Proxmox is free and stable with great management tools.
It also has Proxmox backup server which has time compaction and file level restore.
We run about 60 VMs with 6 servers and 2 SANs, have dashboard monitoring for it all. Been rock solid.

These always Pig Stomachs or Clay Pots!

In Austalia, a poof is a homosexual.
I think you meant puff!

Not fit to weigh in on this one, only to comment that a lot of people might envy having those same engineering problems that first engaged you in school, still your reason to tear-hair decades on in the career.

Linus is actually farther along in his career arc than the pond scum that had to go apologize to Congress for their products this week; an apology cheerfully given, as it was not just cheap, but free. Congress has no intention of actually legislating or regulating away their oligopoly and their freedom to continue.

But Linus gets to argue about inodes this week, and sleep well, and as I understand it, still worth millions anyway, sleeping in a fine bed, eating the best of foods. He picked medium chill.
https://grist.org/living/2011-...

If you can put on panels, save money on electricity, pay off the panels, then the "solar industry" is fine. Just as "build a house, sell for more than it cost to build" remained a solid industry before and after 2008. It was the FINANCIALIZATION scheme built upon those sold, real-life, industries that fell over - just like 2008, most likely. I'm sure a lot of lying was involved, again.

The Left play the victim hood game WAY better than the right. In fact their whole culture is based around victimhood of class oppression.

Use the JustWatch app

My wife adored her 27" imac retina until the motherboard borked itself.
I replaced it with a macbook pro + 40" 4k OLED monitor. She would still prefer the 27" imac though.

I've always thought that patents should be exponential in cost to own.
1st patent $100/year
10th patent $1k/year/patent
100th patent $10k/yr/patent
etc etc

Also,in Australia. The USA though is quasi 2nd world with a high criminal element which makes self checkout ‘problematic’.
I still, prefer Aldi though who scan items about 5 times faster than I can.

We are a small windows shop with 6 physical servers and around 60vms that moved from hyperv to Proxmox. Proxmox works great and has built in backup solutions that also rock.

I’ve had tinnitus for 24years bilateral at 9kHz constant tone 24x7.
I can hold a hair dryer up to head and still hear it.

It’s similar to chronic pain and the body has a flight or fight reaction. CBT attempts to break the fight/flight relationship which usually takes many years.
Lots of snake oil treatments around.
https://generalfuzz.net/acrn/ Can give some temporary relief.
Tinnitustalk.com is also a good summary of treatments and research.

VAG would be WAY better off by increasing their reliability than putting talking trinket in their cars.
Everyone I know who have had a VW product have had problems with electric handbrakes, or engine sensors, fuel pumps, injectors.
Stay away!

Oh, my mistake was believing large newspapers that had headlines and first lines like:

Bush drops plan to break up Microsoft

The US government *unexpectedly* announced yesterday...Although most legal experts considered a break-up unlikely, few expected the government to remove the option from the negotiating table.,,"surprised and perplexed that they have done this as it seems to be contrary to the way the proceedings had unfolded. They have cut their own legs out from under them."

etc etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

You write as if the DOJ had "just decided" their case was weak and they should settle. They were clearly ordered to.

If you'd like details on the much-older case of IBM and Reagan, the book "Big Blue" by Richard Thomas Delamarter told it in great detail, and how crushed a large DOJ team was by Reagan's fiat. The Microsoft case was similarly stark, to those on the inside.

Oh, right, you meant "valuable" to the investors, not to the world.

Successfully creating a monopoly, illegally defending it but getting away with that after found guilty in antitrust court when Bush ordered the case dropped, the way Reagan did for the IBM case, does create "value" for investors.

But it is rent-collection, and Keynes joked (we think) about the "euthanasia of the rentiers" needed for progress towards that 3-day week he dreamed of.