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

Not greed. Population increase of 300% since 1990 made prices go up 300%> Add cheap free money by The Fed which caused inflation and risky loans and prices will skyrocket.

Look at the auto market as an example. Beaters went up 400% for broken salvage grade cars with 200k miles now. Too little car and too many people wanting car made prices ecplode

Increase supply and demand will fall. More apartments is the answer NOT the problem.

For the bos whinnying about greed remember 100 million illegal immigrants and a boom of millennials as big as the boomers entered the market. 1990 US population= 200 million. 2021 = 700 million! Population has increased 300% therefore mortgage/rent prices went up 300%. Increase th supply 300% and wait for boomers to die = prices to return. Simple 101

His point was thanks to inflation and free money from the Fed means companies could over hire for non productive employees that normally wouldn't happen. Iowa as a result lacked employees.

Maybe not from Meta specifically. Capitalism ensures the optimal amount of productive employees.