How’s everyone enjoying their half day of no emails

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[–] 34 points 9 hours ago (12 children)

I didn’t do any work today. Not because of this outage but because I was at a conference.

The hardest thing I did all day was not walk up to the Microsoft booth and laugh at them.

The hardest thing I did the day before that was not walk up to the Nvidia booth and laugh at them.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

    Microsoft and Nvidia sit on huge piles of money and laugh at everyone.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

    People with money can still be losers. Just look at Elon Musk. Or Zuck. Or Bezos.

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  • [+] -6 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

    What did they lose? I think they live their happy life...

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

    Nobody who tries as hard as they do to be liked is happy.

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    I don't think Zuckerberg or the other non-Musk guy is who they were talking about. But Musk definitely seems like someone who has a lot of unhappiness in his personal life.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    If only there was some way to run software like this locally.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Locally or in network? Good luck running nation wide email service locally. In network or “self hosted” is absolutely possible though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Lots of companies and governments do it. How hard it is only depends on how many users you have.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Locally implies an email server on every machine. While technically possible, it would be an abysmal situation with constant problems.

    Hosting your own in network would be much more feasible. You’d likely have some annoyance but beyond that it would work.

    Of course you have to ask yourself why they would bother when a large portion goes through outlook servers anyway, and the majority of the other portion goes through Google servers. You’d have to do a cost vs benefit analysis to know for sure, especially if you don’t have anyone on staff that can handle the task.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Got caught up on work that was due Tuesday, tomorrow will be hell.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    When is Sativa Nutella going to resign?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago

    I'm on call.

    Not for anything Outlook-y, but email via that unreliable disappointment is what triggers our phones.

    So now I get to wake up, log in, connect vpn (2fa bullshit), go to the nagios page, log in again, check everything's okay, sigh, go back to bed, repeat every 3 hours.

    It's absolute bullshit.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Teams still worked so I didn't have to call people on the phone to ask team members for tasks.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago

    Anyone know the cause?

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