Rethought my whole stance on remote jobs after a server room chat

I used to think remote techs were just lazy, but this guy in Phoenix last week walked me through a 200-node failover he handled from his kitchen table. He caught a PSU spike before the monitoring alert even fired. Has anyone else flipped their opinion on off-site diagnostics?

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bell.felix1mo ago

Three AM's when I ate it. Coffee mug hit the keyboard, whole can of Monster over my laptop while I was mid-SSH session. Lightning hit a transformer two states over. There I am, fried circuit and sticky keys, trying to explain to a client why their backups are fine while I'm wiping Mt. Dew off the trackpad. Guess that's the tradeoff for not wearing pants to work. Remote works until your breakfast becomes a hardware failure.

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