mayoi @ mayoi @sh.itjust.works

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Not probably. First they announced their exit scam, this is the next natural step to save more money.

I don't pay attention to anything that's not the actual price of the item at the moment. Sometimes the 2+1 for free deals are nice if it's some consumable like socks which is something I will always need, but I noticed that stores where I live don't do this anymore (I guess when I put a dozen pairs of socks in my cart, manager realized that was a bad idea because for that one time, it was actually slightly cheaper) except for garbage like chips and shitty sodas, and 3rd one isn't even free, you will pay more than 50% of its price for sure...

Magnetic tapes aren't that surprising, it's just even more cost effective storage than HDD.

This is why right to repair matters. I will NEVER ask a company to repair something I purchased if I can do it myself. Oh wait, they're doing everything in their power to prevent me from being independent after the purchase...

Practically every single manufacturer that makes things more complex than spoons wants to keep fucking me in the ass and for me to keep paying money for thing I already bought and "own".

At least when the spoon breaks... Except I never witnessed it happen in my life, I'm still eating with same stainless steel spoons that I grew up with.

And no, I could easily open source that microscope, because I'm not afraid that some lackey that can't even design his own microscope will have better equipment than I do if I'm the owner of a factory that specializes in producing microscopes. Microscopes don't spawn from thin air just because you have blueprints, you need to build them, and manufacturer of microscopes should take pride in quality of production, not some arbitrary "intellectual property" that I can steal 98% of by simply cutting the finished product in half with my table saw.

And while you can use anything for servers, even Microsoft refuses to use Windows Server for their own servers and uses Linux based OS, so go figure.

What else is there, your favorite flavor of BSD? Unless someone else already ported everything necessary, it will be a DIY project and you will be the one telling people about it.

There aren't that many options that just work out of the box other than Linux, it's most popular, and practically just works for anything you can imagine self hosting, of course people will be talking about it almost exclusively, because using something else is a pointless duplication of effort for what purpose exactly?