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Please can I make a suggestion?

If I make a helpful comment or pointer to something which is useful to other people then replying in a sarcastic fashion, trying to #tonepolice me or acting an idiot, is plainly stupid and you shouldn't be doing it.

If someone is trying to be helpful in good faith then it's bad manners to do the above.

And if you don't know that then don't comment, we should try to be nicer to each other on #mastodon

This is not #Twitter

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Please can I make a suggestion?

If I make a helpful comment or pointer to something which is useful to other people then replying in a sarcastic fashion, trying to #tonepolice me or acting an idiot, is plainly stupid and you shouldn't be doing it.

If someone is trying to be helpful in good faith then it's bad manners to do the above.

And if you don't know that then don't comment, we should try to be nicer to each other on #mastodon

This is not #Twitter

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Running an interactive #Linux system?

Got performance problems? Is #memory low?

Try my drop_cache shell script

It could help, greatly!

Thanks to @Codeberg for hosting my repo

It is documented and easy to get going.

https://codeberg.org/BrianLinuxing/Dro p_cache

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Running an interactive #Linux system?

Got performance problems? Is #memory low?

Try my drop_cache shell script

It could help, greatly!

Thanks to @Codeberg for hosting my repo

It is documented and easy to get going.

https://codeberg.org/BrianLinuxing/Dro p_cache

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I used to manage and oversee very complex computer systems in the financial sector

It was hard like juggling oranges covered in mayonnaise, drop one and you get cattle prodded in a very sensitive place!

But keeping #mastodon instances live and keeping it going with the #twittermigration is infinitely harder, as it is done in *real time*, everything has to work, every second

We should really appreciate the admins, the volunteers 👍

My thanks to @Ric @mike @mastohost and all #Mastodon admins

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I used to manage and oversee very complex computer systems in the financial sector

It was hard like juggling oranges covered in mayonnaise, drop one and you get cattle prodded in a very sensitive place!

But keeping #mastodon instances live and keeping it going with the #twittermigration is infinitely harder, as it is done in *real time*, everything has to work, every second

We should really appreciate the admins, the volunteers 👍

My thanks to @Ric @mike @mastohost and all #Mastodon admins

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#twittermigration

Imagine, you have to run a successful party for nine children but instead the whole school turns up, all 400 of them.

But you can’t turn them away, you have to feed them well and be cheerful, that would be very hard eh?

- - -

That is what the #mastodon technical administrators are doing now.

They are playing catch up while trying to keep the services live and we should all be patient, it’s incredibly complex to run these systems and keep them up 24/7.

Patience, please.

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#twittermigration

Imagine, you have to run a successful party for nine children but instead the whole school turns up, all 400 of them.

But you can’t turn them away, you have to feed them well and be cheerful, that would be very hard eh?

- - -

That is what the #mastodon technical administrators are doing now.

They are playing catch up while trying to keep the services live and we should all be patient, it’s incredibly complex to run these systems and keep them up 24/7.

Patience, please.

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Dear followers,

If you are easily offended then please block me, I won’t be outraged.

I regret as an oldie I might talk or post about:

#Linux
#PDP11s
#OpenVMS
#retrocomputing
#Mainframes
#Fortran
#Pascal
#Algol
#BASIC
#Python
#ITManagement
#IoT
#Microsoft

And very occasionally, odd scientific stuff (I am a big fan of it and modernity).

I might even comment on Musk, climate change, books, meteorology, ageism, health matters (it is a bone of contention at my age), COVID19, etc

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Dear followers,

If you are easily offended then please block me, I won’t be outraged.

I regret as an oldie I might talk or post about:

#Linux
#PDP11s
#OpenVMS
#retrocomputing
#Mainframes
#Fortran
#Pascal
#Algol
#BASIC
#Python
#ITManagement
#IoT
#Microsoft

And very occasionally, odd scientific stuff (I am a big fan of it and modernity).

I might even comment on Musk, climate change, books, meteorology, ageism, health matters (it is a bone of contention at my age), COVID19, etc

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