Seconded. If they can’t optimize their code (which, I have never seen applications require 256 gigs of ram even in FAANG so I find that doubtful), then they need to rent a machine. The cloud is where you rent it. If not Google, then AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, any number of places let you rent compute

Defederate doesn’t mean it’ll delete the local history. Every post and comment is federated at time of creation to your instance, and will stay there as long as your instance keeps them. Defederate simply means it won’t receive future updates.

They’ll automatically defederate after a few days. As for search, it only searches your local instance and what is already there, so it’s just historical searches. It won’t be anything new.

And then they keep wondering why people are choosing to leave the state. I’m a cis white male, and I would never move back to that backwards-ass state

Researchers always make some of the worst coders unfortunately.

Scientists, pair up with an engineer to implement your code. You’ll thank yourself later.

The one positive about all the rollback stuff is that a lot of people are seeing that the corpos never cared about them, and more are coming around to the idea that we’re already in the dystopia. I swear that started as a positive when I started typing.

Sounds like it, I think docker is exactly what you’re looking for

There’s many ways to do this. Saving the disk state is one, I believe that’s what the other person suggested - essentially stores the disk as an image which then you use for future vms as your jumping off point. This is also essentially how workstations are deployed at companies. (Essentially being the key word). Cloud providers have different names for this too, in AWS this is called their AMI.

Another option is Ansible, which essentially handles deploying a VM by running your scripts for you. I haven’t played too much with this, and I doubt it works with VirtualBox, but it’s something you may want to look into, it would definitely uplevel your skills.

Thirdly is dependent on what you actually use your VM for, you haven’t given your use cases but this is one of the reasons containerization became such a thing - because when running an app we mostly don’t care about the underlying system. It may be worth it to learn about docker.

We continue down the “our investors are demanding AI and we don’t know where to put it” track. Truly what is the point? They’re your messages, you already read them

Is there a site like this for other refurbished items beyond storage? More cases, tam, cpus?

The same thing happened in 2016. They tried to roll back every green initiative, but no matter what they try, green just makes more sense. Not only green and long term, but financially too. You have a one time setup with solar and wind and then very little maintenance - or you have constant mining operations, transport, and burning of heavy, dusty, gross coal. It’s the same here, whether they like it or not - it literally makes more sense.

The article said there’s a phone companion app

There’s a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they’re adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.

Sounds like they should have put up 4 more instead. Fuck instigators like that.

I’m guessing lawyers drew it up as a standard tos and they threw it over the fence tbh

But they can stack the deck heavily in their favor, and you don’t have the same legal protections anymore. Who arbitrates Where? When?

It’s honestly not bad, definitely the most mature fediverse service

Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there’s like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!

The one positive from that outcome is that it’ll be very complicated to sort them out, and at the very least, I’m all for making data broker’s jobs harder

Could try it out, for a migration this size I’d recommend testing it a bit. Try replying to this post via pixelfed