Some IT guy, IDK.
Nope, just thoughts and prayers.
I wouldn't say immune, I just have a low tolerance for unfounded claims, and little interest in most of the impulse purchase junk that most ads are trying to sell.
Give me an ad for good tech at good prices (and actually list the fkin price), and I'm interested.
Like OP said, if there's no price, just a "call to get a quote" or some other similar nonsense in place of a price, then I'm either not buying that product, or I'm buying it somewhere else that they list the damn cost.
"Call to inquire" can be adequately translated to: we want to sell this shit to your entire company, call us so we can convince you to do just that" meanwhile you want to buy one so you can check it out to see if it's even useful because marketing claims are almost always bullshit.
I had to explain to someone today that, though you can print through someone's PC to their USB printer, you cannot run the scanner software and connect the same way. So scanning no worky from another computer.
We have print servers, but we don't have scan servers. Why is that?
Anyway, I don't think they believed me.
The fun part is that the printer has Ethernet, and if they plugged that in, both systems would be able to print and scan.... What a crazy idea!
But the bossman didn't think it was going to be possible to plug in the printer to the network without wifi.... Idk, I'm not there, I don't know what color the walls in your office are, nevermind being able to coach you on how to plug in a device I've never seen to a network I equally haven't seen.
Maybe people should ask their IT people if it's a good idea to buy a printer when they have these kinds of operational requirements....
The fact that nobody can tell this is satire, says so much about how fucking dystopian things have gotten.
Holy shit.
Does anyone seriously believe that Disney would intentionally create a video, in any capacity where a character says they're going to suck someone's dick?
Don't get me wrong, this is funny as all hell, but quite clearly satire.
.... Unfortunately.
Oh heck. I can't recall the number of times someone, even myself, has driven significant distances just to plug things in because users are to much of window lickers to understand what a USB cable looks like half the time.
One of the funniest that I still regularly encounter is people who power cycle their monitor to reboot their computer. Not realizing that the monitor isn't the computer itself....
I mean, the list goes on and on and on for this kind of stupid shit. The kicker is that if you even fucking try to make them slightly less goddamned stupid about this shit, they don't want to hear it.
You'll be taking at them and you might as well be taking to the fucking wall for all the good it will do.
Yup. Most of the time, policies are in place because someone tried what you're trying and it let them do that thing... And because Windows let that thing happen, something bad happened for everyone.
So now nobody can do that thing.
The prosumer tech bro that's never touched enterprise equipment or dealt with operational requirements are the worst.
I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard that something works fine at their home but doesn't work while they're at work. Sometimes that's intentional, sometimes that's because the network in the office is about 80,000x more complex than the Linksys you plugged in at home, set a password on once that you immediately forgot, and has been doing little more than source Nat and L2 bridging every since, with no regard to what the traffic is, just sending it out regardless, and creating a goddamned mess in the process, but because it's only you and your spouse and maybe a kid or two, that doesn't really matter.
Suddenly when you're dealing with hundreds of endpoints on a LAN, you don't want every broadcast packet being sent out over the dozens of access points you have dotted around, so no, your multicast discovery won't work Brenda. So you can't use Chromecast in the office, okay? I don't care how important you think it is, it would take hours to get this to work properly and I have more pressing concerns at the moment.
I don't live in the USA, but I wanted to check.
Remind me, do areas that have more agriculture/farmland usually vote for the Democrats, or the Republicans?
I'm kidding, I know the answer.
Suck it farmer's. You voted for this, now enjoy the "freedoms" that you have been granted by your political party.
I generally explain to people that the current state of technology for LLMs is that they're larger and more complicated versions of the text prediction on your phone, you know, when it guesses what word you want to put next, but with whole sentences using the entirety of the public Internet as the base of reference for that information.
And they basically burn through kilowatts of power per inquiry.
Tech Bros drive me up the wall.
Generally they're users with just enough information to be dangerous.
They know some things, but don't have a knowledge deep enough to know that there are serious downsides to (insert whatever they care about this week here).
I'm pretty sure I'd be more neckbeard nerd than techbro.
Why are you describing me so well?
The number of times I've seen eyes glaze over after someone asked a question they shouldn't have and didn't want the answer to, is too damned high.
Also, sometimes, I'll go into a ridiculous level of detail just to intellectually beat someone over the head with how much I know so they'll stop asking questions. They seem to think they're being clever and trying to "prove" that tech guys don't know much more than the rest of the "tech literate".
I'll tell you, the amount of information in my brain from working IT support for a decade would make most people's head spin for hours. And that's not including the countless years of time in college, and doing personal/independent research, simply because a fancy new technology captured my ADHD hyperfocus.
I've gone from being a novice with a technology, discussing it with someone who seems to know a lot about the topic, to researching everything about it, and the next time I meet them, they don't have half of the knowledge of the subject that I do by that point. It happens... A lot.
If you don't want a lecture, and just want things to work stop asking questions, just tell me what you expect as the outcome and I'll figure out everything in-between.
That's kind of the idea though.
They don't exactly advertise that they're doing a bad thing.
I have my reservations about the tree planting thing. I forget the specifics about it from the material I've seen.
IIRC it's half right? I forget why. It's been a while.
I approve.
That's optimistic, I expect them to prop him up and have him continue being their leader well after he starts to decay, weekend at Bernie's style.
This was my reaction.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they're basing 100% of their analysis on his public appearances, which is likely when he's at his best. He's either following a script or he's been coached on what to say immediately prior to going in front of a camera.
In any case, America is cooked. He's not going to step down, and there's still a nontrivial amount of support for him to be installed as grand pubah.
(un) related fun fact: you can make up your own title in most countries.
The only titles you can't use, are those that would imply that you have authority or qualifications that you do not.
Since being a "Lord" is basically meaningless in North America, you can literally just.... Call yourself a Lord. No payment required.
But you can't go around saying you're a doctor, or a veteran of any kind, or something like that.... That shit will get you in trouble.
I believe that this is one of the core scammers in this whole scheme.
There's whole documentary style videos on it, how it's a scam, and that they're largely just pocketing the money.
But if it makes you happy to have paid $100 for a piece of paper that says Lord/Lady (your name here), then I don't see why you would care, if that's what you are getting from it.
I had to scroll way too far to see a single fucking comment taking about how fucking shit everything is. You're the lucky commenter.
Everyone else talking about the merits (or lack thereof) of speeding, missing the whole point.
I'm with you my friend. This shit is fucking tiring.
Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I'm here like.... Yeah, that be my day most days.
We've normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go "oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z" and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.
Yay?
This is the way.