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Boba Pearl posted:I'm really in awe of you guys who have a work ethic, because honestly, if I could show up, everyday, take a 6 hour nap, and then go home, I'd be ecstatic. This week was so slow I've done maybe 30 minutes of work. Found out that the company has a Udemy business account so I've been paid to watch for fires and study certs. Not bad, but gently caress me if it's not boring.
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Some of my old coworkers and bosses were against automating things and didn’t like the sound of something like PDQ Deploy. I ended up writing some dumb msi exec and powershell scripts as installers and just said I did it all manually and nobody knew any better because they were archaic and afraid of change which lol why are you even in IT then
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Oct 25, 2022 23:03
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idk about you all but my life became enormously happier cutting out the likes of Facebook and Twitter and NFL Sundays. I switched over to RSS feeds for my niche interests and that's worked well for keeping me relatively informed with poo poo I actually care about. I do miss instigating pissing matches on public comment sections though.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:16
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i am a moron posted:People arguing on the internet gets so boring. Every time I start an argument on something awful now I log off for a few days. I have better poo poo to do than try to convince people of anything. Especially when they’re posting on the internet which is dumb as hell to start with I don't care to do it on SA or reddit because people behind a small veil of anonymity can be ruthless or just bad trolls but people with their actual name attached to their outrage boner on a story about some local thing would always be funny to interrupt with some provocation that I'd end their family lineage with a cleverly placed anvil atop a cliff brought me joy.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:53
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Been on a call for 3 hours with a customer because our app is somehow forcing an HTTP connection for SSO but the client's Azure AD frontdoor doesn't accept it and no one seems to know what to do so there's probably been like 2 hours of silence while people just try random things. I need to get out of customer support... Edit: Feel like today is like those commercials good for tweaking my Indeed or LinkedIn. Blurb3947 fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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Nov 18, 2022 19:42
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johnny park posted:Does anyone here have experience working with 'loaner' laptops? I do internal corporate IT and we have a handful that we give out to people to use for whatever reason. My boss wants some automated or semi-automated solutions for 1) wiping laptops between users and 2) physically tracking them out in the field (eg via GPS). Any suggestions? Apologies if I'm not explaining this well For the sake of liability and or legal issues I'd probably archive the drive somehow in between uses.
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Nov 18, 2022 21:14
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Curious if any of you have been called out for lying on your resumes? I don't have any outright lies but I did list my degree which I haven't completed... yet.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:06
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You can get a Flipper Zero which can also get you a free Tesla.
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tokin opposition posted:So my coworker is convinced Windows fast startup doesn't actually restart the machine and causes everything from audio issues to network failures to Chrome running slow. Does a "cold restart" have any relevance to machines made after 1985? "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Is still a very valid tactic for pretty much this exact reason, despite fast startup being a newer thing. If some sort of OS level issue exists and the system doesn't completely clear whatever remnants it has in memory or hibernate files or whatever I imagine it definitely could continue experiencing issues.
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Dec 12, 2022 21:28
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For the first time in my career I got a bonus, feels good man. Also got a COL raise so that was a nice surprise.
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One of my friends just got the boot, but don't think they worked for Sakesforce
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BadSamaritan posted:Does anyone have a resource/service they recommend for getting your LinkedIn up-to-date and polished? There's a goon in SA-Mart that does a lot of resume writing but I didn't have a great experience with them. This thread has been a huge help in honing in on my skills and getting rid of fluff.
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kensei posted:IT thread gang tag should be this in the appropriate size I say just crop it down to the last line and call it good.
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bull3964 posted:It honestly wasn't even that expensive. Hotel, parks, and airfare totaled up to about $2600. Eating in the park wasn't really worse than any other restaurant pricewise. When I went a few years ago, a slice of pizza was nearly $10 and a chicken leg was $16. Did you spend $2600 for just yourself? That would be absolute bonkers for me but I think I'm a cheapskate after being poor when I was younger.
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I think CompTIA added the stackable cert thingy strictly for people who wanted to put every certification they've gotten in their signature. So now instead of flooding a signature, you have to research what a CSIS or CCAP is.
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Wasn't it one of you who uses the forums via Linux CLI sometimes just because you can?
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I've thought about putting together one for a while now. Maybe if I get some free time these next few days I'll whip something up.
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skipdogg posted:I hope they don't start travel sports. I have a 2 nieces in travel soccer and my BIL is on the road like 20 weekends a year going to various tournaments and poo poo. Soccer takes up probably 40 or more weekends a year in total if you count the local games and tournaments. I love my kids, but I'm not giving up 2 to 3 nights a week for practice and then 40 weekends a year. All of my siblings and I did traveling sports growing up, I have no idea how my folks did it. Most of the time my dad was working 60+ hour weeks on top of his cert program that took 2 years. I always wonder how he managed to do it, but he does say just how burnt out he got and wish he hadn't cared about the job. I really want my kids to do the same sports I did growing up (except football), but the logistics of it all make my head hurt.
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ASAPRockySituation posted:I think I'm gonna invest in some wireless headphones for the work thing. Should I ask $job to pay for it though is the debate, hmm Always always always ask your job to pay for it. They should be the ones to provide anything that needs to be used for the job. Sickening posted:Is this some weird audiophile nonsense that I am too important to care about? I haven't had a single person complain and I have had these forever. The audio test you can perform on zoom and teams seem perfectly clear. Yall are just being loving weird right now. One sounds muted, washed out, and grainy. The other sounds like regular audio. Most people don't give a poo poo but there's a pretty big difference in quality.
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The Fool posted:there's a couple recs here: https://dontbuyayeti.com/ It's first recommendation is a $250 Shure microphone and later recommends a setup that costs almost $700 lmao
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Jan 31, 2023 03:26
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jaegerx posted:Besides insulting IE tonight I want to bring up a real topic. I know a coworker who will but I just don't see any useful things I'd do with it. Like, in the time it takes for me to think of how to input a prompt to write me an email I could just write the drat email myself. Politepost was funny, but I didn't see any actual utility for it. What sorts of ways are y'all using for it?
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lol I would treat all of my zoom meetings like some obnoxious twitch streamer and make sure to use intermission screens when I take a poo poo.
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You can also just go into an empty private meeting with yourself so it looks like you're productive.
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skipdogg posted:WGU is solid. Several of us have degrees from there I've loved it so far, I just thought it was funny that they came out with a Cloud Computing program. I had been enrolled previously in the Information Tech one before that came out. Hoping I can break into six figgies after I get my diploma and some AWS certs under the belt.
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I used to put an Annoy-a-tron in the dropped ceiling in people's offices. Someone ended up not noticing it for several weeks until someone else did that visited them. Apparently they couldn't hear at whatever pitch it was set to because of tinnitus lol
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Jiro posted:I appreciate that, thank you. Let's see I'm a double associates major in Digital Forensics Analysis and Cybersecurity Specialist (local college didn't have them in bachelor programs so I did both). I'm looking for purely remote or at least here in my county of Texas, fiancee just started her work on her masters and works an actual office job for internal auditing, so relocating it's in the cards for a while. My area of Texas is poo poo on the tech sector, and doesn't understand the concept of competitive wages and are constantly bleeding people to cities like San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and DFW. You really shouldn't have problems finding at least an entry level gig with your background. I'd say brush up your LinkedIn and resume and start throwing out applications to anything and everything that you're looking for. Again, a job description is a wish list, not requirements. You got this.
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I just wanna win lunches
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GreenNight posted:I mean, to be fair, I did save the company almost six figures in moving invoices from going to one state to another state due to sales tax being way smaller. For what, though? Companies don't reward people for helping cut costs so what benefit is it for you to put that sort of effort into cost saving for an entirely different department?
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i am a moron posted:I can’t even think coherently until 1 PM but at that point I’m mentally checking out and doing other things so lol @ my employer 1pm is nap time but it's also when I have an afternoon sync so yeah I'm checked out too.
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I've got parent friends who can stay up until like midnight-1am and get maybe 5 hours of sleep. I think I have some sort of sleep apnea or thyroid issue because I feel like I desperately need a nap at 9am, 1pm and 4pm.
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Feb 20, 2023 21:58
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One of my friends had a Phillips CPAP machine that was part of a recall due to people choking or trace amounts of toxins from degraded foam. Didn't make me feel good after I started looking into sleep apnea lol
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Feb 21, 2023 02:12
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ServiceNow is pretty powerful and robust but requires dedicated people to manage it for even small companies. I have no clue what sort of daily work that they do but it's always made out to be very complicated.
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drat, 3 jobs in 3 years. Do you get questions about why you've hopped ship so recently? That's super dope though, definitely jelly
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Since I'm trying to make up for my dumb self in my 20s I've decided to start learning Kubernetes along with AWS. I can see why companies stress having a developer background for a lot of positions, but I'm curious if it's still viable for people with traditional IT support and systems administration to do well in Platform Engineer roles. Just seeing how much SRE or K8s Engineers are being offered makes me really want to head that direction but am I at a disadvantage?
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jaegerx posted:What are you deficient in that makes you concerned? You can’t code? Never really coded except very basic Python stuff. Just never had the aptitude for it. The Fool posted:it's viable, your skills are needed, devs are idiots I'm definitely interested in the networking and security side of things. I'm hungry to want more for myself and getting the 6 or 7 certs, as basic as they are, and getting through most of my WGU program is something I NEVER thought I'd be able to accomplish. And I wanna make enough to afford a good life for my family.
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xsf421 posted:I started from a very traditional sysadmin role, physical servers and massive vmware hosts in our own datacenter. 6 years later I'm on a platform engineering team, it's definitely doable. I'd recommend working your way through more basic container stuff first instead of starting at kubernetes though. I have played around with Docker with some self host stuff at home but never anything to scale. But yes Docker is on my list too. And I think learning some IaC automation would be good as well.
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jaegerx posted:kodekloud.com My company has a Udemy account and it looks like they've got some courses from Kubekloud on there. Thanks!
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I once created a Powershell script that mimicked USMT and some features of PDQ Deploy. Navigating through json files hasn't been difficult to comprehend on the AWS side. Maybe I should have said programming instead of dev.
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