"The Cloud" is just somebody else's computer that you can't go and kick when it inevitably falls over. The traditional method of making a computer functional again is called Percussive Maintenance. Therein lies the problem: users of cloud services can't maintain their own servers.

My solution is to have a remote-controlled boot, connected to the Internet via a separate connection, that users can take control of remotely, guide to their server, and give it a swift kick.

Or I suppose you could give them a pokey stick for hitting power buttons instead.
-- Vectron, Jun 25 2025

Gives new meaning to "reboot".

Welcome to the HB! [+]
-- doctorremulac3, Jun 25 2025


Should absolutely be included in your cloudy service.
-- minoradjustments, Jun 25 2025


I for one welcome this new Internet of Bovver ...

Ouch. I said I welcome ... ouch!
-- pertinax, Jun 26 2025


I will allow it.

...for now.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 26 2025


The traditional method for repairing a malfunctioning television was always to pound it with a clenched fist, but any remotely controlled impact delivery system is approved. Can the deluxe option offer some kind of haptic interconnectivity? ie you put on a special digitally aware boot and kick a cardboard box around in the privacy of your own home - have this crumb - mine are worth double everyone else's - (note* I am the only person on the HB able to award double croissants!)
-- xenzag, Jun 26 2025


We now know that any idea with fewer than two votes in a particular direction, you haven't voted on. We can also tell those with fewer than two in a given direction, you didn't vote in that direction if you voted.
-- Voice, Jun 26 2025


Sometimes I use my double vote, but sometimes I just use the single one. It depends on my mood - like I might decide to feed someone to the dogs, or I might decide to feed them toasted marmite sandwiches.
-- xenzag, Jun 26 2025


An open pit full of snarling, half-starved sandwiches is a feature no house should be without.

Just make sure they can't get out.
-- pertinax, Jun 27 2025


M'yes.

Quite.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 27 2025


And who among us wields the Double Bone?

This is a violation of the “One man, one bun” tradition. Also, if true, the “One man, one bone” rubric is toast. I see the beginning of the end of true democracy here.

Who’s to say that one may not have 5 buns per vote, or 100? Or who already has them and has chosen to wait for the perfect time to crash the entire system?
-- minoradjustments, Jun 27 2025


All votes are equal, but mine are twice as equal. hahahaha
-- xenzag, Jun 27 2025


I think a starving sandwich is thin and dry with minimal contents. It snarls through a hard crust. Its sound is raspy, like the sound of toast being scraped.
-- Voice, Jun 28 2025


So if I read this idea correctly, there's nothing to stop a rival service (or aggrieved user) from kicking the shit out of your servers?
-- Loris, Jun 28 2025



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