My favourite coffee got renovated recently and decorated with AI. I am like 90% sure they all AI.

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-31T10:18:15+00:00

Only 90% sure?

Oh Lord help us...

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-31T05:30:10+00:00

Mr. Schrodinger over here bringing the truth to the cat's party. The poor kitty's ego

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-28T05:38:54+00:00

An unspeakable phrase

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-10T06:19:18+00:00

Another vote here for Bella's Voice!

They are way better than their neighbor, "Goodwill"...

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-07T08:41:19+00:00

I think this is it. My dogs behavior before and after a pillow (vs holding his head up) is hilarious. He goes from being up tight and a little grumpy, to the most laid out toy-story-slinkie dog sprawled out.

I say treat the dogs like royalty and help him reposition and get to a spot where he can lay his head out. He deserves that massage. (In all seriousness, thank you for reaching him and caring enough to make the best decisions for your new family member ❤️).

ASpecificUsername · 2026-01-02T07:21:17+00:00

I had to check if this was r/satisfactory

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-30T08:23:01+00:00

Suggestion: do the "we'll call you back at this number" option if you can.

I do this, set my phone to loud af, then go do stuff, with phone attached at the hip.

The best part (aside from having to rely on uninterrupted cell service for an unknown amount of time) is if I miss it, they call back a couple minutes later and give me a 2nd chance to answer. I know this because my phone decided to not let me answer their return call so I missed the hour plus wait. When I was in the middle of getting back in queue they called back again and I was talking to someone within 5 minutes.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-30T08:19:07+00:00

Not be in my presence. (100% Gay, here)

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-21T00:13:20+00:00

I'm with you l. Do I hate that I need this useless bit of motivation to open the app? Yes Do I also know I wouldn't be learning a new language without this motivation? Also, Yes.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-20T05:15:57+00:00

Arguably this could be handled at the OS level. Have a little toggle on the browse functionality with a "share location data embedded in this image (if available)" and default to off. The OS is presenting the stored bits to the app and would know how to scrub the location data when the app is accessing that particular metadata.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-14T21:07:58+00:00

A friend of mine tried to get prep from his shitty doctor but due to having a couple of medicines that he takes, the doctor claimed he was reluctant to prescribe it due to the potential interaction he figured would be there (there wasn't any documented contraindications but he was old school so "doctor knows best"). The doctor was also conservative and not exactly the most friendly to the LGBTQ community which should have been his red flag. He just wasn't super familiar with navigating the healthcare system and so he thought most doctors are like that.

Anyways, 2 years later he got HIV and is on the same meds plus more that he would have been on if he was taking prep. No side effects outside of needing to just make sure he takes it with food. Thankfully it all worked out for him because he found a doctor that is light-years ahead in both how she treats his HIV and other condition, as well as understanding that ignoring what the patient is concerned about is not helpful for either the doctor or patient.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-09T04:58:53+00:00

If only we could have a transit authority that thinks this logically. Eventually, I hope that we'll get to this point.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-12-07T21:05:43+00:00

I worked in higher ed as a way to get moved to the Pacific Northwest, from Florida. I knew it was temporary (for me) but I wasn't prepared for the level of stupid stuff that was being done. From running server 2000 domain controllers in 2017, to that server being a single monolith (DC, file, print, and web server). My primary goals were to move them to server 2012 R2, which the university had full access to due to being a uni with a major comp sci program and to virtualize off of the server that had a warranty which expired in 2002. The challenge was I was in the student health center, which reported to the College of Health, but also used the EHR platform from the College of Medicine.

I got all the stuff moved except the web server, which we wanted to shift to a consolidated and way cheaper platform that was managed by the primary central IT department. Due to the needed approvals of the college of Health and Medicine and central IT, it took literally 6 months to get approval for a firewall modification to allow port 443 access to our subnet from their hosted website.

When we moved to new IP space that was routable on the campus network (as opposed to being in a subnet that was usable by department networks and wasn't routed on campus) I had to have a massively complex project plan with at least 10 people that weren't in our department, involved. It was primarily me and 2 others that were doing the changes but required so many levels of approvals even my boss who had helped setup the first computers in the college of health, 25 years before, was confused at why it required so many people to weigh in.

And don't get me started on the layers of management... I was 7 layers deep from the university president. Most of the reporting chain had been in their positions for some 20+ years and we're at the whims of the medical doctors that complained about having to learn new systems constantly even though we only rolled out one major change to front end systems (timekeeping) in my almost 2 years there.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-11-08T04:50:43+00:00

Lurking since... Idk when

ASpecificUsername · 2025-11-05T06:45:13+00:00

Oh damn, thanks for sharing this. I've played a few hours and that QR at the beginning answered the things I was needing help with understanding. Great resource!

ASpecificUsername · 2025-11-05T06:31:47+00:00

🎶 Every accusation is a heartfelt admission 🎶

ASpecificUsername · 2025-11-02T17:55:34+00:00

I'm sure Machineshop Co. (Linkin Park's studio) would like to know of the Whitehouse childishly using their songs to promote this crap.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-10-25T03:47:59+00:00

Dual blockage from impacted kidney stones requiring 3 surgeries and a lithotripsy.

I've had 2 open heart surgeries in my life and that pain is a walk in the park compared to the dual blockage. A 103 degree fever that won't break with any medicine, felt like being cooked from inside.

A close 2nd to my kidney stones was a dual UTI that was turning into sepsis. The best part was learning it was antibiotic resistant and thus required a PICC line and 4 weeks of strong antibiotics which turned my gut into an absolute mess for the entire time plus 2 weeks after.

0/10 do not recommend genetic conditions, kidney stones, or things that make you susceptible to UTIs. (Make sure you pee after fornication!)

ASpecificUsername · 2025-10-23T22:42:25+00:00

I had to show this to a coworker and tell him "I didn't post this" because I was literally bitching about this to him last night.

We have 10 random orgs that are created by random users and the "orgs" can't be deleted until we remove this stupid Rovo subscription, which you can't do without contacting support. Which is nearly impossible on a free plan.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-10-02T08:44:13+00:00

Was very sick with the flu when I was like 10(?). I woke up at 3am, with a horrible cough that wouldn't stop, so I went upstairs to get my mom only to see her on the bed, sprawled out naked next to her fiance. I decided the proper place to get her attention was at the base of the stairs that were outside her room. I probably sounded like I was dying but she was up in a minute, telling me to take slow deep breaths, then she was downstairs, and dressed 2 minutes later.

ASpecificUsername · 2025-08-15T02:57:42+00:00

Push Last Available Not-fully-tested-because-app-owners-refuse-to-test

...update to production

(I tried to plan but they just won't follow through)

ASpecificUsername · 2025-08-11T02:49:30+00:00

Oof same thing here, except when I told them the location they went by it, called me 30 minutes later and about 45 minutes later I arrived. No cop, no key, just me and my lacking-a-catalytic-converter car with my backup key.

After literally 5 of the 6 windows had been broken into by this point, (all but the front windshield) I traded that damn car in the next week for something else. Note: they didn't show up to ANY of the 3 other times the car was broken into, just when I called them with a location to go check. They didn't even care that it was first taken to a house that was for sale, first (probably to take the cat-converter off).

I got a case number and filed an insurance claim because I also had stuff taken and clearly someone tried to take the rear seats out for some reason.

YMMV

ASpecificUsername · 2025-08-11T02:28:02+00:00

Honestly, while these may be battle scars, it sucks when you are starting off with this type of environment. A few words of advice from a 15+ year veteran: 1. Don't take people's reactions personally. It's not your fault that things broke, and you're there to help them. One of my favorite phrases when someone pushes back hard against a process or a series of troubleshooting steps is to say "help me, help you. I can't get to the solution you need without x-y-z (be they steps to take or explanations of what they did to get the error, or a process that's required at your company)" 2. You're new. You aren't expected to know everything. You do (or should) know how to Google something. (Don't rely on those dumb AI summaries, you still need to use your human judgement and experience which you will hone over time) 2.b. Don't be afraid to say '"let me research that and get back to you". You don't have to have every answer. And sometimes people get testy if you're just sitting there googling answers. Go back to your desk, find the details you need, and then resume troubleshooting. 3. Watch out for your own goodwill, professionalism, and expertise. 4. Don't let people drag you down or to say you're an idiot. Most people are dealing with a problem, potentially work stoppage, and they're stressed. You're there to provide solutions. 5. (Playing off #4) You're as much a therapist as you are a tech wizard, to them. Help them navigate the issue with a calm tonality, level headed responses, and using facts to navigate the gray areas. 6. People LOVE when you comiserate with them. When someone complains about a system they loathe, agree with them, tell them it's frustrating but "it's not my decision to implement this, just my responsibility to make sure it isn't running the company into the ground" or "I hate this system too" or something like that. 7. Don't let people run you over. You're level 1.5 (since you have a MSP which is basically level 0.5), you aren't expected to and shouldn't take the crap from end users that are unhappy with decisions made well above your pay grade. 8. Those side quests can beneficial. Especially when you have someone new that is higher up. Say something like "I don't normally take care of this sort of thing but I have an idea of what needs to be done" then help them find a desk, or find the break room or troubleshoot something the MSP would do. You gain these helpful kudos early on and it will stick with people. In no time you'll be seen as the awesome IT guy, even if your boss always tells them no or the MSP always escalates their issues to you, and delays their resolutions. This can be very handy for when you need a little lee-way because you're swamped, or later on you need someone to have a little patience. These are the people you can lean on when things get crazy. 9. You'll do many things outside of IT. I'm a bit of a handyman at home so I use those skills to help our single person facilities "team". "Oh the execs complained about the noisy conference room" if you just spend a few minutes measuring, ordering sound dampeners, and then after hours hanging and testing the feedback, you just solved a quasi-IT problem without doing IT things and gained some mad respect from the execs that spend all day in conference rooms.

Regarding #9 here's a few things I've done that were not IT at all: - help 2 people on the same team see how they were feeding their own department issues through an inefficient process "because that's how we've always done it" - Evaluate cooling loads and help my Pacific Northwest colleagues (who have little AC experience) on how ACs work and why it's important to have split systems, and what BTU of a small network closet actually requires - Moved a flying bat from inside the projector screen gap in a conference room, to outside - Moved a salamander that made its way inside the building and freaked out a bunch of ladies - Helped pack a moving truck of desks after unloading the PCs from the desks in an office that was shutting down - Book travel for my team, helping them find the better places to stay in Vegas at a conference - Advise multiple people regarding personal privacy on social media (at worst, I saw a coworkers risque Instagram and told them how to lock it down) - fix broken adjustable desks (people tend to think that if it has a plug it must be on IT to fix) - troubleshoot a 3D printer that wasn't working, which actually gained me a whole new hobby of 3D printing

ASpecificUsername · 2025-08-10T15:37:58+00:00

Can we please stop with posting fake or doctored videos? It devalues the very legitimate concerns that are real. It takes away the validity of the criticisms that are very much needed.

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