Message from @shadowedROM
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if you wanna learn things, an openvpn server is fine too, but watch out for bandwidth usage on the free tier
the openvpn server is pretty easy to set up; the hard part is learning to finesse around openssl commands, and that's kind of worth it
I just normally use sshuttle for my vpn purposes
also got lifetime subs to a couple of real vpn providers
great
the real good of an aws dev account is learning the aws ecosystem
i heard that you need to sell yourself to pay for it all
the more you think of it as another VPS the worst off you are and you don't gain from their service abstractions
having memcached or a sql server spin up as an appliance is kinda neato
and yeah AWS is expensive
i've never paid for it; only use it through work
but the cost of AWS is basically a means for entities to abstract away their IT staff so it's "worth it"
don't need to pay homo sapiens to run stuff
is it really different than say, run a bunch of VPSes from different pre-made images?
functionally - no; but, they provide API endpoints to abstracted services, so, instead of running some config mgmt or cloudinit script to provision a VPS instance for something like hadoop, you just use Amazon's shit by saying "I want a hadoop instance that does N-cycles amt of work" or whatever.
it's "magic"
idk you should research it yourself. it's worth learning if not only for the resume padding if you're a career-minded type.
as far as that $50, how about software defined radio gear
idk wtf ur interested in
I'm just a hobbyist programmer that does small sysadmin stuff
Managed to get myself contracted to my school
So they cover anything I include in the bill without questions
Optimized a bunch of stuff and cut my yearly expenses by 50$
imho hobby stuff is not worth buying since it's mostly distraction. if your goal is programming, just code.
Need to do something with it
Well.. if coding isn't your hobby, programming will be hell
no no no
i mean
You need to like it if you want to endure it
you can do plenty of programming without gadgets
and have lots of fun
oh in that sense
yeah
I guess
yeah, the devices tend to lock you into a particular paradigm or some specific language / libraries / dialects and you end up fighting hardware and getting distracted
rpi is different since they're mostly transparent and you can treat them like another machine
but arduinos and fpgas and stuff, not really transferrable and in the end not worth it
general processing almost always wins in the long term
unless you're writing password crackers or something
¯\_(ツ)_/¯