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Miah Johnson

I miss Ops work being generalized knowledge of UNIX and not specialized knowledge of some startup products that won't exist in 10 years.

19 Mar 2023 at 17:42 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Space Hobo Actual

@miah
I miss Unix being a bell labs project that nobody expected to still exist in 10 years.

19 Mar 2023 at 17:53 | Open on teh.entar.net
Miah Johnson

@spacehobo I'm glad UNIX is still here. I'm sad that as far as most are concerned, that only means Linux, or Kubernetes.

19 Mar 2023 at 18:02 | Open on hachyderm.io
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@miah This toot makes me glad I'm an ex-sysadmin.

19 Mar 2023 at 18:36 | Open on infosec.exchange
Miah Johnson

@ryanc I'd like to be an ex-sysadmin. I have no idea what else I would do though. I'm so burned out by the industry.

19 Mar 2023 at 18:43 | Open on hachyderm.io
arguil

@miah @ryanc I'm sorry to read that. Have you considered pivoting towards more dev-focused jobs (most likely you did) and what prevented you from doing so?

19 Mar 2023 at 20:25 | Open on framapiaf.org
arclight

@miah @ryanc I went back to nuclear safety analysis. Better class of problem, more opportunities to learn interesting stuff, no on-call, no Oracle, no webservers.

19 Mar 2023 at 22:06 | Open on oldbytes.space
cheese (snowy)

@miah not me still using Source engine 20 years later

19 Mar 2023 at 19:00 | Open on xantronix.social
The Doctor
Catherine Flick

@miah as an ex Solaris and Linux sysadmin I’m very glad I don’t have to deal with all the current bullshit tbh.

19 Mar 2023 at 20:04 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
PulkoMandy

@miah the startups are just UNIX Knowledge As A Service

19 Mar 2023 at 20:10 | Open on mastodon.tetaneutral.net
πŸ’œ pry πŸ’œ

@miah this is a really good point. I'd love containers and container orchestration to be a cmdline tool that just comes w certain OSes ... or other sorts of things that will be useful for ops people

19 Mar 2023 at 20:13 | Open on raru.re
πŸ†˜Bill Cole πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@miah @vaurora Worse: a collection of startup products from 2006-2013

19 Mar 2023 at 20:55 | Open on toad.social
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