an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

40 comments fedilink hide all child comments

there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

He definitely does not eject usb drives before pulling them out

[-] counteractor@pawoo.net 5 points 1 year ago

@fasterandworse Well yeah, he uses Windows.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

can't wait for Musk to convert xitter to NT

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s a Mandela effect when I remember huge binders full of service pack cd-roms for the NT servers we used to host the websites we built for our clients - in the server room of our office - with consumer-grade aircons running 24/7

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

every machine is the same shade of beige

every desk has a mouse holder. nothing is arranged for any particular comfort while using the computer, but your job is in fact to use the computer

we don’t speak of uptime here

load more comments (3 replies)

this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023

74 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1385 readers

216 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

dgerard@awful.systems