it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper

…and that turns it into a skills game vs a bad gamble.

And people who don’t wanna hire pros to manage their on-prem think they can maybe, just maybe, win that skill game.

And that’s how casinos that don’t launder their games of chance through clowd sign-ups also leverage dunning-kruger for profit.

This looks very nice.

Um, you know you’re supposed to keep dev tools in dev, right? Npm->commit->release payload without npm. Far fewer supply-chain exploits.

Still crutching on containers?

minimum spends

When you’re not on the car lot, the word is “budgets”.

… Carefully and with caution.

Choosing packages by popularity? Is that like choosing physiotherapy clinics by the font on the sign?

Comma splice akimbo.

Smart money re-diversifies into more stable markets.

This will help fulfill the bubble prophesy that much faster.

This isn’t about people choosing one bad voice chatter over another. This is people who can’t bother to use the best tool for the job.

(And web fora aren’t it)

From a security and os build perspective, they’re all absolutely horrific.

No need to look up how to do a clean install.

The suggestion you don’t know that enterprise OSes have been doing clean installs and removals of a product and all its dependencies for 25 years as a critical test before issuing said packages suggests you’re working around too many problems without solving them.

We did devops by pxe-based kickstart and then simple package updates before devops was even a word. It still does better than Ansible does now.

Still container crutches?

Dependency hell is self-inflicted, but sparkle-junkie devs are complicit: it’s their fault they don’t know of long-term-support enterprise OSes and don’t use one as a primary port.

Still on container crutches?

The Finnish Marticulation Examination

It’s ‘matriculation’, right? Both times? Is that part of the test?

I can hear the goalposts moving.

There are products that will let you back up onto your buddy’s free space and vice-versa, but the simplest pricy thing you can do is to drop a NAS at a friend’s place and set up a VPN.

But maybe the monthly fee is okay for now. Maybe consider proton for files instead?

I don’t host on containers because I used to do OS security for a while.

a […] software

Mass nouns don’t work like that, my dude.

a simple ask

Remember, when you’re off the car lot, the word is ‘request’ or ‘question’.