Alpine's great. My entire homelab runs on it. Only complaint I have is its IPv6 support sucks. I have to hack together a bunch of scripts to get a reasonable network configuration.
I think their auto-scaling is somewhat broken currently. I set up auto-scaling with min=2 and max=6, and my VMs aren't scaling down from 3 to 2 even though there are 0 active connections on all the VMs.
In this world? Their share price assumes > 200% annual YoY growth for the next 6-8 years at least. Stock price is down 15% in the last 5 days (GOOG up 4%, META up 4%, F (ford) up 2%: not a general market movement) so the market seems to agree with me?
I guess so, but there are not 7.8B scientists that can develop the next battery or solar breakthrough, which is actually what is needed in a very big way right now.
Just recently I found out about sourcehut. The project is refreshing. I don't know if there is something similar in the market but I enjoy how simple and straightforward to use it is.
Good news, you need less than $250. Just buy a Protectli appliance, install OPNSense on it with the wireguard plugin. Setup Mullvad config and route all traffic through the tunnel. That's it!
I've been running a similar setup for a couple years now. It's been great.