A Server for an 80-Year-Old Who Can't Fix It: How It Survives Without Me
When you make software for yourself, ‘reliable’ is usually good enough. If it breaks, you can fix it yourself. You can log in with SSH, read the logs, and restart it. You are your own support team. But this server was not for me. I made it as a gift for an 80-year-old man. It holds his life lessons on a tablet in his living room. And one fact changes things: he cannot fix problems. Not because he isn’t smart. He is smart. But the moment a server in someone else’s home needs any technical help to keep running, it has already failed for a non-technical owner. ...