"people would love ads if only they were more 'relevant'"

You'd have to be at minimum very out of touch if you actually believe that. At no point in time have I ever wanted advertisements. I just skip them where possible and when that's not an option I tune them out. Advertisements are mental pollution.

Why would anyone trust an advertisement to begin with? They're entirely biased. The company is paying to tell you stuff, do you really think they're going to give us an unbiased honest and objective opinion? No, they aren't, they're only going to tell us good things with through own positive biased lens, and biased opinions aren't just worthless, they're corrosive. So why would I trust or factor anything from any advertisement?

Each virtual machine will cost between $300 and $3,000 to migrate, if you engage external service providers
Yeah, if you hire a 3rd party consulting form to do it, it's going to cost a lot more than having your staff that manages your VM infrastructure. Here's the thing, if you have IT staff to do this, they can also handle the migration to another platform. I migrated to Proxmox VE and didn't have anywhere near those costs. Admittadly the infrastructure I manage is not 100+ hosts and 2000+ VMs, but still.

Let's get to the important stuff. Who wrote the article? A VMware bro.
Michael Warrilow
VMware,Senior Product Marketing Manager

In surprise news, a VMware marketing manager says moving away from VMware will be expensive, News at 11 everyone!

I'll see your Tik Tok ban, and raise you by one order of Freedom Fries!

Why would anyone switch over?

Imagine you have an EV and there are these newfangled ICE vehicles. No longer will you need to constantly plug your car in. One 5 minue stop a week is all it takes! No more dragging power cords around in the winter every day at night. And hey, your range wouldn't go down in -10 temps any more either. Your cars newfangled gas container can be filled a near infinite amount of times and will alway have 100% capacity, plus it only takes 5 minutes to fill from empty to full and is doesn't require pre-conditioning in the winter. You can even put extra fuel in a smaller bonus can that will give you another 100+ miles of range. That extra 100 mile range can will cost you just $20! Different charger networks? A thing of the past, all pumps will work on all vehicles! Stop in to an ICE5000 dealership and take a test drive today!

This won't have the intended effect. If I'm buying a new one, then it just became harder to resell. Which means it isn't as valuable, which means I'm not Willington pay as much for it. If I'm an existing owner, I'm mad they depreciated my purchase retroactively. If im a used customer I know it would be hard to resell and that I'll have to discount t it to get rid of it. I'm also aware that I'm going to need to pay 100 dollars to 'activate' a used one and that doesn't sound like something I want to do, so unless I can get it really cheap I don't want it.

So basically it's just another day in America where the rich screw the poor.

I was going to basically post this but in a less fleshed out way. Unless you control the hardware, which includes updates, etc. then the maker of it can change it at any time. I wouldn't spend $100 on hardware I can't control, let alone thousands of dollars. This issue was easy to see coming down the pike. This is not an "early adopter tax" or anything of the like. An early adopter tax is more that the company making it might fail, or the product itself isn't successful and is discontinued (along with support of the product). This is an ignorance tax... ignorance of the hardware they purchased and who has control over it.

This regulation brought to you by GM, because they can't compete with a 20k vehicle and would rather sell 65k pickup trucks instead anyways.

Re-read his post....

Not interested in buying one until megawatt level charging is as common and frequent as a gas pump.

I hate how they say the plastic bag style isn't reusable. Just because they werent used again for shopping doesn't mean they weren't repurposed. I reused them all the time. For example I'd use them as can liners inside the small cans in my bathrooms. Once they filled up I'd knot the bag by the handles and toss it in the dumpster. After the ban (and running out of my stock of those plastic bags) I just started using full size garbage bags which have way more plastic in them due to size. Once the small bin gets full, the bag is only about 25% full. I still tie it and toss it. Bathroom garbage stinks if it sits too long and those shopping bags were the perfect size to fill but also not reek. Even though I only fill the bigger bags 25% I'm not going to keep them around due to this.

That sounds like a depositor issue. This is similar to insuring a 2 million dollar home for 250k USD and then complaining that insurance won't cover over the 250k max of your policy when your home burns down. You knew the limit and tou chose to go over it and not mitigate your risk through other channels. The rest of us don't get to go crying to daddy government when we make a bad financial decision and have them bail us out. Let the depositors eat the loss. Sometimes lessons are costly, and thai should be one of the cases where it is.

^This right here.

If they didn't have the abusive scam ads and just ran a 5-15 second ad at the very start and very end it would be fine and I wouldn't be bothered by the change. However, the scam junk ads every 3-4 minutes mid-sentence is garbage. Yeah, I'll keep blocking their ads. Ultimately this is a cat and mouse game they cannot win. There is 1 google and billions of us. They already lost; they just don't know it yet.

I don't know what the world may need,
But a V8 engine is a good start for me.
Think I'll drive to find a place to be surly.

I'm not giving up my car while the Kardashians fly across the country for a cappuccino. I'll give up my gas vehicles when you ban private jets. Until then, F off.