I once watched a speedrunner build NPC houses and it’s hard to resist building that every time…

Fuck crypto.

You still need to obtain crypto, and the exchanges are the second worst thing about BTC.

Because fuck centralized software.

And there aren’t many good option, there is only one, and Signal still required phone number for some reason on my phone so I could not give a fuck about it.

I don’t, but if the need arises, you can.

At least you don’t have to use their app on your device, and it just talkes on the server.

I haven’t bought a non-NVMe drive in the last 5 years.

Yeah, but Matrix has bridges for almost anything.

And people still use email.

My family and immediate friends are all on my Matrix server.

I have my own dedicated public server, so I can selfhost anything I want. And I do selfhost a lot.

It always did ;)

I mean, with mysql_fwd, I migrated the data quickly, and apart from manual ‘on duplicate update’ queries (or rare force index) it works the same.

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Yes, had those issues as well, though lately not a big corp, but mid-sized company.

One manager just wanted MySQL. We had trouble getting required performance from MySQL, when Postgres had good numbers. I had the app fully ready, just to be told no, you make it work in MySQL. So we dropped some ‘useless stuff’ like deferring flushing to disk and such.

I have to admit though, I’ve never admined the Oracle DB, but I did talk a lot with people who did.

I remember over 10 years ago discussing transactional DDLs as I heard Oracle does it, too, just to listen to 5 minute lecture about how it’s nowhere near as simple.

Yeah, that was the goal.

First make it feature-complete document-oriented database, then make if peroformant.

And you can feel the benefits in every step of the way. Things just work, features actually complement each other… and there’s always a way to make any crazy idea stick.

If you can, share your experience!

I also do finance, so if there is anything more to explore, I’m here to listen and learn.

I made several lengthy presentations about many features, mainly those that are/were missing in MySQL.

In short, MySQL (has been) shit since its inception, with insane defaults and lacking SQL support.

After Oracle bought it, it got better, but it’s catching up with stuff that Postgres has had for 20+ years (in some cases).

Also, fuck Oracle, it’s a shit company.

Edit: if I had to pick the best features I can’t live without, it would be ‘returning’, copy mode and arrays

This is literally me at every possible discussion regarding any other RDBMS.

My coworkers joked that I got paid for promoting Postgres.

Then we switched from Percona to Patroni and everyone agreed that… fuck yes, PostgreSQL is the best.

It may not be that easy, but they burned billions of cash and fresh water, and it’s not that much of an achievement.

LLMentalist!

They will kill anyone else, like GoG, or any attempted contender.

But if they could, they would kill Steam in a heartbeat.

They don’t have to kill Valve to appease publishers and sign shop-exclusive deals, making the PC gaming experience worse for everyone.