That's the only way. Allowing any kind of discussion will delay the reboot indefinitely. There's never a good time and someone will always be working. Announce maintenance ahead of time and then follow through.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. I've gone as far as making a monthly maintenance window so they're always ready to reboot at least once a month. I didn't care if there was a patch or not. The users knew it was going to happen. No exceptions.

Train your users because they're used to home where they can do whatever bullshit they want all the fucking time. I'm glad I'm past those days. These days I have a regular maintenance window for IaC and get to restart shit whenever I want because there's a whole shit pile of redundancy. No fucking laptops.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

The good time could be a bit later though, all else remaining the same

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Anyone here remember when the system operator could push a shutdown warning message to all terminals?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

User: immediately closes message fucking pop-ups

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also User: Proceeds to phone IT for that "error message" which he closed and whose content he ~~forgot~~ didn't even bother to read

[–] jmacapp@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

echo “all your base” | wall

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey, that's where I went for grad school! Fun fact - it used to be called Beaver College, but had to change names in 2000 since porn kept showing up when people googled it.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This new name seems like a great exercise to test my SEO skills.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I thought I should check, for science - looks like they've improved search a lot since then. At least on Bing and DuckDuckGo* searching for beaver college only showed legit results even with Safe Search disabled, aside from one ebaumsworld joke link.

*which I believe proxies searches anonymously through ~~Google~~ (I was corrected, it used Bing and several other sources but not Google)

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The duck uses bing/yahoo/wolfram/their own crawler and a few other services. Funnily enough google is the one they never use.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oof yep bad memory. Thanks for correcting me. That explains why the Bing results looked so similar.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

i'm pretty sure ddg uses bing, but I am probably wrong, and don't have the motivation to look it up.