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Visited the UK recently and had to obviously go through the same thing; had to click "I just want to use the online thing" 3 times. Was very frustrating.

Someone else commented on this already, but I had to fly Ryan Air while I was there and after booking the tickets, I found out that the only way to get a boarding pass is by installing their app.

It's quite bleak.

Signal is also down for me.

Author of Odin is also against adding a package manager: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...

Avalonia - https://avaloniaui.net/

Just the amount of perf improvements they have added since .NET 4.8, year after year, is staggering.

Have you tried Rider?

I hear a lot of complaints about dotnet watch, but my experience doesn't match. I just use it from the terminal (instead of running it from an IDE) and it mostly just works.

I'll add Orchard CMS to this list. Also a lot of the seven seas software.

csharpier is great. It is what "dotnet format" should be.

I mentioned this another comment, but the LLM requirement is more of a nice to have. What's more important is the overall experience: linux support, good trackpad, nice keyboard, battery life, screen, customer support experience, etc.

One of the issues was with a Thinkpad and another was with an Ideapad.

Running LLMs is more of a nice to have. If I can run something like DeepSeek-Coder-V2 even if it's a bit slow, I'll be happy.

Stephen Toub does an impressive performance deep dive blog post [0] every release. It's over 300 pages long!

[0] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

I recently read Stoner by John Williams. Would recommend.

Thanks. I have only recently become aware of the Cloudfare tunnels. What's your use case for running them exactly?

> many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue.

This is the idea, yes. But I am hoping we can scale vertically for a long time.

This is my thinking as well! That is why I want to avoid the big 3.

A lot of people have asked about more details. I am going to reply here and hope it gets enough visibility.

Right now, it's a simple web app + db + redis queue. We'll start with just one prod server (and a test/staging server perhaps?) with some kind of a failover setup. My goal is to keep operational complexity to a minimum. I plan to avoid k8s and just use docker compose/docker swarm/dokku.

I have seen enough places burned by going with the big 3 - either through billing, support, or the sheer complexity of managing everything. You might start of with good intentions but you tack on a service because it's easily available and the next thing you know your costs have creeped up and moving things has become a non trivial project that you don't have time for.

I am just looking for a box I can run my setup on with fair pricing, good support, and enough reputation where I have faith they are not going to fold in 6 months. And if things go south, I want to be able to migrate easily.

Do you use all 3? How do they compare in your opinion?

Thanks. I hadn't heard about vultr. How does it compare to Hetzner and Linode?

What did you switch to?

Thanks! What do you use? Are you happy with it?

Yes there is, and I have been reading good things about Costco too when it comes to hearing correction. I wasn't sure if I should see a proper doctor/audiologist first before going to something like this.

Getting them tested together is a good idea, thanks!