One of the organisations I work for is so poor, we should not exist by any account.
How poor?
Our main server is fifteen years old.
Only reason we got it, it was abandoned in a rack we bought for $50 and I resurrected it.
This transcends boneyard.
This is summoning machine spirits from beyond, Deus Mechanics incantations.
I yelled at the Operations manager today, calling him a Necromancer because he was praising this ancient "Raid" box as "better than what we used to have" when all I want to do is nail it to the wall as a warning to others.
Anyhoo...
This is how I found today that a 15 year old iron running #Debian 10 simply could not run any #docker images of this particular package because the #nodej component just won't run on the #microcode
I don't even realise it was a thing.
But then, how many of you run a box that's 15 years old in production...
...how "slow" is that rack server?
I pulled one of the Intel NUCs out of the boneyard (it's one of those paper book sized box "computers") and put Debian on THAT...
...it runs 33% faster and that thing was binned because it couldn't pull an office admin desktop workload.
33% faster!!!
