Assuming you mean hosting stuff on a VPS or similar, I think the Lemmy selfhosting communities consider that also self hosting on some level.

If you more meant for commercial hosting, there’s no harm in asking, I’d wager a fair few people subscribed probably work in the industry.

If you meant the behind the scenes stuff of running a hosting provider, you might have a little less luck, but you never know

I was about to take umbrage with that on behalf of millennials, but tbh we are a mess—not entirely through our own doing, of course—but definitely a mess.

Con man? CEO? Hedge fund manager?

But seriously, generally anything having an exponential return in this world is pretty unusual and generally not guaranteed if it’s a desirable outcome.

Particularly in a capitalist economy, the business only has to pay you just enough to not leave for a competitor, they don’t need to pay you the true value of your ability unless you’re basically the only person on the planet with the necessary skills.

On the flip side, in booming industries that require specific skills such as tech, you can generally get a pretty linear progression for a while before it plateaus in a good number of organisations.

It’s called Microsoft 365 now

Office 365 was when it was just a business productivity suite

They renamed it when they pivoted it to a general subscription and started adding things like clipchamp.

I mentioned in another comment though that I agree it would be silly to mess with the professional skus, but the home & family ones would make perfect sense to offer as an option at the very least (just as they’re offering 365 without copilot for the time being).

I’m also not saying get rid of the independent subscriptions for Xbox, that would also be silly.

Just that a merged one would make a lot of sense for the people out there paying for both (which I reckon is a good number in the family subscription category at least)

Sure and it would be silly to mess with the professional tiers

But personal and family subscriptions are fairly squarely positioned towards non-business users as their main demographics, from what I can see.

If they actually bundled a game pass subscription with it and made a proper Microsoft complete subscription they could have softened the bad press they’re getting on this (and giving customers something they’ve wanted for a while)

That and the fact that they’ve nearly doubled the price of the subscription to add a limited credit based feature just looks pretty slimy

This was my first reaction: someone wants the next slot that opens up

Good luck America, enjoy the most egregious cronyism the world has ever seen. It’d be entertaining from an outside perspective if it wasn’t likely to fuck the whole world up.

Yeah 100%

This gets trump assassinated by a three letter organisation

What’s not making it past the editor’s desk today?

Yeah, 9v at the very least, but 15V would be a useful option too.

I’m also just now realising USB-PD doesn’t spec for 12V which feels like an odd omission

Edit:

From the article:

Sure, it wouldn’t be much harder to add support the other voltages offered by USB-C Power Delivery, but how often have you really needed 20 volts on a breadboard? Why add extra components and complication for a feature most people would never use?

My friend, you write for hackaday, this is a weird take

Tbf, these are slightly different things, the one in the OP hooks up to the standard power “rails” on a breadboard. You don’t need to buy a special one with markings specific to a pi or Arduino (or just learn the pin outs). OP’s also has the benefit of not taking up half a breadboard like your example.

Not saying more similar things don’t exist, but for the example you’ve given I think there’s significant enough differences for them to have distinct use cases.

Agree with what another comment said though in that it would be good to select for higher voltage than 5V.

I mean it’s a terrible movie so don’t take this as a positive review, but:

Bruce Willis drove a car through an airborne helicopter in Die Hard 4, there’s always a way with enough pent up vengeance.

Oh, well I guess I hope this mod gets nonviolently hit by a car

I think I’m very similar to you

I want to have a feed of topics I’m interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it’s probably because they’re a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend

Legitimately if they fix the ergonomics and the charging port it might actually not be a terrible choice. I keep the magic trackpad around for gestures whilst using my regular mouse

Piracy is a service problem.

Provide a good enough service and people won’t want to pirate. Anyone that still does in that scenario probably was never going to be a sale anyway.

Provide a bad service and people who would have happily paid get pushed towards piracy. The more people pirating, the better the tools get as you say.

People just want all their shit in one place for a reasonable fee.

It’s not rocket science, they already were there back when Netflix was new, they just let it get shit.

I’m aware, though there’s some nice integration stuff that means you can run GUI applications and share the file system

Interesting fact WSLv1 was actually not a VM and it was the NT kernel speaking POSIX

Oh yeah, I’d say Windows in general just chomps through RAM, but there has been some times that WSL takes it to chrome-like levels

Technically the “Linux on Mac” is Unix based and not Linux, but I agree the dev experience is nicer on my Mac than Windows given the choice. Also rather than docker you can use the WSL stuff on Windows for a much closer to normal Linux dev setup (with a few weird edges).

I end up regularly using all three OSes, so it’s helpful you can finally get a serviceable dev environment on any of the common non-mobile OSes now.

My god I would have killed for something like this 20 years ago

Whenever I develop on Windows, I just use the built in Linux.