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@mcc @jalefkowit (your point is otherwise well taken; this is one reason I am a little reluctant to recommend the aforementioned free computer despite the fact that it is objectively an excellent deal)

@mcc @jalefkowit this one comes with a stronger commitment that it will be $0 than I have received from other providers that it would remain $N. My previous provider, who shall remain nameless, started at $5/mo and through a series of end-of-life shell-game maneuvers eventually expected me to pay $75/mo for an equivalent service. So I tend to think of these things as price-over-time, and remain able to pivot off to a new provider with continuous local backups and ephemeral containers

@mcc @jalefkowit this commitment is hardly ironclad and I assume it may go away at some point, but I estimate using it for the last few years has saved me at least $500 by this point https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

@mcc @jalefkowit I should note that I have used oracle databases professionally at 3 jobs previously so we are still like $40,000 in the hole in terms of goodwill here, but it’s made an appreciable dent

@darius by "dumb terminal" do you mean like a Sun Ray or is there some more contemporary version of this

@glyph something of the sort yes

@darius they're not kidding about the dream of the 90s huh