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• moseschrute@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But you have a Daddy and Mommy who love you!

  And, a Windows Home Server! Does that make you happy?

  They had me until windows

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  • brandon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indoctrination.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine growing up with a Windows home server… ugh

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The book was written to sell Windows Home Server.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Funny you mention that…

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, seriously who tf uses Windows home server?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In 2008? More than you’d think.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was perfect until that last line

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  • TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is cute except for the windows name drop. Is this book a Microsoft ad?

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it came out around the time of Windows home server

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  • metaStatic@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah, this is just child abuse

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those parents deserved to be mocked. Poor child

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• AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why does daddy spend more time with the server than with mommy?

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  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The home server never chrated on him and had a fling with windows

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  • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a Windows home server, how else is he going too keep it up.

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• mrhenry77@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they had me until

  windows home server

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s clearly the old Microsoft. Current Microsoft would be “Microsoft windows azure home server 365 copilot+Server cloud” (yes it says server twice)

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but current MS Azure+buzzwerds actually works.

      WHS was as very, very bad layer on top of NTFS.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your server isn’t working today.

    This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      WHS wasn’t working then either.

      It was an awful piece of software, you were better off just pirating Windows Server 2003r2 Standard and using the software raid5 over the WHS flaky overlay system.

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  • rarsamx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They had me u til “your dad installs it”

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if there’s some technical benefit to it. Being familiar with Windows is one benefit ofc but not a technical one.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Man with a hammer rule definitely applies to SAs. If your skills are in Micro$oft then every problem is best solved with MS, even when it isn’t.

      I tried to come up with a gender-neutral way of saying ‘man with a hammer’ and failed. Please make some suggestions for me.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am of the mind that servers belong in restaurants.

  Like… Why do I need someone to take my order and bring me a meal at an office?

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  • itslola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of all the American vernacular for job titles, “server” is probably the one that makes my poor Aussie brain glitch most frequently. While you’re wondering why people are bringing you a meal in the office, I’m looking at the same sentence and wondering why diners are being forced to work as sysadmins over dinner.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with “server”? They serve you food, much like a computer server serves files.

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  • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because we’re busy!

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• zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At first I didn’t noticed the 2nd image, and started wondering what kind of children book this is :P

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plenty of age appropriate “birds and bees” books out there, this is a “packets and pings” one.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A children’s book sponsored by Microsoft… No

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought this was just an elaborate shitpost. that’s so unfortunate.

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• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a friend that insists on using windows server. He is mentally ill

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Had*

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    • Mim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You shouldn’t abandon friends just because they have a mental problem.

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• rarsamx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Removing the word “windows” in the last frame and also “your dad installs it for your dumb mom” to “your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!”

  Teaching “children” that technical artist are for dady to do is so cringe.

  Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.

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  • blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree the language should be adjusted but it doesn’t say or even imply the mom is dumb, that’s a little bit of a stretch.

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  • tahoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah it seems to be from the early 2010s, some of the wording would probably be different if it was made today

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This seems to be an ad for a windows based product. I agree with your points though.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I redid this book once, changing words and some pictures to make it for Linux server. I wanted a book that made sense.

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  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Swap windows home server for server on the last page and you’re done.

    Until your kid is 7/8, then you need to explain why one server isn’t enough and you need a second server somewhere else for the same reasons it shows a server being important when the computer gets pee on it.

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  • fum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You still got a copy? I’d love to share it with some people

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe. I’ll have to see if I can find it. It’s been a few years, but I hope I do still have it. If I do, I’ll share it

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Big people have a server at the “office”.
  The office is a boring place where big people go and do boring things.
  Offices are why big people get grumpy, and say bad words.
  But guess what?
  Some servers aren’t boring.
  They don’t go in offices…they go in houses!
  Maybe in your house!
  How does it get there?
  When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much,
  the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift.

  Not sure if serious (Fry meme)

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• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The network responses are coming… from inside the house!

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Hairpin Route of Oak St!

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• int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ok who the heck uses windows servers? I don’t think even microsoft does.

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  • coffeetastesbadlikecoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too many businesses, lots just started with MS Small Business Server and Upgraded from there.

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.

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    • int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      well, maybe for the active directory, but for pretty much anything else…

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “They made fun of my router settings!” sobs

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• DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, I make fun of my home server all the time - its 2 old computers screwed to a wall.

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  • LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I knew someone who threw away a laptop because the screen broke.

    They see junk

    I see a new home server with built in ups, just rip off the screen.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Literally my first server lol

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    • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “built-in UPS” is gonna degrade real quick, based on my experience

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As it should be! Lol

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• Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is actually really funny

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• DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Linux is better.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …redhat.com/…/container-commandos-coloring-book

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• quaff@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Archive page: archive.org/details/mommybook

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  • Famicoman@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re welcome.

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• kiol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haha, this book keep popping back up.

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• Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn, I thought you were joking

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• mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They don’t own a printer then. Or any IOT device.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is there a machine that looks like this? Complete with glowing curved top?

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a AI meme right?

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• josefo@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I need print instructions

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