I'm usually a Windows "shill" or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it's not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like "I'd rather self-castrate" bad.
Anyway...
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You'll get so much more out of a Linux server that it's not even funny.
If you're competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don't need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I'm happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I've got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I'm ready, I'll be cheering, and I'll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
It’s very rough coming back after 20+ years. Easy things on Linux quickly become a wasted day going down six trillion rabbit holes on Windows before you can even accomplish your seemingly simple task. Most problems in Windows are much more easily resolved by booting into Linux to make the repairs.
I work with Windows and it's AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn't available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It's so So SO BAD.
I'm using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.
And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 0.5% load from the active user session
I think they are trying to exaggerate how very outdated some Windows UI elements look (primarily dialog boxes?). I doubt they would use a 95 theme on an OS that's hard to theme and annoying to use.
Yeah, Windows isn't that bad, but it's not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that's impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren't familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.
Don't pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you'll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.
One day our Linux servers were hosed at work because the Windows server hosting them got all fucked up during Cloudstrike. I’ll never understand why you’d host Linux on Windows rather than the other way around.
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft's other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don't co-mingle on the same server well.
Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it's clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don't even want hybrid setups.
Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it's Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn't work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.
I use it in a VM because it's better than Windows 10, some programs refuse to run on Linux, and I don't need to provide the VM with an internet connection.
My actual server is an old laptop and it does not run Windows.
Even my friend who insists that Windows is superior still uses Linux for his gaming server because it's easier to set up and manage.
It was the best option at the time, and I didn't feel like setting up Windows more than once as I gradually added new software and removed other software.
That particular VM doesn't get booted very often anymore.
It's on the very first page, opposite to the office server page, and they acknowledge the Author does not exist and that it's basically an ad for Windows server.
It was an awful piece of software, you were better off just pirating Windows Server 2003r2 Standard and using the software raid5 over the WHS flaky overlay system.
Sometimes mommy drops on her knees and let's the denial of service attack happen, as dozens of clients simultaneously POST small binary blobs all over her modest server rack.
Of all the American vernacular for job titles, "server" is probably the one that makes my poor Aussie brain glitch most frequently. While you're wondering why people are bringing you a meal in the office, I'm looking at the same sentence and wondering why diners are being forced to work as sysadmins over dinner.
Yeah, I tend to use "staff" or sometimes "waitstaff" to describe them, particularly in cafes, where the owner and/or manager might also be waiting tables. "Waiter" or "waitress" I'd mostly use when recounting something that happened while eating out, and I'm trying to specify who's who in the story.
There's nothing wrong with "server", per se, other than that we already had an established set of words for that role, and a server was also an existing word for a piece of IT equipment prior to US vernacular shifting (somewhere between the 90s and the 2010s, I think - we've always had a lot of US media pumped into Australia, but the vocab used to align on this one when I was a kid, and then at some point it changed).
Not saying Americans should do things the way we do it (vive la difference), just that the linguistic shift still throws me off. It would probably confuse me less if you'd always called them servers.
We also use waiter/waitress, maître d', and sometimes steward/stewardess (esp. on airplanes). There's technically a difference:
waiter/waitress - brings food
server - person the customer interacts with (i.e. takes orders)
maître d' (hotel) - head of wait staff
steward/stewardess - serving customers is usually a secondary duty
I think "server" has become more popular because it's gender neutral, but "waiter/waitress" is still quite common and most don't make the distinction between the two.
I personally like the overlap between computer server and restaurant server because both exist to provide things upon request. The term "wait" that "waiter" comes from is pretty archaic.
Removing the word "windows" in the last frame and also "your dad installs it for your dumb mom" to "your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!"
Teaching "children" that technical tasks are for dady to do is so cringe.
Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.
Swap windows home server for server on the last page and you're done.
Until your kid is 7/8, then you need to explain why one server isn't enough and you need a second server somewhere else for the same reasons it shows a server being important when the computer gets pee on it.
Big people have a server at the “office”.
The office is a boring place where big people go and do boring things.
Offices are why big people get grumpy, and say bad words.
But guess what?
Some servers aren’t boring.
They don’t go in offices...they go in houses!
Maybe in your house!
How does it get there?
When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much,
the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift.
Too many businesses, lots just started with MS Small Business Server and Upgraded from there.
Now they of course are all "upgrading" to MS Cloud Copilot plus max ms365 for Teams ultra or whatever they are calling it today because the CEO was convinced by their marketing Materials.
Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that's only available for Windows. Companies and governments don't consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider "what do I need to run this product" and "what's the TCO". Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.
I think it depends by the manufacturer and how they programmed the charger, I got two HP ProBook that almost exclusively got used when plugged in and after a decade they can still last over two hours, instead my Thinkpad t42 with the same usage pattern now just barely holds enough for shutting down the system
This is an ad, so the computer pictured is not fictional, but it's the HP Mediasmart ex470 (I think this joke book was even bundled with the first units)
They used really shitty processors so it's ewaste, maybe it can be acquired for cheap and repurposed with some mini itx board
But it's so absurd lol, someone got paid to make this and they did it in full seriousness,
Like stay at home server, buying your wife a server because you love her, and other kids who will make fun of you for it are jealous of your server like wtf
Someone out there probably had a whole lot of fun with this and only needed to "make it an ad" to justify someone else putting the money into printing and publishing.
136 Comments
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 253 pts · 348d
They had me until windows
brandon@lemmy.world · 172 pts · 348d
It’s what turns it from a children’s book into a horror story
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 348d
Indoctrination.
msage@programming.dev · 79 pts · 348d
Imagine growing up with a Windows home server... ugh
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 348d
I'm usually a Windows "shill" or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it's not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like "I'd rather self-castrate" bad.
Anyway...
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You'll get so much more out of a Linux server that it's not even funny.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 348d
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 348d
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you're competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don't need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I'm happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I've got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I'm ready, I'll be cheering, and I'll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
msage@programming.dev · 10 pts · 348d
After learning too much about Linux it's impossible for me to use Windows.
It hurts me at every step, making me question my life and everyones sanity who handles that stuff.
It's very very bad and nobody will pry Gentoo from my hands.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 4 pts · 348d
It’s very rough coming back after 20+ years. Easy things on Linux quickly become a wasted day going down six trillion rabbit holes on Windows before you can even accomplish your seemingly simple task. Most problems in Windows are much more easily resolved by booting into Linux to make the repairs.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 348d
The few times I tried bash it was awful.
At least Powershell let's me manipulate data more freely and organized.
But Linux has way cooler packages (Window Server 2025 finally implemented winget ootb).
msage@programming.dev · 2 pts · 347d
I have not used PowerShell that much, because I'm so used to bash that it felt foreign.
There are other shells you can try, more modern, perhaps they will be more to your liking.
eleitl@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 348d
Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d
I'd definitely rather boot windows, but to each his own.
Colloidal@programming.dev · 13 pts · 348d
I work with Windows and it's AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn't available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It's so So SO BAD.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 348d
I'm using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.
And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 0.5% load from the active user session
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
I think they are trying to exaggerate how very outdated some Windows UI elements look (primarily dialog boxes?). I doubt they would use a 95 theme on an OS that's hard to theme and annoying to use.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 347d
Yeah, Windows isn't that bad, but it's not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that's impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren't familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.
Don't pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you'll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 348d
I must admit, my home rack server runs hyper-v, it is free and I have MSDN. Of course inside the hyper-v I run ten linux boxes.
Proxmox really didn't exists before and I didn't want to use VMware.
Next one I will do with proxmox.
Please dont judge me.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 5 pts · 348d
One day our Linux servers were hosed at work because the Windows server hosting them got all fucked up during Cloudstrike. I’ll never understand why you’d host Linux on Windows rather than the other way around.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 348d
Was Zeus mad you disnt employ Linux?
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net · 1 pts · 346d
I was about to do the same, had the USB stick prepared and everything, then I tried proxmox. Just lucked out.
dan@upvote.au · 51 pts · 348d
The book was written to sell Windows Home Server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server
ripcord@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 348d
Still cool.
And actually not a bad idea from MS, but I'm sure they killed it with MSification.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 348d
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it · 17 pts · 348d
@MimicJar @moseschrute *touches finger to earpiece*
...hang on, I'm getting word that the most recent edition of this book will crash your nvram's firmware
vithigar@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 348d
I won't stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 348d
Wow, thanks, I hated it!
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 348d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 348d
Funny you mention that...
muhyb@programming.dev · 14 pts · 348d
Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 348d
I feel like it would be easier to learn Linux, even if you still used windows for desktop
muhyb@programming.dev · 4 pts · 348d
That's probably true if you consider Linux server vs Windows server. Windows server sucks.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 348d
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft's other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don't co-mingle on the same server well.
muhyb@programming.dev · 5 pts · 348d
I mean, even Microsoft doesn't give a shit about Windows server since Azure runs on Linux. :)
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 348d
Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it's clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don't even want hybrid setups.
Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it's Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn't work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.
Pixel@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 348d
Companies can have multiple business lines.
18107@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 348d
I use it in a VM because it's better than Windows 10, some programs refuse to run on Linux, and I don't need to provide the VM with an internet connection.
My actual server is an old laptop and it does not run Windows.
Even my friend who insists that Windows is superior still uses Linux for his gaming server because it's easier to set up and manage.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 348d
Your friend is wise.
He uses the a specific tool for a specific task.
muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 347d
That's actually fine. Though why not regular Windows 7, is there a special task for your VM?
18107@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 347d
It was the best option at the time, and I didn't feel like setting up Windows more than once as I gradually added new software and removed other software.
That particular VM doesn't get booted very often anymore.
muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 347d
Oh I see, it's an older setup.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 348d
Well, considering it hasn't existed in years, I think you can imagine the answer to your question 😅
HelloHotel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
I initially just thought it was bad english, TIL "Windows Home Server" is a proper noun.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 348d
In 2008? More than you'd think.
muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 347d
Sometimes I forget it's been that long ago. -_-
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Im guessing though. I remember seeing it on 4chan as a teenager so thats between 2006 and 2010 or aomething :p
muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 347d
Your guess is correct. It should be 2007 or so. :)
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 348d
It was perfect until that second to last page
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 347d
It's on the very first page, opposite to the office server page, and they acknowledge the Author does not exist and that it's basically an ad for Windows server.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 79 pts · 348d
This is cute except for the windows name drop. Is this book a Microsoft ad?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 64 pts · 348d
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 348d
I'm pretty sure it came out around the time of Windows home server
deltapi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
Correct.
metaStatic@kbin.earth · 24 pts · 348d
yeah, this is just child abuse
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 347d
Those parents deserved to be mocked. Poor child
AceBonobo@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 348d
Why does daddy spend more time with the server than with mommy?
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 348d
The home server never cheated on him and had a fling with windows
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 348d
It's a Windows home server, how else is he going too keep it up.
mrhenry77@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 348d
they had me until
notarobot@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 347d
It's clearly the old Microsoft. Current Microsoft would be "Microsoft windows azure home server 365 copilot+Server cloud" (yes it says server twice)
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Yes, but current MS Azure+buzzwerds actually works.
WHS was as very, very bad layer on top of NTFS.
notarobot@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 347d
Yeah. I justo wanted to make a joke. Srry
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 347d
Your server isn't working today.
This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
WHS wasn't working then either.
It was an awful piece of software, you were better off just pirating Windows Server 2003r2 Standard and using the software raid5 over the WHS flaky overlay system.
rarsamx@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 347d
They had me u til "your dad installs it"
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 347d
I wonder if there's some technical benefit to it. Being familiar with Windows is one benefit ofc but not a technical one.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 347d
Man with a hammer rule definitely applies to SAs. If your skills are in Micro$oft then every problem is best solved with MS, even when it isn't.
I tried to come up with a gender-neutral way of saying 'man with a hammer' and failed. Please make some suggestions for me.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 347d
A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P
Or just go with direct address
"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 347d
Yup, that's the form I'm familiar with. Most idioms avoid gender entirely.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 347d
"When you're MC Hammer, every problem is a nail"
pirat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Everytime is hammer time
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 348d
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 348d
At first I didn't noticed the 2nd image, and started wondering what kind of children book this is :P
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 348d
Plenty of age appropriate “birds and bees” books out there, this is a “packets and pings” one.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 348d
Ping is ICMP
Zozano@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 348d
Sometimes mommy drops on her knees and let's the denial of service attack happen, as dozens of clients simultaneously POST small binary blobs all over her modest server rack.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 47 pts · 348d
I am of the mind that servers belong in restaurants.
Like... Why do I need someone to take my order and bring me a meal at an office?
itslola@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Of all the American vernacular for job titles, "server" is probably the one that makes my poor Aussie brain glitch most frequently. While you're wondering why people are bringing you a meal in the office, I'm looking at the same sentence and wondering why diners are being forced to work as sysadmins over dinner.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 347d
What's wrong with "server"? They serve you food, much like a computer server serves files.
I think it's much better than "waiter" (which we also use) because I want them to bring food, not wait.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
It makes me think of a machine, not a person. I prefer to just use "staff"
itslola@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Yeah, I tend to use "staff" or sometimes "waitstaff" to describe them, particularly in cafes, where the owner and/or manager might also be waiting tables. "Waiter" or "waitress" I'd mostly use when recounting something that happened while eating out, and I'm trying to specify who's who in the story.
itslola@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Hmmm, well, the "wait" in waiter/waitress/waitstaff refers to the act of serving someone, usually in a restaurant or cafe. (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wait-on?topic=providing-and-serving-meals.) Like a lot of words in English, "wait" has more than one meaning.
There's nothing wrong with "server", per se, other than that we already had an established set of words for that role, and a server was also an existing word for a piece of IT equipment prior to US vernacular shifting (somewhere between the 90s and the 2010s, I think - we've always had a lot of US media pumped into Australia, but the vocab used to align on this one when I was a kid, and then at some point it changed).
Not saying Americans should do things the way we do it (vive la difference), just that the linguistic shift still throws me off. It would probably confuse me less if you'd always called them servers.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d
We also use waiter/waitress, maître d', and sometimes steward/stewardess (esp. on airplanes). There's technically a difference:
I think "server" has become more popular because it's gender neutral, but "waiter/waitress" is still quite common and most don't make the distinction between the two.
I personally like the overlap between computer server and restaurant server because both exist to provide things upon request. The term "wait" that "waiter" comes from is pretty archaic.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
Because we're busy!
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 347d
A children's book sponsored by Microsoft... No
nfreak@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 347d
I thought this was just an elaborate shitpost. that's so unfortunate.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 348d
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 348d
Had*
Mim@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 348d
You shouldn't abandon friends just because they have a mental problem.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 348d
Wilfully running a windows server is a moral problem
Mim@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 348d
It's both I'd say. But still, shouldn't leave a friend hanging because of that.
rarsamx@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 347d
Removing the word "windows" in the last frame and also "your dad installs it for your dumb mom" to "your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!"
Teaching "children" that technical tasks are for dady to do is so cringe.
Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.
blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 347d
I agree the language should be adjusted but it doesn't say or even imply the mom is dumb, that's a little bit of a stretch.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 347d
This seems to be an ad for a windows based product. I agree with your points though.
tahoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Yeah it seems to be from the early 2010s, some of the wording would probably be different if it was made today
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 33 pts · 347d
I redid this book once, changing words and some pictures to make it for Linux server. I wanted a book that made sense.
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
Swap windows home server for server on the last page and you're done.
Until your kid is 7/8, then you need to explain why one server isn't enough and you need a second server somewhere else for the same reasons it shows a server being important when the computer gets pee on it.
fum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
You still got a copy? I'd love to share it with some people
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 347d
Maybe. I'll have to see if I can find it. It's been a few years, but I hope I do still have it. If I do, I'll share it
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 24 pts · 348d
Not sure if serious (Fry meme)
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 348d
The network responses are coming... from inside the house!
lemming741@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
The Hairpin Route of Oak St!
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 347d
ok who the heck uses windows servers? I don't think even microsoft does.
coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 346d
Too many businesses, lots just started with MS Small Business Server and Upgraded from there. Now they of course are all "upgrading" to MS Cloud Copilot plus max ms365 for Teams ultra or whatever they are calling it today because the CEO was convinced by their marketing Materials.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 346d
Just about every government and business. I'm guessing you've never had a job in IT.
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 345d
well, maybe for the active directory, but for pretty much anything else...
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 345d
Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that's only available for Windows. Companies and governments don't consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider "what do I need to run this product" and "what's the TCO". Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 347d
"They made fun of my router settings!" sobs
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 348d
I mean, I make fun of my home server all the time - its 2 old computers screwed to a wall.
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 348d
I knew someone who threw away a laptop because the screen broke.
They see junk
I see a new home server with built in ups, just rip off the screen.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 347d
The "built-in UPS" is gonna degrade real quick, based on my experience
Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 2 pts · 347d
I think it depends by the manufacturer and how they programmed the charger, I got two HP ProBook that almost exclusively got used when plugged in and after a decade they can still last over two hours, instead my Thinkpad t42 with the same usage pattern now just barely holds enough for shutting down the system
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 347d
Literally my first server lol
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 348d
As it should be! Lol
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 348d
https://developers.redhat.com/e-books/container-commandos-coloring-book
Kirk@startrek.website · 13 pts · 348d
This is actually really funny
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 346d
Linux is better.
quaff@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 348d
Archive page: https://archive.org/details/mommybook
Famicoman@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 348d
You’re welcome.
noel@federation.network · 8 pts · 348d
@qaz@lemmy.world oh this is the book that shills windows server at the end, right :neofox_woozy:
kiol@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
Haha, this book keep popping back up.
Slovene@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 347d
Oh so it's a pop-up book?
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 348d
Damn, I thought you were joking
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 347d
They don't own a printer then. Or any IOT device. Luckily, the same goes for me.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 346d
Ah, it's just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
Is there a machine that looks like this? Complete with glowing curved top?
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
A ghost raw s1 with a custom 3d printed top would be close
https://louqe.com/products/raw-s1
Moonrise2473@feddit.it · 2 pts · 347d
This is an ad, so the computer pictured is not fictional, but it's the HP Mediasmart ex470 (I think this joke book was even bundled with the first units)
They used really shitty processors so it's ewaste, maybe it can be acquired for cheap and repurposed with some mini itx board
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
You could gut an Alexa. It'd be a massive improvement over the shit inside to begin with.
josefo@leminal.space · 1 pts · 348d
I need print instructions
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 348d
This is a AI meme right?
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 348d
It is not, its been a thing since circa 2008
webpack@ani.social · 6 pts · 348d
unlikely, there's a full book version linked
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 348d
But it's so absurd lol, someone got paid to make this and they did it in full seriousness,
Like stay at home server, buying your wife a server because you love her, and other kids who will make fun of you for it are jealous of your server like wtf
webpack@ani.social · 6 pts · 348d
according to other comments it's basically an ad for buying a Windows server (yuck)
AppleStrudel@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 348d
Someone out there probably had a whole lot of fun with this and only needed to "make it an ad" to justify someone else putting the money into printing and publishing.
qaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
It is not. The source is linked in the post.