As someone that used PHP professionally for literal decades, the PHP hate is so meme-y.

Its biggest problem is that it allows you to do some truly cursed things. The same can be said about other languages, but PHP really doesn’t do much to set you up for success, especially as a new-intermediate coder.

With opcache, it became fast enough for basically most web backends, and as a language overall it does seem to be evolving and shedding off some of the crap that used to make it truly horrible in the hands of a new person. At least the type-juggling stupiderrors

Now I mainly use go and python (only because I have to on this one), and I would put Python and PHP on a similar level of “fuck this language” moments

Only people supporting legacy regret.

Ruby was never good. It just got memed enough to make it way into some medium business

I don’t know how fair it is to use Cisco as an example for a GUI.

I mean, their “proof” is that Socialist is in the name. From there on out, they apparently missed everything that happened post-1934

Meh, I don’t know if they need defense. It’s just kind of how it is.

They got big and popular and that means momentum. Momentum is good for adoption and momentum is good for support, but it’s not great for huge jumps in technological sophistication.

I still LOVE the 2040, pico, etc, but there are just better options when you go bigger than that.

The Potato, Rock Pis.

This creator is great for when you want to SBC shop

https://www.explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html

Go check out ExplainingComputers on youtube.

https://www.explainingcomputers.com/sbc.html

He basically goes over every SBC possible. The good ones now are the Rock Pis and the Potato series

They aren’t even great platforms anymore in comparison.

Other SBCs are cheaper, more smartly designed, and have more features (emmc, pcie, etc)

The big thing RPI have going for them is that they are the standard and all the OS/software/etc end up being super turnkey

Blue LEDs used to be super expensive. Therefore, only high end electronics had them. So once LEDs got dirt cheap, everybody started dropping blue LEDs on everything to capture that “premium” feel.

Now of course, it’s just obnoxious

I just bought a new Magsafe charger. Something that generally lives in someone’s bedroom shouldn’t have the brightest fucking blue light I’ve ever seen on it. But it does.

Took one night to cover that fucker with electrical tape.

It’s a bit disconnected that anybody thinks meta is at all worried.

If anything, anybody wanting to get their instances in front of tons of eyeballs is going to be scrambling to federate (in an attempt to court away meta users)

The great thing about Proxmox is you can do snapshot backups which take mere moments to complete. Then pass those off to a NAS where they can survive a irreparable loss of your Proxmox server.

Hopefully you put a giant asterix by this point. You need the snapshot AND the original backup. Snapshots are only diffs and can’t survive without their base backup.