The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 months 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

        • Steve@awful.systemsEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          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.systemsOPEnglish
            1·
            10 months 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