Convertibles and coupes are also a dying breed.

No sex?

I mean, could always cuddle with them.

Where is “here”?

Embarrassed to let it hear you wanking?

That doesn’t answer the question. What determines “$1800 worth of tokens”? Is that value calculated from computer time-infrastructure cost? Is it what they think an equivalent of work would be for the time it takes the query to run? Or is it an entirely arbitrary number?

If the last one, most likely they’re running at a loss and it’s gonna bite them hard when the bill is due for infrastructure.

What determines the value of a token? Is it Standley Nickels calculation, or did they actually attempt to tie it out to infrastructure and operating costs? If the latter, then anyone using these systems needs to be prepared for a serious rug pull as that’s squarely in “the first hit is free” territory.

Oh fuck off with your whitewashing. Majority of these AI installations are LLMs. Look at what Oracle, Grok, OpenAI, Microsoft and more have been trying to build off. It’s all an infrastructure race that is hurting us all (physically too if you look at how they’re being powered).

The sooner it collapses, the better.

Nah, we’ll adapt. There are already bacteria that can break down and eat plastic. At some point, someone will have a genetic mutation in their gut bacteria that also causes it to breakdown and consume plastic and then the probiotic industry will be tripping all over itself to patent and sell it to us.

So I still don’t get where it’s “forced”. I downloaded a 25H2 ISO a couple weeks ago and installed on a VM from scratch. I chose Work computer, and under other options “Domain Join”. It asked me to create a local account…. And that was it.

The only thing I can think is it’s for “Home” editions, which you wouldn’t want to run anyway as that’s where all the testing crap goes.

That’s the one I got too.

Just note if your company uses Bitwarden enterprise, you’re eligible for a free personal license. (Unless they changed that)

My hate of SystemD is further justified! And you all just called me gray haired and not willing to update with the times!

Got news for you with the Datacenters…

I mean, I think they were looking for a little more detail that that.

“Private cloud” has always been a synonym for “on-premise”. I’ve managed Datacenter infrastructure for decades and always referred to it to on-premise before private cloud even became a term. It basically is referring to Datacenter space you own or rent vs another company’s servers and DCs.

Hell, I’ve worked in companies where they had Datacenter space in the same building as their office (and not small either, one was 32 racks, another was almost 200). So that very much was “on-premise”

I see the approach of Outposts, just don’t know if I agree with it. Part of the point is it lets you have a dedicated, isolated, on-premise platform without the need to train existing engineers/admins on a secondary technology like Nutanix, ProxMox, etc.

So your calculus should include the cost to rent vs dedicated head count (and let me tell you, companies fucking hate headcount).

Now all that being said, I have yet to see a situation where it really is more cost effective, especially due to the things you mentioned.

There are no stupid questions, only inquisitive idiots.

It passed the unit test, it must be good!

And the plagiarism part? There’s a difference between derivative work based on the spirit of someone else’s work and flat out using someone else’s work. It’s the whole reason those laws exist.

They just finished laying Google Fiber in my neighborhood and I was looking at switching. Guess I’m holding on that.