Becoming average in speaking Mandarine must be pretty hard. There are so many native speakers (and close to native speakers) that there are probably not enough learners to drag the average down by a lot.

The thing is that orgs always have new requirements and updates of soft- and hardware brings up new problems, thus system administrators are still needed in the end even though they automated everything and built highly reliable systems.

Maybe an unpopular opinion: but the two most important jobs of a system administrator is to make himself needless (for example through automation and increasing reliability of the systems he builds and maintains) and replaceable (by creating good documentation).

And today I saw on a mailing list again: people shit-talking other operating systems than the one they like usually have only barely a clue about the other operating systems they are talking about.

What is the best website currently to find Creative Common-licensed music?

Pacemaker problems…I just can’t getting this MySQL-replication back up without taking down the primary -.-

I am always surprised how few people now „at“ on Unix-like systems. It is so useful for jobs that have to run once at a certain time and where you do not want to sit in front of the machine for them. It even accepts a file as input when you want to run multiple commands.

Today’s fallout in Barovia: 2 player characters are now evil. #dnd

Using the docker-version of OnlyOffice also failed. I just couldn’t get it to work properly. Collabora was far easier.

I tried installing Onlyoffice on my Nextcloud-server today. I failed. The Ubuntu-package they provide depends on Nginx, I run Apache. Then I tried to remove it and had nginx removed before. Thus Deinstallation fails because it wants to reload nginx.