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1. Pry Mincer (praxeology@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 16:10:48 UTC Pry Mincer

   Funny that so many people administer their own routers at home without making a big deal of it. But running a bog-standard "server" is considered some kind of near-impossible genius-level feat.

   •     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 16:10:47 UTC     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

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     @praxeology Your numbers might be accurate, but I'm unconvinced that this isn't a wildly apples-to-oranges metric. Administering a server is, as your subsequent post notes, considerably more difficult than updating a GUI PC operating system.

     I.e., however much time people who aren't trained programmers & sysadmins spend grappling with their consumer-level devices is de-facto going to be orders of magnitude less than they'd need to admin a server OS. Hence, they don't ever start.

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   • Pry Mincer (praxeology@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Mar-2022 16:10:48 UTC Pry Mincer

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     I would go so far as to suggest that the time I spend administering my personal server is less than the time many friends spend fighting with updates, errors and charging issues on their Smart-Phones and proprietary PCs.