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Username: wdmg
Joined: January 2020
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Last Active: June 2023
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If you have the budget (you can get them refurb from Apple), the 14" MBP's with the M1 chips are really nice. I use it as a daily driver, no complaints.

Otherwise, I'd say any of the …

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A very decent deal, guess I'll have to pickup a second license to idle...

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> @VirMach said:
> > @wdmg said:
> > @VirMach
> >
> > You spend an alarming amount of time shit-talking your DCs. Maybe that time is better in…

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RIP to your hardware

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From a KVM VM on one of my hypervisors:

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> @AnthonySmith said:
> > @kuroneko23 said:
> > > @AnthonySmith said:
> > > As there was no public announcement:
> > >
> >…

Thanked by (1)Wolveix
> @Billa said:
> So before this thread gets hijacked again can anyone recommend the cheapest colo to just start off.

No. Go for good and affordable.

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> [@dahartigan said](/discussion/comment/49905/#Comment_49905): Swap til death.

That is one quick and painful death.

Thanked by (1)dahartigan
Finally resolved.

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![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/covid_precaution_level.png "")

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This was very amusing to read in the fraudrecord entries for one sign-up:

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staff abuse
Just an abusive little shit.
Warning: only the "name" matches to the repo…

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It would depend on what your ideal situation is to determine if you need a virtual or dedicated server. Often times, VPS will be cheaper, but you take some compromises... such as (but not limited to)…

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A LES exclusive offer coming your way!

100GB of dedicated storage, unmetered fair-share bandwidth, complementary DDoS mitigation (NY: Corero & Magic Transit, Toronto: Corero).

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> @wdmg said:
> Last day of no rule offers? Hmmm....
>
> **100GB Storage (ticket for the upgrade)**
> **Shared DA (standard, 2TB bandwidth)**
> *…

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Last day of no rule offers? Hmmm....

**100GB Storage (ticket for the upgrade)**
**Shared DA (standard, 2TB bandwidth)**
**$2.40/year**

Link: https://consol…

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> @nullnothere said:
> @wdmg - really appreciate the honesty on the state of things. It is unfortunate on the timing but you're retaining the good will of your existing (and prospective)…

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> @ehab said:
> > @wdmg said:
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> nice to write about it like that ... hug.

> @vyas said:
> @wdmg
> Hope better times preva…

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Just going to leave this in here, not big industry news but a sad blow before BF 2020: We’ve had to shutter our Toronto DC1 Colocation with short notice (Dec 1st, 2020) due to reliability issues on t…

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For Object Storage lovers, we’re offering 1TB bucket, unmetered bandwidth (1Gbps on 10Gbps, shared, fair-share). $150/year, must be paid annually ($12.50/mo). Limited time special, ends Nov 24th.

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> @localhost said:
> > @wdmg said:
> > Black Friday is coming up, and we’ve got an LES exclusive of early bird deals!
> >
> > Coupon: BF2020

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Black Friday is coming up, and we’ve got an LES exclusive of early bird deals!

Coupon: BF2020

Get 50% off all Shared Medium/Large/X-Large, Reseller Medium/Large/X-Large …

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We plan to stop allowing subscriptions in Jan 2021. They’re more headaches than it’s worth. We had to amend a clause to our policies that says PayPal Subscriptions left will be applied as account cre…

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> @FAT32 said:
> > @imok said:
> > Again, where is @FAT32?
>
> Thanks for asking. Still busy, but planning to take leave on Black Friday / Cyber Mond…

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> @FAT32 said:
> Congrats @MikePT - make sure to help the baby register all the usernames / domains / emails before they are all registered by someone else :joy:

I did tha…

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> @SmallWeb said:
> I bought 1,000 envelopes about 5 years ago and I'm finally down the last 100... :grin:

I’m still sitting on 10k envelops I bought at a business auctio…

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I’m buying a telescope if there’s a good enough deal, mainly because my wife and son would like it.

Thanked by (4)dfroe sgheghele Ympker Chievo
and now we’ve entirely blocked:

- TR, IR

and added extra scrutiny for:

- CN
- VN
- TW
- BR

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