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pavel_lishin • today at 6:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm glad this is fun for people, but I think I would rather play Monopoly with money under free parking instead.

I have noticed among my tech friends that one spectrum you can put us on is "sysadmin vs. not" - some people love tinkering with home labs, setting up systems, being able to reboot things from their watches, etc. And some people, like me, would strongly prefer not to be on-call for their hobby.

Hell, my personal server has been down for at least a week now because I started upgrading Ubuntu (that was very, very far behind), and one upgrade caused it to lose network connectivity, and I just haven't bothered to even start troubleshooting. If I had to guess, I'll probably be arsed to get it up sometime in December, though 2027 isn't out of the question.


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Bender • today at 6:07 PM

Agreed it's not for everyone. As a side note, reboot your Ubuntu node and capture

    uname -a;dmesg -T; lspci -vv; lsmod; ip link; systemctl; nmcli;

 to a thumb drive and paste it into an LLM if you are not feeling like debugging such things.  I used to call that lazy but I was corrected and now call it efficient.