one. You are detriment to your team and company.

I agree with the sentiment, but GCP typically isn’t the fail over. Most people will start with AWS and fail over to Azure, or start with Azure and just fail into nothing.

To stop using Google you would need to find every app that used Firebase and ignore them, that would be one of the hardest parts. You couldn’t use GitLab or other SaaS tools that work out of GCP. You’d likely need to just get offline to avoid their ads.

AWS is the professional one. Azure has Microsoft power. GCP tends to be less well through of. Alibaba isn’t far behind GCP. Even a fistful of smaller providers will collectively have double the users/revenue or more It is usually 30% for AWS, 20% Azure and 10% GCP these days.

Not to say GCP is bad, I like BigQuery as much as the next guy, but alluding that it’s the fail over or fallback for professional companies is not accurate.

If you’re doing actual big compute its cheaper in the cloud. Considerably. It’s also very easy and cheap to store lots of data. You will never be able to compete with their price for storage so I have no idea why you think that would be true.

I’ve done the on prem design. I’ve migrated people entirely to the cloud. I specialize a little in between.

Without any shred of doubt the cloud is going to be more cost effective than self hosting for 99% of all use cases. They’re priced that way intentionally. You cannot compete with Cloudflare/AWS/GCP/Vultr/Akami/Digital Ocean/etc.

My homelab isn’t about scaling, production workloads and definitely isn’t accessible to anyone but me. I’d argue using it in any other way defeats the purpose and shows a lack of understanding.

That’s not the point. Its unprofessional. Someone is going to smash and grab OPs idea and actually have the skills to host it properly. Probably at a fraction of the cost because OP doesn’t understand that hosting SaaS products out of his house isn’t professional or effective.

Also; cloud is cheaper than self hosting at any small amount of scale. This wouldn’t cost much to run in AWS if built properly. The people who struggle with AWS costs are not professionals and have no business hosting anything.

SLAs?

You’re going to need a redundant ISP and a generator. You’ve left the territory where it’s economical to self host something if that’s what you’re looking at. You still have several other single points of failure.

And I’ll be honest, your setup isn’t ready for an SLA either. Just having a second machine is such a small part of what you need to do before doing any guarantees. Are you using a Dynamic DNS service? What’s the networking setup look like? Router to Compute?

From the sounds of it, you’re not a professional. It might be time to engage an expert if you want to grow this.

If the CEO of Bob’s Store hired Senator John’s son then suddenly zoning issues disappear for his new space. The CEO of Bob’s even donates to several fundraisers for Senator John and makes donations to charities he knows John is a part of. John uses this information to inform his decision on who gets a cushy position position at the charity and if Bob’s competitor will be allowed to expand.

It wasn’t true. It was used to disguise crumbling profits as American shopping habits changed out of necessity.