If you look at it as generic could provider it's not good, but if you look at it as making m$ run they're software instead of you it's awesome because most m$ software is not fun to run
Usually in the observability space it is primarily based on the volume of data and sometimes seat count. Especially if it's freemium like elastic where users can get an idea of volume by running a POC of the free version. Companies do this because of small teams who deploy large infra that would make contracts unprofitable
The empty window is actually an ancap that sells flags
Shameless plug for my project shiftmon that's hosted on gitlab it uses ansible to glue together Telegraf, Victoriametrics, Grafana, and Loki
Different distros build their packages with different options and have different versions of those packages so the Ubuntu and fedora php packages might have an optimization the arch one didn't
I have been loving miniflux. It has been pretty set and forget. They have nice android apps and you can pay them to host it for you
A common pattern is partner with someone with three required skills and you do all the admin work. The option is to learn those skills yourself. Be careful not to be an idea guy. Actually work and gain some skills to provide value
I think it's judging not using the right tool for a job. Legal work is usually communication and looking through tons of documents over long hours. A gaming laptop has bad battery life and has a bunch of goofy drivers required to run them which can be a security risk.
The open source initiative defines what open source means and states it can't discriminate against any person group or field of endeavor which I read as if it restricts who uses it, it isn't open source
Ynab it works on every platform I care about and easily pulls info from all my accounts
I use fastmail so I can easily use a desktop client and create aliases with bitwarden and it's a great service the only downside is it's not as private as proton mail, but I don't consider email private or secure
I believe mods tried this and reddit purged the mods when subreddits only allowed John Oliver images.