At least where I work, our cloud team is ~35 people who manage the whole thing.

The datacenter team? In the hundreds.

Cloud is not the answer to every infra problem, but the flexibility, time to market, and lifecycle burden are easily beneficial weighed against finops. I’m an Azure engineer myself, it’s no comparison the benefits to a managed solution vs rolling your own DC for a lot of regular business workloads and solutions. Beyond that personally I’ve been able to skill up in areas I wouldn’t be able to otherwise if I was stuck troubleshooting bad cables, rebuilding a dead RAID array, or planning VMWare scaling nonsense.

An AC is an “air heat pump”. The only difference between an AC and what we call a “heat pump” is a reversing valve, which can send refrigerant the other way to heat the interior instead of cooling it.

They’re literally the same thing.

https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/monado/

Highly recommend ditching SteamVR and using Monado on Linux. Envision makes it super easy.

Any LTE phone will generally work if it has the band support as the other commenter mentioned, but know you will never get WiFi calling and most likely will not get VoLTE. Verizon has an allow-list of IMEIs for those features.

Monado helped me kick windows for VR stuff.

Your reverse proxy should have a cert with HTTPS.

In fairness they’re not the same thing - recall records everything you do making a nice single honeypot of all your actions. Apple’s thing is really just a search bar that can reach into apps like email, calendar, etc - it’s not recording your bank logins. Google Play Services tracks everything you do on Android and sells it to advertisers.

This is by far the better solution, use GE:

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

Jellyfin equivalent which doesn’t require a subscription for your own media library.

Steam isn’t a monopoly.

The PC is an open platform, you can use any game store or launcher you want - unlike the iPhone, Android (without sideloading), PlayStation, switch, or Xbox.

And costs a yearly subscription, also random features get removed every month.

Use SwiftFin app instead on Apple TV, but better than the Jellyfin app.

This ^

Simple, no ads, and handles HDR super well

I’m sure google will fix that in chrome, like killing adblocker functionality.

Less HTTPS = easier government & advertiser data collection

This is an advanced setup, dual boot is far simpler for a new Linux user.

I’d settle for Apple Intelligence not turning itself back on with every iOS update.

Yeah this doesn’t work anywhere in Office apps

Never in my entire life have I wanted to paste with formatting into a word doc, and you always have to click the stupid little clipboard icon after you paste to undo it.

Highly recommend wlxoverlay for monado, for me SteamVR overlay never has a working desktop view so I can’t see my monitors.

It’s been broken for years and valve will never fix it: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/426