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Ron Gilbert, Esq.

Hardest part was getting the CI to do the build. Azure will only runs one build at a time (without paying a lot of money) so builds now take 1/3 longer at 20 mins. I also think these builds are being done on an 486 in the corner of Steve Ballmers old office.

@grumpygamer They still resent Linux so much their entire Azure Cloud Linux setup is run on an old Slackware box.

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place In silent nights you can hear him screaming in pain when you build Linux binaries on Azure ​:neocat_devil:

@grumpygamer I paid £96 each for 4 Dell Rack servers 10 years ago, and they served us reasonably well for our first projects. Especially for things scheduled to run over night I don't care if they run 20min or 10min.