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Written by Michael Potter on 2024-12-19 at 12:58

With all my random thoughts about worker cooperatives, I haven't specifically mentioned what I have in mind.

I'm kind of a broken-down old sysadmin. I can't really code and I'm not an engineer, and a lot of the intermediate-level type of work I was doing has been offshored or has morphed into SRE/DevOps.

Most of the clouds now in use, AWS, Azure, VMWare and even Google, are proprietary, and I loathe what they stand for.

[#]coop #workercoop #FOSS #Linux #sysadmin #genx

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Written by silverwizard on 2024-12-20 at 21:30

@mpotter As a sysadmin in my heart, I feel this. We need the smaller orgs again. The cloud ate the world and I don't know how we get it back.

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Written by Michael Potter on 2024-12-20 at 23:54

@silverwizard I think there are niches for a FOSS cloud, or apps built on the same. I also think maybe we're going to have to build them if we want them.

It's easier said than done, of course, but I can remember when Microsoft was the juggernaut, and we moved past that.

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Written by silverwizard on 2024-12-21 at 00:35

@mpotter I've been trying to make an Organic Server Farm (solar, cloud surplus servers, MSP kinda thing) which serves my community - especially small businesses and nonprofits for years, but how do we make that make enough money to feed my kids

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Written by Tek aEvl on 2024-12-21 at 04:22

@silverwizard @mpotter I love to make money with my small server farm, but it seems that people only pay the big names, or just host for themselves.

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Written by silverwizard on 2024-12-21 at 04:32

@tek @mpotter how are you making money? contracts? hosting?

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Written by Tek aEvl on 2024-12-21 at 08:47

@silverwizard @mpotter I'm not making any money with what I do, but I have no limits, other than power consumption doing it all my self.

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Written by silverwizard on 2024-12-21 at 12:56

@tek @mpotter ah, yeah. I have a little server farm for personal stuff, but yeah, no money made

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