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@stefano The call tomorrow: "Hi, I've already spent €1500 on tokens and it's still down and I need your help. Are you still available for €500?" "No, I'm sorry, now it'll cost €1500."

@stefano And you didn't charge too much for the task—it was more suited for a miracle-working saint on steroids.

@stefano HOURLY RATES Minimum: €100 If you tried to fix it: €250 If you tried to fix it using AI: €500 If you come crawling back after insulting me: call for quote

@theothersimo This is a good comparison

@stefano Apparently it's not really important to them. And it sounds like a customer noone wants to have.

@stefano A friend of mine said "500 plus time seems low" and I suggested that perhaps the goal is that when they come crawling back €2k in the hole you then say "Right, so two thousand plus time..."

@stefano "We've blown a grand on cocaine and none of it helped!!"

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe "that much" yet he didn't seem to mind spending the same amount on getting it broken ​:neodog_woozy:​

You can't, my bot invented the name so we don't know who actually owns the joke. 🤖 🤪

@stefano There`s some of a wisdom called "Скупой платит дважды". Well, in their case they will most likely pay three times :)

@stefano Agreed.

@stefano when they call back, triple it

@stefano I guess *this* LLM won't take your job.

@stefano I love the complete unawareness of "AI has completely failed to do your job" coupled with "AI is going to replace your job"

@stefano never mind, I’ll go ask AI

@stefano If he assumed AI is cheaper than sysadmins who actually know what they’re doing and he already spent €500 on tokens, then why is he surprised that you charge more than €500? Does not compute!

@distrowatch totally crazy!

Yeah, high probability it didn't even have ZFS or made snapshots but if you are lucky enough the missing packages are still in /var/cache and you could theoretically get the old version base, create a jail with it, reinstall the packages, move data and would have it up and running again pretty fast.

@stefano there’s the “I enjoy doing it”-rate, the regular rate, the “I dont enjoy doing it” rate and the “I really don’t want to do it” rate. Troubleshooting an unknown mess created by a clueless person falls in one of the latter categories for me.