• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble!

  • Lurking Hobbyist🕸️@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Y’know how, if you turn off computers the wrong way, they can be damaged and go blue screen of death, especially if in a middle of an update? This is what needs to happen to data centers, just yank the power cord and plunge them into darkness.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      We had a guy in a DC where the ATS cluster borked and took it allll down. There was a guy moving through it on a HDD swap task, and when it all went dark and quiet suddenly

      1. He thought he’d died
      2. The ping-ping of the CPUs cooling was scary
      3. he didn’t know where he was or where he was facing, so he had to just lie down and wait for a fix vs blundering into something.

      Yes, the emergency fighting failed too, for some reason.

    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      the really important stuff is all backed up on magnetic tape drives. it would lose them some money but only until the backup recovery is done

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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      7 hours ago

      Would be interesting to shut down all those data centers and just see how quiet the internet is after, because the bots are all down.

      I know it’s impractical but it would be very interesting.

  • suff@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    At some day, same-thinkers should migrate to one geolocation and start their own nation.