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.

Sorry but I will feel zero percent bad about deadnaming a company owned by a transphobe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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.

Mania Kimchi

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It would probably have to be hardware programmed with no external way to interface with it to prevent people from hacking it and dumping the whole dose in their body.

Good news, actual insulin pumps are already a proprietary nightmare! 🤗

Jokes aside, this sort of thinking about folks with ADHD is super harmful. Neurotypical people would love to do that, but folks with ADHD just want their brain to work normally. There’s nothing stopping us from taking all our short-acting meds at once either, apart from the fact it would fluffing suck!

I’m actually a bit surprised the EU would allow it instead of just forcing MS to give everyone another free year of updates.

They did: https://baltimorechronicle.com/other/2025/10/10/windows-10-security-updates-free-in-europe-what-users-need-to-know/

Also, you can just pay $30 in the US if you don’t wanna sign in.

You know exactly what they* mean, don’t be obtuse.

Admittedly, a sadface would make it much better.