[dale_glass]

Yeah, the "cattle not pets" philosophy is fairly recent, but I don't see it changing any time soon. If anything we're going even more in that direction.

And it makes a lot of sense because if uptime is that important, then no matter how fancy the hardware it can't do anything about disasters or losing internet connectivity.

[pseg134]

We might go so far in that direction we wind up right back on the other side. It always happens, it’s more of a pendulum swinging back and forth than any kind of straight forward progress you are imagining.

[bee_rider]

The 7002 seems like it could be used in a workstation, where the “cattle vs pets” thing is less of a distinction, right? (I guess a workstation is sort of like a work dog in this analogy).

[dale_glass]

That's the EPYC lineup, which is the server model. Support for terabytes of RAM, 128 PCIe lanes, that sort of thing.

I mean you could use it in a workstation, but unless you need 4 video cards locally it's probably overkill for most uses.

And a workstation should have no problem rebooting once in a while.

[kjs3]

You have the whole "I don't understand why something is this way, therefore everyone who does understand why it's that way is wrong" stick down cold. It's not a good look.