[Forgeties79]

The only good thing Microsoft azure ever did for me was provide a very easy way to exploit their free trial program in the early 2010s to crypto mine for free. It couldn’t do much, but it was straight up free real estate for CPU mining. $200 or 2 weeks per credit/debit card.

[riffraff]

Ah, I did the same, but wasn't the experience/UI back then pretty nice too?

I haven't used azure since then, but I remember the web interface was way more polished than aws and things worked ok (spinning up a VM was fast etc).

So I'm confused by how everyone seems to hate it now.

[Forgeties79]

I did it all in the command line so can’t say

[tmpz22]

I used it for MMO goldfarming - circa 2012/2013

[Forgeties79]

Damn that’s impressive. Wasn’t it all command line at the time?