From what I've seen, there's actually two different levels of free tier. There's the one where you make an account and don't give them your payment info, and are on a free trial (availability of Ampere servers is severely limited in this, and they deactivate your account if you don't sign in often enough or use the servers you create), and the other where you give them payment information and set up a real account and get credits towards 200GB storage and the free tier compute.
My guess is that people who complain about their stuff being deleted are on the former.
When signing up for free tier the first month is actually a trial. After 30 days trial ends and you are downgraded to free tier. That causes the VMs to be destroyed. BUT! The storage with data stays and you simply recreate the VMs attach the disks and and everything continues to work.
Another possibility is that Oracle wants the machines to be used. So a simple `stress -c 1` in a screen is enough.
+1. I've read in various forums they will only install it if the construction cost is less than a few thousand dollars. This means they will say it's "available" on the order page, but then decline to install it.
It’s not Apple Silicon specific either. I don’t understand the title. Maybe it should have been “Apple’s virtualization API and VirtIO driver support on Apple Silucon”
Indeed, Virtualization.framework already supported virtio in guests before, but that's when they added host drivers. By the way this:
> In the Virtio model, providing such support is the task of the operating system, not the virtualiser.
is wrong. Virtualization.framework is a standard implementation of a virtualiser that is shipped with macOS, and while it includes virtio, it does not have to be part of the OS; the same task can be done by anyone (for example QEMU).
The low-level, OS-dependent part of virtualization support is called Hypervisor.framework and it does not have any knowledge of virtio.
My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible.
There are multiple passport controls and, unless you can fly to the plane, you can't make it.
My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible.
Nice work! I was initially confused how to enter the notes, as I didn’t realize I needed to scroll down to see the keyboard (on mobile). I kept tapping the white squares but it did nothing.
I also wish there was a way to play more than one. Maybe allow me to do the previous days?
> I didn’t realize I needed to scroll down to see the keyboard (on mobile)
Oof... we'll have to make sure the piano keyboard is more visible earlier in mobile mode :sweat-smile: I'm glad it worked for you in mobile, though! I've gotten mixed feedback about the notes sometimes not playing in mobile.
> I also wish there was a way to play more than one. Maybe allow me to do the previous days?
That's a great idea! We were originally thinking we needed to add support for user accounts to support this, but actually, it shouldn't be hard to allow people to toggle back to previous days as is. Thanks for the feedback!
My guess is that people who complain about their stuff being deleted are on the former.