There is a big difference with a physical product. It’s harder to get in over your head and go bankrupt

I work for an MSP, mostly with small to medium companies. Licensing costs went up a ton when broadcom acquired vmware. They went up a ton more this year with minimum core counts, current licensing costs are roughly $20k a year minimum. They might hike the price again, even medium businesses that see some value in avoiding an expensive migration want to avoid this uncertainty. Basically they don't want to deal with small and medium sized businesses. I'm sure large businesses are facing price hikes too but I don't have experience with that.

If you are on a perpetual license you can put the management vlan on a network not connected to the internet if it wasn't already and realistically this buys a few years. You will not be able to patch, eventually auditors will not accept that. For the rest not on perpetual licensing, when the licensing expires you will not be able to power on machines, if they reboot they stay off.

About half of clients we are migrating to hyper-v. Most are already running windows servers. There are some differences but hyperv covers the important features and the licensing is basically already included. Beeam makes the virtual to virtual move a lot easier, this is what most of our customers use for backups

For a good chunk they are migrating to azure or another hosted environment. If you don't have a main office with a file server or some more demanding line of business apps this is a pretty easy move.

A few are going to nutanix. Or more of expanding nutanix.

My organisation went down the Nutanix path with about 1/4 of the DC about 18 months ago. They're now just finalising the move away feom Nutanix. From a server and dev admin point of view we had really odd VM behaviour, poorer than expected process performance, and random instability that just couldn't be resolved. I believe other system owners had similar and that the VM admins had their own range of oddities to track down. Something behind the scenes was the catalyst for change away in a short period of time.

What did you choose to replace?

Because of the Norquist tax pledge. Many politicians are opposed to any tax increase, including anything that makes paying taxes easier

Dollar is down~11% ytd. Silver is up 76%

Except the property taxes aren't based on the actual price paid. The tax assessment and appeal system is more prone to corruption than most states.

You can generate images on an iphone now with “draw things”

Alameda county does something similar for health reasons. All home sales require pressure testing the sewer lateral. With replacement required if it fails before the deed can transfer or a loan is funded.

Does the buyer or seller pay for the repairs?

In practice the seller. Because they can’t sell to anyone without fixing it. But it’s negotiable.

But the buyer gets the benefit of the repair. I'd probably push for at least a 50:50 split (or, have the line inspected before listing the house for sale, and if it needs repair add that to the asking price).

The seller gets the benefit if they can’t sell it to anyone else

The lender only needs you to show proof of the origin of funds if they were transferred in the last 60 days

Depends on the jurisdiction and it may not be the lender that requires proof of origin but the party handling the transaction. They may even have a reporting requirement for 'suspicious transactions'.

After Oct 14, yes. You won't receive security patches

sucks gotta dump the box, excuse to get an SFF I guess

Make sure to dump via eBay or such so us Linux users can take advantage of the cheap hardware:)

Yeah idk, I need a windows computer, I do use all 3 to develop on but yeah

I'm not a PC builder myself, nice to see the designs people come up with

That's my point: You might need Windows, but some of us don't have that problem and would like to take that hardware off your hands.

10th gen intel should be compatible with windows 11. Might need to change a bios setting

It's only really the CPU and motherboard that need updating, right?

Uh I mean if you're gonna throw a big GPU in the trash I'll haul it away for only ten bucks...

I thought it was some TPM thing

My rig is not that impressive, i9 with 4070 what sucks is the ram is locked for some reason at 2400mhz even if I buy ram that is faster than that so idk. I swear it that was the specific cpu (10th gen)

I did go through a bunch of steps checking trying to get it to work, stuff in bios enabling settings

I think the TPM lives in the mobo somewhere. Might as well reuse the HDD, SSD, GPU, PSU, and chassis

Good point, find same size/socket

You can have my Windows 10 from my cold dead hands ha

Is your parents address your credit card billing address?