For me, my high bar that I have yet to beat, was the time I pivoted the running OS (ubuntu) into RAM over SSH so I could unmount and image the boot drive without rebooting and loading a live USB (Which would have required a ticket with my provider to enable IPMI)

  • Björn Tantau
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    1413 days ago

    When the network printer suddenly started printing the picture my kid had drawn in tux paint without me having configured the printer on their PC.

      • Björn Tantau
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        813 days ago

        The real wizards are the folks who made KDE’s printer integration. Or maybe CUPS.

        • artifex
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          913 days ago

          I’ve you ever looked at CUPS code? Forget wizardry, it’s straight up Eldritch lore in typed form.