As a new, very green, very basic sysadmin, something missing from the manual vs. let’s ask a LLM mode is… the human element.

Aside from ethical considerations (environmental costs, stolen training data, erosion of skills and critical thinking), I will always choose “manual mode.” Why? I love receiving tech advice from people on the Fediverse.

I will forever remember that it’s @ilja who encouraged me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost.

I first heard about #FreeBSD from @stefano

Earlier this week I learned about #tmux from @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks

Today @antoine_ali helped me get this GoToSocial instance to federate again by restarting dnsmasq.

I know if I run into issues I can just shoot a DM to my tech mentors @stereo and @jan

Let’s not forget the beauty of human connections 💖

RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116072144942640899

Meta-note: this is the GOOD STUFF. This took me HOURS to debug, and in those hours I developed a mental model of a complex operation AND learned something new about ProDOS internals AND tested and discarded several theories before finally discovering the root cause and it was ALL WORTH IT. I don't want to outsource that to Dr. Flattery the Always-Wrong Chat Box. Why would I want to skip this? This is the WHOLE THING.

If you don't want to write software then don't.