[zingmars]

These updates most definitely could've been handled better. I was having a busy week with exams and I get a call about around 10 machines not booting (this was before the announcement). Sure enough, last thing everyone reported was updating. I call the supplier and apparently they have reports of at least 2000 machines (at that moment) that had to be reimaged across the city (from what I could tell, all were older AMD PCs) because of this dumb update. I was used to not being to able to trust software, but if I can't trust hardware now either, farming does suddenly appear much more appealing.

[InvisibleCities]

Trust me, if you don't like the idea of your entire livelihood hinging on weather or not a piece of equipment boots up, farming is NOT the career for you.

[Spare_account]

I like what you did with the typo there.

[noiv]

I like the idea of Internet Weather. Seems probability of rain is currently increasing. And so does anticipation of floods and surges.

[saym]

Do you think there's a market for "Cloud Meteorologists"?

[platz]

Such data lake. Such pastoral, idyllic landscape.

[protomyth]

There was an old website in the 90's that did Internet Weather, I think it was from one of the BBS magazines.

[mygo]

Holy wow. This is prose. This is poetry.

[nurettin]

Looks like a field ripe for AI to introduce random auto-correct induced typos into paragraphs where a change of word order could be perceived as poetic.

[KindOne]

Become a goat farmer. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4l7kjd/found_a_te...

[lettergram]

Fully support lol you can buy land in Colorado pretty cheap.

Had a friend do that... He bought 3 acres, spent a couple years building a cabin in his free time. Then one day just quit and went off to the woods.

Still visit him and he seems pretty happy with it. He doesn't need much income and makes enough money off odd jobs he seems to be doing pretty well.

[protomyth]

One of the attempts at adding to the list "Nobody is ever going to sell you goats as a service." is actually wrong. Companies do rent goats for land clearing[1]. Go for beekeeper then you too can do "bees as a service"[2].

1) http://rentagoat.com/

2) http://americanbeejournal.com/insights-honey-pollination-pac...

[astrange]

But if you look into their eyes, you can still see the progress bars…

[c3534l]

Farming is all mechanized these days. Farmers have to deal with OS and firmware updates on their tractors.

[stickfigure]

...and DRM: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...

[spike021]

Yeah, AWS had scheduled reboots that were supposed to happen around the day this was all announced, so we had to scramble to deal with them manually beforehand so we'd ensure our systems booted up properly.