I mean the whole point that xboxers were making when the ps5 was released was âbut gamepass!â. Now that ps also has their âgame subscriptionâ, I do not really see the appeal of an xbox, especially if you also own a pc. PS has exclusives, xbox does not - at least not ones Iâd be interested in and couldnât play on PC.
Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.
They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.
Meh, the best programmers are probably somewhere in the middle.
This also depends on what kind of work youâre doing.
Writing some frontend with lots of Boilerplate? Thatâs lots of lines.
Writing efficient code that for example runs on embedded systems? Thatâs different. My entire masterâs thesis code project on an embedded system consisted of around 600 lines of C code, and it did exactly what it should, efficiently.
A better metric to that effect would be the git activity graph. People that do important changes donât commit 20 times a day - they push a commit usually once a day tops to once every 2 weeks
If youâre looking for a free self hosted server - I have been using the oracle cloud free tier for months - especially their Arm based server, and Iâm more than happy.
However, if you end up going that route have some kind of backup strategy set up, and set it up in a way where you can reproduce the server easily, as they reserve the right to suddenly take it offline.
Iâm using a hetzner storage box for backup - which I also use for my personal automated backup with borg.
Yeah, while Iâm not a big hiker myself, being Swiss I know how prepared you need to be.
Walked around in Taiwan when I came across a hiking trail. 1.5 hours, like 150m verticality only, labelled as easy. Cool, but not enough water (only carried a 2l bottle). Went to a local teahouse and got me 4 more bottles to be safe and went for it. Walked past countless others because I was underprepared, and am glad I did because those could have turned out not so nice if I did go.