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Medically, a couple dashes of bitters is irrelevant. But people often don't drink for philosophical, religious, or recovery reasons. For these people, zero means zero.

Non alcoholic bitters are available. They're made with a glycerin base.

Your job as sysadmin is to adhere to your organization's policy, no matter how stupid and hindering that policy might seem to you.

You're knowingly giving your users a workaround to their NDA, which puts all of your jobs and your data confidentiality at risk.

You've got no business with root privileges.

Kids are already coming out of school computer illiterate. They know how to use specific applications, but don't know things like directory hierarchy. Onboarding young people into working with general office productivity like SharePoint, or giving them a real grown up laptop instead of an ipad is like teaching boomers to open PDFs all over again. All the same old training and helpdesk calls.

the solution is the same as it was 30 years ago: computer class where they deep dive into how the things work, not just how Microsoft and Apple decide the things are used.

Woah TIL that because I'm admin, I'm self hosting an entire enterprise of nearly 50,000 users.

Just read Hitchhiker's Guide. Marvin would count, but there's also depressed doors and other unfortunately sentient objects.

Not everyone can just rUn DeBiAn on networks they don't own, and there's reasons to run the less free distributions.

If you're not rebooting, even Debian, for kernel, libc, and other low level security vulnerabilities, you're running a dogwater enterprise.

If you can't manage vendor recommended reboots and package update cycles on any distribution without causing an outage, you're a dogwater sysadmin.

No one gives a shit about uptime anymore.

most enterprises who need the kind of scale that a Microsoft enterprise agreement even makes sense are paying just as much for Redhat or similar.

"free" is not really a consideration in the selection.

This is an old take. Modern Linux management includes plenty of restarts and updates. Sometimes just as many as windows, especially with modern enterprises plugging heavy kennel-space agents into their Linux images.

Both ecosystems have adapted to the routine reboot annoyances, so it's no longer a real differentiator.