Speaking as someone on the IT side (albeit as a sysadmin, not help desk), it’s because we don’t trust you. We’ve been burned enough times by believing a user that says that of course they’ve already rebooted/run the usual command/updated recently. We want to verify that this is true. We also want to see if there are any error messages or other unexpected behaviour that you immediately dismissed and failed to mention.

This is gold

Naw, I’m with you. When I work for even a short time with dark mode, I see “ghost” images when I look away, like text has been imprinted on my eyes. I’m sure dark mode works for some people, but it sure doesn’t for me.

So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…

Get-sandwich -destination “Me” -force

The part that I got a kick out of was that their status page was also throwing out the error. I guess it was still indicating the status in a way…

Prepping for migration from cloud back to on-prem?

Don’t