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an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit (www.techdirt.com)
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there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He definitely does not eject usb drives before pulling them out

[–] counteractor@pawoo.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@fasterandworse Well yeah, he uses Windows.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't wait for Musk to convert xitter to NT

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s a Mandela effect when I remember huge binders full of service pack cd-roms for the NT servers we used to host the websites we built for our clients - in the server room of our office - with consumer-grade aircons running 24/7

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

every machine is the same shade of beige

every desk has a mouse holder. nothing is arranged for any particular comfort while using the computer, but your job is in fact to use the computer

we don’t speak of uptime here

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

before learning about how file management works: fuck yeah let’s pull out that drive, yolo

After: ok I’m gonna triple check to make sure it’s ejected, replug and check nothing bad happened, then eject it again