RE: https://fosstodon.org/@LPI/116465739194330987

Holy fsck this is cringe. 

I never liked the computers featuring a 32-bit instruction set architecture and virtual memory that was developed and sold by DEC in the late 20th century.

I am an anti-VAXer.

A few years ago, after finishing 20 years as a sysadmin, I compiled a list of rules that were generally true.

1. You can't automate a process that doesn't already exist

2. Good engineering makes for easy administration

3. The easiest thing for us to do is exactly what we're told. Inventing what needs to be done takes longer.

4. It's just as easy to do something right as it is to do it wrong (or avoid doing it)

5. Everything you know will be suboptimal in three years, replaced in five, and obsolete in ten

6. Someone who is unwilling to learn is no different from someone unable to learn

7. It costs more than you think it will. It will also take longer, and do less

8. Extent always exceeds intent

9. The only safe connection is a disconnection

10. Your intellectual work is a part of the total cost of ownership

A regular reminder to check, or get someone else to check, your:

* balls
* breasts
* backups
* batteries (UPS, smoke alarm etc)