7 was the first and last version of Windows that I didn’t immediately despise.

pops a ceiling tile and pulls a box fan over the gap to help exhaust hot air

ALSO TINNITUS

Liberty Bell March intensifies

If it’s good enough for COBOL…

These things happen when a skinflint company contracts out network setup for a decade, gets acquired by another skinflint company who axes the contractors and doesn’t hire on-site network personnel, gradually builds out infra on top of the unsupported foundation, and then hires c suite buddies who want to bring in their own people to further muddy the waters.

If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed a problem, I’d have a shitload of nickels.

Me: tries to share meme over Signal

Same, it was like stepping through a time portal. Definitely !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world material.

smh. That’s supposed to go in cell A1.

Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

I don’t know what they wanted to happen, but at my old place the load spike overloaded the UPS units.

Me: “we really shouldn’t be running these at 85 90 95%.”

Brass: “That’s not 100. Find room to ingest this company we bought when the CEO made a friend at a circlejerk.”

Overnight server update check: blip

UPS: Bypass mode, bitches!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Excel is the database. Excel is the status console. Excel is the web scraper. Excel is the data analyzer.

All hail the mighty Spreadsheet, let us VBA. 🙏

…I feel seen.

There’s a kind of learned helplessness with some developers and tests. It’s weird.

I got handed the keys to the network monitoring suite many moons ago. I immediately started editing the default alert actions to display relevant information, and in some outlier cases escalation procedures.

Most times, it was ignored. Other times, it was skimmed and half-followed. A few people outright refused to do anything differently than they had before (kick it up the ladder).

Glad to be rid of that place.

I still get random replies and mail years later on some of them.

I still get random replies on the stuff I turned to gibberish. Though looking at my old u/, a lot of the most upvoted ones were straight up nuked. Which wasn’t the case last time I checked.

Neat.

This shit is correct.

Total coincidence, I swear lol.

I also started on kbin, better default web interface by far. But the call of Voyager’s echoes of Apollo was strong.

Joke’s on you, I’m on my third account.

(Defunct instance, left due to mods, now here.)

Instructions unclear, incoherent screaming