• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      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.

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      It’s clearly the old Microsoft. Current Microsoft would be “Microsoft windows azure home server 365 copilot+Server cloud” (yes it says server twice)

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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          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.

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    But you have a Daddy and Mommy who love you!

    And, a Windows Home Server! Does that make you happy?

    They had me until windows

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      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.

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        Still cool.

        And actually not a bad idea from MS, but I’m sure they killed it with MSification.

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        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.

        • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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          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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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

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            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.

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    Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.

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      I thought this was just an elaborate shitpost. that’s so unfortunate.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    I redid this book once, changing words and some pictures to make it for Linux server. I wanted a book that made sense.

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      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.

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        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