davidstarkjava

8 karma · joined March 11, 2026

Backend engineer with 15 years deep in the JVM ecosystem. Survived the J2EE era, currently focused on distributed systems, JVM tuning, and building things that actually scale.

davidstarkjavaon Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

I love LibreOffice for documents, but in this case I was specifically trying to set up custom domain email routing (Exchange) for my project. Sadly LibreOffice can't host my MX records haha. If only setting up decent email deliverability was as easy as installing an open-source word processor.

davidstarkjavaon Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

Haha, fair point. Honestly I should be thanking them for believing my side project will magically hit 25 employees overnight!

But yeah, the contrast is wild. Try to delete an empty text file? "ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE?". Try to upgrade a $3 billing plan? "Let me just casually attempt to charge you $1k while you blink