Then sell me a 1TB plan—don’t call it unlimited.

I’m not screwing anybody over. I am using an available plan from a large company, and they have not had any issue with my usage that they have deemed necessary to bring to my attention. I cover multiple machines with their service, and my other machines have far less data on them—likely below their average. I am using it as a personal backup, as intended. Even if I trend above their average, they had to expect that some users would fall into that category if the option was available.

You are the only party that seems to have a major issue with how I’m using the service. I don’t understand why you seem to have such a strong opinion on this.

If a business doesn’t want a plan to be used as unlimited storage, then they should simply set a limit in the terms.

You are massively oversimplifying the situation. They are discriminating against which operating system I use, and not addressing that data is data. If I ran a windows VM on the same machine and put my data in there, it would be exactly the same as running the Backblaze container.

And it isn’t a $20 per year difference—if I backed up the same amount of data on the B2 plan, it would be around $3000 per year. Seems like a pretty steep increase to back up the same amount of data through Debian as opposed to Windows. They’ve never complained, never even tried to sell me the B2 plan, and I haven’t even seen anything telling me I’m storing an overly large amount of data for my plan.

Lastly, I read their TOS, and I don’t consider myself to be breaking them. I’m only backing up personal files at home and the program is technically running through a windows environment. That is what their unlimited plan was designed for. If they wanted it to be different, they could call it a 10TB plan.

I’m sure some will disagree with me. To each their own.

There definitely isn’t a docker container that will let you run Backblaze in WINE so that you can get the cheap unlimited plan working on Linux. You shouldn’t go looking for such a thing to save money. /s

Perhaps not PC, but still somewhat modern. #100 is literally the plot of a Curb episode.

As a pagan, we’ll take it.

What a great time to be Benecio Del Toro.

I think it boils down to asking what the purpose of a company is. In my opinion, a company should be a vehicle to sustain and enhance the lives of all employed by it. Your paycheck should be your minimum compensation, with windfall profits mostly split amongst the employees so that the maximum number of contributors benefit from it.

I’m ok with the idea of there being a sliding scale within reason because I understand that the company leadership holds a lot of the legal liability, but the CEO getting a yacht and the desk clerk getting a candy bar just doesn’t really cut it.

Hard to watch? Other than the obvious brutality of the crucifixion, I remember that movie as being a middle of the road flick. The Aramaic dialogue was pretty cool though.

I’m a home server hobbyist. I like to think of them as computer solutions.

IMAX.