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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldCheap servers?
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    2 months ago

    Problem of free tier is just to entice devs in the hope that one of them likes the infrastructure and works at a whale

    If you use the free tier too much they close it because you used it too much and exceeded their fair use policy

    If instead you don’t use it enough, they close it for inactivity









  • If you don’t pay, you don’t see the results.

    The test is free, but not seeing the results.

    It’s very infuriating, especially from this website, because it’s a 40 questions test which require some thought. You can easily waste 30-40 minutes before getting asked your email for getting the result “on a safe link”, for additional verification. Then you click the link via email (confirming that your email is valid and you can receive spam) and you get those fake loading bars that take like 2 minutes

    ✔️ Loading results
    ✔️ Reading all your responses
    ✔️ Elaborating your score
    ✔️ Comparing your score with other people
    ✔️ Generating your certificate
    ✔️ Fetching your certificate

    And only then, when your patience is almost gone, and your expectations are at the top, they ask for a symbolic payment to “maintain their service”. What to do? Rage quit after having wasted one hour on this scam or pay the $2?





  • On the plus side, for example, there are thousands of printers and scanners where the manufacturer never released a 64bit windows driver even if some of them were sold during the vista 64 bit era or even windows 7.

    In that case Linux it’s the only way to make them work on a modern computer (unless supported by paid third party drivers like vuescan or printfab)


  • And that some programs are extremely opinionated.

    Ignoring requests with thousands of posts, or even pull requests where the changes are already implemented

    “No. I won’t add tabs, it’s better UX to have separate windows”

    “No, I won’t allow the user to save the password, even if it’s local or not important”

    “All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”