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Years ago, somehow my personal Hotmail account got linked with my work email, and I've been able to log into the Azure portal with my personal account and get, I believe, a $200 credit that renews every month. I've created some VMs and a tiny web site, and still to this day have never gone over the free credits.
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Slow Eddie wrote: I am thinking of opening a Microsoft Azure Account.
An excellent idea, IMHO. Azure is a great (and very wide) ecosystem and it's well worth learning specific parts of it.
Slow Eddie wrote: I just got a BeeLink microcomputer,
I wish you'd asked for advice on CP before buying it. I've been using NUCs since 2011 (before the term was invented by Intel). In 2011 I bought a Gigabyte Brix NUC (4-core, 8 thread, i7, 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) that I put together myself. That box runs Win7 (yes, Win7). Because I need a Win10 machine at home (I already use one at work), I'm buying an Intel NUC (Gen 11 i7, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Win 10 - clean with no 3rd party apps) in order to run VS 2022, integrate more with Azure and have a better environment for building mobile apps and doing audio post-production.
/ravi
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Bought Beelink for the low price. Don't know where to find one or how much it costs. is NUC an acronym?
ed
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Slow Eddie wrote: is NUC an acronym?
Next Unit of Computing.
IOW, marketing BS.
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I love my NUCs. I started off with a Gen5 (I think?) with 16GB of RAM and it's still the only machine I have on my desk. It's driving 3 monitors (including a 40" 4K TV) and I use it daily to RDP into VMs where I do actual work on. Best dumb terminal I've ever had, even though it's got quite a bit of horsepower on its own.
I bought my second one (with 32GB of RAM) to help host VMs when my primary host (with 64GB) was constantly running out of memory. I only wished the NUCs supported 64GB back then (I'm sure they do now, if not more). Although I was not impressed by the later offerings, which seemed a lot larger - defeating the whole small form-factor point, IMO.
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I use Azure every day... It has it benefits, but mostly very poor documentation...
You will have to learn everything on your own, and can't really trust the default settings of the services...
Also every bit you add may, or may not, add extra cost (so you have keep an eye for the actual cost)... If you can't pass the cost over to your customers it is actually very expensive, so I would not recommend it as pet-project platform...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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We just launched out first cloud-based app a couple of months ago, using Azure. The solution works great, and is extremely fast considering the number of records we already have loaded to it. Our app is designed in Visual Studio, making use of its ability to create HTML, and tying it all to an Azure database. Azure is highly customizable, offering you the ability to manage/select your storage capacity, bandwidth, security (firewall, or not, for instance). The monthly cost is way cheaper than a dedicated web server hosting service would have cost us and can be scaled to meet your needs.
By far the most difficult part was using our own domain with the service. Do NOT try to purchase a domain name through Azure. You will be lucky if the purchase ever goes through. The configuration of a custom domain name to be used with them is very complicated and convoluted, and requires several customized DNS entries and then interlinking your Azure services to SSL Certs, the domain, etc. I managed to wade through it all after much trial and error, and have been very happy with it since.
One of the biggest pros IMO is that everything is scalable as I said above. I can increase storage, or bandwidth as needed, or can beef up my security profile up to whatever I am willing to pay for.
Having said all of this, I still don't trust Azure or any other service for anything highly confidential. It will likely be a long time before I comfortable enough to move any of our critical data or apps to the cloud.
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Storage is super cheap to buy, super easy to use.. so why rent it at a premium price-point?
If you want to use the cloud for file access from multiple personal devices, use OneDrive instead.
If you want to serve multiple users the same files, buy storage and host it behind a Zero-Trust gateway instead.
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Today, after going online, I'm getting very specific targeted ads for a particular item; an item I've never looked into.
It so happens my partner had been searching this item on "her machine" a day or 2 previously; so this goes beyond cookies; and they're tracking IP addresses via the browser and sites like MSN with Ajax, etc.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Similar experience/observations here. So much for privacy 
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Yep,
I recently bought all my groceries online and had them delivered. Half my grocery list is showing up on MSN and when I read the morning news. The ads show up on every device in the house, including my TV browser and development workstation.
Super distracting to see ads containing my groceries.
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Yeah, I know what you mean...
My wife had started to look for diapers and baby clothes... before telling me she was pregnant. And that some years ago 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm betting she logs into her own profile on "her machine", and the browser on yours happens to also use the same profile. So a user's settings follow them around from system to system.
Don't confuse site login with browser login. Personally, I avoid giving a browser any credentials.
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yes, it has become quite useless to target only the cookies when there are several devices under the same connection and they took this further...
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Eh? Wassat noise? I woz kippin'!
I dunno, kids of today ... I died in two world wars for the likes of you, bring back National Insurance, that's what I say. Couple of years in a building society do you a world of good! Mumble, mumble, mumble ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nix verstehen. Billy Idol (1955), maybe three to five years older than you and 8 years older than me 
[Edit]
And wtf, he is looking 10 years younger than me 
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Joan Jett is playing on the radio at the moment, so I'm good.
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Too busy visiting Tulip island: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aEcjbgrkMvV5C3cT6
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Love it. Great wake up!
A little time, a little trouble, your better day! (BF)
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Wordle 308 X/6
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You win some, you lose some!
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Looks like you're playing hard mode and a truly nasty word showed up.
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Without setting hard mode on, I play by the rules of hard mode.
After the 4th attempt, I wondered if I should use the strategy of trying to eliminate letters by choosing words that may not have known letters in them but decided against it.
O, live and learn!
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