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[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Save them even more money by taking their desktops all off of Windows and downloading Ubuntu, it's free and I've been running it for over a week with no problems at home!

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 34 points 2 months ago

A whole week!?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Sometimes whole days go by where I don’t have to spend hours fixing a software issue in terminal before I can do my 5 min job.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And while you're at it, do they really need backups? I mean, it takes up so much space... And UPS... They need to be lifecycled so consistently, it's such a pain in the wallet.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I use ZFS instead of a UPS. It is much cheaper and works just as well.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

At some point the number of pools will absorb the outage.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 5 points 2 months ago

Oof ow my wallet!

[–] addie@feddit.uk 15 points 2 months ago

Can't possibly be slower than GCP, either. Performance of BigQuery is something to behold.

Cloud makes sense if you've a very 'spiky' load, I suppose. A website that needs one VM most of the year, but a hundred on a couple of days. Maybe your data processing needs 100 TB of storage a couple of times a month, but not the rest of the time. But for fixed, predictable bread-and-butter stuff?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But how much of that half mill goes into your pocket? Surely that money is padding the execs wallets.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you priced out big data and compute in GCP?

Sure it's inflated as hell, but Google has a lot of expensive devs to pay

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

And I am sure the person hosting a NAS at home has a power bill that also needs to get paid.