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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The criticality of any given service is inversely proportional to how recently released was the technology that it runs on.

This, if you see some ancient machine sitting there humming, don't even make eye contact with that mf, don't even think about it. In fact, try to minimize your time in the same room so when it eventually goes tits up, you don't get blamed.