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"Alaska" servers. "Alaska Arctic Power". From a company in Mexico. I mean, they may be perfectly good servers. Well, if it stood for a decade before failing
by AnimalMuppet 4mo ago
"Alaska" servers. "Alaska Arctic Power".
From a company in Mexico.
I mean, they may be perfectly good servers. Well, if it stood for a decade before failing, it's not just. I'm just having trouble seeing past the glaring naming non sequitur.
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- ThePinion 4mo agoAs an Alaskan I am both confused and amused.
- esseph 4mo agoFormer Alaskan, very disappointed after skimming the first part of the article.
- goodmythical 4mo agoAllow me to introduce everyone to my favorite thing that isn't an artichoke and isn't from Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Artichoke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke
- reaperducer 4mo agoYou keep your hands off my Jordan almonds!
- dredmorbius 4mo agoAnd Rocky Mountain oysters.
- stackghost 4mo ago"Alaska" carries reasonably strong connotations of ruggedness and durability, and probably the arctic associations are also beneficial if you want to sell a server advertised as "running cool", or whatever. It's just marketing. It's no different than Toyota manufacturing Tacoma trucks in Mexico, Hyundai making the Santa Fe in South Korea, or Boston Pizza and Swiss Chalet existing despite being Canadian companies and having nothing to do with either Boston or Switzerland.
- gwerbin 4mo agoThere is a specialty coffee farm in Ecuador called Alaska del Sur.
- dredmorbius 4mo ago"Toyota Tundra"? "Kia Telluride"?
- cman1444 4mo agoThe blog actually spells it "Artic", not "Arctic". I wonder if the blog or the company misspelled it.
- Maxious 4mo agoIn the video they are clear that the company misspelled it