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GitLab asking for credit card
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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This has nothing to do with mining (which isn't worth doing in the first place, especially on CPUs but even on GPUs it's crap now).
GitLab has a vendetta against their free users, they don't want them. The last company I worked for went with GitLab and bought the bronze subscription ($4 per developer per month, had everything we needed). A year later GitLab discontinued the bronze tier, now it's $20 per developer per month for zero more features we would actually use. So we went back to free tier. Half a year later they limited free tier to 5 people per project, which was a headache yet again.
The company moved to GitHub afterwards, $4 per user per month, same amount of features, no bullshit.
GitLab just tries to get you to pay and could give a shit about free users (or users that wanted a cheaper tier than $20 a month). Now they push you to set a credit card for your account, I'd bet with you in a year tops they'll limit the free tier even further to either kick you off the platform or force you to the premium tier.
I know a few people working on similar products and crypto mining as absolutely a big problem. Yes CPUs aren't that useful for mining generally but that only applies if you are paying for the costs.
This is informative, and unfortunate.™
Next time upvote then, imagine if all 32 people who upvoted him replied "informative" nstead
Chill, dude. The first thing I did was upvote that comment. And I guess you didn't get the reference. 😶