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  • bier@feddit.nltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldThat's LTT in the bottom
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know about the windows stuff, haven’t used it in years. But back in the day installing Ubuntu was super easy (just boot from USB stick and install and mostly everything works). But a fresh windows install was a real pain like downloading drivers for all your hardware etc.

    Nowadays it’s pretty easy in both cases I guess.




  • When you pay a company and they provide you with a domain (you choose) and give you a webserver, some disk space, a database etc.

    I pay about 30 euros a year for 5 websites. They are all very basic (either some php stuff I made, or WordPress). These websites have very few visitors so the hosting specs don’t really matter. All these websites have a specific domain name, some disk space, and a database.

    For this price they offer PHP and MySQL. So it’s not a dedicated server where I’m root and can Install other stuff.




  • I’m not the one you asked, but what I like isn’t really about PHP itself, but the fact that I can get dirt cheap hosting with PHP and MySQL. Every time I want to create a small “app” that makes some manual task easier it’s very useful to create something I can access from the internet.

    Python is really useful for stuff like that too, but (in my experience) not as easy and cheap to use as an web app.

    For example I go to dinner with some friends every month and we always forget who’s turn it is to choose and book a restaurant. So I just made this PHP page that shows the current and next 2 months with a name. So we always use that to see who’s turn it is.






  • No you’re not, the post was editted. The original one said it was all because of AI, the entire reason for the API change was to sell to AI companies.

    Edit, now I’m in doubt, because if you edit a post that is shown somehow right?

    Edit2, just to be clear my point is that Reddit content was never free, before and after the API change. It’s easier to get the content with a decent API, sure. But it was never free, just like the lawsuit the NY Times started.