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Based on a recent conversation I just had (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Too bad there aren't servers that come with mechanical arms that you can remotely control.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There used to be...

I have seen servers with optical drives rigged to press the power button of another server when the drive ejects it's tray.

Just SSH into it and run the eject command, wait a few min, run it again, then run it twice again.

This would make it hold the button to power it off, release the button, and push it quickly again to power up the machine.

Note that you need the old desktop style of optical drive with a powered tray for this to work

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

optical drives rigged to press the power button of another server

That's simultaneously janky and genius. I love it.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hmm, that would really send a message to all my enemies...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that what they were "jousting" with at the beginning of the movie "Hackers?"

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I don't remember the scene, so I can't say.

Love the movie though!

Hack the planet!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have great news for you, because that absolutely exists :)

Patch robot at DE-CIX (The largest european IXP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKaPKRggBM
Skip to 53 seconds to see it in action

With this you can physically reroute to another connection or server if something dies.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Until the robot itself burns out and is unresponsive as well 😅

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That's okay, they have a robot to do maintenance on the robot.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

I would hope not. If that thing burns, then a large portion of Europe's internet comes crashing down.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Remote hands are extra.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Is IPMI/iLO/IDRAC close enough?