There might not be such a thing as the perfect career. No matter which path you choose, it can be one full of ups and downs and loads of situations testing your patience.
However, the ultimate patience-test-of-a-career is most likely working in IT. Whether it’s devices the specialists have to deal with, humans who are no longer in control of theirs (it’s probable that either side is equally annoyed by the question—”have you tried turning it off and on again?”), or other struggles, it all can be quite challenging to manage.
Luckily, representatives of the field can find solace in their fellow IT professionals and online communities, such as the Facebook group ‘IT Humor and Memes’. It provides a much needed giggle for the IT people out there, who are likely to find the posts to be quite relatable. Scroll down to find some of them on the list below and click here for our previous piece about the group. Below, you will also find some thoughts from the group’s founder, Trevor Paquette, which he shared during a recent interview with Bored Panda.
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A robot could answer this. "Dynamics, such as decrescendos, are fundamental tools in music composition and performance to shape and convey the intended emotional and expressive qualities of a piece. They allow for variations in volume, creating contrast and highlighting different sections or elements within the music. However, the interpretation of a decrescendo as a metaphor or symbolic gesture within the context of thematic material can depend on various factors, such as the overall composition, lyrics (if applicable), and the audience's perception. While dynamics can contribute to the overall emotional impact of a piece, the specific meaning and metaphorical associations will be shaped by the composition as a whole. If you are concerned about a decrescendo being interpreted as heavy-handed metaphorically, it may be helpful to consider other musical elements, such as harmony, melody, rhythm, and instrumentation, to ensure that the overall composition supports your intended message"
Load More Replies...That depends: Is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" what you consider heavy-handed?
I'd need to play them all first before I could decide that. Which I don't think is the intent. :)
Load More Replies...Attempted translation by someone who is parallel with music theory: "select the images where slowing down the rythm won't make the song sound like s**t"
Very well said! I wouldn't be able to answer this without playing them all first. :)
Load More Replies...The struggles of working in the field of information technology differ depending on the area of specialization and other factors. However, some of them are pretty universal, which is why it might be nice to be part of a community of people who know exactly what you’re going through.
That’s likely one of the reasons the ‘IT Humor and Memes’ group already has over 900k members. In a previous interview with Bored Panda, its creator, Trevor Paquette, revealed that he started it after noticing the lack of general IT meme groups.
The founder pointed out that there were groups for developers or programmers, hackers, networking, and so on, but not that many dedicated to generic IT humor, so he created one back in May of 2019.
If this cat isn’t named Major Tom, humanity missed a major opportunity
Load More Replies...Too true. Maybe AI has been around in printers all along.
Load More Replies...After this many about printers, can we finally admit we've let these companies go too long without some torches and pitchfork action?
Also captured in this comic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
Just before turning on the printer, I do some deep breathing exercises so I won't get a muscle spasm when it goes south.
My graphic design instructor used to take out the toner or pieces of our printer during finals week. He wanted to make sure we got real world experience.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Trevor shared that his expertise covers several areas of information technology. “With 30+ years under my belt, I’m more of a jack of all trades when it comes to IT. Plunk me down in just about any situation, and I’ll either get going right away or figure out how to get it done.
“However, if I had to pick my strongest suit, it would have to be systems administration, and being able to connect high-level ideas to the low-level systems and processes. Because I’ve done both throughout my career, I'm great at connecting the two,” he said.
I used to live in apartment 403, and had a sign that said "Access Forbidden"
404 is an error message on computers. When it shows up it says "404 error site not found" or something like that
Load More Replies...Once I had 404 as my clock in number, I always thought that it was a stand in until I got an actual number.
404 can be shows to mean that something is not found.
Load More Replies...Trevor told Bored Panda that he got interested in computers back in high school. “A fellow student brought in his Apple II+ (yes, I’m that old), and put on a ‘Lunar Lander’ game. My mind was blown. I knew at that moment I wanted to program and work with computers as a career.”
“Over the years, I’ve gained loads of experience in software development, system administration, DB management, vendor management; you name it, I’ve probably touched on it from doing the work, all the way to managing others that do the work,” he added.
I used to place pillows and couch cushions around my computer to muffle the dialup sound when I was sneaking onto AOL past my bedtime XD
That sound could crack the enamel of your teeth.
Load More Replies...ahh kids today.. no idea what modems used to sound like, and waiting for pictures to load, being able to watch it draw line by line
"up all night and you'd see 8 women" Roy, IT Crowd
Load More Replies...Nothing online nowadays (not even Bored Panda) beats the excitement felt when you heard "You've Got Mail!".... We've become blase.
I once heard my modem call a different number than usual (different sound) and immediately shut off the modem and did a virus scan on my PC. Yup, I had somehow managed to download a virus together with something else (Windows 95).
That was about to be several hundred bucks worth of 1-900 time probably.
Load More Replies...We did this to our four year old when he asked. He looked at me and told me to stop being stupid.
Waaaay cheaper to get a new one. Though the moral implications are not quite the same.
Load More Replies...Almost for free, until you realize it’s the maintenance that’s expensive
That does it. I'm making a set of cat ears and whiskers for my old Canon iP4700.
My home printer is now a simple b/w laser. My previous one would have a tantrum when it ran out of magenta.
Mine had a fit when I fed it a non-genuine magenta cartridge and peed it all over the inside of the printer and desk. I now have a laser as well.
Load More Replies...Laugh 'til I cry. I keep cat beds on my printers when not actively using them, so this seems super apt.
I don't know anything about inkjet printers but the "demand feeding when container is full" is so unreasonably funny to me
Information technology is a broad term that encompasses an abundance of different roles and areas to focus on. And the extensive list, including but definitely not limited to analytics, programming, artificial intelligence, application development, cybersecurity, and so much more, is likely to continue growing due to the rapid technological advancement of the current times.
That’s one of the things the founder of the Facebook group loves most about it. “In my mind, the best thing about the IT field is it’s always changing; always. There is always something new to learn or to read up on. This keeps the mind active and engaged.”
I can relate. My old laptop has to be plugged in all the time otherwise it shuts off.
One big rousing finger up for the bloatware on Sony laptops, especially in the mid-aughts.
Samsung constantly installing random a*s games on my phone with every update. Stuff I would never even touch on my phone, too. I keep expecting to see mine sweeper or solitaire pop up one day.
Load More Replies...after 30 minutes of waiting you pull the battery cord to shut it down no matter what xd
No matter how small or big the printer, they never work. I sometimes have to work with biiiig printers and those days the amount of censored words out of my mouth is quite impressive.
My little HP envy always freaking works. It has been the best "investment" EVER. And I say investment sarcastically because it really wasn't expensive at all, for a printer. Any time I have an issue, it's usually a user error. It's slow, it doesn't staple or fold, but it will print in excellent quality on both sides.
My 13yo Brother does as well. Duplexing? Check. Wakes up when I need it? Check. Only jammed once, printing envelopes, my fault entirely, I forgot to open a set of rollers.
Load More Replies...It's amazing how awesome computers are nowadays; palm-sized with processing power of a erstwhile supercomputer, high-res 300dpi screens, perfect. Printers? Still as flaky and annoying as they were in the 1980s with even worse user interfaces.
Disagree. 1980s printers were annoying because they were loud clunky dot-matrix machines, but they were never flaky like modern printers. You could get 10+ years out of an '80s dot matrix printer. And in the mid-'90s laser printers became very solid and reliable. I had a mid-'90s HP laser printer that lasted over 10 years without any issues. Printers reached their pinnacle about the year 2000, and have since been getting steadily worst. Even inkjet - inkjet was always flaky, but in the early '00s they reached their best photo-print quality, and there has been no real improvement in print quality since.
Load More Replies..."rage against the machine" obviously in reference to the band members experiences with printers!
Guys please read about the difference between Gigabytes and Gibibytes :)
Because that would be 1.xx Gigabytes. People are mixing up Mega and Mibi
Load More Replies...Because it is. A Gibibyte is 1024 Mibibytes. A GB is 1000MB
Load More Replies...Not pix of the same animal. When the first band couldn't get a gig, they revamped it as Three Dog Night.
Load More Replies...Statista’s 2022 data pointed out that JavaScript and Java are some of the most in-demand skills in the field nowadays. Though, it also revealed that professionals of the IT sector were the most interested in developing skills related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.
When it comes to programming, it turns out cleverness is the downfall of all you know and love. Work dumber. Don't use all the fancy features to make your thing do 20 extra things. Do one thing, do it dumbly, and do it well. Then never touch it again
Load More Replies...UX/UI Designer - Three on one side, three on the other. Balanced distribution, no nails touching the wood. Added extra white padding beneath balanced nails incase it gets viewed on wooden table.
customer QA feedback: I can't see how to get the word in the microsoft?!? It was in the file!
Load More Replies...In fairness no proper scope was defined, a very common problem, either a missing or useless project manager.
Both should have taken the plate from under the construction though. Instructions were clear: "without letting them touch the wood."
BA: "tell me more about the problem you want to address" (meaning "r u serious?")
I as well need to figure out how to report Spam for Spam, Best damn Spam on the planet.
At first I thought it was photoshop but it looks like there may be a thin wire running in the center of the letters
Load More Replies...When it comes to the struggles IT specialists face, Trevor Paquette singled out communication challenges as the most prominent one. “IT people think in ‘tech’, while our users think in their individual work terms (think ‘medical’, ‘finance’, etc). In the end, we all want the same thing—for someone to be able to do their job and be as productive as they can.”
“Some in IT forget we are there to help, not dictate and we both have different ways to describe the same problem. Sometimes that can lead to frustration on both sides; that the other ‘just doesn’t get it’. We’d be surprised at [how much we can reduce] the shared stresses we all face if we tried to just clear up communication,” he told Bored Panda.
on iPhones apparently there's a setting called "Reduce White Point" that drastically reduces the brightness, but you can't turn it back up unless you know what the setting is called and toggle it back off. we thought my phone was broken for weeks until we figured it out
Load More Replies...Honest truth here: SOMEONE I know used to work at an air transportation ("FAA") radar center. The radar controllers would get eye fatigue and complain about the radar scanners going blurry. This someone used to remotely make them get blurrier and blurrier and then come by and "fix" them, to the gratitude of the radar controllers. You can't fix what isn't blurry, but you can fix what is blurry.
Well, I know where I'm headed. Trolled my mom and son for > 20 years with same prank. Finally admitted I was the culprit just before Mom passed away, and that frail old woman got up out of her bed and chased me! ☠️
Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death... Would be first in our (writers') book.
The humans are dead. The humans are dead. We used poisonous gasses and we poisoned their asses...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.....SMBC rocks science humor. Dude is very creative.
I missed the robot at first and thought it was a worm typing in picture 2...........need coffee
Lifelong Motorola user (45 years) and several have now dropped the jack too... It's my only complaint
I searched for "Shítty Printers" on Amazon in order to find this book and instead it GAVE ME A LIST OF PRINTERS starting with HP PRINTERS ::wheeze:: shitty_pri...nsored.jpg
Nothing can make me discard everything that was said faster than "sheeple".
Considering the significance of information technology in our everyday lives, there are quite a few people we have to thank for keeping things running smoothly. According to more of Statista’s data, there are 3.12 million people working in the IT sector in the US alone, as of January 2023. The number is expected to surpass 6.1 million by 2032.
* applause * BRILLIANT censoring job, simply brilliant. Let's give bp a standing ovation.
I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea what Orn Hub is.
Load More Replies...Everyone is talking about orn hub being poorly censored but no one about it reaching 50m in 19 days
Your avatar is too phallic to be commenting here right now.
Load More Replies...Thank god they censored the P! I could almost read it and be influenced.
That's a p? I had no idea. How could you tell!?
Load More Replies...But the world population increased a lot between the introduction of the airplane and Pornhub. And by the time 50 million users already had internet, it was free for them to begin using Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, whereas in the past, beginning to use cars would have cost a lot. So of course Twitter is going to catch on faster than cars!
FUN FACT! Credit cards that we use now a days you can say did take 28 years but if you look into how long credit cards have been around its waaaayyy longer. Credit cards have been around since about the 1400 to 1500. Or in other terms when we had the stereotype pirates. Credit cards used to be a piece of paper, cardboard like card or some other type of informative note that a person carried with them. Its the same, kinda, process like we do now but with out an atm. You would go to a bank ask them for a credit card which then youll give a set amount of money for and then youll be able to use it at literally very few places that take it. Those places that do take it will give you physical money in return for the card. And thus is the quick history of credit cards, they only recently in the past 30 years came to be widely used and accepted by everyone even though it still took people a couple of years to get one.
No, no, clearly that's a touchscreen monitor, you have to tap where it says "F1" on the screen! XD
Load More Replies...I love it when my electricity goes out and the voice recording from the electric company informs me I can report the problem on the electric company's website.
*typing from my phone, that connects to 4g unless the towers are down*, yeah, there's actually a reason for that.
Load More Replies...You can get to most places without a mouse, but without a keyboard you're f**ked.
I hated this when I tried to set up my first headless server and wondered why it wasn't booting...
Psychically press F1 on your imaginary keyboard to continue
Nah. What it's like working in IT really: "Oh you aren't busy, what do we pay you for???" (answer: to make sure s**t is working so I can be non-busy.). "Hey all the systems are down, what do we pay you for?!?!" . Same jibe, different cause. Also, every 5 minutes some a*****e in california is like, "Hey i just invented a new protocol/standard/language/technology" followed by asshats in seattle going "Yeah! that's industry-standard best practice wooo!" followed by idiots around the world going "yeah we have to deploy crapware 2024 now with extra cloud containers." followed by your manager going "hey we must upskill you in crapware 2.02.5.2.1.7.3 rel 1.2 ... I'm sending you on a month course and you better get at least 85% for the exam or you are fired". and you are like "where's my glock I need to just self-unalive at this point" .
I'm the bloke at the side saying, "I warned you this would happen". Malicious compliance is 50% of my job now.
I like to be passive aggressive about it and say "told you so" while going home.
Load More Replies...The creator of ‘IT Humor and Memes’ believes that IT professionals can benefit from similar groups by reading about other people’s experiences. “You’d be surprised at how often others have already lived what you are living and have a solution ready to offer if asked the right question,” he told Bored Panda.
Trevor also pointed out that theirs is not an IT support group, but more of an “IT Support support” group. “It was originally intended, and still is, a place to laugh at ourselves and many situations we find ourselves, our peers, and our users in. Laughing helps the day go by, and anything to help ease that stress, is a welcome respite, I think.”
But I don't have to buy Samsung. That's the joy of Android.
Load More Replies...People can buy what they want. I don't like iphones, I think they're overpriced and fragile as glass, hell to work on if not impossible, but if someone wants an iphone and likes it? Dude, it's your money. I have my gripes about Android too.
Thanks, random understanding panda… I’m sick and tired from both the “iphone bad” and “android stupid” opinions. I like my iphone, i liked my androids in the past. It’s nothing to fight for, it’s nothing to be angry for. It’s two brands and getting on rants for any of them is utterly riddiculous. And both multi-billion dollar compaines can just laugh at us, as we constantly fight among each other while inadvertently propagating their products, instead of getting at them for obvious planned obsolence s**t (at BOTH sides!!!)
Load More Replies..."I can download any app I want for free", no, you can pirate any app for free, officially you can only download free apps for free. And piratings comes with a subset of security issues, unless you are very good at it.
I'm thinking their talking about google opinion rewards, where you can answer surveys and get a bit of money to use in the app store
Load More Replies...I wanted to like Apple products, but 1) I really hated their overly restrictive policies, and 2) I *really* f*****g HATED iTunes.
Unfortunately, the bottom one is 90% of the people on social media. You ever try reading something on YT? It's like a 5 yr old did it. People can no longer put 5 words together properly. Nor can they spell.
Samsung Xcover 6 pro. Headphone jack, removable battery, removable storage, modern hw, sw updates.
Sweep one finger from the top and one from the bottom of the screen and if you are quick enough you can hit the START menus at the bottom left. From that point, it becomes a regular PC that runs from a touch screen
Load More Replies...This just reminded me of a few years back when the kiosks had some sort of glitch where, if you ordered a certain sandwich, it would give you the entire combo for free. I was homeless at the time, and one day decided to spend my last five bucks on this awesome-sounding sandwich they'd been advertising. Imagine my surprise when I got to the payment screen and the kiosk was like "okay, paid! Here's your order number!" Kept me fed for a few weeks until they figured it out.
I played solitaire on a $100k CNC at work when I was younger. It was very satisfying.
That’s amazing!! Reminds me of the old saying “Doom can run on anything”
I remember the beautiful, ancient halcyon days when this worked. In early MMOs (say, Ultima Online) it was pretty easy to convince other players that you could open a "secret developer console" in the game by pressing Alt + F4.
Web comic "User Friendly" had the IT lady (i forget her name) taunt the script kiddies and say "My IP address is 127.0.0.1, come get me!"
Load More Replies...I had a much meaner one. Student: "Sir what is the unix command for rename?" me: " R M minus R, all lowercase"
A gentler one: UNIX workstations often had a fortune cookie program that ran when you logged in, giving you a fun aphorism to start your day with. My favourite was “if this is the first time you’ve used this computer, type Ctrl-D” which of course logged you out.
Load More Replies...long long long time ago I fell for this. I'm still butt hurt about it.
I tried to pull this during online classes, on multiple occasions. No regrets, even 3 years later.
I'm middle aged and this is making no sense to me??!! I can confidently use a computer as well as I need to but whenever I read comments like this I feel stoopid cos I've no clue what everyone is saying but it all sounds funny (as in humours not dodgy)x
Load More Replies...Trevor Paquette said that a random message of appreciation is one of the things he loves most about managing the group. “Every once in a while, we get an out-of-the-blue ‘thanks for making my day go by’ message. Those mean a lot to me and the entire team of moderators.”
“That, and the fact that many of the items posted make me laugh. It helps my day go a little easier as well,” he added.
Lol, don't forget if it has a plug it will find it's way to your desk, the amount of random unrelated stuff people used to bring to my desk was phenominal, would re-direct to facilities, shredder not working, ahh that must be an IT issue! 🤦♂️
I was essentially "IT" for my family's business as I was the only one who understood technology at all. It was the same for me - if it had a plug (of any kind) and was broken, it got put on my desk! XD I was also expected to fix the pencil sharpener, my mom's TV, my mom's Solitaire program on her computer, and the internet!
Load More Replies...My company is very small and the poor DBA unfortunately gets every single IT related problem thrown at her. Because there's no one else to handle them. It's not even her job but people assume she's the "computer expert". We also have one of those call-in services where you might spend an hour on the phone waiting for a live person to tell you to restart your laptop. :)
Once I had to leave my office to go to the other office to move an extension cord from one side of the table to the other side, so a small fridge could be plugged in. Another time I got a request to order new window blinds. And the last one I can remember on the spot is closing a sink faucet so it wouldn't continue running water until the plumber arrived (that one I did on my own volition because I understood what was wrong).
People are aware they can just google. They're trying to make a human connection in a lonely world when they ask someone to explain something rather than do so. Don't begrudge them that. I'm certain lots of friendships have begun this way.
Look up? In a book? Nonsense. Who would know how to do that? One word for searching when I was a kid was "encyclopedia"! Now it's "google."
When someone asks a question about something you sent them already ...
Several times a week, my elderly friend would email me a question instead of Googling it.
This is any business. I have ppl call the theater asking our hours n showtimes. Like you looked up the phone number!
Ah, the good ol' US Robotics Modem sound when it connected to the dial-up line. It could wake up your neighbors and scare your cat.
I was very proficient at reading the audio signals from my hard drive while working on a big project in Photoshop or Illustrator. The various grinds and chunks, then the disc spinning up, then going into hyperdrive, then rolling back down to a reasonable speed and a few more chunks and I knew I was just seconds away from regaining control of the program.
I don't trust ultra-silent systems, who knows if the fan runs smoothly or died an hour ago and my CPU slowly grills itself
That is the one good use for LED lit systems. I have LEDs linked to the temperature. If the temps rise the LEDs change from green to red. Could have linked it to fan speed instead, but temps do the same job.
Load More Replies...One of my fans is out of balance and has been for years. When it's actually spun up or at lowest speed it's fine, but most of the time there are lots of brief "tlktlktlktlk" moments. I can afford a different fan and certainly know how to install one, but it's sort of charming I think.
Load More Replies...My first computer was a Commodore 64. In order to use it, you needed to use floppy discs to load the programs you wanted. And it went: Ka thunka ka thunka ka thunka whirrrrrrrr.
OMG! The noises a Commodore 1541 disk drive used to make! You'd think it was it was feeding nails through a shredder!
I srill remember a friend back in the 90s, astonished when we told him that NO, your computer shouldn't be puffing out smoke. No, not even just a little bit. 😄
When I was in college they had just installed NeXTStations in a particular computer lab and I was checking it out with the head of the computer lab being the only other person in the room. There was no noise but the quiet whirring of fans. Then for fun I logged into the other workstation. Suddenly there was a loud *CHUNK* *CHUNK* *CHUNK* noise from the other machine.
If information technology-based humor is something that tickles your funny bone, make sure to check out Bored Panda’s collection of IT jokes that techies might find painfully relatable right here.
I use Opera on my cell and tablet but Chrome on my laptop. 👌🏻
Load More Replies...They trade positions as time goes on, and honestly, Edge has become pretty darn good these days too.
i use Edge for work and Chrome for personal use. they both have their merits
Load More Replies...My grandpa after my aunt installed a VCR when a channel didn't come in it was the VCR's fault.
I am a woman. I have also worked in tech for 13 years. My 80 year old mother demanded that I fix her cable box, when I looked at it I heard a rapid clicking sound and no lights were on, a clear sign that somewhere in there electricity was arcing and this thing was not safe to keep plugged in. I told her the box was broken and she insisted it wasn't, cuz it was brand new. 🤦🏼♀️ For the record, my mother's solution to all things is brute force, not understanding that you can't do that with delicate electronics. So there was probably a minor issue that she decided needed to be "fixed" by banging on it. I told her to call the cable company, there was nothing I could do, and no matter what, DO NOT plug it back in. Guess what she did. 🙄 My fiance, who knows nothing of IT like I do (but is a man) came over later to come get me, and the instant he stepped in my mom said "finally, someone who knows what they're talking about. Fix my cable". She wonders why her daughters never call.
Load More Replies...Without education, skilled tech workers and wizards are indistinguishable from one another.
The most common way used to be having a metal chain and replacing a few rings with locks as needed. Anyone who has a lock key can open the chain, independently from anyone else.
That is a much simpler solution. is there a reason why they don't just make copies of the same key and use one lock
Load More Replies...Nah, they made it easy for you, you only have to pick one
Load More Replies...Why wouldn't it work? Even an old TV can accept RF input (from a VCR, for example) so if you have a computer that has RF output, or some means to convert VGA or HDMI to RF, you can input it to a TV. A TV is just a monitor with some tuning gubbins, after all.
Load More Replies...Back in the mid 90's one of my foster brothers was a genius when it came to mechanical and electrical work, and he took our little old 13" TV & wired a little boombox and one of our alarm clocks as surround sound. It was ghetto as hell, but we thought it was awesome. He even set up the VCR to record from another one in order to try to make bootlegs, but the picture was not good enough.
Brilliant. He's either a techbro millionaire now or he's in jail, right, lol?
Load More Replies...I remember one time we drove 90 minutes for my IT hubby to help my uncle with a hard drive that just wouldn't work. Hubby couldn't get it to work either. "did you drop it?" "no" "are you sure?" "I didn't drop it, it slid out of the box and hit the floor" 90 minutes of cursing all the way home.
Ah memories! Always good to do last thing on a Friday when you don't feel like working any more but need to be seen to still be doing something before its time to go home
Set it up just before going to bed, it should be just about finished ready for tomorro
You can hire me! I know how to... um wait... I don't...
What's confusing is that PHP is easy to debug. Now, Perl on the other hand.... (Probably a Python programmer wrote this.)
could be worse. Could be C or some variant thereof. Anyone seen how horrible native Android code is? ugh.
Can confirm. Have built my own PCs for decades. You just look for the holes that match the plugs of whatever cable you're holding. >_>;
The only hard part is picking components that are compatible and work well together, but if you use an online tool like PC parts picker, that becomes easy too.
Load More Replies...Someone said, "That wire goes in the tracking furrow."????????????????
Self employed computer tech for 20 years - can also confirm. I could do it in the dark, in a small space, under the desk by feel. :)
Brandon? Brandon??? Where did you go??? Well, F**K YOU, BRANDON!!! (FBI shows up...)
I asked a younger friend why younger people put a link to their Spotify playlist on their social media/profiles now. I still don't understand XD Is that a thing now?
It’s just another way to get to know someone :P I’m proud of the playlists I make and I don’t mind people judging my music taste. I like to listen to my friend’s chill playlist when I do my homework. You can find out a lot of things by looking at someone’s playlists, and it’s a cool way to discover new things about someone and maybe even find some cool songs that you want to add to your own.
Load More Replies...I have never been able to actually sit down and make a playlist. Not on Spotify not on the very first software that allowed me to do that. I still prefer choosing an album and let it play.
Pandora for me. I was an early user, and I got used to it, but yeah... old music.
Load More Replies...Now I'm designing hardware in my head so you could turn it right side up and still use it as a table...
Wearing a monocle to a date in the first place is an epic power move and is probably all you need.
TBH might consider this, my charisma approximates 0 for low values of 0.000000001
I have a plaque on my desk that says this. I've had it since the late 90's. :)
For those who are unsure what is happening, Dad has his laptop right in front of that candle, which has handily half-melted his laptop... on the top left of its screen XD
I thought it was BP trying to take over Google and censoring the results? /s
Load More Replies...accurate, but now google wants to put bard into their search thingy so now it will be "I can't help you with that dave, do you want to see an ad? Google searchbard premium is ad-free* * * [terms and conditions may apply]" .... /me goes to duckduckgo.
not gonna lie s**t like this is where the real existential crises are.
I recently learned that T. Rex was just one of many, many Tyrannosaurs.
for a second the shadow on the guy's pants made me think he was wearing an underpant over them just like superman
Yep this is how the real world works. It's not hard work, it's luck, rightplace-righttime, connections, buddies, etc.
C'mon, it was not THAT bad. It was a line of fairly cheap processors with good energy management for its time. They had a decent run on laptops and low-end computers, and ultimately enabled the appearance of the Netbook concept on the market.
Yep, I had a couple of laptops with Celeron processors. XD I loved those laptops. They all had names. For their time, they were beasts, and performed as well as I could have asked for.
Load More Replies...My wrists just had a flashback to my Alienware laptop circa early 2000s. That thing was probably 7" thick and felt like it weighed 20 lbs XD
Actually they were called "desktop replacements", and never really called laptops.
Load More Replies...Chat GPT is going to pass my calculus class for me this semester. Without it... No degree ...
Thank god ... no one wants to use facebook anyway, much less a 3d version of it. And NFT was a wank from the start. https://youtu.be/y6goZkvxdLA?t=58
It's a lovely, hideously expensive work of modern art. I love the mouse in the upper left, and the spicy carrots with mashed peas in the middle.
If you use IFCONFIG, just tell your family you work on different systems.
Load More Replies...Do I get a bonus knowing the difference between 'ipconfig' and 'ifconfig'?
you want to see if a DNS is up? not the same as ipconfig ?
Load More Replies...so to give all of you the full list of innuendo unix commands (yes, OSX and iOS are both unix)... : something like this: gawk unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep. These are all actual unix commands.
It starts with a finger, then soon progresses to a port scan.
Given that in an average week I spend more time on Chrome than Firefox, simply because one is installed on my work PC and one *cannot* be installed on my work PC (at least not without admin rights), I too prefer Chrome because it's more familiar.
Load More Replies...The only purpose of Edge is download and install Chrome and/or Firefox ...
I would try to browse the internet using notepad if it meant staying away from Edge.
I prefer the BRAVE browser which is based on the Chromium platform. It's a lot like Google but without all the creepy spying.
Win + Shift + S is the best as you can select the area you want to copy.
Agreed. I use it on a daily basis to show people things they could have looked at for themselves but they "couldn't find it". "Oh really, that information isn't on our website? You mean THIS information?" Accompanied by my screen shot of the exact information they claim is not there. :)
Load More Replies...I get this all the time from one of my clients. I have tried to tell him how to take screenshots, but nope. Sometimes I get a photo of the screen and no explanation. I think it keeps my mind sharp to ward against dementia.
Put the phone on the scanner. Mail it to yourself, paste the jpg in a word file, and then share the word file.
No, no, you have to print the Word file, make copies & then mail those.
Load More Replies...Mac it's cmd-shift-3 for full screen and cmd-shift-4 for the crop square.
And so easy to answer, yet I've seen some shocking solutions.
Load More Replies...In the real world, most algorithms are already written and exist as headers, libraries or APIs. The most complex algorithm I've EVER had to write in 40 years was a loop. While/until. I'm not kidding. Everything else just call something someone else wrote. Using actual computer science algorithms as a test in an interview is bs, no one codes from scratch.
I had to look it up. The article I found shows several different implementations, but they all use some form of a modulus operator (remainder), which ignores that modulus is really slow. A faster method is to use two additional counters, let's call them mod3 and mod5, set to 3 and 5 respectively. Each iteration, decrement them and test if they are 0. If mod3 is 0, you know your main counter is divisible by 3, and you reset mod3 to 3, and mod5 works the same way. No division (modulus) operations necessary.
The other holes suggest this isn't actually a joke on their part but rather an actual practice.
It's not just about bios update, but rather sh..ty way ASUS responded to the issue. All partners deployed SOC fix, but only ASUS choose to mark beta BIOS fixing issue in question as voiding warranty.
I stopped buying ASUS when I had a tablet with a screen that was made of butter. It cracked for no reason and they wouldn't fix it with the warranty. Luckily, I had purchased a product guarantee that let me get a new tablet of my choice if that one broke. I immediately switched to Samsung and am still happy with my decision 15 Samsungs later.
Load More Replies...I'm gonna just sit over here in the corner with my RTX 3060 and pretend I have a 4090. XD
You don't want to see the result when the nurses leave health care up to I.T.
"Just unplug it, wait thirty seconds, and plug it back in."
Load More Replies...You're never going to believe this...... I once saw it used on a patient! 🤯
Load More Replies...I don’t get it. Normal people just look outside through the window at various heights but programmers open the door to go outside? So maybe I do get it. Lol!! :)
They're all seeing only one aspect of the whole thing; programmers are like going to see the whole thing. i think. OR The programmer is hacking into the game/software to see the whole of it OR The programmer made a way to see outside, but the users aren't using the whole of it.
Load More Replies...Very common scam on SSD hard disks from Wish/Banggood/Aliexpress etc. The thing inside is usually a 16GB USB memory. They tamper with the firmware to show a larger size, but the data are overwritten while you write them. The bolts are just to simulate the weight.
And, of course, we've all heard about how this same basic scam is used in a famously-overpriced brand of headphones as well... XD
Load More Replies...Just to help everyone. If you buy fake memory (ie cheap memory) or storage from a non-respectable website (hello Wish), you can tell quite easily whether it is fake. (it is, but to prove it, so you can return it, once buyer's remorse kicks in). Read this page. Basically it's a tool that proves it's fake. https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Seems legit. When buying things off AliExpress you have to expect things like that.
The scam is current on Amazon. They won't or can't verify everything, perhaps too many products /sellers on the market?
Load More Replies...I have a customer that has named all their printers after Star Wars characters.
At one stage I had a habit of doing this with servers. Collections of things. Like "pirate, freebooter, buccaneer, searover," etc.
Oh, yes... how these turns have tabled!
Load More Replies...still could work if you have a method or function called HelloWorld which takes one var as input and then outputs that var. Convoluted but will work. However, the output would be "print" not "hello world" as usual.
The joke is the programs it's asking applicants to have 5yrs experience in have only been out a year or less! !
Yea.. except it's not really that much of a joke. I recently saw an add for AI related position requiring 3+ years experience with (quote) "tools like GPT".
Load More Replies...In 1997, saw an ad asking for 10 years' experience in Web design. They weren't paying enough to hire Tim Berners-Lee.
this is INCREDIBLE. If ChatGPT *actually* gave that answer, it totally passes Turing for me. That is EXACTLY what every damn programmer says.
An issue starting to percolate up: by not doing documentation the developers don't develop a good gut feeling of how it works. Oh, and if (sorry, when) they leave, their replacements will have nothing to start with. It's planting landmines all over.
You know what works better than consultants and PM's interfering with coders? Leaving the coders the f**k alone to implement. Once they implement you give it to UI then to UX then to focus groups. You give the coders LOTS of pizza and coke (either type) and tell them bad news will be coming but they "just" need to move some UI widgets around and try stay calm about it. Offer them double salary. Result: s**t gets delivered.
Agile actually got one of our PM to stretch the sprints even though it didn’t need to. And I can’t do anything about it. I’ve done my stuff, they’re holding demo since it’s not in the sprint yet. WTF?!
"Hi its me the stuck employee it's been six and a half years i'm still waiting for someone to help me"
Never, EVER skimp on the power supply. Better to have more than you need than to turn your expensive components into props straight out of Counter-Strike.
A cycle or two (or 3 or 4, I dunno, memory fades) back when I did a major component update, I got a 1000w Thermaltake PSU (this was shortly before gpu and cpu chips started going down in power reqs while getting faster). I was so happy about that thing (the cabling was all beautiful and modular and we'll constructed). Sadly, it took a hit from a lightning bolt from a storm that wasn't even visible yet (electricity shot out of the other socket several inches, not far from my leg). After that, I had to switch the PSU to the off position for it to turn on, but it kept working for like 6 months before finally giving up the ghost.
Load More Replies...At the time, it made no sense to pay for Winzip since ARJ and RAR were far superior and free alternatives. Later, it was easily available as free download and extremely easy to copy (just one string to copy and paste, it was the same for all installs and versions) so buying an original copy made no sense. Today compression capability is built-in in any OS, so it makes no sense to pay for it.
The teaching here is: When you feel alone and useless, just remember WinZip International LLC had an invoicing department.
Load More Replies...The Mac had aladdin (tm) stuffit (tm) which was awesome. It could read/write any archive format. Once osx incorporated "archive this" in the contextual menu though, it became kinda otiose.
To everyone's surprise, they are still publishing it. They are at version 26, that came out in 2021 (WZ11 is from 2006). I think it some kind of running joke -or at least an old-time tradition- at Corel headquarters to publish a new version every now and then.
Load More Replies...This only really made sense when the largest drive available was 6 gig and DL speeds were super slow
6 Gig? At the time Winzip came out we used to count hard drive space in Megabytes, kiddo. 50 MB was okay. 100 MB was good. 500 MB made you a king.
Load More Replies...just don't tell management. I promise anyone in C-suite maybe except cio is probably an idiot who thinks it really needs a lot of wrangling.
And this is why a lot of us don't even bother plugging most of those in, once you've built a PC or two for yourself XD
Honestly, if you can follow basic instructions, these are not hard to plug in at all. LEGO can be more difficult than this.
It was confusing trying to figure out if the signal and matching ground pins were oriented in rows or in columns on the motherboard header, and the diagram in the mobo manual didn't always help.
Just ask my wife. She insisted on a laptop so now I have to process her photoshop files on my desktop because some of the tools she needs to process her product photos take enough time for her to lay down and rest, while on my desktop I barely see the progress bar (if there was one).
So, I just need to become a sorcerer, and THEN I can get that 4090 I want. XD
Yes, I skip purchase if it's any other other than -c. Strange that any company thinkts micro is acceptable today.
Load More Replies...Yeah, screw all those folks wanting harm reduction and to not make everything around them smell like decade old ashtrays. What jerks.
Load More Replies...For some reason, I keep thinking it'll start crawling around any minute now.
It's art, is there REALLY a top and bottom, an up or down?
Load More Replies...[if you don't get the joke: 31 in Octal (OCT) system equals 25 in Decimal (DEC) system; 31 OCT = (3 × 8¹) + (1 × 8⁰) => 25 DEC]
Thanks. I felt dumb there for a minute.
Load More Replies...There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
When you have to have ChatGPT explain the joke for you... You're in the wrong category of joke.
The explanation in the image doesn't make any sense....
Load More Replies...This should have more upvotes. That's a 10 out of 10 joke.
Load More Replies...IT nerds don't get much action so anything that reminds them that it might happen one day gets them super excited. Speaking as a former IT nerd.
Load More Replies...No worries, the key generator warned that my AV would probably detect it as a virus. So I turned it off, only while generating the key.
Server server on the wall, who is most slacking of them all?
Load More Replies...Please. That's amateur. They don't even have a second powerstrip plugged into the first powerstrip.
I'd solve this with a wheelbarrow and pruning shears. And start over afterwards.
ooooouch that is expensive. But yes, GF also did that a year ago... fortunately only to a s****y cheap pc, not a MBP but... ffs....
Ohhhh. Someone didn't see their earbud when they tried to close their laptop. Doh! 🤦🏻♀️
I have that very UPS, and finally, after a decade, it was useful during the northern california storms. Gave me time to close down my computer saving everything and even recharged my iPhone and iPad overnight so I could listen to audiobooks for the week and a half I had no power or internet.
Load More Replies...Ok, WTF are the ribbon cables? Pre-Tolkien Ring? (see previous silly comment) Tbase1?
The flat cables draped all over the place are the ribbon cables. Google explanation: "Ribbon cables are usually used as interconnects for internal peripherals in computers, such as hard drives, CD drives, and floppy drives. On some older computer systems they were also used for external connections."
Load More Replies...Are those wire wrap posts behind the cable bundles? Looks like an ancient POTS Telco switch used for large office buildings.
Tech support said to me the other day (about my touch screen)" When I arrived O the board was stuck in boot up mode. I turned it off and it seems fine now. If it does it again just leave it. Unless it is on fire then please unplug it" OK?
Time to download some more RAM after looking at all this techy stuff.
Some of the offices and calling it IS now, information systems, rather than Information technology. Why?
Simply put, IT is part of IS. Information systems is about the system as a whole, the creation and distribution of the information and also the processes and all users involved. Users both responsible for their creation as well as the ones it's created for. Information technology is an essential part of this and provides the tools (hardware, software, tcomms) to make this processes and systems come to life and interact with each and the users. Hope that makes it clearer! I was waiting for someone more "qualified" to reply but since it didn't happen, you get the simplified Koala version instead! 😉🐨😅
Load More Replies...Time to download some more RAM after looking at all this techy stuff.
Some of the offices and calling it IS now, information systems, rather than Information technology. Why?
Simply put, IT is part of IS. Information systems is about the system as a whole, the creation and distribution of the information and also the processes and all users involved. Users both responsible for their creation as well as the ones it's created for. Information technology is an essential part of this and provides the tools (hardware, software, tcomms) to make this processes and systems come to life and interact with each and the users. Hope that makes it clearer! I was waiting for someone more "qualified" to reply but since it didn't happen, you get the simplified Koala version instead! 😉🐨😅
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