Itâ(TM)s 2024. Who buys on premise servers anymore? Itâ(TM)s all cloud these days and these big customers would looove to outsource to AWS and Azure their expensive infrastructure and fire their infrastructure guys to cut costs as we head into a recession.

Cut the nose to despise the face. Where I work we just decommissioned our last server. We are now 100% cloud.

VMware wonâ(TM)t have any customers left itâ(TM)s it isnâ(TM)t cheaper to stay in house and no proxmox is not something I would bet my job or my companies survival on. No proven reliability nor support. Our IT director job has less than 1% downtime per year

You do know Sudo was invented on BSD Unix back in 1980 according to the man pages.

Linux Mint is stable and closest to Ubuntu with no snap

I saw comments just like this back in 2001 and 2009 here on slashdot lol.

If the government is stupid enough to do bank bailouts like in 2020 we will have massive inflation yet again and these companies will over hire and pay people not to work to keep competitors starved of employees and the cycle repeats and cars will then start at 70k and home mortgages will start at 4k a month for starter homes. People will riot if this happens.

We will have a recession and wages will go back to normal and housing and cars will crash like they did 15 years earlier back to normal and then things will return to nromal.

The point is companies until last year and in the late 1990s were willing to train or move people into these positions due to demand and lack of supply within budget constraints.

Now the market is switching back to normal as the demand was fueled by bailout and 0% interest loans which bloated the share prices of these faang aka .com companies so they overhired.

Now since you can earn 6.5% interest in a savings account the share price needs to grow more than that a year and the cost to pay the lines of credit moves up to hire people not to work (which they admitted was to hurt competitors) not to grow the company.

Prices as I saw in 2002 dropped. I remember 175k salaries for senior unix admins (in 1999 prices!!) turn into 60k a year contractor only no benefits by 2002. Things go up and down on value base do market demand and supply also gets impacted by laid off workers. Shortages in good times like 2020 and 1999 it is the opposite. Home prices are about to crash again too just like in 2009.

There was a shortage.

The cause of this and inflation are simply. An expansion of money supply. Bad government policies.

If a company needs to grow at all costs and have awesome liquity ratios (which means assets like money over debt + costs) the shareprice goes up. When this is low the share price goes down.

When borrowing costs and government bailouts from the Covid in 2020 threw out free money all the .com's took a shit ton of debt at .5% interest or something stupid low. If not hedge funds in London and Wall Street were taking .5% loans and investing ... viola SHARE PRICE HIGHS!

With extra $$$ they hired and hired and hired as it they were loaded with free money and wanted to hurt competitors by taking talent off the market.

Now since the debt is up and no income is earned the shareholders are asking for money since it costs now 6.5% interest and if the share price grows less than 6.5% then keeping it in a savings account is a better investment.

So we lay them all off to cut costs.

I think no kid out of school should be working at home earning 180k a year to moderate content data at reddit. Sorry, but it is a gaslight to us all timers who had to work harder for 20 years and still never earn that money. Economics are back in reality now.

To me it proves that maybe using gold and having a sane Federal Reserve is more important than use it as a political tool. I am still a democrat but it is getting harder and harder seeing stuff like this damaging people's investments and lives.

That is unethical. Only the shareholders and customers should be taken care of. You are robbing them essentially.

I know that sounds harsh and inhuman, but that is reality. You wouldn't want to pay $25 for a big mac meal or $50,000 for a Honda Civic because 1/3 of the cost went to terminated poor employees.

No one owes you a job. It is a right to work contract if anything.

Every contract I have signed (I am not even counting consulting/contracting) is that I can be let go at any time and i can let them go any time. However, its best to stick 2 years and give a 2 week notice and I can receive a reference.

Yes employers are worried about being sued but that is not a right. Only leadership typical gets severance and most of the time it is worth the savings not paying severance over possible legal issues.

Welcome to corporate America 101. Lol.

In my 46 years on Earth I have never received a severance package.

It is always go file for unemployment and get the hell out of my office. Why pay people not to work if the sole reason to let people go is to cut costs. If you pay everyone 6 months or 2 quarters then no money was saved letting them go?

Azure is the best cloud platform. I know I am going to get flamed but AWS is very expensive and has too many products that are thinly functional and lock you in more than any com/win32 garbarge I have seen 20 years ago. I am not saying Azure is perfect or doesn't offer lock in.

It is much easier to get started in Azure and Microsoft is adding AI with ChatGPT and CoPilot and is ahead over AWS in this area as well as existing integrations.

I am not much of an AWS expert but I am being trained at work and I do not like how it is setup and how so many components depend on another which have another subscription. We now pay millions upon millions a year and can't leave it.

I am being kind of forced to train in AWS and I do not like it compared to Azure. It is expensive and overly complex while Azure is gaining AI and will soon be integrated with ChatGPT and CoPilot. Azure is ahead in many areas compared to AWS and it integrates well with the Microsoft Ecosystem.

Lol. Not where I am at. We all use Python and node.js with a touch of typescript for our whole product stack across our AWS and Azure environment and have never seen scalability problems. I have not seen java servlets in a long time. They are quite niche like php these days.

Sounds like you need more senior level developers

The company I works for runs HP workstations on Ubuntu. Works great. The only issues I've had are with the discrete nVidia graphics, which uses proprietary drivers that work great - when they work. Even the smallest kernel update seems to make them crap out in a big way. It's kind of unfortunate that you can't run a high-end workstation on Linux without these issues, but fortunately, I can live with an older kernel.

Exactly. Background performers who barely got credit for being in the movie in the first place will be first to go. Then, then smaller roles who don't have many scenes or are far enough away from the "camera" that you can't really tell - imagine the low-level mooks being shot by the hero protagonist across a battlefield or busy chaotic scene, for instance.

This is what will end up killing acting as a viable career. If only the big names with existing huge fanbases can still get paid, there's no ladder to climb to get to be a big name actor, unless you already made your fanbase outside of cinema.

While I can certainly understand the resistance, now is probably about the last time in history that a considerable number of people will be able to earn money just by showing up and looking pretty in front of a camera. They should take the chance before it's too late.

For any actor who isn't a capital-B Big Name, who will pull in audiences by virtue of their existing fanbase alone, they will shortly be replaced by generated actors who never complain, never go on strike, always do their jobs perfectly on the first try, and come in packs of hundreds at the cost of a few VFX guys to twiddle the buttons.

The tech already exists, the toy version that can run on a smartphone is used by vtubers and the sort for their streams. In the professional big studio version it will replace actors and acting as an occupation.