OVH

The catch: the scan only sees who answers the DNS query, the front CDN, not where the data actually lives. Cloudflare 'wins' every market precisely because it's the proxy, not the host.

So one reader re-ran the question against 50,000 API subdomains with the CDN fronts stripped out and got the reverse answer: Europe leans on OVH and Hetzner more than AWS. Another, claiming access to better data, said the numbers are off by roughly half.

A micro.blog writer described his weekly ritual of rebooting his Mac on Saturday mornings, force-quitting the unsaved-work warning for the small thrill of it. He isn't worried about losing anything: work syncs to OneDrive, files sync via Syncthing.

The 220-comment thread split by tribe. Linux and BSD users bragged about months of uptime and treated a forced reboot as a sign something is broken. A fleet admin countered from the trenches: it's pulling teeth to get 10,000 Windows users to accept one automated reboot a month.