lol looks like malware
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gotta ask copilot to make a perpetual crack
It keeps getting funnier as a spectator. Thanks Microslop for all the laughs. I use Arch btw.
Arch??? I look forward to when you become a big boy and graduate to NixOS 😊 Let me know when you join the club fella
One hand yeah. I fortunately run Linux at work and most of Microsoft's fuckups are just fun Lemmy threads for me.
But the company is a Dell + M365 corporation like the last few places I've worked, so I DO get the privilege of using Teams and Outlook in a browser. Good lord has it been slow lately, but good on them at least for the functionality being there.
Between what?
I also use arch but have to use teams for work lol
"Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry" is the standard feeling when using that product.
It’s fucking wild to me that anyone ever convinced anyone in enterprise to shift to cloud and SaaS offerings in the first place.
You really thought it would be cheaper forever to give all your IT to someone else? You didn’t think you were getting captured?
You thought it was a good idea to store all your data on someone else’s servers, who have control over access to your information and, in most cases, can probably read it? And that if they raised prices or did something you didn’t like such as analysis or AI training on it, you weren’t completely held hostage by this?
It didn’t set off alarm bells that all the SaaS stuff seemed less featureful and more buggy?
That every workstation was now a recurring subscription?
That you now have to pay extra to get different software to interact with each other?
You thought there would never be any downtime? You thought if there was that you would make up the cost by contractual discounts?
It’s a good goddamn thing that I didn’t know how fucking stupid adults were when I was a kid or I’d have been scared for my fucking life for so many more years.
No one ever gets fired for buying IBM or Microsoft. I remember years ago I put together a plan for all opensourced, mature software on Linux hosts for my company. Would have saved us 6 figures in coats. They went with microsoft's crappy solution instead because it was Microsoft.
They wanted somebody else to be ultimately liable for problems, not themselves.
They wanted less headcount, especially amongst employees that are more intelligent than they are.
They wanted to handle things via gladhandling and 'business negotiations', not actual strategy snd design.
And it doesn't help that actually running your own working mail server in 2026 is a fucking ball-ache. Especially if you don't want every big provider to mark all your mail as spam. Email has been captured by big tech.
Even people who self host a lot of stuff usually don't bother with it.
For me it's the security side of self-hosting anything connected to the internet. Keeping on top of all the security updates is a chore.
That's exactly what they want‽
Most of my career is built on MS's stack (I fell into .NET development and got good at it. Now I'm in the same boat as COBOL, Java, and Ruby-on-Rails devs: I'm basically a software doula.)
Every job I go into now I'm reccomending they get a migration plan for self-hosting and self-owning. The American tech system is collapsing. AI is causing massive ruptures in knowledge: it obscures searches, it deskills devs, it's castrated the junior-senior-principle ladder such that we're not training enough developers to even pass along all of the knowledge of how current systems work. SaaS is reaching the enshittification threshold and all those businesses that moved everything into the cloud are about to discover that they're hostages and the sinking empire will drag down a lot of collateral damage with it.
Wait, how does Ruby-on-Rails fit with those other ones? Is it a dying framework?
Ruby on Rails was always fringe but will always have its advocates
Yep.
Its... pretty much apocalyptic.
C Suite finally 'won'; they decided they could do the job of engineers.
They can't, of course, but their hubris will burn down the world before they admit they don't know something.
Not that my tiny customers have enough of an IT budget to buy their own servers with the recent price hike on memory and ssds.
Most of our customers are priced out of the hardware we bought zhrough the official distributor channel.
They hiked the prices to 100% of the previous batch.
Meanwhile we bought what we could from numerous resellers to make it DIY.
Not many small customers can afford to drop 10k on a mid/low tier enterprise grade hardware (2x 1.92TB TLC SSDs, RAID controller, Intel E-2434, 64GB DDR5 RAM)
A few months ago this was (fully assembled mind you) around 2-3k
Self hosting doesn't necessarily imply you need your own hardware.
Vegetarians nowadays eat eggs, vegans wear leather and self-hosters do it on someone else's computer.
I'm old and grumpy and will stick to calling the modern vegetarians lacto-ovo-vegetarians, tell the modern vegans that veganism is a lifestyle not a diet and insist that a VPS on Hetzner is hosted by Hetzner, even if you have to manage and maintain the VM.
I have also found that self-hosting, even with your own hardware, is significantly cheaper than the premium cloud hosting (AWS, etc). We priced out a VM server at my company and we found we could rebuy the hardware for it every FIVE months, just from the cloud hosting costs. And that is if we were decently disciplined about turning VMs on and off every day (which we all knew was a fantasy).
That caused us to strike out the premium providers. Leaving us with the non-premium ones (Digital Ocean, etc), co-locating, or in-house hosting.
Use a Cronjob to turn the servers on or off.
Automate everything you can
I hear you. Personally I never understood the appeal of costly hosting at AWS and such. It just always seemed so expensive. The only benefit it provided, imho, is when you legitimately need to scale very quickly or if you've got a really huge variance in load.
Everything else? My own servers please, and thank you for reading 😁
I bet it's great if your business is Spirit Halloween.
What I read so far:
The dynamic scaling is what makes it worth it.
Many of the traditional hosting offerings just give you a monolithic VPS/dedicated hardware.
But if you want to up/downscale depending on peak demand during lunch hour it get's complicated.
I'm of the opposite opinion - would you mind elaborating on how a selfhosted-on-nonowned-hardware setup would work?
I believe you, but many people self host on rented hardware for various reasons. For example "proper" self hosting comes with upfront cost. But self hosting ln a VPS comes with reliability, uptime, predictability. But you're still the master of the software you host, of backups, etc.
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Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.
That’s ~~numberwang~~ Microslop!
One that admins can't even disable, it's bizarre.
You can actually. You have to disable self service licensing for that specific license
Only way to fix this is for people and corps to stop giving them money for anything.
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