I use my own gitea server. If I was willing to pay for a more solid service I'd probably go for GitLab.

yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.

it's available over LAN or VPN.

nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.

S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?

I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.

So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.

I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.

S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.

if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.

my gitlab backups are around 80gb.

Been in business 20 years with regular pen testing and had no complaints and have some pretty large clients.

.Net is popular in the UK for enterprise.

Might do you well to make less assumptions.

It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.

There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.

Hey have you considered lakefs based solutions for backups? I think you can set the retention rules up so that only backups upto so many months are retained and the rest are removed. That way only the diff in the backup files need to be uploaded.

I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.

My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.

Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.

Go with self hosted solutions, it's really not that hard.

For a small to medium company it's not necessarily worth it.

Because humans are social creatures?

I’ve read it but I don’t remember enough detail to understand what you’re referring to.

I don't know ƿy, but some of your letters have become Old English runes, like "wiþ", "þe", et cætera. Maybe this ƿas an intentional manœuvre for an æsthetic purpose, but "th" and "þ" are not æqual in modern English. Ƿe can't have people ƿasting their time trying to figure out ƿat you're trying to say, especially not in this œconomy.

I have not, I'll take a look. thanks.

Good point! I wasn't aware of that.

Im going to remove my Github content and host it just for myself in my own Forgejo at home.

Pity that the world is falling apart in so many ways.

If you ask nicely they can increase the limit :). They have the limit to avoid abuse with people storing movies or whatnot (the limit is a recent addition)

As I said to the other person, the limit can be waved if you ask. They have it to avoid people abusing the system to store movies and stuff

Room temperature take: It has been not independent for much longer than that.