quirzle

vSphere was never available in the free tier.

The reality is that nobody’s learning much useful from Free ESXi, as you need vCenter for any of the good stuff. They want you using the eval license for that, which gives you the full experience but only for 60 days.

Still, there’s a lot of folks running free ESXi in labs (home and otherwise) and other small environments that may need to expand at some point. They’re killing a lot of good will and entry-level market saturation for what appears (to me at least) literally zero benefit. The paid software is the same, so they’re not developing any less. And they weren’t offering support with the free license anyway, so they’re not saving anything there.

Spot on. Even when they’ve been caught doing things most people thought was shady (e.g., last year’s /r/place manipulation), they tend to not outright deny it, but rather admit it and offer a half-assed explanation and end the conversation at that.

They wouldn’t do something that flagrantly disregards EU/CA privacy laws. If they did it, they’d have have a justification they thought would hold up in court. If they had a justification that held up in court, they’d happily plop it in a comment that’s pinned with a few dozen rewards and ignore any responses after that.

Anyone whose purchased Russian oil in the past couple decades?

At least we could all collectively stop worrying about the climate stuff, right?

That’s such a strange reaction, since fake stories like yours are the only reason that sub has any content worth reading.

I’m not sure if it’s the same boner…but I just clicked a 27-day old picture of one. They’re doing something over there, but it’s definitely not deleting all the porn.

Strange, I read for weeks how easily replaced they’d be by the thousands of willing, competent volunteers.

Desktop site enabled -> old.reddit

Fair enough; I wasn’t commenting on the idea one way or another, just trying to clarify what I thought the other commenter meant.

Personally, I’m almost never in favor of a ban. I’d rather tax heavily and use the income for programs to offset. I’m 20 years removed from optimism about reducing emissions, so I think we should be leaning into technology that can actively pull stuff out of the atmosphere. That could create an incentive to move away from flying but also use the flying that’s still happening to fund figuring out how to reverse the damage that’s already been done.

I think the point he’s making is that our second bullet of your list would make the third bullet unnecessary.

I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010

It was an ongoing meme that “reddit was better a few years ago and kinda sucks now” but I really think it was accurately the case. Everyone remembers it being at its best when they first signed up because it had been on a slow, consistent downward slide from around 2010 on.

The last couple of years were so bad that I was already going to other sites for actual news and whatnot because anything outside of small, niche subs were overrun with bots (or trolls, since they were functionally the same).

I haven’t seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up

If you’re already using uBlock Origin, you can add a list called EasyList Cookie under Filters > Annoyances and also not see most cookie consent popups for years.