Know when to shitcan a bad idea rather than death march your company into oblivion by not concentrating on the core business and customers to deliver the bad idea.
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Got fed up of trying to negotiate with the bastard thing and bought a Nikon mirrorless instead. Absolutely no regrets.
Other option is hire someone with a chair leg to go and get the parts back. If it’s eBay look at their for sale list - some people are stupid enough to relist what “didn’t turn up”.
EBay don’t give a crap about anything once fees are collected.
They transferred £2000 out of my account randomly one day with no cause or explanation when there was £118 available in it. The next day they froze the account and a specific contact at HSBC forced me to make a repayment arrangement for the money. I refused and opened a dispute and it took me 14 months to get it back and all fees incurred for entering an unarranged overdraft. It ruined my credit rating for 3 years. Every contact I made with them was handled by someone utterly incompetent or disinterested in solving the problem even when I involved a solicitor.
Never an apology, never an explanation, never a true resolution.
NEVER work with HSBC. ALWAYS keep your finances distributed between multiple accounts.
With Santander mostly now who so far, touch wood, have succeeded in not fucking anything up. Halifax as a backup.
For me it ended in a few days in hospital.
Bad behaviour starts with acknowledgement and the best way to do that is to track what you eat and learn to adapt slowly and develop self discipline. Use a tracker app and set a reasonable daily break even nutritional target and start thinking about what you eat. Slowly substitute better choices in. Eventually you will develop self control.
People want quick fixes but keto just breaks other things.
One killer no one seems to notice is the bandwidth between availability zones. When you have a proper best practice cross AZ deployment it can be rather expensive. But still cheaper than switches and humans and cages and data centre contracts.
For example our S3 costs are higher than our EC2 costs and we made a productive saving implementing lifecycle and S3 IA migration. The biggest EC2 cost reduction we made was through careful analysis and moving some stuff to Lambda, not by changing provider or instance class optimisation.
Whatever happens though, you don't know what the costs are going to be until you get the first bill, regardless of what you estimate.
Quite frankly if you’re in the cloud you’re locked in one way or another.
I reserve the label stupid specifically for templated YAML which makes me want to strangle people fairly quickly.
For personal stuff I’m using iCloud+ domain hosting now after moving from fastmail which was also trouble free.