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These updates most definitely could've been handled better. I was having a busy week with exams and I get a call about around 10 machines not booting (this was

These updates most definitely could've been handled better. I was having a busy week with exams and I get a call about around 10 machines not booting (this was before the announcement). Sure enough, last thing everyone reported was updating. I call the supplier and apparently they have reports of at least 2000 machines (at that moment) that had to be reimaged across the city (from what I could tell, all were older AMD PCs) because of this dumb update. I was used to not being to able to trust software, but if I can't trust hardware now either, farming does suddenly appear much more appealing.

KindOne 9y ago
Become a goat farmer. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_text_file_at_work_titled_why_should_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_te...
- lettergram 9y ago
  Fully support lol you can buy land in Colorado pretty cheap. Had a friend do that... He bought 3 acres, spent a couple years building a cabin in his free time. Then one day just quit and went off to the woods. Still visit him and he seems pretty happy with it. He doesn't need much income and makes enough money off odd jobs he seems to be doing pretty well.
- astrange 9y ago
  But if you look into their eyes, you can still see the progress bars…
- protomyth 9y ago
  One of the attempts at adding to the list "Nobody is ever going to sell you goats as a service." is actually wrong. Companies do rent goats for land clearing[1]. Go for beekeeper then you too can do "bees as a service"[2]. 1) http://rentagoat.com/ http://rentagoat.com/ 2) http://americanbeejournal.com/insights-honey-pollination-pacific-northwest/ http://americanbeejournal.com/insights-honey-pollination-pac...
InvisibleCities 9y ago
Trust me, if you don't like the idea of your entire livelihood hinging on weather or not a piece of equipment boots up, farming is NOT the career for you.
- noiv 9y ago
  I like the idea of Internet Weather. Seems probability of rain is currently increasing. And so does anticipation of floods and surges.
  - saym 9y ago
    Do you think there's a market for "Cloud Meteorologists"?
    - platz 9y ago
      Such data lake. Such pastoral, idyllic landscape.
  - protomyth 9y ago
    There was an old website in the 90's that did Internet Weather, I think it was from one of the BBS magazines.
- Spare_account 9y ago
  I like what you did with the typo there.
- mygo 9y ago
  Holy wow. This is prose. This is poetry.
  - nurettin 9y ago
    Looks like a field ripe for AI to introduce random auto-correct induced typos into paragraphs where a change of word order could be perceived as poetic.
c3534l 9y ago
Farming is all mechanized these days. Farmers have to deal with OS and firmware updates on their tractors.
- stickfigure 9y ago
  ...and DRM: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...
spike021 9y ago
Yeah, AWS had scheduled reboots that were supposed to happen around the day this was all announced, so we had to scramble to deal with them manually beforehand so we'd ensure our systems booted up properly.
otempomores 9y ago
We anticipated that and brought thrustworthy hard and software into your future farming equipment.

KindOne 9y ago

Become a goat farmer. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_text_file_at_work_titled_why_should_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_te...

lettergram 9y ago
Fully support lol you can buy land in Colorado pretty cheap. Had a friend do that... He bought 3 acres, spent a couple years building a cabin in his free time. Then one day just quit and went off to the woods. Still visit him and he seems pretty happy with it. He doesn't need much income and makes enough money off odd jobs he seems to be doing pretty well.
astrange 9y ago
But if you look into their eyes, you can still see the progress bars…
protomyth 9y ago
One of the attempts at adding to the list "Nobody is ever going to sell you goats as a service." is actually wrong. Companies do rent goats for land clearing[1]. Go for beekeeper then you too can do "bees as a service"[2]. 1) http://rentagoat.com/ http://rentagoat.com/ 2) http://americanbeejournal.com/insights-honey-pollination-pacific-northwest/ http://americanbeejournal.com/insights-honey-pollination-pac...

InvisibleCities 9y ago

Trust me, if you don't like the idea of your entire livelihood hinging on weather or not a piece of equipment boots up, farming is NOT the career for you.

noiv 9y ago
I like the idea of Internet Weather. Seems probability of rain is currently increasing. And so does anticipation of floods and surges.
- saym 9y ago
  Do you think there's a market for "Cloud Meteorologists"?
  - platz 9y ago
    Such data lake. Such pastoral, idyllic landscape.
- protomyth 9y ago
  There was an old website in the 90's that did Internet Weather, I think it was from one of the BBS magazines.
Spare_account 9y ago
I like what you did with the typo there.
mygo 9y ago
Holy wow. This is prose. This is poetry.
- nurettin 9y ago
  Looks like a field ripe for AI to introduce random auto-correct induced typos into paragraphs where a change of word order could be perceived as poetic.

c3534l 9y ago

Farming is all mechanized these days. Farmers have to deal with OS and firmware updates on their tractors.

stickfigure 9y ago
...and DRM: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...

spike021 9y ago

Yeah, AWS had scheduled reboots that were supposed to happen around the day this was all announced, so we had to scramble to deal with them manually beforehand so we'd ensure our systems booted up properly.

otempomores 9y ago

We anticipated that and brought thrustworthy hard and software into your future farming equipment.