• albsen@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    its us-east-1 as usual, I guess its that time of the year. and the companies haven’t changed either… so, basically the IT guys told the budget approvers we need more money they calculated it and said, no. see you next year for another one.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the “smart” appliances don’t work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a “0” as return value when asking for the preferred temperature…

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      There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.

      It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.

      If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain mobile data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.

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      It’s not that far off. I woke up to an Internet outage and none of my home lighting routines fired off and I couldn’t control my lights via wifi. I got it under control shifting to Bluetooth but for a second it was infuriating.

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        the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling

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          Games that require persistent internet are baffling to me… I mean the hitman games cannot store your mission achievements offline…

          But games are games… if my stove and fridge and showers (fucking showers with wifi?) Need internet connectivity then that is bullshit. They are being too fucking optimistic about everything.

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            Games like that are also baffling to me, thankfully I’ve not purchased one but I would return it as soon as I discovered the limitation if that were to happen

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    4 hours ago

    Kinda neat that nothing I use has actually been affected.

    The only thing that’s affected is my service for cryptocurrency, which I only use for short term volatility plays anyways.

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    7 hours ago

    Trying to log into AWS this morning for work, and while I’m waiting for the errors to clear out I stumbled upon this article. Thanks for posting!

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      See mr bossman my shitposting is a feature!

      How else would i know AWS is down without doom scrolling through 30 bean memes.

      : D

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.

  • architect@thelemmy.club
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    6 hours ago

    Cloud confections dazzle the eye, but sugar highs eventually die.

    Measure, simplify, shred the bloat; the sweetest stack is one you wrote.

    (This sugar bill will sink the boat.)

    Oompa Loompa doopity doo, I’ve got another problem for you…