Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brandon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s what turns it from a children’s book into a horror story

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Indoctrination.

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine growing up with a Windows home server… ugh

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.

    Anyway…

    But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.

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    • Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d rather run a rusty nail through my sack than booting Windows

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.

        If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.

        Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.

        For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.

        And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.

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      • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’d definitely rather boot windows, but to each his own.

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    • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I work with Windows and it’s AWFUL. Did you know the taskbar is a fucking ELECTRON APP? Everything is so slow. And you have to go through hoops to do what you want, and that setting isn’t available in the settings electron app, you have to go through these 5 screens to find the magic button that opens the win 95 style dialog box to set what you want. It’s so So SO BAD.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m using it 95% of my time with it by remoting with a program to the server and experience reduced window quality and speed anyway.
        I want it finishing the task and not look pretty.

        And ew. 95 theme. How old are you? At least use Aero/flat and then log off to reduce the 1% load from the active user session

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, Windows isn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either. On servers, everything requires a million clicks or some random terminal command that’s impossible to find documentation for (was just passed down from senior to junior over the ages). I had to configure one for testing (embedded product that needed to work in Windows environments as well as Linux), and it took hours to do the most basic task. Granted, none of us were sysadmins, just devs, but we weren’t familiar with Linux or Windows servers, just desktops, and Linux was by far easier to configure.

      Don’t pick Windows for your server without a good reason, you’ll get much more value from learning Linux than Windows.

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  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I must admit, my home server runs hyper-v, it is free and I have MSDN. Of course inside the hyper-v I run ten linux boxes.

    Proxmox really didn’t exists before and I didn’t want to use VMware.

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One day our Linux servers were hosed at work because the Windows server hosting them got all fucked up during Cloudstrike. I’ll never understand why you’d host Linux on Windows rather than the other way around.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Was Zeus mad you disnt employ Linux?

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    • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was about to do the same, had the USB stick prepared and everything, then I tried proxmox. Just lucked out.
• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The book was written to sell Windows Home Server.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Still cool.

    And actually not a bad idea from MS, but I’m sure they killed it with MSification.

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

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  • Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @MimicJar @moseschrute *touches finger to earpiece*

    ...hang on, I'm getting word that the most recent edition of this book will crash your nvram's firmware

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wow, thanks, I hated it!

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      THE CLOUD — MORE MAGNIFICENT UP CLOSE THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED FROM AFAR…

      IN DATACENTROPOLIS, WE DREAMED OF ATTAINING SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UTOPIA.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Funny you mention that…

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• muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I feel like it would be easier to learn Linux, even if you still used windows for desktop

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s probably true if you consider Linux server vs Windows server. Windows server sucks.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.

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  • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In 2008? More than you’d think.

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sometimes I forget it’s been that long ago. -_-

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      • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Im guessing though. I remember seeing it on 4chan as a teenager so thats between 2006 and 2010 or aomething :p

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, considering it hasn’t existed in years, I think you can imagine the answer to your question 😅

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    • HelloHotel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I initially just thought it was bad english, TIL “Windows Home Server” is a proper noun.

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• TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s on the very first page, opposite to the office server page, and they acknowledge the Author does not exist and that it’s basically an ad for Windows server.

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It was perfect until that last line

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