You can do one year dedicated spend.

But yes. Serverless is a trap to be avoided.

There is an author - Tad Williams, who wrote the "Otherland" series. One of the chapters has the some of the main ensemble going to "treehouse" - aka what happened in this universe when the nerds, geeks and techno wizards took their ball and went home. The series as a whole is interesting if you like sci-fi. That chapter however seems more and more on the nose the older I get.

Like most things there is a book that looks into this. Take a gander at the Wikipedia if your interested (the author argued that there are 11 'nations' in the US). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations

Fun fact. WA is looking into getting rid of gas taxes and imposing a per mile driven tax due at registration.

I'm with you. Don't get me wrong, I have a tv and use arkenforge for maps. But 2d is enough of a time sink (epically when the map is only one part of the whole session)...

:x to save and quit. :q to quit. :q! To save and not quit.

See I like being the it person.

I tell anyone who asks that my consultant rates are $300/hour with a 4 hour minimum - and that I have a specialization in cloud architecture and ops stuff.

For some reason, people with printer/windows/Facebook/phone problems suddenly change the subject...

If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.

As someone in IT that is both wonderful and horrifying.

This was the bump from the blackout.

July 1 will be the next big influx of users.

Vscode. Yes it's managed by Microsoft, and yes it's a newage emacs (it can do anything with add-ons), but regardless of what your tasks are it's probably going to be useful.

Just remember - as content is generated SEO is naturally going to improve, which will start to bring people into kbin/lemmy via Google.

As people spend time here marketing types will start to notice. Shortly thereafter we will see bots. To me, how we as a community handle those bots will be the real "does this experiment survive" test.