BearOfaTime

Wow, thanks for telling me how to run my life, Mr. Prescriptivist

Good luck preventing all scummy practices.

Not that we shouldn't try, but to expect them to not exist is naive.

It's similar to phishing

If you can't be honest, at least don't lie

Hahahaha

No, the problem is people not reading the contracts they sign.

You're asking for idealism, assuming that we can prevent scumbags - that's not possible, and simply leads people to naively signing anything, and ending up like this story.

Trust, but verify.

Do you think contract lawyers exist solely to create docs? Or maybe to take the time to ensure contracts their clients sign achieve the intent of their clients?

Yes, scummy lender does scummy things, but it was right there in the contract - no one held a gun to her head to sign it. She voluntarily signed it without understanding it.

Guess you'd have to know NYC buroughs for this to be meaningful.

I doubt most people have a clue.

Nutanix is another one.

Many SMBs will walk away at next server refresh.

VMware is walking dead.

We're currently testing Nutanix and Proxmox for smaller clients.

Proxmox support is similar (~65%) in cost to VMware licensing, but it's not likely to pull this sudden increase BS. Plus it's capabilities are significant for SMB.

I use an instance from http://searx.space almost exclusively.

Try http://searx.space

They have meta engines that search instances of searx

Please let me be on his jury.

I said, not guilty!

Well, since you get paid well, can you make a plan to suck it up for a while, live frugally, invest, make a plan to move into something else, and start working on that?

Maybe just "eat the shit" for a few years knowing it's part of a bigger plan?

This is something I feel we do a poor job explaining to kids - your options range from doing something you love to doing something you hate, and also making a lot to making a little.

Those two scales aren't necessarily related They can be, often are.

A question I wish had been posed to me before college: "If you had a choice to work a job you hate for ten years, but when done you were set for life, would you do it?"

I'd put that idea at one end of the spectrum, with everything else a mix of love/hate, convenience/inconvenience, stability/instability, etc, etc.