I’m going to need a six-pack, please.

The authorities will try to notify someone in the immediate family (often the spouse). After that, if you are in their estate, the trustee should make a good faith effort to contact you. Beyond that, it’s normally just friends and family contacting each other.

Back in the days when printed newspapers were common, some folks would check the obituaries regularly.

You could create a Google alert. If the stupid thing actually works, you should get an email when their obituary gets posted somewhere.

Poor bastard was waiting for Windows update to finish.

We can’t see his feet, but there’s a 99% chance he’s wearing a pair of filthy sandals with way too many miles on them.

I like Bernie’s idea of taxing every trade on the stock market.

Flare your nostrils and breathe in and out slowly. The velocity of the air will affect how loud it is.

If that doesn’t help then yeah, maybe see an ENT doctor.

I really love Obsidian. It is a perfect fit for my needs. I just hope they don’t do the creeping subscription bullshit like Evernote did. The $96 a year is reasonable for those who need it (I don’t need it).

Crossing my fingers that the usual greed doesn’t give them brain rot. I probably should have gone with Joplin, but I’m too invested in Obsidian at this point (and very happy with it). I guess if they do go over to the Dark Side, I could freeze it at the last good release for a while then switch.

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Some people get big computer monitors instead of a TV, because of shit like this.

The pitch doesn’t need to make logical sense. The entire purpose of horrible shit like this is so some asswipe with a marketing degree can say “look boss, I did a thing”. Welcome to late stage capitalism, where no one ever gets fired for shoving another advertisement in somewhere.

It’s frustrating how many non-joiners are completely turned off by the part where you hunt for an instance to join. They act like it’s super confusing and scary (when in fact it’s ‘super easy, barely an inconvenience’).

Meanwhile these same people will scour the internet looking for a recipe or bootleg movie or whatever.

It’s really frustrating when you remember what a huge PITA it is to get your account going on reddit. Sure, the first part is easy enough, it’s just registering on the site. But then you find you can’t do jack shit because you don’t have enough karma and every sub you visit has 10,000 arbitrary byzantine rules to deal with because the mods got picked on in high school.

Lemmy is actually EASIER than reddit. But here we are.

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Apologies for missing the joke. And I agree that it can be a dodge in some contexts, too. Also agree that the word can be used incorrectly.

People who use “political” incorrectly like that remind me of the old South Park depiction of Michael Jackson, calling everything “ignorant”.

Yes, this is missing the point. I’m not saying politics should never be discussed. I’m not saying politics and personal lives exist in separate spheres. I understand that things like economic policies and laws impact individuals’ lives in profound ways.

I’m saying people who bring it up constantly and never give it a rest are obnoxious.

Not wanting to discuss politics 24x7 in all contexts and settings is not “apathy”. I vote. I participate. I donate money. I discuss politics at appropriate times and places.

Wanting to dominate all conversations with your political opinion is pathological.

I think most people have a friend or relative like this. They simply must bring their political views into every single conversation, all of the time. If you try to deflect or even outright tell them you don’t want to discuss politics, they will invariably say something like “but everything is political”. It’s exhausting. Then they wonder why they stop getting invited to things.

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Meanwhile, the power grid, traffic controls, and myriad infrastructure & adjacent internet-connected software will be using AI, if not already.

I sincerely appreciate your insight and anecdotes, as I have not had to live with Sf myself. I am too ignorant of the Sf platform to make an intelligent criticism of it, but I would be extremely surprised if it can do even half of what AWS can. I would be surprised if they are even trying to. So it does sound like sales pitch BS to me as well.

I’m not an AWS fanboy and don’t mean to sound like one. However, the number of products and services, and the sophistication of them, is fairly mind-blowing. And they add new stuff almost every week. It’s also expensive and monopolistic, so I don’t mean to praise them too much here.

They are probably different animals in some respects. On AWS, you can let them host basically every layer if you want, or you can let them only host the lower layers (VM and OS, for example) while you manage everything else (runtime, app, DB, etc). And there’s many blended models of both approaches. And it offers a lot of redundancy of choice on various things like databases, operating systems, containers, etc. It is extremely flexible and has a high level of granularity on how you set things up. It requires a lot training, admin overhead, budgeting, and monitoring. It’s expensive AF. And somehow they act like they are losing money, too, and laid a bunch of people off. Whatever, Amazon.

Azure is fairly similar to AWS in most respects, however it offers far less features and products (and is generally cheaper per hour). I have only messed around in Azure a little, I am not an expert in it by any means.

All 3 have certification programs, of course.

Taking a guess here that Salesforce tries to appeal to larger businesses that don’t want to get their hands very dirty managing many of the layers themselves. AWS and Azure market to businesses that need more flexibility and have a more complex mix of existing infrastructure.

As for Google cloud, I know zero about it other than the few things I personally use like Drive, etc.

My friend the Sf consultant complains about that as well. Some of his best colleagues are from India, but they are far less numerous than the cheaper “code camp” guys from there.

I’m not very knowledgeable about Sf, but it is a little perplexing that companies want to buy it, then modify it to the point that it’s not really Sf anymore. If it doesn’t fit, use something else?