Greg Pierce4d ago

Seeing all these people setup Mac minis to run AI agents, and having flashbacks to the 90s - when if you wanted to run a Mac as a headless server, you had to put a dummy jack in the monitor port to make it think it had a monitor attached to be able to remote into it (usually with Timbuktu Pro), and use an ADB monitoring device like Rebound! to reboot it when (not if) it crashed.

Shout out to the fellow WebSTAR survivors.

Show threadTyler Stone 4d ago
@agiletortoise Instead of ADB monitoring, we had a script that pinged the web server every couple of minutes. If there was no response an e-mail was sent to my pager, since I lived four blocks away.
Show threadGreg Pierce4d ago
@tylerstone Try to explain pagers to a 20yo. 🤣
Show threadTyler Stone 

@agiletortoise Dedicated Text Messaging Devices

Honestly, I’d almost welcome the return of pagers, especially for Slack!

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