PoY

oh i think in general it applies to the big 3, but it may extend to others as well, but i've only seen the insane costs from AWS and GCP personally

so many people do this because they sign up for a 3 month trial or whatever and just end up paying for the shit because there's a show or whatever on each service they like so they just keep paying

i pay about 400 a year for my piracy tools and services.. which when i say that out loud sounds ridiculous, but it's still far far cheaper than paying for multiple streaming services and/or cable

plus i can watch whatever i want, binging or not commercial free, and i can get games and whatever else thrown in at no additional cost

the cloud is so ridiculously expensive that the company i work at which has a number of early Google employees and is backed by the Google mega rich is now looking to pull away from running everything in the cloud because it is simply untenable. And we're in a goddamned hurry to shift everything to our own equipment in rented data center space before another insane jump in cloud pricing kills us off which is virtually guaranteed

they say it's because of national security concerns... if you can crunch more numbers more faster then you can make gooder weapons and gooder plans

wow i never knew

i want one if for no other reason than to make everyone else uncomfortable

it would be shooting the US in the foot.. there is a large push to move to risc-v for govt national security reasons out of the realization that China now has all the necessary info on ARM to be able to produce them from scratch with modifications that may be undetectable because they've pieced together the proprietary info over the decades they've been manufacturing the chips for the West

i was told all of this by some guys i work with who used to work for TLAs and Google and whatnot

but isn't RISC-V now being heavily funded and subsidized by the US govt because ARM's proprietary info had been fully garnered by China since they're the ones who mass produce most of the chips?

i thought the entire shift to risc-v was to ensure that the chips themselves are auditable

no

Titan deep sea submarine

yeah and of all systems to have to emulate... the switch, ugh