We have returned to "You never get fired for buying IBM" but with various cloud services and layers of abstraction, profit taking, obfuscation and performance penalties. I am too old to care. I run my family servers to keep my skills and earn pocket money from time to time. I never learned to become a salesperson for Gsuite, Azure, AWS, Cloudflare Docker, whatever. Don't really care. I skip the majority of the blog spam articles posted to HN because many push the same nonsense. Massive industry deskilling and a race to the bottom. Steer clear kids and look for a good trade.
Having to start using UNIX back in the day where we only had thin terminals, using telnet and X Windows to access our account, the cloudification is kind of ironic.
We are back in timesharing days, only using SSH and Web instead.
I guess I can at least switch my cloud shell colours to green to feel at home.
