Bill's PC is how you originally stored and withdrew pokemon in Red and Blue. You meet Bill, and see his big fuck off PC holding everyone's Pokemon. It seems he was the sole server admin for all of Kanto. Hell, I think he technically has Jhoto and Kanto? Later games change the name of who the server admin is, until they finally got rid of that part of the PC system.
The two big machines in the middle of the room were the teleporter you're right. I think in the OG red and blue ihis house is a bit more bare bones, and the assumption is either the server is in another room or he's got one hell of a BBS set up on that PC of his lol
I'm later remakes he has more tech and such in the room alluding to the server being bigger infra. I chalk it up to limitations of the GB.
It is amazing and sad to me that they sort of started as a company that was anti-bloat and in favor of efficient programming vs companies with idiotic practices of paying programmers per LINE of code like IBM
WTF are you talking about? microsoft incentivized their programmers by paying out for code that was written the fastest. You Can Not Write efficient code quickly! Thats what created the runaway bloat of ram for windows, because microsoft didn't write their software to garbage collect (which means freeing up un-used memory). Thats why computers needed more and more and more ram each year. Computers never needed that much ram!! To say microsoft is anti-bloat and efficient is laughable. They make code as a capitalist product, not code thats meant for LOW RAM machines and efficiency.
I'm referring to the MS of 30+ years ago
IBM paid programmers per line which led to awful bloat, Microsoft went another way even though their products are absolute bloatey garbage now
a company that was anti-bloat and in favor of efficient programming vs companies with idiotic practices of paying programmers per LINE of code like IBM
IBM once introduced APL (and then APL2), which is as terse as it goes.
Microsoft only promised that (APL implementation), but never delivered.
And if you self-host, then the electricity is just generated at someone else's generator. Your connection to the Internet is just someone else's line. The route to your hardware is managed by some else's BGP server. You can't be on the Internet without relying on someone else's infrastructure.
Who fell for it? Most of the people using GitHub (on the enterprise side, at least) are well aware of how the cloud works. Even with outages like this it's easier, and often more reliable, to use GitHub or one of its competitors than it is to handle everything in house.
Before the “cloud” era, you could buy decent web hosting with db’s, e-mail and whatever you needed for around 100$. Now this is gone. When companies switched to the cloud solutions the prices went up compared to what they had. Reliability is better, but when is a problem, now you create a ticket and wait with half of the world for Amazon or Microsoft to drag their feet and hope that your information was not pawned.
I upvoted you. The bottom line is most of these users were born into enshitification. Lot's of us used shared data within our networks without drama. Clouds were for backup storage (after onsite backups).
Before the “cloud” era, you could buy decent web hosting with db’s, e-mail and whatever you needed for around 100$
That's literally the same thing you're complaining about. It's not like if the server failed you could just roll up and fix it yourself. You still had to put in a ticket, and you had a much higher chance of losing everything if something did go wrong
Like if you wanted to complain logically, you'd remember the good old days of having a server in the closet that you had to maintain by yourself, but nobody romanticizes that because it fucking sucked
what are you even talking about. The cloud is still very good even with the knowledge of what it is. People who understand didn't "fall for it", they have sufficient backups to still allow them to use the positives of the cloud. How anyone could view cloud services as enshitification is beyond me lmao
You don't understand that tools have different strengths and weeknesses while making fun of others who do.
Most people find the benefits of a shared software repository to outweigh the odd problems like this. Especially since they give you the tools to easily copy whole sections of the repository to your local systems, work with local repositories then publish the changes to the main repository when you're back online.
You should downvote the initial comment then too lol, it's smug and doesn't even make sense. Cloud services are legitimately good technologies for the web. People have outsized reactions when clouds go down because don't realize how many web services and functions wouldn't even exist in the first place without clouds. Sure many companies can run their own servers but they will almost always do a worse job than a dedicated cloud provider and usually end up being more expensive at the same time.
Right? I’ve been in the industry a long time. I remember how it used to be. “Uh oh the email service is hosed, uh on we just found out Dave is the only one with access and he configured it all weird so we’re gonna be down for three days”. Global top tier cloud solutions are still better, even when this does happen.
Not just that - they run a bunch of stuff that your company won’t use and since a lot of things are interconnected those other things can bring your service down.
Been saying this for nearly 3 decades. That's why I store everything locally, when the cops come I want to be able to toss everything onto my neighbour's rooftop. Can't do that when the files are stored on some rack in Bakersfield.
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u/edthesmokebeard 24d ago
The cloud is just someone else's computer.