A week ago I (a hobbyist running a small side project for a dollar or two a month in normal usage, so my account is marked as "individual") got hit with a ~$17,000 bill from Google cloud because some combination of key got leaked or my homelab got compromised, and the attacker consumed tens of thousands in gemini usage in only a few hours.

Google denied a rate adjustment, and haven't reached back out to me for a good few days now. My credit card denied the charge because it was over my credit limit by a good few thousand dollars and they suspected fraud, but now I am terrified of being taken to collections and ruining my prospects of renting an apartment due to my credit score/history being ruined, or them just taking me to court.

I am never going to use "use now pay later" services, especially with cloud portals where it's so hard to put in a actual cap, and the cloud provider not having any sane rate limits. I am fine paying if it was negligence or a mistake on my part as a very expensive lesson in security, but 17k is brutal.

The fact they don't have an easy way to hard cap usage (especially for an individual account) and have ineffective rate limits (how on earth is an account that pays a few dollars a month able to run up tens of thousands in just a few hours), makes me never want to use their (or any use now pay later with no easy caps or rate limits) service ever again. Or even a phone number to call.

> Radar instruments can image Earth’s surface through clouds, precipitation, regardless of sunlight, making them particularly well suited for monitoring polar regions. The Sentinel-1C and -1D satellites also carry an Automatic Identification System (AIS) instrument – improving the mission capacity to detect ships and sea pollution. The Sentinel-1D AIS was also activated as the satellite passed over Antarctica capturing the presence of ships in these extreme areas.

It has a steep learning curve though, albeit it's extremely rewarding and powerful once you gwr over that curve. It should handle routing 1 gig with zero issues, and is under $200. You can do bonding, vlans, esoteric ip rules, and tons of "misc" functionality.

Do not go with ubiquiti, their hardware is very poor and their UI is very buggy and simply poorly designed, it's focused on people who know a bit above an average person about networking, which I suspect is not the case for most people here.

If I need to script something, I always do it in bash (which is easy to transition to from bash). I don't use the fish language for any scripting because of incompatability, but as a command line interface to my systems it has been a massive boom to my quality of life. I could not reccomend it more.

I don't know if it's the library itself or the documentation contents or the documentation website theme, but it jives absurdly well for me. I also really like the simplicity+flexibility of the library itself, and have yet to find anything even close to it in the c# or c++ world.

Also, what don't you like about nixos?

Many years back, I also did a writeup (much less intense) that goes more so into what it took for me to get Linux running on an IMX6 based Soc on the software end, including how I found a bug in the USB clock tree in the kernel for the IMX6, how I debugged it, and how I mainlined it (my first and only kernel commit to mainline). https://brainyv2.hak8or.com/

Such projects are increadibly satisfying to work on, it makes you feel much more competent when working with embedded systems. There is much less "black magic" going on.

If you are genuinely able to be genuinely self sufficient without interacting with currency while still bieng able to have power to go on a computer with an internet connection, I have to say, props to you.

I just hope you do not get hit with a serious medical issue. Or have a fire and then get hit with a fire Marshall tearing you a new one over your unpaid property bieng not up to code.

Also declaring the index variable in a for loop like for(int i =0; i < 10; i++) is extremely helpful.

Those two alone are extremely beneficial.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google were to just flat out deny this and tell the country to pound sand at that point.