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This is cute except for the windows name drop. Is this book a Microsoft ad?
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
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.
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.
they had me until
windows home server
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.
They had me u til “your dad installs it”
It’s clearly the old Microsoft. Current Microsoft would be “Microsoft windows azure home server 365 copilot+Server cloud” (yes it says server twice)
Is there a machine that looks like this? Complete with glowing curved top?
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
Why does daddy spend more time with the server than with mommy?
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
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.
Imagine growing up with a Windows home server… ugh
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.
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.
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.
I’d rather run a rusty nail through my sack than booting Windows
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.
Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.
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.
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.
Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?
It’s what turns it from a children’s book into a horror story
Indoctrination.
The book was written to sell Windows Home Server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server
Still cool.
And actually not a bad idea from MS, but I’m sure they killed it with MSification.
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
@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
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.
At first I didn’t noticed the 2nd image, and started wondering what kind of children book this is :P
Plenty of age appropriate “birds and bees” books out there, this is a “packets and pings” one.
I have a friend that insists on using windows server. He is mentally ill
Had*
You shouldn’t abandon friends just because they have a mental problem.
Wilfully running a windows server is a moral problem
It’s both I’d say. But still, shouldn’t leave a friend hanging because of that.
Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
Linux is better.
They don’t own a printer then. Or any IOT device. Luckily, the same goes for me.
“They made fun of my router settings!” sobs
A children’s book sponsored by Microsoft… No
I thought this was just an elaborate shitpost. that’s so unfortunate.
This is a AI meme right?
It is not. The source is linked in the post.
It is not, its been a thing since circa 2008
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?
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.
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.
It makes me think of a machine, not a person. I prefer to just use “staff”
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.
