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It sounds like for you: hand-operated -> pet, automated/script operated -> cattle. I think the whole point of the analogy is about if things get slaughtered can

• vineyardmike 4y ago
  > if someone stole your phone right now, would you blink? Yes absolutely. I can afford a new one, and I would immediately buy a new one (well I’m already waiting for the newly released one but still). I would still be quite upset and my life would be interrupted at least a little. I took the pet/cattle analogy to be about how manual the setup is, and how replaceable it is. I think apple has smartly blurred that line with great backup tech, but I would still consider the “lovingly” hand customized aspect of maintaining a phone solidly a pet. Some version of my current phone has been around for ~10 years through various hardware iterations, all restarted from a backup image. I would be distraught if i had to recreate it without a backup, just finding my apps, logging in, finding wallpaper, rearranging icons, setting up shortcuts, etc. Maybe that’s the ideal state for a home server - a nearly no-op backup and restart process that you still manage as you need