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When you need to retire an old server (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 126 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fun story. When the titanic came out, the girl I was crushing on asked me if I wanted to go see it with her and her other friends.

Yeah. So we’re in line to get in and I made a sarcastic comment, something about, “but we know how it ends… the ship sinks.”

Apparently. She didn’t know that. Oops.
In any case the gaggle of old women in the row behind us were more entertaining. It may have been like their fifth time watching it. Specifically so they could see DiCaprio’s naked ass. The rest of the time they spent heckling it MST3K- style.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I know it's just a meme, but god damn I hate this format. Some men cry while watching the titanic, some (many) women use *nix.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

agree wholeheartedly

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A small alteration would be to swap one of the female heads up top with a male, and go "Man, Chad guy never cries about anything. Is he even human?" You can even swap out Chad with chadette, depending on context.

Just a guess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In the same vein, comments like "I'm a big bearded man but I cried...". As if they need to reaffirm their masculinity when they speak about their feelings in case we suddenly think they turned into a unicorn or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

man I WISH I spontaneously turned into a unicorn every time I shed a tear

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also, crying is not the only way to be sad. Some people regardless of gender just don't cry easily when sad, doesn't mean they're not sad. Some people regardless of gender may not want to cry in front of other people for a movie. Or maybe they've already seen the movie alone and sobbed all day the first time but know what to expect the second time. It's frankly none of your business to judge how other people react to sad things and you certainly do not have enough evidence just looking at them to declare they "have no feelings," unless their ears are pointy and were the first to develop Warp Drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

At home too?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They just move to a server farm upstate!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Is that the one my elderly colleague started working at? Still a bit pissed he never said goodbye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Is the server named Boxer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

A State Farm if you will

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly by the time I decide to retire an old machine, it’s because I’ve developed so much animosity towards it that I’m much more likely to have an attitude of “good riddance” than “farewell old friend”.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I still have the very first computer that I ever built, all the way back in 2001. I never had anything but fond feelings about that machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

IlIlIl

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

The year Titanic came out, I finally decided to see what the fuss was about in it's 18th week playing (a new record!) in our local theater. I took my seat, and there were a couple of teenage girls a few seats over from mine. They started sobbing during the opening credits. I'm fairly certain they'd seen the movie already. Probably more than once.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I once had a machine (that I got 2nd hand) run a busy mysql server with over 1,200 days of uptime. When it was retired we painted the chassis gold and put it on display in the lobby.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You Linux people never fail to make me laugh. Bless Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know why, but the thought of some 38 year old American farmer who doesn't know computers going "you linux people" is very sweet sounding to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

And the sysadmin said "well done, good and faithful servant."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Depends. What's the uptime on that server? Are we talking years? Thatd be worth to "pour one out for da homies".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Irony of the Unix wars is that Unix lost.

Linux didn’t have any of the untouchable legal issues that Unix had. Linux was built from the ground up without access to Unix source code, that was entirely why it was written.

And now we have Linux, the most used kernel on the face of this earth. Used in almost every server. All android devices. Chrome books. The Steam deck. It’s included on every copy of Windows.

Linux won the Unix wars. And it’s all the fault of the very creator of Unix. AT&T, in their greed, killed the creation they sought to profit from.

Double Ironic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Holy shit, I watched that video a week ago. So sad :'(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I watched the video. It was truly beautiful.

I think I would have cried a little if I were in his place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Poll time! If you HAD to switch from Linux to BSD, which one are you choosing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

FreeBSD unless I'm doing something that's need a fairly secure system, in which case OpenBSD disconnected from the Internet with my private mirror for security patches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

TL;DR Maybe FreeBSD?

Back in the day, I was very interested in (the now extinct) PC-BSD, but it really didn't like the unusual HDD setup I had (Third IDE channel maybe? The details are fuzzy now.)

Never got to the stage of trying gaming on it, but I think I might have been planning to dual boot?

Anyway, it must have been a while ago because that was my previous PC, which I donated to a relative the better part of a decade ago.

So, given that it was a FreeBSD, I guess that's what I'd be looking into, but I can't say I know enough right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i am going to get a laptop with windows 11 to avoid that question for as ong as i can