ferricoxideAug 22
Well, _that's_ fucking dandy…

I've had a multi-year account with #CloudGuru. However, after they got bought by #PluralSight, I set my account to not auto-renew.

This morning, I get an email from PluralSight saying "You’ve renewed your subscription". Given that I'd set my CloudGuru account to not auto-renew and never set up new billing under PluralSight, this came as a bit of a shock.

Just checked the credit card account I previously had bound to my CloudGuru account and found a pending charge from PluralSight. Contacted the phone number listed on the (pending) charge. Got a call-tree (naturally). Navigated the call-tree to sort out this billing "mistake". Got dumped into a hold-queue for nearly 15 minutes. Finally, the hold music ended and I was dumped over to a "there's no one available to answer your call: would you like to leave a message" automated-response. Uh... You couldn't have just dumped me straight to that if there's no one answering calls??? At any rate, left a message. But this REALLY feels like a scam. I guess the best way that companies like PluralSight can make money off their acquisitions is to ignore the acquired companies' customers' wishes and just "convert"/renew them any way.

Fuck those guys.
Show threadferricoxideMar 12, 2025
So, when I'm watching training-videos, I will usually set the playback speed somewhere between 1.1x and 1.75x (depending on the voiceover's speed and topical-complexity). Prior to Monday's re-certification exam, I'd been brushing up using #CloudGuru's courseware for the AWS DevOps certification. I'd had my speed set to 1.5x.

I just had to look to see whether my speed-setting hadn't carried from the previous prep-content to the new prep-content, because it seemed like the voice-track wasn't moving along with an obviously-quickened pace. Nope. The 1.5x setting had carried over. Apparently, this prep-contents' voiceover is even slower than the previous pre-contents' was.
ferricoxideMar 12, 2025
Lulz… Work wants me to start doing the certification-path for AI on #AWS for some projects they're trying to bid. So, decided to work through some exam-prep stuff on #CloudGuru.. One of the early slides – and accompanying text – says, "AI/ML isn't appropriate if your solution needs to be deterministic and transparent". Like, #oof: I hear that and interpret it as, "AI/ML is appropriate if you're trying to produce something that's not auditable/verifiable".
ferricoxideFeb 25, 2025
Soon going to be re-sitting one of my #AWS certificates, so, I'm running through #CloudGuru courseware. It's really aggravating to see the instructor recommend the use of cat for reviewing a file that's more than a page in length (and then using their window's scroll-bar to see the parts of the file that have scrolled off. It's like, "dammit: that's what less is for."

On the plus side, at least she didn't provide cat | less guidance.
Show threadMaho 🦝🍻Jan 10, 2025
Just today, I received an email from A Cloud Guru saying my lifetime subscription is not really lifetime. I couldn't stop thinking about this podcast after that! It’s interesting how these things connect. #CloudGuru #SubscriptionModels
Julian Klinck Feb 15, 2024
Is anybody out there who passed recently (~12 months) a #azure certification and could recommend training material / labs / sites outside of unstructured #microsoft docs? I primarily used #cloudguru, but it seems all outdated.