an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit - eviltoast

there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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      before learning about how file management works: fuck yeah let’s pull out that drive, yolo

      After: ok I’m gonna triple check to make sure it’s ejected, replug and check nothing bad happened, then eject it again

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          Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s a Mandela effect when I remember huge binders full of service pack cd-roms for the NT servers we used to host the websites we built for our clients - in the server room of our office - with consumer-grade aircons running 24/7

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            every machine is the same shade of beige

            every desk has a mouse holder. nothing is arranged for any particular comfort while using the computer, but your job is in fact to use the computer

            we don’t speak of uptime here