I’d always said I was not a hardware guy, that I preferred working with applications leaving someone else with the responsibility for the machines that ran them. Then one day I found myself salvaging an old video card to install onto a new PC. Granted, it was a Dell PC so its modular nature made things a lot easier.
I still don’t consider myself a hardware guy but am no longer completely abhorrent to the idea. I now find myself in a similar place with regards to server management and, more generally, Linux.
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