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Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?

TBF they’ve had KDE Neon for a lot longer.

On lemmy they’re called communities :)

Like if you’re going to run out of gas in the next 20 miles and there isn’t an Exxon station within 100 miles, do you just pass all other gas stations and have your employees break down on the side of the road?

Honestly? Yeah, pawbably. Or you pay for it yourself and go through getting a reimbursement which may or may not happen.

Edit: Just like, you’re expecting companies to be intelligent and reasonable, and they just aren’t.

To be pedantic for a sec, the term is black start. Just cause I think it’s super dystopian sounding.

It’d be like if ExxonMobil didn’t allow their employees with company cars to fill up at a Chevron station.

That is likely very much the case. When you drive a company vehicle, you have a fuel card for fill-ups that is for a particular chain and doesn’t work anywhere else.

Very clever and smart, clearly you have good takes on the world.

Think small businesses, charities, local municipal services, etc. Small IT budgets, low staff (if any) and just enough to pad out a subscription cost to a service provider that fits their needs.

Did we not read the same comment? Not every service that was taken down was a website, like OP’s school. Plenty of small businesses, charities or local municipal services don’t have IT staff, commissioned their sites (including initialisation) and don’t necessarily know that 𝑥 company they pay, pays Amazon. Or how to do a whois search. You clearly don’t have a firm grasp on the realities of the world, nor work in IT “doing websites”.

That’s honestly just a tin-foil hat sort of take, that entirely relies on planning for an unprecedented AWS outage specifically to screw over customers.

It’s honestly just a mistake for everyone: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

Yeah I mean, we’ve been heavily influenced by the US and UK historically, so we have a deeply racist disposition. Our treatment of Indigenous Australians is as much of a blight on our history as it is for other English-speaking nations like the US, Canada and South Africa. I do still strongly believe we’re doing better in a lot of ways, for example we’ve started using indigenous place names, acknowledging traditional land ownership and other steps. But we’re far from perfect, and if you come here with that conceptualisation then you’ll definitely be disappointed.

I would say that’s a pretty minor issue that isn’t related to the functioning of the service itself.

Matrix is way more dark side in my opinion (this is a joke about how often it fluffs up, leaving you in the dark).

I would be surprised if Signal didn’t have a contract with another cloud provider as well, incase of this sort of thing.

Government’s also shouldn’t be incentivised to always go with the cheapest option during procurements and tenders. Price is not the only factor in a value calculation and it is insane that we just ignore that fact.

This is literally just a US skill issue, and just so you’re aware, folks in the rest of the world do exist on the internet.

I wouldn’t want my city traffic lights managed by a private company, because they’d try to cut costs and avoid building in redundant systems.

While they aren’t run by private companies, the traffic lights at the entrances to most housing estates are procured and installed by the developer, at least in Australia. Without fail, about 12-24 months later, the red and green LED lights will have half a dozen or more dead pixels on them. Meanwhile, newer LED lights installed by the roads department are still going strong years later.

Wait, are you trying to make the argument that capitalists sell things for below cost???

No, they are cheaper at a grid-level power source level.

Okay, but I was pointing out how alternate energy choices are already cheaper than fossil fuels? Which is a fact…