Based on the numbers he's put up so far? Massive overpay.
Based on what else we could buy for the same money? Its probably fair. Football finances are broken :p
As ever, if he's what the system needs, and he adapts to the PL, he could yet be a great deal, but its a gamble. Here's hoping by 2024/25 he's a 20-goal-a-season-striker, and I'm eating my words in the first paragraph!
A pihole. Given how much I've spent over the years on self hosting kit, few 'cheap' things have ended up costing me more than that first 30 quid raspberry pi
Every machine is named after what it does (although I do 1337-ify the names, because I'm still a late 90s IRC teen at heart). If you've ever been onboarded into a sysadmin role where all the machines are named with whatever whimsical naming scheme each department chose, you'll fast develop a visceral hatred for non-descriptive naming schemes. The fifth time you get a ticket saying something like 'Hedwig is down' and you have to go crawling through three layers of linked files on SharePoint to find what and where 'Hedwig' is, you'll be ready to beat the person who named it to death, and that attitude tends to persist to your home naming scheme :p
We offered him a deal, he accepted, then we withdrew it before it was signed. Frankly, clownshow behaviour from united for the guy who's saved our seasons over and over again, even if his time here was coming to an end.
Even better, I found a company that pays me in money while having a free beer fridge in the office :D (at least, up until before I basically started wfh full time during the pandemic)
Went to university to study Bioinformatics. There I discovered I don't really like biology, but I did really like getting paid beer to fix other student's computers. Especially when they were desperate around submission deadlines cos they hadn't backed up their work for weeks/months before their computer went kaput.
I've been a sysadmin now for 13 years since graduating.
Its interesting that everyone focuses on the privacy and the EEE risk of this, but my reasons for leaving Facebook were that Facebook is actively-allowing-the-promotion-of-genocide-because-not-moderating-is-better-for-their-bottom-line Evil. I left facebook because I'm not willing to provide the (even infinitesimal) boost to their network effects that my account had. For the same reason, Threads is an instant defederate on launch.
Holy shit... for years archive.org only had fairyland and I'd given up on this one ever appearing. Thanks so so much for spotting this. MY QUEST IS OVER. Time to see just how crap it is :D
Fun School 6: Futureland. Its a shitty edutainment game from the 90s that I played non-stop for like a year, that I want to get my hands on for nostalgia purposes. As far as I can tell its not available (online or physical media) anywhere. I finally found a copy for sale a few years ago, but it turned out to be a mislabelled copy of fun school 6: fairyland.
I will keep searching, eventually a copy will show up somewhere!
As an IT guy, my wiring looks much more like the left than the right...
Sadly, that's likely all they need at the moment
I don't at the moment, because I don't have a need for it, but I did for a while run a PoC with Step CA, and that seems like the easiest way to get up and running, even if its features are overkill for a home lab.