nicgentile

@nicgentile@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Devil’s advocate opinion.

  After spending a fair bit of time in China, I’ve come to understand one thing. A weaker America is good for China, but, China does not want to lead the world. Sloppy seconds works better from China.

  Many years ago, Richard Branson, wrote that in his fight with British Airways, he actually preferred being second. This because nobody is gunning for you. Everyone always guns for gold, but a silver is not a bad thing either but nobody is in the race thinking, golly, I’m going for silver this time.

  So, China has no real interest in the liabilities that come with leading the world. It’s a headache that does not benefit them. Own the infrastructure, mine the planet, sell plastic crap, that is fine, but rule the world, problems. Everyone turns to you for solutions or is trying to bring you down. Better to just chill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-wing YouTubers back South Korea president's last stand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuts, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to run over 40 drives. Backblaze pointed out those Toshiba’s. Man they do not die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which VPS do you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the best decisions I made, two years later. 💪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you selfhost your own blog/website?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I self host a Grav site among other things on a 15 Euro VPS.

  Also, I started with Ghost but the fact that they locked up the newsletter side of business to a single provider and were unwilling to rework things at the time made me walk away. Yes, I know you could go code side, and add others, but that was a complicated setup in itself. Grav works perfectly for me.