Our younger kids have had school issued chromebooks since they were in kindergarten. They seem to mostly be used for roblox, mindcraft, and surfing "school safe" youtube. On the rare occasion that I see actual "school work" happening, it's more like a game than actual education. So we've redirected most of their after school time to team sports and playing outside. The world seems all stocked up on overweight children that are glued to games and screens. I'll make sure they know how to use computers, tablets, etc, but it's not going to be their constant companion or a viable alternative to actual social interaction and exercise.

You'll know we've reached that stage when there is armed conflict over control of Lake Baikal.

If you think you can escape transactional money grabs and lock-in by moving from VMWare to Big Blue as a hypervisor platform, you're kidding yourself. It doesn't matter if it's Z/OS or Openshift...it'll be a similar experience to getting gouged by Broadcom.

To a new drug to treat male pattern baldness. It's all about monetization of new drugs. Curing 50 people a year for deafness isn't profitable enough for big pharma.

Facebook is a blight on our collective culture and is merely a tool to monetize data that ought to be private.

I found that kids will just sit there and mindlessly watch inane video shorts on youtube for hours. Youtube is blackholed on my home network. Thank you pihole.

How would you tell the difference?

No idea. I haven't been to a theater in years. Not only has it gotten crazy expensive, but there just hasn't been anything worth seeing. How many retreads, sequels, prequels, and hours of nonstop explosions does someone need?

A few years ago, I invested in a nice home theater system and haven't looked back. Occasionally I stream something that the media says is "good" and have been consistently disappointed with the dreck being excreted by the movie industry.

No thanks.

The smoking man always seems to be just one step ahead....

Nutanix's hyper-converged solution is based on Supermicro gear, though they are more recently able to support things like Dell Powerflex as well.

It really depends on the scale you need. Proxmox is really nice, but it doesn't currently scale out very well. In a smaller business, it's perfectly fine though. For a larger enterprise, Nutanix is good and there's always Openstack, which is still growing and is powering some very large commercial and government implementations.

I would agree that ceph isn't for the faint of heart at scale, though there are companies that will provide operational support if you want it.

It didn't take a genius to see what was going to happen. That's 100% in line with Broadcom's past behavior with acquisitions (look at the CA purchase). They'll keep gouging the customers who either can't or won't exit the platform for as long as they can. Changing hypervisor platforms isn't rocket science, but it can take quite a bit of time for a large enterprise to get over the static friction and make the move. The instant the buyout was announced, we started planning our exit. We did a single renewal to buy us sufficient time and then we were out. I would have preferred to spend those cycles and dollars on other things, but Broadcom just isn't a viable partner. Perhaps they're better in the silicon business....but I'll never find out as I won't do business with them again.

Even if you pay the exorbitant prices, Broadcom's support is awful compared to legacy VMWare support. As others have already opined, there are a number of viable alternatives (Nutanix being one of them) including some open source (with professional support) solutions. Good riddance.

I've pretty much stopped visiting linkedin. First it was the pet videos, then the political nonsense, then an onslaught of spam trying to sell shit to me 24/7. Now it's just a place to park my resume.

Good riddance.

Did the transistor companies get taxed to "compensate" the people/companies who made vacuum tubes that would be put out of work? No.

Did Henry Ford get taxed to compensate the people who made horse drawn carriages and saddles? No.

Did the people who made desktop publishing "a thing" get taxed to compensate Linotype manufacturers/operators? No.

etc....

Technology marches on. March with it or get left behind. Why should an entire industry of innovators be taxed to protect people who can't pivot and deal with change? That's not to say that I agree that many of these "AI" companies are offering real value.

Best,

Even for basic level functionality testing. Lord knows how many dragons lurk under the covers. I don't use Windows for anything that I care about. Full stop and there are more and more people in C-level positions at major enterprises that feel the same way every day.