Usernet requires at least one indexer and service provider. If you just got a provider your going to be missing a part of the tool chain. DM me if you need some help figuring what's what.

You can do one year dedicated spend.

But yes. Serverless is a trap to be avoided.

There is an author - Tad Williams, who wrote the "Otherland" series. One of the chapters has the some of the main ensemble going to "treehouse" - aka what happened in this universe when the nerds, geeks and techno wizards took their ball and went home. The series as a whole is interesting if you like sci-fi. That chapter however seems more and more on the nose the older I get.

Even if you don't have a Tesla there are a handful of apps out there that will help.

Now if we could get everyone on the same stupid plug - but thats a different conversation.

Like most things there is a book that looks into this. Take a gander at the Wikipedia if your interested (the author argued that there are 11 'nations' in the US). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations

Fun fact. WA is looking into getting rid of gas taxes and imposing a per mile driven tax due at registration.

:x to save and quit. :q to quit. :q! To save and not quit.

Then. Honestly. You need to do a radical shift. No matter what part of IT you are in you will still be doing some level of support.

The best advice I can give is to get away from a front line support role. If you stay in tech you could work your to engineering, sysadmin, data stuff, or project management. If you want to get away from tech go as far as you feel you can (because once people learn your good with computers...).

See I like being the it person.

I tell anyone who asks that my consultant rates are $300/hour with a 4 hour minimum - and that I have a specialization in cloud architecture and ops stuff.

For some reason, people with printer/windows/Facebook/phone problems suddenly change the subject...

A short time ago in a server near to your home...

Lemmy Wars

Some background. Some more background.

If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.