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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I wouldn't look at it that way. Even companies not leveraging AWS directly will be impacted.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Especially Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, who are all at this very moment probably sending out sales droids in vast numbers

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

There's so much vendor lock in with AWS, migrating to another provider over an outage even lasting 24h would be a tough sell. This isn't unique to AWS either, each of the cloud vendors have their own lock in and their own problems. If you had the money you could run in multiple clouds, but for most businesses who were only running in a single region, I can't imagine they'd choose this option.

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