Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.If really wanted to have them, you'd need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, ...
Is doch OK, dann haben die Konsumenten den schaden nach wie vor für bereits bezahltes. Sollte man als Denkzettel sehen für den Wahlgewinn eines Idioten.
Ja, viele können nix dafür innerhalb der USA, außerhalb der USA kann aber auch keiner was dafür, und innerhalb hättens wenigstens die Möglichkeit was dagegen zu tun früher so wie zukünftig.
It's their only service, they make money by customers paying them to host their photos. They don't subsidise by crawling through all of your photos, mails, documents and then use that information to display Search and YouTube ads getting money from advertisement seals.
If its too expensive for you then it's what it is, but it's unrealistic to expect small scale competitors to outperform big tech offerings on every front.
What about hetzner storeagebox? https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box/ with client side encryption ? It's cheap and reliable, supports all common file transfer methods - the encryption can and likely should anyway be done by your preferred backup tool?
My company subscribed to Jetbrains Juno (or Juni?)Not using it actually yet as I don't like those tools much too, but it seems to be good according to colleagues. Not sure though if it uses a M$, GPT, Claude or Gemini model via API behind the scenes. But at least Jetbrains gets a cut, which is a CZ company.
If I use tools like those, I stick to Mistral.You can use something like aider.chat with a Mistral API key, or directly use the CLI tool provided by them https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli.
I use the CLI from Mistral directly, works very well. But mostly use it only for generating test stubs and stuff like that.
Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring.
I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don't want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.
+1 for Mailbox. Turned a fan since I started using it seriously. Actually it can do much more as it replaced the whole Google Suite for me. Especially the office capabilities are quite astounding.
Yeah, they've been a long time, but only since Trump 2.0 made it crystal clear such that even politicians can now see it. So pls guys do something about it. You get a lot of taxpayer money, use it wisely ffs
Let's Encrypt afaik just makes use of the ACME protocol. There are already ACME providers out there to be used. I know because I switched from Cloudflare SSL to one, and deliberately avoided using Let'sEncrypt instead.
I completely switched my behaviour. Even my Halloween costume I bought from funidelia.at, a spanish company - can recommend, was nice quality and not overpriced.
My supplements I buy from ESN and Rocka Nutrition (germany companies), and on the digital side I'm super happy (since already quite a while) with my mailbox.org (also german) subscription. Wouldn't give it away any more now that I have it, it's super neat and worth every penny.
Great news! It's much more beneficial for all involved parties. Also, as the article mentions, moving to FOSS doesn't mean you're on your own. Just like Microsoft "Partners" help with integration and smooth operation, there are similar agencies offering the same services for FOSS solutions.
Not only that, but feedback and bugfixes to FOSS software indirectly benefits others too instead of some Microsoft manager.
So, good use of tax money benefiting citizens and everyone else!
Regular Linux Mint might run OK, but you'll get more performance with a more resource cautious Desktop Environment like XFCE.
Both can be booted in live mode too to do the file backup first, and then you can proceed with the installation.
I have a similar Notebook, which I've setup with Xubuntu as my DIY Chromebook. It's not a Chromebook of any kind, but I put Vivaldi Browser on Autostart and mostly use it for browsing, works great and still runs apps fine if really needed.
I also noticed them being quite slow on proposed changes.
I resorted to using CoMaps and Mapy.com.
CoMaps directly up streams to OpenStreetMap, which is cool as it benefits everyone, and Mapy.com is cool for real-time stuff.
Sorry, might be off-topic
Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.If really wanted to have them, you'd need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, ...