A sincere best of luck to you all. At the same time these sentences are unwarranted
> Public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud made life easier for start-ups and enterprises. But they are closed source, have you rent computers at a huge premium, and lock you in. Ubicloud offers an open alternative, reduces your costs, and returns control of your infrastructure back to you. All without sacrificing the cloud's convenience.
especially when you say:
> Ubicloud is in public alpha. You can provide us your feedback, get help, or ask us to support your network environment in the Community Forum.
while I agree self-hosting at a philosophical level, please note that there are lots of good reasons to use public providers.
In most distros a simple default install (like Kubuntu or Ubuntu) things are consistent. Even RedHatEnterprise linux is very consistent. Sure a mac looks nice as it is always available in a 2K> glossy display.
Once you go to install stuff things are made of different tool kits. In principle it is the same for macOS. Yes, all Apple stuff mostly are consistent. There are lots of dialogs inside System Preferences that seem old and not migrated. Also, once you install MS office, and other dev. stuff from macports things go weird.
> I did use the authenticator app plenty of times so I'm certain I had it set up.
Then it would be been impossible to login. Did you use a password that was leaked? If yes - may be they logged in - and you would have got a 'notification' on your phone to allow them. And you perhaps said yes to that remote login.
To help others could you please tell us more information... Did you have 2FA? If yes was it SMS or with U2F-key? Which country where you previously in? Did you change places?
I am sure everyone is learning from walled gardens.
Sure, there will be some impact of sanctions. But note that wealthy individuals will find a way.
EU or US is never going to ban UAE, Saudi Arabia or India from they list for trading with Russia. Note that Iran has been successfully exporting gas to India by opening accounts with state banks in India.
These are complex issues.
All these headlines in the West for PR and public consumption. Eventually, the average Western European is more bothered about their jobs. Sure they happily opened borders, but wait a month or two. One these Ukrainians apply for jobs the locals get annoyed. Example: In Germany, Syrians were welcomed with open arms, then eventually the tabloid news turned around once they settled.
Note that the average Russian (or Chinese or Indian) is poor. They do not care about what people in Western Europe think. They do business to better themselves (just like average American that helps quell uprising in UAE by developing software or working for NSO).
1. Money: Russia is a tiny market for MS/Google/Apple. So they can appear to boycott it and still be OK with shareholders.
2. Communities (like these are mainly Western and hence) make decisions based on their surroundings/public views. Also this war is clear - one knows who is in the side of west and who is NOT.
3. The primary Middle East conflict is complex - Take for example, Arab-Israeli conflict. Actions in Muslim world are also perpetrated by local/regional govt. Too complex to take actions. and there is the $$$ in those oil countries - nobody incl. US govt wants a boycott of these $$$ - For example, Israel (technology), Saudi or UAE - support.
4. Also one needs to wait for some months to see how these responses pan out. There is a lot of fatigue in people for humanitarian things.
5. Ukraine has a similar cultural identity to Europe - that helps. But one needs to wait and see the responses of EU citizens when Ukrainians move to get EU residency. The same sympathy may change.
6. In defense of these Western organisations, during Tsunami lots of people helped
Perhaps you need to look at average human trying to setup a router/DSL modem in a house hold. Then you may note that all your second sentence is a large task for any CEO. (No offence they are good in their field but anything more than dropbox or email or drive is a no go!)
Note that in 7 years OP had one problem now... I know people with local NAS one need to do maintenance and so on. Again, depends on your technical ability. Bit-rot, power failures etc.
> multiple NAS and distributed them geographically and used Syncthing to keep them updated
As some one working in storage, please do not get tons of NAS they are pain to manage eventually. Example: linus-tech-tips could not do it properly.
If you use youtube-dl how large is one video? Lets say 2 GB. I presume, every week you create have 2 videos? Then 4GB per week.
Google gives you $20 for 100 GB. Every year create a new account - like - company name.2022 dump everything there. Hire an clerk to make sure the credit card is payed every year.
That way you do not lose all videos at a time.
Heck you can even create free Google drive account every few months and segment them.
- VMware - Azure - IBM etc
Now-a-days
- Get your employees co-pilot assisted Intel/Windows/etc to boost productivity