Lmaooooooooooo
Everytime I check the news these days, it’s always just two headlines.
- Trump Unveils Second Plan To “Steal The Moon”
- Microsoft Now Petitioning Jus-in-rea To All Outlook Account Users’ First Born Son
I increasingly feel that this is all just some simulation and reality’s being autogenerated lol
lol looks like malware
It’s fucking wild to me that anyone ever convinced anyone in enterprise to shift to cloud and SaaS offerings in the first place.
You really thought it would be cheaper forever to give all your IT to someone else? You didn’t think you were getting captured?
You thought it was a good idea to store all your data on someone else’s servers, who have control over access to your information and, in most cases, can probably read it? And that if they raised prices or did something you didn’t like such as analysis or AI training on it, you weren’t completely held hostage by this?
It didn’t set off alarm bells that all the SaaS stuff seemed less featureful and more buggy?
That every workstation was now a recurring subscription?
That you now have to pay extra to get different software to interact with each other?
You thought there would never be any downtime? You thought if there was that you would make up the cost by contractual discounts?
It’s a good goddamn thing that I didn’t know how fucking stupid adults were when I was a kid or I’d have been scared for my fucking life for so many more years.
They wanted somebody else to be ultimately liable for problems, not themselves.
They wanted less headcount, especially amongst employees that are more intelligent than they are.
They wanted to handle things via gladhandling and ‘business negotiations’, not actual strategy snd design.
And it doesn’t help that actually running your own working mail server in 2026 is a fucking ball-ache. Especially if you don’t want every big provider to mark all your mail as spam. Email has been captured by big tech.
Even people who self host a lot of stuff usually don’t bother with it.
Most of my career is built on MS’s stack (I fell into .NET development and got good at it. Now I’m in the same boat as COBOL, Java, and Ruby-on-Rails devs: I’m basically a software doula.)
Every job I go into now I’m reccomending they get a migration plan for self-hosting and self-owning. The American tech system is collapsing. AI is causing massive ruptures in knowledge: it obscures searches, it deskills devs, it’s castrated the junior-senior-principle ladder such that we’re not training enough developers to even pass along all of the knowledge of how current systems work. SaaS is reaching the enshittification threshold and all those businesses that moved everything into the cloud are about to discover that they’re hostages and the sinking empire will drag down a lot of collateral damage with it.
Not that my tiny customers have enough of an IT budget to buy their own servers with the recent price hike on memory and ssds.
Self hosting doesn’t necessarily imply you need your own hardware.
Vegetarians nowadays eat eggs, vegans wear leather and self-hosters do it on someone else’s computer.
I’m old and grumpy and will stick to calling the modern vegetarians lacto-ovo-vegetarians, tell the modern vegans that veganism is a lifestyle not a diet and insist that a VPS on Hetzner is hosted by Hetzner, even if you have to manage and maintain the VM.I have also found that self-hosting, even with your own hardware, is significantly cheaper than the premium cloud hosting (AWS, etc). We priced out a VM server at my company and we found we could rebuy the hardware for it every FIVE months, just from the cloud hosting costs. And that is if we were decently disciplined about turning VMs on and off every day (which we all knew was a fantasy).
That caused us to strike out the premium providers. Leaving us with the non-premium ones (Digital Ocean, etc), co-locating, or in-house hosting.
I hear you. Personally I never understood the appeal of costly hosting at AWS and such. It just always seemed so expensive. The only benefit it provided, imho, is when you legitimately need to scale very quickly or if you’ve got a really huge variance in load.
Everything else? My own servers please, and thank you for reading 😁
I’m of the opposite opinion - would you mind elaborating on how a selfhosted-on-nonowned-hardware setup would work?
I believe you, but many people self host on rented hardware for various reasons. For example “proper” self hosting comes with upfront cost. But self hosting ln a VPS comes with reliability, uptime, predictability. But you’re still the master of the software you host, of backups, etc.
Yeah, it’s fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.
One that admins can’t even disable, it’s bizarre.
Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff.
But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There’s only one button on the screen that’s styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I’ve already said no to them dozens of times already, including once three seconds ago.
It’s like they’re actively campaigning to get me to switch to Linux.
I, by coincidence, am also actively campaigning for Linux.
You should try it. It has a lot of issues and problems - but far less than you think, more importantly far fewer of it’s problems come from enshitification (software forking helps resist that), and most importantly, since many projects are community-driven the more people use it the better it’s likely to get.
Just do it!
for a moment I thought you meant just do [enable backups]
I wonder if there’s a way of creating a file that doesn’t actually exist on disk but if Onedrive tries to read it it outputs 5Gb of random binary?
just switch to Linux, Ubuntu or Fedora. You will get your computer back. It will break, you will fall and learn but 1-2 months you will never ever go back to windows. People have been brainwashed into using Microsoft. You don’t need all these addictive Apps and spyware from 3rd parties. Life is peaceful. People have been telling this for a long time
I think most Teams users would only pay not to use it
What’s better than Teams?
Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams
Not being on Microslop’s ecosystem.
More seriously, it depends on what exact part you want. Matrix + Jitsi work for chats and calls, though they are a little shaky (but so is Teams sometimes, I don’t much see the downsides). Calendar apps are
a dimefree a dozen.What other tools often lack is the direct between multiple services. You’d have to manually link a NextCloud directory in the Matrix chat, bevause it doesn’t have a near seamless sharepoint integration.
The upside is independence: You can migrate between hosts, or host your own instances of NextCloud and Matrix, entirely within your (virtual) private network. And those are just services I can name off the top of my head, odds are there are plenty of other good solutions.
Only way to fix this is for people and corps to stop giving them money for anything.
But it’s E C O S Y S T E M!
The entire French government is abandoning Windows for Linux. It is absolutely possible to change the entire ecosystem; just hard to hit that catalytic point, but more and more people are going that way, thankfully. Maybe they’ll even eventually find Lemmy!
I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I’m all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.
Sweet, go Netherlands! And I also wanna move my desktop to NixOS! Got any tips or warnings for a first-timer who’s mostly used just Mint?
I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It’s a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.
I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.
That’s causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn’t it?
France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there’s a feud between the two. I can’t imagine using an office suite that’s possibly a dead-end fork of a company that’s fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.
They saw that only office had sketchy ownership and couldn’t work with them, so a group of EU companies including nextcloud have forked it and are working on Euro-office. The license violation argument is just a tantrum from onlyoffice
There will be short-term chaos, but now you have a sovereign entity with a huge amount of money creating a market for solutions to those problems.
It also makes it so that standards become more important than whatever latest feature is included in .docx files. Fancy capabilities do not mean much when you can’t send the files to the government without converting them into a standards-compliant format.
With broad adoption of standards comes the ability for competition to build compatible products and services. Microsoft can’t just change Word or Edge in a way that breaks the software of competitors if nobody is trapped in their walled garden.
