So the addresses are bigger, so what?

In most cases, all you care about is the prefix, which is just 64 bits, expressed as 4 groups of 4 hex digits. This is IT, is hex really beyond people's grasp?

Most of the admin is done one terminals that support cut and paste anyway.

What if I voted for a cat but the election went to a pit bull with a brain injury?

Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.

And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.

Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?

What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"

How would you tell the difference?

No idea. I haven't been to a theater in years. Not only has it gotten crazy expensive, but there just hasn't been anything worth seeing. How many retreads, sequels, prequels, and hours of nonstop explosions does someone need?

A few years ago, I invested in a nice home theater system and haven't looked back. Occasionally I stream something that the media says is "good" and have been consistently disappointed with the dreck being excreted by the movie industry.

No thanks.

The smoking man always seems to be just one step ahead....

Nutanix's hyper-converged solution is based on Supermicro gear, though they are more recently able to support things like Dell Powerflex as well.

It really depends on the scale you need. Proxmox is really nice, but it doesn't currently scale out very well. In a smaller business, it's perfectly fine though. For a larger enterprise, Nutanix is good and there's always Openstack, which is still growing and is powering some very large commercial and government implementations.

I would agree that ceph isn't for the faint of heart at scale, though there are companies that will provide operational support if you want it.

It didn't take a genius to see what was going to happen. That's 100% in line with Broadcom's past behavior with acquisitions (look at the CA purchase). They'll keep gouging the customers who either can't or won't exit the platform for as long as they can. Changing hypervisor platforms isn't rocket science, but it can take quite a bit of time for a large enterprise to get over the static friction and make the move. The instant the buyout was announced, we started planning our exit. We did a single renewal to buy us sufficient time and then we were out. I would have preferred to spend those cycles and dollars on other things, but Broadcom just isn't a viable partner. Perhaps they're better in the silicon business....but I'll never find out as I won't do business with them again.

Even if you pay the exorbitant prices, Broadcom's support is awful compared to legacy VMWare support. As others have already opined, there are a number of viable alternatives (Nutanix being one of them) including some open source (with professional support) solutions. Good riddance.

I've pretty much stopped visiting linkedin. First it was the pet videos, then the political nonsense, then an onslaught of spam trying to sell shit to me 24/7. Now it's just a place to park my resume.

Good riddance.

Did the transistor companies get taxed to "compensate" the people/companies who made vacuum tubes that would be put out of work? No.

Did Henry Ford get taxed to compensate the people who made horse drawn carriages and saddles? No.

Did the people who made desktop publishing "a thing" get taxed to compensate Linotype manufacturers/operators? No.

etc....

Technology marches on. March with it or get left behind. Why should an entire industry of innovators be taxed to protect people who can't pivot and deal with change? That's not to say that I agree that many of these "AI" companies are offering real value.

Best,

Even for basic level functionality testing. Lord knows how many dragons lurk under the covers. I don't use Windows for anything that I care about. Full stop and there are more and more people in C-level positions at major enterprises that feel the same way every day.

I'm running the daily release on a 2 core/4 thread Intel NUC with 8GB of RAM. When absolutely idle with just me logged in to the desktop gnome interface, it's using a little over 2GB of RAM. I'm assuming it's still a bit porky due to all the debugging turned on. If I run firefox and load a piggy cnbc.com main page, it goes to about 3.8GB of RAM utilized.

This is 10+ year old hardware and it's still quite usable.

I don't see anything to be concerned about.

Best,

then don't use it.

AI has been running at a big loss to get the users hooked. It was inevitable that prices would start climbing. That process is nowhere near done, running AI is expensive as hell.

Once the market starts reflecting the actual costs, you can bet the cost/benefit will not be nearly as rosy as it looks now. But some customers will already have gotten themselves between a rock and a hard place and will be sucked dry, then discarded. Those "expensive" people that are getting dumped will start looking like a bargain, but they will have already been snapped up by smarter companies by the time management that can't see past their own toes figures that out.