Why can’t you just have a long lived internally signed cert on your archaic apps and LE at the edge on a modern proxy? It’s easy enough to have the proxy trust the internal cert and connect to your backend service that shouldn’t know the difference if there’s a proxy or not.

Or is your problem client side?

Automated certificates are relatively new and pretty neat. Killing off the certificate cartels is an added bonus.

You could try a path unit watching the cert directory (there are caveats around watching the symlinks directly) or most acme implementations have post renewal hooks you can use which would be more reliable.

You could try using the DNS challenge instead; I find it a lot more convenient as not all my services are exposed.

https://youtu.be/L3LbxDZRgA4

Papers, please.

I think it’s more the case it gets bundled in for free (or near enough) with other MS crap like Office.

Not really with the same flexibility.

You only get usable capacity of the smallest disk in a vdev or you have to add a new vdev with your newly sized disks.

Unraid lets you mix and match however you like and get all the usable capacity (as long as your parity is your largest sized disks).

I can’t argue, but there are benefits.

If you need something running 24/7 then on-prem may work out cheaper for you. Keep in mind you need a team of server monkeys to keep that running, and your company’s security certifications will come nowhere near that of a major cloud provider.

Cloud is good for elastic workloads. And you can save money that way if you’re set up for it. A simple lift and shift will always be more expensive. But doing things like moving build tasks to spot instances and auto scaling capacity in peak periods is a huge win. No need to over provision your DC and no need to upgrade your hardware – generally AWS releases new products at roughly the same price as old but with increased performance. You get upgrades “for free”* with no capex.

Again I’m not saying that your circumstance means that cloud isn’t more expensive. But there are medium term benefits.

AWS refused to offer hybrid as an option for years. They’ve changed their tune in the past 5 or so. No reason not to take advantage and do what mix makes sense for you.

I’m legitimately curious to understand more (not challenging your assertions). They offer hosted Jira/Confluence and probably other stuff no-one cares about.

What’s the problem with adoption?

Cisco, HP, and many other “Enterprise” switches will take a minute or two to start forwarding frames after boot.

Doesn’t really excuse Ubiquiti but that’s what they’re trying for.

Why are you searching for a solution to a problem you don’t have?

There’s nothing wrong with systemd.

Legitimate question: are you ever going to watch those videos again, ever?

I don’t go to concerts as often as I’d like, but when I do I’d far prefer to take in the moment myself vs. trying to capture it on my phone. I’m there for an experience; not a recording.

If that action makes your night better, so be it. I won’t get in your way. I do, however, get annoyed when I’m trying to watch an act and some idiot’s phone is held above their head, blocking my view.

Each to their own, but personally I don’t “get” it.