In theory that’s what we had in the VHS days. But I hear you. Piracy today is a superior product in almost any scenario.

No offense. But if it’s truly a money problem, the studios have nothing to loose by you pirating.

It’s always fascinated me that companies who understand their core value proposition of their business can be so fucked up in so many other ways and still succeed.

Piracy is a service problem.

Brain drain is terminal for a technology product (most of the time). In the short term I’ll focus on making our products portable (migrating ec2 init scripts to docker, using frameworks for server less instead of using direct apis etc…). And when the time comes switch to whatever is best.

Maybe it’s time to consider alternative cloud providers at work. AWS is pretty good but they’re going to alienate a ton of talented engineers by doing this.

I’ve never actually used unraid.

You want raid plus a filesystem that can detect and correct for bitrot like xfs, btrfs or zfs. If you’re looking to get started try getting a used PC off eBay and try using TrueNAS or something similar to mirror your data too.

Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn’t be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.

Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.

Google’s presentation software is on par, if not better than Office, especially for embedded YouTube/videos for demos.

MS used to have a large moat on office suite functionality. But Gdocs has largely closed the gap.

Google Docs is fast becoming the standard office suite in a lot of organizations.