Honestly I think if Proxmox got VMWare money then they’d become stuffed to the gills with business sharks and probably go the same route eventually.
That is not a Proxmox problem, that is a capitalism problem.
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day agoMan could you imagine what proxmox would be if that project got just a tenth of the money VMware got?
Classic prisoners dilemma. Nobody wants to invest in proxmox because not enough people invest in proxmox.
4am@lemm.ee 1 day ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*Humanity problem.
There are some solutions invented, but they require work and revolutionary wars. And the functioning system, I think, will be as close to ancap as to Trotskyism. Won’t be clearly “socialist”.
TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, this is not a humanity problem. This is a capitalism problem. Companies are not beholding to their customers, they are beholden to stock owners. It is no longer in their best interest to make customers happy, it’s in their best interest to provide ROI for their investors. Every software product hits a point of diminishing returns. There are no new amazing features to woo new customers, it is a mature product that only has incremental features. When this happens, you either flip to a subscription model and parasitize your user base, or sell to another vendor, management group, or some other entity who does it after you’ve been paid out. If we had better controls on mergers and buyouts there would be active competition to foster diversity and keep prices down, but when companies buy all their competition and all of the small companies who make products and enhancements for their base, it’s a lose lose situation for the end users. This is my jaded two cents after a quarter century of being in the IT/AEC field in the direct line of this enshittification process from multiple companies across the spectrum.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Companies are not beholding to their customers, they are beholden to stock owners.
I don’t think you realize how much of an improvement this is over other really existent options.
One can be a serf, or a slave, or a city dweller in a privilege-based society, or a peasant in some despotic kingdom. The list of options is long, none are good.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 day ago
Proxmox is already perfect (for my use case)
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
[deleted]Septimaeus@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Summary for the curious:
The dilemma: Two prisoners are interrogated in separate rooms. Each is asked to snitch in exchange for a reduced sentence. Because they’re separated, the prisoners can’t coordinate, but each knows the other is offered the same deal and the interrogator will only offer bargains that increase the combined years of their imprisonment. For example, snitch gets -2 years but snitchee gets +3 years, netting the interrogator +1 year for a successful bargain). So, what will they do?
Result: Of course the better outcome overall is for neither to snitch and the worst is for both to snitch, but the Nobel-Prize-winning observation was that any prisoner faced with this dilemma (once) will always have a better result if they snitch than if they don’t, no matter what the other decides.
This sounds bleak because it is, but real-world analogs of this game are rarely one-offs. For example, if the prisoners expect to play this game an indeterminate number of times, the result above no longer applies. The study of such logic problems and the strategies to solve them is called game theory.
Rogue@feddit.uk 1 day ago
You should take a look at Canonical’s LXD. They’ve been investing in it pretty heavily and can definitely rival proxmox.
The web based UI is superb and I’ve never had issues with the CLI which is quite a contrast to my experience with proxmox
turtle@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Or kick Canonical to the curb and use Incus instead: discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/…/21430
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Except then you’d be stuck with Canonical.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah…I rank Canonical roughly where Google was like 20 years ago. They’re still mostly good…but that’s highly likely to change.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Not really. Incus is a fork of LXD that’s carrying the torch for community focused containers.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Suse has been trying pretty hard with Harvester. KVM-based, VMs-as-k8s-pods which leverages all existing k8s tooling, as well as the same multi-cluster federation as RKE2.
Seems pretty great from afar, though it’s very much under active development.