When Broadcom announced the purchase a year or so ago, I abandoned all further VMWare certs, and put the time into getting my head around the alternatives.
I still have to use VMWare for 90% of my job, but I'm absolutely treating it like a locked-in platform, and assuming that anything I learn to do in VMWare, I need to understand the underlying concepts, not just their interpretation, and how I can do similar things on other platforms.
GreatAlbatross
Holidaying in the UK isn't cheap enough any more.
When the place your staying wants over a grand for a week, it's hard to justify a week in Bognor when you get a crossing and a gîte for not much more.
Retirement fund? You mean my vespa scooter and a tide table for Beachy Head.
Man, looking through that user's other properties, it's just depressing.
Nice looking family rooms and homes, reduced to bedsits and studios.
I hate to say it, but I find myself mentally preparing to be unwell a few days after visiting friends with kids.
It's always a nice surprise when I'm proven wrong.
Kagi has been doing a decent job for me, with the downside that it's paid, and does use results from other places.
They go into detail about how they work, but it's them paying for results from lots of engines, plus their own engine, then heavy duty filtering of the results.
Plus a ML results summarizer you can press after searching.
You actually raise a good point: People may not join a smaller instance if you're not confident it's going to hang around.
I might see if I can publish a contingency/continuity plan in our next community update.
It's a trade off for us.
You risk CSAM, and have to shoulder the storage costs.
But you also help to reduce link rot, as the images are kept on the site, rather than an external image host that might explode/go VC one day.
I've already decided that if my renewal is stupid, I'm going to mothball the car for a bit.
Take a little break from having to deal with it, and see if the premiums come down as little in 6 months.
We have a rate limit on images, but that wouldn't explain all of them failing.
There is a also a size limit, but I don't think you hit that. I'll try to peruse the logs later.
Edit: I had a look. It's bloody weird. We use an application to handle image uploads/storage/serving, etc.
For some reason, the first record I have is of it issuing a delete command for your image.
I'm sure it's not you, but I am very curious what happened now lol.
Were you using the web interface, or a mobile client?
It's Ron! Absolute classic!