Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Ideas:
But the article here reads like, “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. Have ads…”
I would prefer Mozilla to ask. Some options:
Eh, I care about a third: browser engine diversity. If they drop Gecko, I’m out, there’s literally nothing left to keep me here.
Eh, they’ve been speedrunning this for years, this is just the most efficient way to get to the end goal of complete ruin.
I have a few alternative ideas, but I honestly don’t think they’re interested in hearing them.
Fair. Here are some that I find to be pretty consistently competitive:
I’ve used each and liked each. They’re rarely the absolute cheapest, but they are usually competitive at all tiers with no pretty much no shenanigans. I’m currently with Hetzner, which has been good for the few months I’ve been with them, but I’ve spent multiple years with the other two.
Idk, most of the bigger VPS services don’t have anything like that. Yeah, they have higher tiers, but you usually get similar or better value as you go up.
It’s a browser for Android based on Firefox with some privacy-related settings enabled.
And it’s a school of thought I happen to agree with. :) But OP specifically called out homelab vs VPS.
I use a VPS and generate static sites using Hugo. Works fine.
I could host it in my network, but I don’t see a point, and I’d really rather not have a power outage or loss of internet break my site (much more likely at home than at a datacenter). I host pretty much everything else within my network though.
What’s with that crazy price jump from $23/year to $18/month? Doubling RAM and cores increases prices by 9x? 2GB RAM and 2 cores is $5-6 at Hetzner, no idea how they think $18/month for 1GB RAM and 2 cores is competitive in any way, that’s a bit of a dark pattern IMO…
I switched from Vultr to Hetzner, mostly because I was annoyed at the screen-blocking prompt to accept the new EULA (included forced arbitration). Hetzner still has the forced arbitration, but the prices are good and I haven’t found anything to be especially annoyed at.
Really? That’s so odd, I thought as long as you’re not running an exit node, you should be fine. TIL, I’ll have to check my ISP’s policies before setting one up then.
Yeah, 100M is a no-go for me since my ISP provides much more than 100M, and streaming full-res videos would bottleneck that pretty quick.
1G is probably fine for us, but we’ll probably go 2.5G minimum the next time I need to swap out switches, maybe 10G.
Yeah, I trust Mikrotik much more than Trendnet, though I’m happy to use Trendnet for internal switches.
the manufacture published a firmware patch for before any public disclosure was made
They were pretty quick for the stable branch, so I guess the miss is prioritizing it for LTS. But if it’s just the one time, I’m completely fine with that.
Do be aware that Backblaze drive access patterns will probably be quite different from yours. So if there’s a really good deal on something with a bit higher failure rate, but your usage pattern is pretty tame, it may be worth taking the gamble.
But at least you mean well.
I don’t think you even need to try very hard…
One that I wasn’t sure about asked about a NAS. It seemed the question was about dedicated NAS devices, and I built my own NAS (desktop PC + drives + btrfs + samba, etc).
I answered “no,” but I think it would be interesting to capture that distinction in the next one. I.e. Do you use a NAS product?
And then a follow-up about what that NAS offers (i.e. just NAS stuff, or can it host apps?).
Ideas: