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When you need to retire an old server (lemmy.world)
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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

Fun story. When the titanic came out, the girl I was crushing on asked me if I wanted to go see it with her and her other friends.

Yeah. So we’re in line to get in and I made a sarcastic comment, something about, “but we know how it ends… the ship sinks.”

Apparently. She didn’t know that. Oops.
In any case the gaggle of old women in the row behind us were more entertaining. It may have been like their fifth time watching it. Specifically so they could see DiCaprio’s naked ass. The rest of the time they spent heckling it MST3K- style.

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Even if it's a re-run, it's a dick move to give away the ending to any movie while in line to see it.

[-] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 127 points 1 year ago

It's a very well known historical story though.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Excellent observation It is, in fact, the very fact that makes the comment you are responding to funny.

[-] Flumsy@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

It is, in fact, the very fact that...

Lmao

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

Watching a movie about WWII "I wonder who won??"

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder what hobbies this Julius Caesar guy gets into when he retires?

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

He gets really good at playing dead, even has fake knife wounds

[-] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 1 year ago

Omg don't spoil I haven't watched that movie yet. I didn't even know their was a first one.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I hear that if they ever do a 3rd movie it is going to burst on the scene and really explode from there.

[-] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The Americans, obviously.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah!

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

...and this is why i loved inglourius basterds...

[-] owatnext@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

That would be like, being in line for a film about Helen Keller and mentioning she is blind and deaf. Like. Yeah. She is. You should know that, regardless of the film.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Who is Helen Keller?

[-] owatnext@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

She is one of the biggest community volunteers to the Lemmy code repo.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

and they already made a film about her? that was fast...

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I thought she was a mod on Twitter. They never see anything wrong with any posts I report.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

That's like watching a World War 2 movie and "spoiling" the fact that Germany lost.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

If you don't know the story of the Titanic idk what to tell you.

[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Truth be told, I started watching Once Upon a Time In Hollywood having zero context of what the hell the story is meant to actually be about until half way when someone told me, and it vastly improved the movie.

Like, the woman just looked like a useless character you know. And would keep looking so.

[-] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Can you help a friend out?

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

I know it's just a meme, but god damn I hate this format. Some men cry while watching the titanic, some (many) women use *nix.

[-] SingularEye 18 points 1 year ago

agree wholeheartedly

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A small alteration would be to swap one of the female heads up top with a male, and go "Man, Chad guy never cries about anything. Is he even human?" You can even swap out Chad with chadette, depending on context.

Just a guess.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the same vein, comments like "I'm a big bearded man but I cried...". As if they need to reaffirm their masculinity when they speak about their feelings in case we suddenly think they turned into a unicorn or something.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

man I WISH I spontaneously turned into a unicorn every time I shed a tear

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, crying is not the only way to be sad. Some people regardless of gender just don't cry easily when sad, doesn't mean they're not sad. Some people regardless of gender may not want to cry in front of other people for a movie. Or maybe they've already seen the movie alone and sobbed all day the first time but know what to expect the second time. It's frankly none of your business to judge how other people react to sad things and you certainly do not have enough evidence just looking at them to declare they "have no feelings," unless their ears are pointy and were the first to develop Warp Drive.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At home too?

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago

They just move to a server farm upstate!

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is that the one my elderly colleague started working at? Still a bit pissed he never said goodbye.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A State Farm if you will

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is the server named Boxer?

[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Honestly by the time I decide to retire an old machine, it’s because I’ve developed so much animosity towards it that I’m much more likely to have an attitude of “good riddance” than “farewell old friend”.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I still have the very first computer that I ever built, all the way back in 2001. I never had anything but fond feelings about that machine.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 1 points 1 year ago

IlIlIl

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

The year Titanic came out, I finally decided to see what the fuss was about in it's 18th week playing (a new record!) in our local theater. I took my seat, and there were a couple of teenage girls a few seats over from mine. They started sobbing during the opening credits. I'm fairly certain they'd seen the movie already. Probably more than once.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I once had a machine (that I got 2nd hand) run a busy mysql server with over 1,200 days of uptime. When it was retired we painted the chassis gold and put it on display in the lobby.

[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

You Linux people never fail to make me laugh. Bless Lemmy.

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know why, but the thought of some 38 year old American farmer who doesn't know computers going "you linux people" is very sweet sounding to me.

[-] jcs@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

And the sysadmin said "well done, good and faithful servant."

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Depends. What's the uptime on that server? Are we talking years? Thatd be worth to "pour one out for da homies".

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Irony of the Unix wars is that Unix lost.

Linux didn’t have any of the untouchable legal issues that Unix had. Linux was built from the ground up without access to Unix source code, that was entirely why it was written.

And now we have Linux, the most used kernel on the face of this earth. Used in almost every server. All android devices. Chrome books. The Steam deck. It’s included on every copy of Windows.

Linux won the Unix wars. And it’s all the fault of the very creator of Unix. AT&T, in their greed, killed the creation they sought to profit from.

Double Ironic.

[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, I watched that video a week ago. So sad :'(

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I watched the video. It was truly beautiful.

I think I would have cried a little if I were in his place.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Poll time! If you HAD to switch from Linux to BSD, which one are you choosing?

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

FreeBSD unless I'm doing something that's need a fairly secure system, in which case OpenBSD disconnected from the Internet with my private mirror for security patches.

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

TL;DR Maybe FreeBSD?

Back in the day, I was very interested in (the now extinct) PC-BSD, but it really didn't like the unusual HDD setup I had (Third IDE channel maybe? The details are fuzzy now.)

Never got to the stage of trying gaming on it, but I think I might have been planning to dual boot?

Anyway, it must have been a while ago because that was my previous PC, which I donated to a relative the better part of a decade ago.

So, given that it was a FreeBSD, I guess that's what I'd be looking into, but I can't say I know enough right now.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i am going to get a laptop with windows 11 to avoid that question for as ong as i can

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