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This wasn’t the dystopian future I was promised. I much preferred the old one.

Having done the dating thing for a while and being male, I've had no problem with making contacts and going on dates. Quality not quantity. Can easily end up on two dates a week. I'm nothing special.

This. If an individual's mistake can take out your business you have a process control problem and that is owned by management.

Running windows in a container. Running Linux containers on windows is considerably less painful.

Ugh I'm doing this at the moment. I do not want ANYTHING to do with scanners. They are worse than printers for being complete ball aches.

Using a light box and a Nikon Z50 and 50-250 lens arranged roughly like this: https://www.scantips.com/g4/p1230510.jpg

sounds good to me!

As always, these things look like an average xfce theme.

Stop looking at the carrot. Enjoy now.

“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.” - Omar Khayyám

Disclaimer: life may now contain booze and floozies.

That doesn't make sense because I'm a VS Enterprise subscriber but we don't deploy onto windows containers.

I do some noddy VSTO stuff and write .Net Core stuff that goes into Linux Kubernetes on AWS.

Yes the lack of them being able to see any problems was a constant problem.

Our AWS reps are all over stuff when it goes down. I regularly get to talk to actual real product managers and engineers via our enterprise support if anything goes wrong.

Citation needed. Particularly from their operations teams and developers.

Notably a lot of corporations are built on a pile of shit with an immense staff turnover. I know that having worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies...

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No entirely SSD. The problems stopped after a couple of weeks suddenly.

I use a mix of Keychain and MacPass (keepass compatible). I will add something to MacPass, then sign in with it and let Keychain remember it. Notes however:

1. I do not use the MFA capability of Keychain at all. Putting your MFA, username and password in the same store is fucking stupid. I have a hardware TOTP token. Backup codes for that are however kept in Keepass.

2. I keep an offline backup of everything. Never trust a cloud backup!

3. All vendors are ephemeral, regardless of their size. Everything I have I have a carefully planned exit plan for.

As other people have pointed out, your keychain is on disk, but if you lose the Mac and find out your MFA codes don't work or something (this does happen) then you're SOL. Keep a backup.

They never attach it to the monitoring because monitoring systems usually generate a lot of false positives which affect their published SLA.

That's hilarious. Been there, been told that.

That's not a problem with the specific cloud but the clear and obvious fact that windows containers are a fucking shit show disaster. I have a lot of experience with windows containers and there is absolutely no way anyone in their right mind should be putting any workload on this steaming pile of shit.

Network problems, DNS problems, no metrics exporters that work properly, stuck containers all the time, API timeouts, pain in the ass container versioning issues due to breaking kernel APIs. If you've ever had to attempt to get support on it either, you'll quickly find that no one at MSFT has any idea how the hell it works either. They literally just wanted the box to tick.

Also running docker for windows has made our devops engineers suicidal because it's the same turd there.

Persistent problems between Azure VMs and virtual disks causing unexpected reboots. Complete outages. And don't even start me on ACI (for Windows). It doesn't even work.

In 7 years we had one AWS AZ outage and we didn't even notice because our monitoring platform in there couldn't reach the network (learned something!). But nothing broke. Even the us-east-1 outages didn't affect us.

SMTP is the only API that should be considered.

I am entirely behind it being said everywhere over and over again :)

Migrating stuff off it now to AWS (not my stuff). Couldn't agree more. Total shit show.

The biggest issue I have with data lakes is they always without fail turn into a data cesspool. The more you add the less ROI you get out. And yes using Splunk as an example it becomes an organisational cost problem. I have spent way too many hours arguing with them over billing.

The only viable solution is design metrics into your platform properly from the ground up rather than trying to suck them out of a noisy datasource for megabucks.

I did this. I am still dead inside. Thank goodness all my production shit has a managed control plane and network.

You can but that multiplies complexity somewhat. I have spent 25 years dealing with outbound email from various things from country level ISPs down to small web apps and the only way to not die inside a little is to send via one of the larger providers (O365/Google/iCloud/Yahoo/AWS SES etc).

I had to even dump Fastmail because they had delivery issues with Yahoo.

Honestly I've tried all of the VPS services and they're problematic. They are barrel scraping companies generally and some services literally block their entire networks. And occasionally their data centres catch fire. And of course the moment you get a minor billing issue you find all your VMs also catch fire. Also with any VPS, don't expect to be able to send emails from it. That's not going to happen even if you manage to beg enough for them to let you send them because no one will listen to SMTP from a VPS.

If I was going to go with anyone I would use AWS. Their stuff works better than any other company I've found and also support is actually existent. But expect to pay for it.

I don't want to pay for it so I keep my DNS and static web content on S3/CloudFront/R53 and let Apple handle the cloudy shit like email, calendars etc. Both AWS and iCloud+ cost me about £4 a month in total.

Someone will own you in one way or another. Better to leverage that and have an exit plan than not leverage it and cost yourself time, money and sanity because that's the real outcome of what you want to do.

Actually it's a little more nuanced than that. If you buy an activation locked MacBook from a registered business in the UK and have an authentic receipt for it, Apple will unlock it. I know someone who has been through that process.

If the device is marked in lost in iCloud though, it isn't happening.

Ergo if you're going to risk it, stick it on a credit card.

It does work. Someone grabbed my Lumia 830 off me, realised it was a Windows Phone and chucked it in the grass.

They tend to call themselves recyclers in the trade not resellers. They buy crates of these and play the probability game. They make more money on making frankenlaptops than actually stripping and recycling them. In fact most of them don't even recycle stuff themselves and subcontract that out periodically to other companies that actually do it.

They are getting pissy because Apple trashed their probability game.

That's likely and it's nothing compared to what I've seen.

I've seen businesses shred crates of completely unused and unprovisioned top of the line 16" macbook pros.

It remember building a 4 node Beowulf cluster out of discarded compaq desktops and then having no idea what to do with it.