Printers must be treated with intimidation for them to behave, because they smell fear and only respect violent hierarchy.
I keep a hammer on hand when I need to print something for this reason.
It’s not just printers. Laptops recognise people who are willing and able to crack them open. I’ve had multiple family members claim their problems disappeared the instant I gave their device a stern look.
IT person here. I concure.
On bad imposter syndrome days I dont feel like a professional, I feel like the computer whisperer. Gets ticket for problem, decides to stretch my legs snd walk over, issue is fixed before I arrive, like magic (its not, but I didnt see the problem so I cant make any notes other than a wizard fixed it).
similar job, my phrase I always used was
“I’ve been known to intimidate some electronics in my day”
🎶Back up in your ass with the resurrection🎶
The internet was better when it was just the nerds on it
everything is better without business majors
MBA’s need to be exiled!
it is important we are careful what we exile them to
Some people have an aura around them that computers disrespect, its why we have repeat idiots that log faults and we send a tech down and get them to do it again and it works. In the presence of IT support they tend to behave
I heard that being called computer mana.
If you don’t have enough, you’ll encounter all kinds of errors that’ll disappear as soon as someone with a higher amount of mana approaches
That explains why all my coworker’s computer problems would go away when I walked by.
it’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim
source: 7 years of phone tech support
I did IT for 10 years. fuck.
“Have you tried restarting?”
“yes”
Uptime: fucking millennia.
I used to be nice and not remotely restart their machine without telling them. Used to be.
Channeling the BOFH.
That’s because they think logging off or turning the monitor off/on is the same as restarting, or, in the case of laptops / rackmount KVMs closing the lid and reopening
Modern computers struggle to do tasks they did even faster 45 years ago because modern people don’t know how to do anything except use 3 trillion lines of code that were written by other people.
I think it has more to do with expanded computing resources allowing for devs to skip optimizing their code since it is no longer absolutely necessary to get something useable.
Combine that with multiple apps by unrelated devs all taking more than their fair share of system resources. And library developers building towers of abstractions to get as far as possible from that icky hardware!
Nonsense! Your idea is extremely well-founded!
modern computers are optimized to sell you shit and steal your data, not be efficient
I am so overjoyed to see that the phenomenon of computer problems magically disappearing around my presense isnt exclusive to me.
Some people - even technologically literate ones - just want computers and operating systems to work straight out of the box with no building or tinkering and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Part of me would quite like to fuck around installing Linux and creating a home NAS.
I used to tinker for hours on our family pc back in the 90s and 00s trying to optimise it/make it work.
But now? The other, bigger part simply cant be arsed. Windows 11 just works. It does what I need it to do.
The bigger Linux distros have all “just worked” for the better part of two decades
Not for me haha.
I’m happy on Ubuntu, but I’ve had my share of weird bugs and ux issues. And they do a pretty good job.
If I was on Ubuntu and never configured anything or installed any software, I’d have a slightly better track record.
Switch to an immutable distro for stability and ease of use.
If you do more advanced stuff, Debian will also offer stability.
Ubuntu is definitely not something I would put in the “just works” category anymore, unless it’s Server on CLI.
Do they come pre-installed on machines ready to be used out of the box?
hardware, which gets delivered to you with all drivers preinstalled for an “out-of-the-box” Linux experience.
That’s awesome, this would make me use Linux.
Honestly it’s generally really easy to install Linux these days, first time I did it back in 2008ish when I was like 12 on a shitty win xp laptop was not too bad either tbh.
But it also has some extra features like surveillance I don’t want it to do
I thought I’d finally found the perfect balance between minimal tinkering and the features I want with Noctalia Shell. Then I switched to a systemd-free distro and it doesn’t work any more. Back to .config I go.
I believe artists have an negative technology field around them that electronic hardware doesn’t work for them the same way it does everyone else.
Must doctors and nurses too.
I work with fixing specialised software and hardware.
I belive that there is truth to the Tom Knight and the Lisp machine koan. Several times per year I bill customers for doing this.
If you’ve not heard it before: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
Like, the novice was unsuccessfully getting the machine to work, and then when Knight did the same thing it worked?
Exactly.
Holy Baader–Meinhof, Batman! I just found out about that 2 days ago
Zelda BOTW knows when you’re climbing a big cliff and it’s more likely to rain.
Get that Froggy suit, son.
Got to get Tears of the Kingdom for that.
That I’ve got a special click when I specifically need something to work. It involves a lot of deliberation on the mouse, a small pause before starting to click, and a ~0.5s longer click time. That’s my “okay carefully now…” Click.
Reserved for tasks like a bank transfer, an important form filling out, etc
Waiting 8 seconds after turning off a device, before turning it back on. Any electronics, really.
Turning the TV on off? Wait 8 seconds.
Blender not working? Unplug, 8 seconds, replug.
Replacing batteries? 8 seconds.10 seconds is too long, 5 seconds isn’t enough sometimes. 8 seconds is perfect.
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
The manual for the computer I’m using right now says to wait 8 seconds before turning it back on.
This is not wholly without a true foundation. Capacities can store charge for some time and e.g. keep data in ram (I think this is only true of older types of memory now though?)
What’s frustrating is the occasional device that literally needs 30 seconds to drain its caps and you go back and forth with tech support claiming that you turned it off for a minute when it was really only eight seconds.
My work computer runs better because I listen to music and browse the Internet not just work work work. I keep it entertained, and in return it runs better than those of my fellow employees, I have far fewer problems.
ETA reading below, I do restart each day. Maybe that is all that is happening to keep it happy. How disappointing. Do people really not do that? On their WORK machines?
Desktops are for gaming. Laptops are for browsing the Internet.
Does my laptop have a decent GPU? Sure does. Great for browsing the Internet.
Bonus:
Some tasks are phone tasks while bigger things are computer tasks. Think buying a movie ticket versus buying plane tickets.
I like to game on my couch, so I game on my laptop.
Oh, no doubt. It’s the without foundation that I hold this belief.
I need more ram
i have a website for you!
Let me get you the address of a ranch that is exactly what you’re looking for
Videogames taste better after midnight.
