No way. People like me purchase a steady supply of standardized machines at a fair cost. Bigger companies than I’ve worked for want a lease agreement. We pay $X for Y units, you come in and swap them in 3, 4, or 5 years, rinse and repeat. We also need robust tech support, both from the manufacturer and wide user base. No way I’d suggest management purchase Frameworks.

Framework is awesome for individuals as you can upgrade! No one in their right mind wants to hassle with upgrading a fleet of hundreds, thousands, or 10’s of thousands of machine. You talking about pets when business requires cattle.

https://www.hava.io/blog/cattle-vs-pets-devops-explained

Great question! And BTW, thousands upon thousands of those “old” cattle are available on eBay from sellers who make a living moving off-lease machines. I’d never buy new. LOL, I bought servers that way from savemyserver! Boss came by while I was setting up a new server. “Is that new?!” “Nope.”

Funny enough, job before last I was buying all Dell. Next job, all X1 Carbons and the occasional Mac for the devs.

The studio will find a way to quietly torpedo this monstrosity. Trump’s dementia can’t lock onto an idea for more than a week, he’ll be saying this was a dumb idea next month.

My IT experience is fading fast so can anyone explain this bit?

block the access of users connected via VPN

I’m running a Digital Ocean droplet on the other side of the Pond with my own, static IP. How could a site detect I’m using a VPN? Imgur blocks me if it’s on. How do they know?!

A real man shouldn’t tie himself to a single woman. A real man should be fucking everything he can get his hands on.

There ya go!

You can scribble eyeballs on a wall with a sharpie and people will behave more honestly.

Phtevan is back!

I collect Casios. Most get into my hands with dead batteries. Never had issues fixing them up, so I’m not sure what you mean by “disposable”. All standard screws, pins, etc. ?

Goes for ex-coworkers as well.

Only thing I have against it is the air-headed, simple-minded take of most on lemmy. I’ve asked a dozen times how socialism stops money from funneling to the top and into the hands of a few. Never once got an answer. Look in this thread right now! There’s not one real definition, just the usual capitalism bad, socialism good, take.

Best government and economic system I’ve seen in human history is a capitalist economic model with serious guard rails and “socialism” for the government. I put socialism in quotes because the word means to lemmings whatever they want it to mean, so the term is wishy washy.

So? Don’t fucking buy it! Has that never occurred to some y’all? If the rest of the world had my purchasing habits we’d already be looking at Depression 2.0.

Lemmy celebrates ANY thing not mainstream.

Also lemmy, “FUCK YOU FOR USING A WEIRD LETTER!!!”

Sxan should come out and say, “I’m a trans, queer, neurodivergent, furry, drag queen communist with Tourette’s Syndrome, ADHD and autism, so I have to replace ‘th’ with ‘þ’ or I’ll suicide. I like pictures of little girls in sexy attire. It’s ANIME, you wouldn’t understand. And if you could mix animals into my sexy anime? Perfect! Also, I have stuff up my butt 24x7.”

They’d be the most popular person in this place.

the terminal lover trans animeweeb crowd

So? Lemmy?

This may not suit you, but for me and my skills, it’s a perfect Photoshop clone. All in the browser! Blows the doors off Gimp anyway.

https://www.photopea.com/

This whole thread is blowing my mind. Second you said car chase I imagined a red car chasing a yellow car, but that may be because you mentioned color. Woman’s voice? I get a somewhat husky tone, not saying anything in particular, but if she was, I’d hear it. No idea what authors are on about with voices being “contralto” and such. And yes! I can hear the clang!

My architect buddy wanted to hire me to handle IT, do drafting in my down time. He met me managing a reprographics shop, blueprint place. “I can’t look at a blueprint and visualize what it’s going to look like.”

LOL, he looked like I slapped him! Totally alien thought to that man.

I liked it well enough! Bit much on the product placement, and no, it’s not much like the original books, but it hits on the murder mystery aspects of Asimov’s work.

I’m short and scrawny, can I just have this one thing?!

I’m mainly going by what I saw in the locker room in 7th and 8th grade. Them tall boys were packing hogs, black guys had longer, skinnier dicks and the popular white guys… let’s just say they stood straight out, no hang. I didn’t walk out with any insecurities.

Elon OTOH, those shoes are stuffed with newspaper.

Alas, that would be like posting a skinny pig. Hard to call him a “hog”, no meat on the bone.