# System Admin Philosophy

10/2023

- Help other people get into system administration.
- Ask for help only after you tried fixing the problem yourself.
- De-botnet others' lives.
- Give example code with simple instructions.
- "Read the docs!"
- Help people understand poorly written docs.
- Tech people can't write, or make docs to save their own life.
- Always back your data up.
- Nextcloud always breaks.
- Use RAID.
- Don't use Docker.
- If you use Docker, use Docker-Compose.
- Make everything as cheap as possible.
- Hate the Antichrist
- Develop baseless angry responses to niche subjects for a personality.
- Get some sleep.
- An old laptop is a great first server for learning.
- An old gaming PC is a great next server.
- A steel rack full of enterprise servers is the goal.