Why do these companies still sign with AWS? Didn’t they learn from the last two major outages in us-east? To say nothing of the deceptive business practices to obfuscate service utilization to overcharge businesses?
No system is perfect.
Can you name a more reliable alternative? With citations?
Because every major cloud provider has outages. On prem clouds also have outages. Everyone does.
I sure do love working at an MSP during times like this. Today fuckin sucked. Clients called in non-stop about things being broke AND our ticketing and remote support software was up and down all day
I think it’s just called BO Max these days
I’m not gonna dog on HBO out of all of them. They had been doing this subscription for premium content thing way before Netflix, and were the reason why we have so many amazing shows, some of which regularly male top 10 lists of all time.
They still have some good shows but its hard ro justify the cost, as was always the case.
my jellyfin didn’t go down
Mine did… Although it’s completely unrelated to AWS.
Kodi is pretty reliable…
Using it right meow. Didn’t even know this was happening till I saw this post.
Neither did mine :)
Basket, dropped
Eggs, broken
PirateBay reliable as ever…
but how? isn’t all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?
AWS outage. Basically Bezos went down on all his customers.
Whooosh
cloud’s gone
its us-east-1 as usual, I guess its that time of the year. and the companies haven’t changed either… so, basically the IT guys told the budget approvers we need more money they calculated it and said, no. see you next year for another one.
Or aws still haven’t fixed their own dependantcies on that region
Oh no!
anywayheh nice
Didn’t have any issues with my plex, must be an isolated issue.
Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏
Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the “smart” appliances don’t work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a “0” as return value when asking for the preferred temperature…
God, so many things gone wrong there. At least they could use “30” as the default value, right???
at least its not -254
at least its not -254
This is why Home Assistant exists.
Of course. But 99% of the population is either too lazy or to dumb for that, or such problems would not exist.
99% of the population is either too lazy…
Nudges an unopened box of Zigbee door sensors ordered 2 years ago to the back of the shelf.
Resist the temptation, hundreds of hours will be lost down that rabbithole after you start.
Though, it is kinda cool stuff, when it’s working.
Don’t listen to him. Sure it may take a few hours a day over the course of a month or so to get right, but with the time you’ll save from all that automation you’ll break even in a few hundred years - and they it’s all gravy!
what’s a door sensor good for?
Sensing doors.
There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.
It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain mobile data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
Dream on, meanwhile the world will be buying $8 cloud connected “smart switches” because they’re the cheapest, easiest to install things out there and even grandma is able to say “hey Alexa, turn on the coffee maker” and make it work.
It’s not that far off. I woke up to an Internet outage and none of my home lighting routines fired off and I couldn’t control my lights via wifi. I got it under control shifting to Bluetooth but for a second it was infuriating.
I had about a dozen WeMo devices controlling various stuff around the house, they just accumulated over the years. About a year ago, I “got serious” and ripped out all the cloud connected stuff and setup a Zigbee based Home Assistant system. It’s about 5x more capable than the old hodge podge of cloud devices, much lower lag, much better management capabilities, and when the internet connection goes down, it still works. The cloud devices would take long coffee breaks about twice a year.
the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling
Games that require persistent internet are baffling to me… I mean the hitman games cannot store your mission achievements offline…
But games are games… if my stove and fridge and showers (fucking showers with wifi?) Need internet connectivity then that is bullshit. They are being too fucking optimistic about everything.
Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun. My Steam Deck is blocked from the internet for that reason, but a fair number of games on Steam won’t work without connectivity. I seem to remember hearing about some girl who shares a huge collection of games that don’t require connectivity, though.
Is she fit?
some girl who shares a huge collection of games that don’t require connectivity
Dunno her, https://www.mensxp.com/technology/gaming/171080-best-offline-games-without-internet.html
Games like that are also baffling to me, thankfully I’ve not purchased one but I would return it as soon as I discovered the limitation if that were to happen
I bought just the hitman game because I am a completionist and I just want that one. I don’t care for many other games.
Sounds like someone needs HomeAssistant…
Mostly they need to move to Zigbee/Matter or similar.
Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?
Never.
BGP or DNS? It’s always one of those 2.
Hurricane?
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
