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Hello thread, I bring you discomfort. https://imgur.com/gallery/fayg4op 
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Aug 11, 2020 01:23
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Kurieg posted:Hello thread, I bring you discomfort. I was looking around in that and uhh  I feel terror
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Aug 11, 2020 01:29
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Kurieg posted:Hello thread, I bring you discomfort. someone just rip it out by the heatsink without unlocking the socket? or try to pry it out with a screwdriver without unlocking the socket?
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Aug 11, 2020 01:31
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Shugojin posted:I was looking around in that and uhh Is that Grover House?
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Aug 11, 2020 01:55
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:someone just rip it out by the heatsink without unlocking the socket? Yes.
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Aug 11, 2020 02:24
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Kurieg posted:Hello thread, I bring you discomfort. This one just made me grin though. 
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Aug 11, 2020 02:27
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Kyrosiris posted:This one just made me grin though. No joke, I have an ancient 486 chip that worked better than any brush or comb I've ever tried for stripping out the loose fur from my long-haired Manx's coat. (He loved getting brushed with that thing.)
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Aug 11, 2020 06:15
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There's a lotta beans in that dump.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:10
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Powered Descent posted:No joke, I have an ancient 486 chip that worked better than any brush or comb I've ever tried for stripping out the loose fur from my long-haired Manx's coat. (He loved getting brushed with that thing.) I have an old 486 chip floating around that I use to clean cat hair/lint/general debris from the "pokie" side velcro straps.
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Aug 11, 2020 12:53
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We've got a Server 2012R2 box that runs validated scripts for moving QC data to a file share. We set a service account as admin on the target, and the script connects to \\target\c$\path\to\data as that service account. On a new system we're adding, the 2012 VM gets an access denied mapping that path. We've tried the UNC path in the Run... dialogue and mapping it to a drive for troubleshooting. My physical Win 10 Enterprise box and a Server 2016 VM can map that share just fine using the service account. Most of the QC systems are Win 10 LTSC. This target, and one of my test systems that also fails, are regular Win 10 Enterprise running on physical hardware. What the gently caress ?  mllaneza fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Aug 12, 2020 00:32
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A ticket came inquote:FW: I'M ALL DONE NOW-YOU CAN WIPE MY HARD DRIVE! The absolute energy this man has for his retirement 
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Aug 12, 2020 16:30
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mllaneza posted:
in a similar vein quote:I have a Brand New top of the line router, that's not the issue. the router is actually causing interference and is, in fact, the issue but no one can convince her of that yet
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Aug 12, 2020 16:35
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larchesdanrew posted:A ticket came in I feel bad for people who hate their jobs enough to be that excited to retire. I get wanting to, but I hope to miss it a little if I ever get to retire. Not enough to keep working, but enough to have wistful thoughts while I do whatever the gently caress i end up doing while retired
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Aug 12, 2020 16:43
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A mate asks me: "Anyone have any experience with online booking systems (specifically for leisure facilities where you want to limit the amount of time that people can book and that sort of thing)? There seem to be around a gazillion systems around but it's hard to tell if they do the job without actually trying them out. Most promising one I've found so far is skedda." Any thoughts/recommendations?
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Aug 12, 2020 17:03
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RFC2324 posted:I feel bad for people who hate their jobs enough to be that excited to retire. I get wanting to, but I hope to miss it a little if I ever get to retire. I wish I knew something that I did well enough as I do IT and could use to be happier with work, but until that happens, I'm 38 and can't wait to not have to work anymore. If I want to keep this up after I retire, I'll volunteer doing computer janitor stuff for a local charity or something. Kudos to those who find actual joy in IT - for the rest of us, it's Club Tolerable.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:51
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I found a company whose mission I agree with and want to support. Still have to deal with the same bullshit, but at least for now I can find some solace in the fact that I’m helping other people do good things. I’m going to have to leave in a year or so if I want to be able to continue to advance my career though.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:59
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MJP posted:I wish I knew something that I did well enough as I do IT and could use to be happier with work, but until that happens, I'm 38 and can't wait to not have to work anymore. If I want to keep this up after I retire, I'll volunteer doing computer janitor stuff for a local charity or something.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:59
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Thanatosian posted:Yah, I'm happy to have found work that I don't generally hate, but I do generally hate having to work. 100% this for me. The irritating part is that (mostly) we're paid well enough that we *don't* have to work so much, but part time / job share is a much harder discussion to have than 8 hours per day.
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Aug 12, 2020 20:03
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The Fool posted:I found a company whose mission I agree with and want to support. This, I'm currently interviewing for a company that does research for a wide variety of different areas and actually makes a positive impact on the world, they are a non-profit and pay very well, hopefully it turns out and I can somewhat feel better about my job. I like IT to a degree but man has it really killed the joy of computers; at least I'm kind of good at what I do, sometimes.
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Aug 12, 2020 20:27
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MJP posted:I wish I knew something that I did well enough as I do IT and could use to be happier with work, but until that happens, I'm 38 and can't wait to not have to work anymore. If I want to keep this up after I retire, I'll volunteer doing computer janitor stuff for a local charity or something. I didn't mean actually having a job, but if I ever manage to retire, I know I'll end up volunteering for some charity or something gently caress actually having to work to live tho
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Aug 12, 2020 20:29
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RFC2324 posted:I didn't mean actually having a job, but if I ever manage to retire, I know I'll end up volunteering for some charity or something I had just started a project with a local non-profit right before the COVID thing hit. Like, really just started scoping it out and securing some assets, hadn't actually done anything for them, yet (it was a workstation refresh). I was feeling pretty good about it, too. 
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Aug 12, 2020 20:32
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MF_James posted:I like IT to a degree but man has it really killed the joy of computers; at least I'm kind of good at what I do, sometimes. This is me, really; I've lost computing as a hobby and it makes me brutally depressed sometimes.
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Aug 12, 2020 21:30
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sfwarlock posted:This is me, really; I've lost computing as a hobby and it makes me brutally depressed sometimes. I still do video games, tho I realized with my last build I absolutely cannot bring myself to care enough to plan out a build anymore. glad I have this forum to find nerds who still do care
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Aug 12, 2020 21:37
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sfwarlock posted:This is me, really; I've lost computing as a hobby and it makes me brutally depressed sometimes. Yeah it is a bit depressing, I used to be super enthusiastic about learning and digging through forums and now it's just ... what a bother. RFC2324 posted:I still do video games, tho I realized with my last build I absolutely cannot bring myself to care enough to plan out a build anymore. Yeah, I still game, will probably have to reduce severely/stop soon so we can have kid(s). Thank god there are folks that do all the research because I don't want to spend hours going through reviews of stuff and figuring things out; also thank god for pc parts picker because holy poo poo was it annoying when doing my first computer build and figuring out X didn't work with Y (I think it was a voodoo3 graphics card didn't work with the board I had or something).
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Aug 12, 2020 21:42
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RFC2324 posted:I still do video games, tho I realized with my last build I absolutely cannot bring myself to care enough to plan out a build anymore. to be honest the expensive legos part is like the last joy of computer touching for me
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Aug 12, 2020 21:48
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Computers are intolerable to me now.
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Aug 12, 2020 21:51
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Shugojin posted:to be honest the expensive legos part is like the last joy of computer touching for me This, sort of, although for me it's now more about maxing out the potentials for creating low-power as-silent-as-possible monster machines. E.g. the new home server build I just completed which idles at 30 watts, is using about 50w with about 10 containers and VMs running (though most of that additional wattage is the CPU required by my NVR VM), and, in the insulated network cabinet, adds only 1.5 dB to the noise floor outside the cabinet (I should buy stock in Noctua). I'm real proud of that, even if it did cost an arm and a leg, because it required a lot of planning and careful building to achieve rather than tossing a bunch of parts in a case and calling it a day, and it's a poke in the eye to physics demanding that huge computing speed and capability comes at the cost of power and heat. Don't get me wrong, it's 30% of the way to the server I really want, but until ARM CPUs are standard server fare (for mortals, not hyperscalers) and large SSDs aren't $themoon, it's probably the best I can achieve for my goals.
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Aug 12, 2020 22:00
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Shugojin posted:to be honest the expensive legos part is like the last joy of computer touching for me Same. Once I've built something I pretty much stop caring about it. One of the reasons I spend so much goddamn money on keyboards. It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. The very expensive journey.
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Aug 12, 2020 22:02
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Methanar posted:Computers are intolerable to me now. same here. the only reason i still have one at home is to run a plex server. if i didn't do that i would just get an ipad and ps4 to fulfill my other needs and never use a Personal Computer in my spare time again. being "not good with computers" seems like bliss
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Aug 12, 2020 22:11
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Methanar posted:Computers are intolerable to me now. isn't everything?
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Aug 12, 2020 22:14
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Shugojin posted:to be honest the expensive legos part is like the last joy of computer touching for me my love for it just got more focused down to servers, tbh. I really enjoy the build phase of servers, getting everything set up, and then templating it and making sure it spins up cleanly every time. tho I guess thats really moved away from hardware at this point
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Aug 12, 2020 22:29
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I love automation. When I was setting up our first Puppet POC, I worked a couple weekends on it for free, because I was into it and couldn't let it go. Other exotic problems, maybe interesting. Your server is slow because your SQL is badly written and had a cost of about a million on a four core guest? I can barely get the bat off my shoulder.
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Aug 13, 2020 01:28
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MF_James posted:Yeah, I still game, will probably have to reduce severely/stop soon so we can have kid(s). I am currently sitting in my darkened living room with my 6 week old son, behind me, hoping he doesn't wake up before I'm off-duty at 11pm. I have gently caress all to do and I cannot bring myself to fire up even the most casual game in my Steam library. Adult life and/or working in IT has sucked all the joy out of computers (slowly raises revolver to temple)
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Aug 13, 2020 01:33
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New job, new users to get used to. A ticket comes in from the CIO of one our clients and she wants us to set up her office Surface for remote access so she can use it at home. She also wants us to take a look at her personal laptop because she's been using it for work and it's very slow. She's nice enough and I don't have much going on at the moment so I take both tasks on personally. Hoo boy.  Alright, I can remote into your Surface since our management client is installed. You'll see a notification on your screen that I'm connected. ok! I see your name now.I should have gotten screenshots. Never in my life have I seen more toolbars, more adware, more junkware on a computer. It was terminal and borderline unusable. There must be some sort of mistake. I'm trying to connect to your work supplied device, not your personal device. This is my work computer. whaaaaaaaaaaaaa???It took me a little bit to get it all cleared off and get her remoted in. Apparently she hadn't been properly sorted into the correct OU and was just living large with admin privileges and a healthy amount of "learn by doing" gumption. I took a look at her personal computer more out of morbid curiosity than obligation and it was just as I suspected, more of the same but somehow worse. Also she had managed to associate a majority of file extensions with Edge, including .exe, so nothing would run. It was fun. I missed this level of chaos. I'm starting to realize just how organized and effective my own network back at the school actually was, despite the pitfalls and insane leadership. Speaking of  Fun Ex-Director Update He is losing his goddamned mind over running a residential high school in Mississippi during COVID. Some old coworkers sent me videos of their most recent Zoom meeting in which he could be seen sitting in his office, furiously pumping weights at his desk with an extremely intense but still somehow blank and distant look on his face. As the conversation about how to proceed grew more heated, he threw the dumbbell a few feet behind him and got up and walked away. He didn't show back up for three more days. A student sent me an email asking how to get the network ports in the dorm rooms working. I told them to send in a request to IT because they have to be connected on a per room basis due to limited switch space. The student told me they already had, and that the new TC came to their room, looked blankly at the wall ports, said "Eeeehhhhhhhhhhh uhhh oh ehhh mmmm" and then walked out of the building and never came back. Everything is beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Aug 13, 2020 16:09
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I started a new job two months ago for a company I really like and can "believe in" (in as much as you can believe in a capitalist structure anyway). We make dog food. I have a good budget and soon I get to buy half a million in server refresh stuff, and I have another half a million set aside for moving things to AWS/Azure. My boss likes me, my coworkers are pretty great, I only go to the office twice a week and when I do I can bring my dog. All things considered I know I'm *incredibly lucky* to have not only found a job, but to get a title and pay raise in a pandemic. That being said holy balls am I ever tired of computers. I'm digging this whole planning and architecture of new stuff, but I can barely bring myself to sit down at the keyboard after 5pm. My FF14 sub just renewed for another 3 months and i realized I haven't logged in for two weeks. The last game I played on the PC was 15 minutes of NFS: Heat while waiting for my wife to finish her make-up. I put a few good hours into Slay the Spire on Switch I guess. I keep daydreaming about a nice 5 acre lot with a ranch style bungalow, lots of trees, 20 minutes outside the city. Internet no faster than 1mb down. "Sorry boss, internet issues, guess I can't work today" *heads outside to hammock, cracks beer, lights joint*
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Aug 13, 2020 16:21
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Antioch posted:I started a new job two months ago for a company I really like and can "believe in" (in as much as you can believe in a capitalist structure anyway). We make dog food. I have a good budget and soon I get to buy half a million in server refresh stuff, and I have another half a million set aside for moving things to AWS/Azure. My boss likes me, my coworkers are pretty great, I only go to the office twice a week and when I do I can bring my dog. All things considered I know I'm *incredibly lucky* to have not only found a job, but to get a title and pay raise in a pandemic. Do you have a separate "office" and/or do you use a different set of hardware to work than to play? If you answered "no" to either, you should fix that. Separating work from home life is incredibly important for many people. If you're in the same chair, at the same desk, using the same computer for everything, it's no wonder you get tired of it.
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Aug 13, 2020 16:27
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Antioch posted:I keep daydreaming about a nice 5 acre lot with a ranch style bungalow, lots of trees, 20 minutes outside the city. Internet no faster than 1mb down. "Sorry boss, internet issues, guess I can't work today" *heads outside to hammock, cracks beer, lights joint* I keep telling people that my dream is to move up to the mountains, go off the grid and raise goats by candlelight and no one believes me.
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Aug 13, 2020 16:45
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ConfusedUs posted:Do you have a separate "office" and/or do you use a different set of hardware to work than to play? This is incredibly true. I've found that I have to use my notebook in the living room to get any work done, instead of my much nicer desktop that's in my bedroom. If I absolutely have to work on my desktop due to whatever circumstances I'm not able to "switch off" from work for that day, and sometimes not even the day after until I shut down the notebook in the living room. But now I got a lab job so there's no working from home (I see this as a positive). Also, a ticket came in, from me to IT: quote:Please don't reboot the machine you're removing McAfee and installing ESET on, it's in the middle of a measurement that can't be interrupted or resumed. You almost gave my boss a heart attack when you remoted in and minimized the test program. I'm honestly not sure if ESET is an improvement with its dumb mitm certificate mangling. But that's their problem.
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Aug 13, 2020 16:46
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larchesdanrew posted:New job, new users to get used to. Jesus christ yes please mainline updates like these directly into my veins. 
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