Post #1702007
2026-03-13 07:27 UTC
@krinkle @fastmail Hear hear, I set up a lab (academic) and the first thing I did was buy bare metal hardware (beefy workstations/servers) instead of buy into the cloud solutions available.
Stuffed these things to the brim with RAM, and these are now worth more than their weight in gold. The lesson, independent of price swings, what you own you control - and the cost of use goes down not up. What you rent 🤷♂️
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@jumianr@mstdn.social 2026-03-13 17:26
@koen_hufkens @krinkle @fastmail so many CFOs see renting cloud computing as an easy way to lower CAPEX and paint an erroneous picture to the rest of the C-level psychos as well as their shareholders that they just don't care. When the price suddenly goes up by tenfold they will have left the company already.