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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.

    Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!

    To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.



  • Storage is cheap for what you get.

    A DVD movie ripped to MKV is 3-5GB.

    A 12 terabyte drive is ~ $100. That’s… 2400 movies (if my math is right). My current movie collection is about 300 movies, 500GB of storage (I’ve ripped some stuff to MP4).

    Having a backup of 12TB would cost perhaps $100/yr (Im paying less than that for backup of my 4TB storage).

    Alternatively you can replicate your library with friends and family, pretty simple to do. Drop a mini pc with a drive in it running Kodi/Casaos/Freedombox, whatever, behind the TV at everyone’s house, for less than 20w of power you have a replicated media player.