DudeImMacGyver

This isn’t satirical?

Never in my life have I needed to reimage any Linux machine, but I have had to reimage many, many, many windows machines and quite a few Apple devices too. I have a long career in IT (and even before that, I’ve been building computers since I was 12), so my sample size consists of thousands of computers going back decades.

I’ve only ever reimaged Linux systems when I felt like distro hopping for fun. Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I think it’s probably more to do with the fact that Linux tends to be extremely reliable once you have it set up (unless you manage to break it, but even then there are usually multiple ways to fix it without reimaging).

More like 100% since, after all that, it ended up getting gift wrapped to the Taliban.

Nope, I use mint but wear boot socks.

Hikers opt for ponchos or shells usually, but maybe you could try a small beach umbrella?

Anyone who places superiority on that is fucking silly.

Fuck that guy.

I like Mint but really most major distros are fine these days.

This is some token bullshit.

You monster.

Well, that sounds insane.

This Linux Mint Cinnamon is fucking delicious!

Psych is better.

Fucking clown world horse shit!

You really don’t see the risk of having no data centers you actually control as an organization? Maybe I misunderstood your initial statement? At first it sounded like we kind of agreed with each other but didn’t understand that was the case at first.

Yes, Netflix had their own infrastucture in addition to other multiple redundant cloud services for their CDNs: You’re kind of proving (part of) my point?

There are still self hosted places today, not everything is cloud based.

Also, there isn’t more competition largely because of Amazon so, while I agree with the sentiment that it could improve things, in practice it’s a moot point.

The problem is far more pervasive than any single incident, allowing a single megacorporation to control most of the Internet is a bad idea for many reasons. The Internet is supposed to be decentralized, it was even designed to withstand a nuclear war with that principal in mind. Even with a robust, distributed network with redundant backups, if it’s still all controlled by one company, that is still a very precarious situation.

If we want a truly robust system, yeah, we kinda do. This sort of event is only one of the issues with allowing a single entity to control pretty much everything.

There are plenty of potential issues from a corrupt rogue corporation hijacking everything to attacks to internal fuck-ups like we just experienced. Sure, they can design a better cloud, but at the end of the day, it’s still their cloud. The Internet needs to be less centralized, not more (and I don’t just mean that purely in terms of infrastructure, though that is included of course).

We need to ditch cloud entirety and go in house again.