• bluesquid0741b@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Because when I finish my 10 hour shift, get home from my 2 hour commute, to my 6 year old kid crying because she managed to fuck her Minecraft machine up somehow, I don’t want to spend my only free half hour that day trying to work or what she did.

    That’s not a learning opportunity for her. Even if she had the patience to sit there and watch me try to fix it, she won’t r get what I’m doing. And after getting up at 5.30, getting home at 7.30 watch how good I am at not just swearing at the thing instead.

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      3 months ago

      Rsync changes each week to a network share with an A/B layout, switching backup targets back and forth each time. Something breaks? Remote in, rsync back, by the time you get home from work it’ll be back as it was and running already.

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        3 months ago

        What if you have a system that just works and you can’t break?

        No rsync, no remoting from work (vpn or other software et al), no “i gotta be on alert for when my kid breaks my computer again”

        Also, why do we have to shame people for just wanting to use their computer?

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          3 months ago

          I’m not shaming. I’m offering a simple Solution. The backups can be automated and you can NetBoot the restore process off that rsync target so you don’t have to be distracted at work. You can have a simple plan to execute if you get these calls while you are at work so there is no problem you can’t instantly reverse. It takes no time to pull off after you’ve set it up.

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            3 months ago

            Think about it like this: they just want a PB&J because it’s quick, simple, and works for them and you’re telling them to go out to the store and get ingredients to make a salad because it’s quick, simple, and works for you.

            You’re both right. You can eat your salad and they can eat their PB&J and all will be well in Linuxland. That’s the beauty of it.

            • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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              3 months ago

              I appreciate what you are saying but there a misunderstanding. I trying to tell someone to do something.

              I’m telling them a way to do something.

              There’s no requirement to do things my way or even do them at all. I was trying to suggest there is an option available that might meet his criteria.