• Randelung@lemmy.world
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    That’s the only way. Allowing any kind of discussion will delay the reboot indefinitely. There’s never a good time and someone will always be working. Announce maintenance ahead of time and then follow through.

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      Yep. I’ve gone as far as making a monthly maintenance window so they’re always ready to reboot at least once a month. I didn’t care if there was a patch or not. The users knew it was going to happen. No exceptions.

      Train your users because they’re used to home where they can do whatever bullshit they want all the fucking time. I’m glad I’m past those days. These days I have a regular maintenance window for IaC and get to restart shit whenever I want because there’s a whole shit pile of redundancy. No fucking laptops.

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    Hey, that’s where I went for grad school! Fun fact - it used to be called Beaver College, but had to change names in 2000 since porn kept showing up when people googled it.

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      I thought I should check, for science - looks like they’ve improved search a lot since then. At least on Bing and DuckDuckGo* searching for beaver college only showed legit results even with Safe Search disabled, aside from one ebaumsworld joke link.

      *which I believe proxies searches anonymously through Google (I was corrected, it used Bing and several other sources but not Google)