Comment by caaqil
4 days ago
> A single Linode VPS is $5
Counting or not counting the time spent on babysitting the distro and all its shenanigans, including but not limited to systemd?
4 days ago
> A single Linode VPS is $5
Counting or not counting the time spent on babysitting the distro and all its shenanigans, including but not limited to systemd?
if you're babysitting a modern server you're doing something very wrong, or more likely don't know what you're doing.
> you're doing something very wrong, or more likely don't know what you're doing.
That is probably it. Nothing to do with the ecosystem or convenience (an esoteric concept known as valuing your time, which is rarely appreciated here*). The only thing missing is "RTFM".
(*) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
It’s really not much harder than reading the docs on Workers or whatever proprietary platform you’re using. And LLMs are quite good at configuring servers. Took me maybe 5 minutes of my time the last time I set up a Rocky server, and it’s still chugging along with no effort from me for 6 months.
I have a cheap VPS. I somewhat know what I'm doing, but now I just get Grok Bot to babysit it for me and nothing's gone wrong yet. According to Grok Bot, anyway.
Why do you need an llm bot for that? Every single distro has one or several autoupdate packaging tools that will update packages and reboot your vm automatically if needed.
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> including but not limited to systemd
As someone who admins several Linux boxes professionally and personally and has spent so little time working with systemd it's a rounding error, what are you talking about?