IMHO they bet on keeping really big customers that are kind of locked-in by using all the vmware goodies although even those customers protest.

I have used vmware starting in 1999 and stopped using it around 2011 to switch to plain qemu/kvm scripts I wrote myself to run my vms.

Nowadays I use proxmox to run about 100 vms now. I might not have all the vmware goodies but if you are able to write your own scripts, it's easy to implement the missing parts you want although things like cluster management, snapshots, live migration and replication come with proxmox out of the box.

Porting a vm from vmware to proxmox is really easy and you can try it for free by simply changing the update repository from the production one to the dev one which has all the same functionality provided:
deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/de... bookworm pve-no-subscription

All updates make it to the pve-no-subscription first then are graduated to the production one after a while and if you want to run the production version, it's way cheaper than vmware.

Proxmox uses qemu/kvm and most cloud vm providers use something based on qemu/kvm nowadays.

I found that running vmware was only worth when the CPUs didn't have any hypervisor flags back in the days. vmware had a custom linux kernel module you needed to rebuild on every kernel update which was the fastest thing around back then.

"Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027"

If you consider all kind of bots and search engines, this happened quite a while ago IMHO.

I host many websites, some with considerable real human traffic and my experience is that there is much more traffic that isn't human to the point I need to block some IP, use geo blocking and make custom mod_security rules at the reverse-proxy level to detect non-human traffic in order to not waste too much bandwidth and protect against attack bots and bots scanning for vulnerabilities.

As I posted above, Quebec uses 99% hydro and renewable and still has plenty to export. They sell some to Ontario and the maritime provinces but it's more a matter of transmission lines. Selling it to British Columbia or Alberta would be harder at the moment due to the lack of transmission lines as well as transmission losses if there were any. So, there is still some available to sell to the near states in United States at market price there or a bit lower.

By the way, Hydro-Quebec is owned by the government and all the profits go to the government and helps paying the cost of running the government like education, roads and social programs etc. Citizens in Quebec pay around 7 cents a KWh at that's Canadian money where 1 $CAN == 0.70 $US

Just in case some don't know, Quebec use 99% hydro and from renewable electricity and still has quite a bit leftover to export:
https://www.hydroquebec.com/ab...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not sure larger skins really make the target bigger algorithm wise. Maybe it makes the target more visible/noticeable but that would be about it...

Otherwise, the algorithm would have to adjust for each and every skin in real time once a shot is fired.

Just train them with false information.

LOL! Somebody stole the name "Minux":

https://www.minux.io/

Maybe you meant MINIX?

Minux:

I think that you might be confusing the term (T2) some might be using to abbreviate a movie title (Terminator 2) with the terminator models.

Terminator models (there is no T2):
        T-600 (Series 600): Early, large infiltrator model with rubber skin and a slow, clunky design, making it easier for humans to spot.
        T-700: A precursor to the T-800, featuring a more compact design.
        T-800 / T-850 / T-888: The most common and iconic model (Model 101). It uses living tissue over a titanium hyper-alloy endoskeleton for superior infiltration. The T-850 is a more durable, upgraded version with enhanced power cells.
        T-1000: A highly advanced, "liquid metal" Terminator made of mimetic polyalloy, capable of shapeshifting and forming bladed weapons, though vulnerable to extreme temperatures.
        T-X (Terminatrix): Known as the most sophisticated in the original timeline, it combines a solid endoskeleton with a liquid metal outer body, featuring built-in, heavy plasma weaponry.
        T-3000: A John Connor hybrid created by infecting a human with nanomachines, allowing for superhuman strength and rapid regeneration.
        T-5000: A highly advanced, possibly organic-based machine used by Skynet to infect others.
        Rev-9: A specialized, dual-component model (similar to T-1000 and T-800 capabilities) featured in Dark Fate.

You are the king!

Yes of course, in the beginning of the thread, I was making a joke that ZK missed and jumped at me for some strange reason.

Also, I remember I put a lot of hope in X2GO for regular windows users but experienced the same inconsistencies either on Linux, windows, mac. So ended up bundling ssh, vnc and a batch script instead to them.

Do you have any useful experience with that with a reasonable sample of regular users to provide any direction?

Thanks in advance,

Indeed, sorry about replying to you instead DamnOregonian!

Yeah I remember trying something else which did just that, forgot the name right now, but anyways I found it glitchy and buggy thus less reliable. Oh! I do now X2GO or something like that.

Anyway, I obviously don't enter the -L manually every time and use a couple lines bash script instead.

MaybeRemmina is better, can you really vouch for it? It'd be handy for my customers and users in general.

-Thanks

Hey! You called me a shitbag first and I find "newbie" extremely more polite!

As a consolation price; I just tested it this morning and it's alt-F[1-6] while booting without X GUI and ctrl-alt-[1-6] while in X GUI.

If you switch to no GUI shell from X GUI, then you can get back to X GUI with alt-F7

Take care buddy,

I see that you are some kind of Linux newbie because you use CTLR-ALT-F to get a shell only when in a GUI like X and if you are in a X GUI, all you need to do is open another terminal to kill any process.

So it's CTRL-F just like I said.

CTLR-ALT-F is only used if X crashes or hangs for some reason and it's the only situation where I use it.

You are welcome!