That’s the only way. Allowing any kind of discussion will delay the reboot indefinitely. There’s never a good time and someone will always be working. Announce maintenance ahead of time and then follow through.
Anyone here remember when the system operator could push a shutdown warning message to all terminals?
User: immediately closes message fucking pop-ups
Hey, that’s where I went for grad school! Fun fact - it used to be called Beaver College, but had to change names in 2000 since porn kept showing up when people googled it.
I thought I should check, for science - looks like they’ve improved search a lot since then. At least on Bing and DuckDuckGo* searching for beaver college only showed legit results even with Safe Search disabled, aside from one ebaumsworld joke link.
*which I believe proxies searches anonymously through
Google(I was corrected, it used Bing and several other sources but not Google)i’m pretty sure ddg uses bing, but I am probably wrong, and don’t have the motivation to look it up.
