I have 3 lenovo thinksystem racks with the oldest being from 2015 and the newest v3 from late last year. I also have various other servers and storage of theirs.

They, Lenovo CAN be good, BUT Lenovo dislikes customers who want to have a 7-10yr life cycle and while we strive to keep it at 5-6 years, some have to go to 7-8 which is where Lenovo gets shitty. Lenovo supports their stuff for 5 years and that’s literally not even arguable because they say it everywhere. Yes, you can keep it as long as you want but they, Lenovo will not support it. This is where I try to use HPE as they allow some of their products to get updates for decades… HPE MSA storage, Alletra/Nimble storage and HPE DL3xx servers specifically. We’re also an Aruba shop, which is now HPE so it just works best for us.

I’m with you on the ridiculous iLO / BMC crap though.

Longer than 30 years I assure you.

I buy HPE where I can, but “stop buying their shit” isn’t in any company guidelines and even people like me who dictate what the company buys ends up dealing with Dell and Lenovo server dogshit systems from other vendors.

Literally unavoidable.

Dell Premier Business actually and their servers aren’t bad.

Their service and support however are absolutely worthless.

32 minutes waiting for Dell Tech Support

Finally get in and they say their system is down.

Is your system based on ChatGPT? I asked.

I think so she says.

fml. ridiculous.

well done investigative documentary

lemmy.ml where the ml actually means ‘Moscow Lovers’ instead of ‘Mali’.

Yeah, I’ll wait for the peer review, thanks.

Thing is, this isn’t new in the slightest.

I remember calling around to different PC stores in the 90s and early 00s to find the cheapest RAM and hard drive prices.

Before that, I remember my grandfather, an IBM employee in the 60s-90s calling places looking for best pricing on 64k-128k SIPP memory for an ibm pizzabox 286.

So water from the Thames then, yes.

Wall Street didn’t learn from past events and is doomed to repeat history?

Shocking… /s

This is the way…

At least it wasn’t HMS or you may have had a bunch of Seamen chasing you around.

New titles include:

• Prince Pedophile
• The Royal Derrière
• The Keeper of The Hooker
• Guardian of The White Van
• The Little Diddler That Could

and many more.

Yes, that’s another possibility, but not the only one. Greed manifests differently for everyone.

It’s never enough. You get to a point you don’t ever want to live below your means ever again. To stay at that level you want double, triple what you have now so you can stave the losses of the next crash. The greed grows.

You get to a point where you worry something or someone outside of just recessions will take it away because you’ve seen it happen to others and you’ve worked too hard to get it. The greed grows.

The sad part is this isn’t something new nor isolated and every single human being is capable of it because greed literally is a survival instinct in all of us.

The only only only resolution is to go back heavy taxation. For the US, that means to pre 1960s and post US Civil War 1860s taxation when top earners paid up to 90% tax on ALL 100% of their earnings no matter how it was made.

2025−1519: 506 years to say oopsie?

Fuck the Catholic Church for never formally apologizing even after it was requested in 2020 (Two Popes have said it was a tragedy, but never took any official blame) and fuck Spain for ignoring several decades of Mexican Political requests to reconcile their shitty neocolonialist views.

Nothing screams ‘I need attention’ more than consistently trying to troll everything you post on.

So what’s wrong beella?

This all sounds like Starship Troopers propaganda lol

IoT isn’t exactly reliable and many, including the rich are trying to reverse the IoT trend: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/real-estate/tech-free-homes-luxury-trend-1236177909/

also

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/analog-bag-screen-free-wellness