vettnerk @ vettnerk @lemmy.ml

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Nah, I work for a geophysical company with a bunch of storage clusters and data crunchers around the world.

I am an "expert" in my field. But it's not because I'm the best in the world at networking and servers. It's because I am one of the few in the world who knows this highly specialized system setwork, how it integrates across VPN, and a bunch of other niche stuff. Sure, any donky with basic linux and TCP/IP skills could do my job, but it'd take years to train them on this particular setup. And that's because experts are mostly this: highly specialized in what they do well.

We have multiple experts at my job, and we frequently have to call each other due to ineptitude in what is outside of what we normally do. Ask me how to right click on a mac and I'll come up short. Ask me how to fix some broken O365 setup and I'll have to guess based on 20 years outdated IMAP setups that I haven't touched in one and a half decade.

It's easy to find experts. But experts in the exact thing you need are rare.

And most of them are even less newsworthy than this one. I wish media learned in 2016 to stop feeding the outrage machine and giving this clown any PR.

Depends on which aspect of you needs to be ready. Use case and functionality? Meh, now is as good time as any. Might as well get used to the differences from a desktop to servers early on. Especially if you still don't really have the knowledge. Learn by doing!

Budget? True, they can be pricey, even on the after market. But if you or a friend works anywhere that had servers, chances are that the IT department might have something that'd otherwise end up in the trash. A good example here is this VM server with rather old CPUs and 256G of RAM. It wasn't fit for its pyrpose anymore, and its hardware configuration made it a bad match for our storage clusters. Today it's a minecraft server for my kids and their friends.

EDIT: Actually, the older PowerEdge servers feom Dell aren't that pricey on my local marketplace.

Plus scaremongering articles like this are treating DU like U235.

I wish I could forget all about Day of the Tentacle, so I could play it all over again and rediscover everything.

That whole ordeal with Red Dead Uncle Fred is hilarious, especially after IRS arrests him and restrains him with literal red tape.

Servers: Supermicro. Dell in a pinch
Switches: HPE Aruba for 10gig, or Mellanox for 100gig
Routers: I'm not that picky, but I use Fortigate as I scavenged some leftovers at work
UPS: Eaton
Network cards: Intel for 10gig, IBM for 8 or 16gig, Mellanox for 100gig
Harddrives: Exos
RAID stuff: LSI MegaRaid.
GPU: Don't really care, but I have a bunch of NVidia Quadro.

Most of the above preferences are due to scavenging leftover hardware at work.

Tsar Nick II was exceptionally useless. He was more interested in keeping up appearances in the country than actually improving it. And he started a pointless war for no reason in an attempt at boosting morale, where he ended up getting his asses handed to him, and while he did have his loyalists around him, unrest kept on growing, and I'm sure he would've eventually gotten killed even without joining WW1. History doesn't really repeat itself, but it often rhymes, so I'm curious how the current tsar-wannabe will end up.

Wut? Please explain.

Braathens, out of Fornebu. Neither the airline nor the airport exists anymore.

If it's too hard to list them, it must be even harder to charge and bill them.

I'm convinced Glitch McConnel is to GOP what Tito was to Yugoslavia. After he's gone, what he once held together will tear itself apart from the inside.

I just realized two things:

• This implies the existence of respectful trolls
• I will strive to become one

I'm a norwegian, and part of growing up is learning about the folk stories of Askeladden. There are a lot of them, and quite a few involves an encounter with a Troll.

In one of these stories Askeladden and the Troll agree on an eating contest where the Troll will let him go if he loses. Askeladden wins by faking it all, sticking the "eaten" food in a small bag in his lap. When the troll asks how Askeladden can eat that much, Askeladden convinces the troll that it's easy - he just has to take a knife and slice open his stomach. Of course the troll does it and dies.

I never thought much of it until the topic of these kinds of stories came up while I was living in Czech Republic quite a few years ago. "This is the kind of stuff youbtell kids??"

The takeaways are:

• Norwegian stories for children are grotesque for anyone who didn't grow up with them.
• Trolls are stupid.

"Cult" is just something the big congregation calls the small congregation.

I'm scandinavian, and I've caught COVID twice. First time was spring 2021 where I got the latest and greatest Delta variant upon visiting the US for some work related travel.

Second time is now. Presumably with the latest and greatest this time as well, since I'm visiting the US again.

Luckily it's not that bad, presumably because I've gotten all my boosters. But it's annoying as fuck having to quarantine when I've got shit to do.

Justify
Those who died
For seeking the ring
We're the chosen wights

Curse you, I shall not do thy bidding (x16)

Pandora should've never made that TikTok unboxing video.

I hope your Greebo is nicer and better smelling than Nanny Ogg's Greebo