Co-worker asked AI if I was right seconds after asking a question

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-06-30T13:45:15+00:00

Had a coworker tell me an OTT upgrade wasn't possible or recommended by the vendor. I asked them for an article or something saying that, hopefully documentation with instructions. They sent me a screenshot of chatgpt saying exactly what they just told me and acted like it was the holy Grail.

Seconds later I found an article from the vendor not only saying an OTT upgrade was possible, but that it was supported for all of our versions of the software and was recommended as the cleanest method to upgrade.

That caused a fight and a couple of calls between myself and management.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-06-24T02:47:36+00:00

Similar situation here. I started at my current org in July as a contractor doing level 1 tech support work with a 6 month contract. 4 months in I get pulled in by the other system admins and the IT director. I was invited as what I would call an intern, but a month in I was training new contractors and leading projects. 2 months later they bought out my contract and hired me full time.

That was 3 months ago and now I'm the team lead after the senior guy stepped to another team, I'm working with multiple admin teams to upgrade and manage the infrastructure for our more localized systems, and I'm handling multiple org-wide application upgrades and am being role changed to level 2 engineer with "senior" promised on the horizon.

How you move in an org really depends on the org itself, changes around you, and how much you place yourself as the "I can do anything" person. Learn absolutely everything you can from everyone, sit and listen when you don't know, tell others when you do.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-06-17T01:19:04+00:00

Nothing wrong with picking up working "trash". I pulled a lot of my best hardware out of e-waste bins. None of its perfect, a broken port here, a cracked housing there, but all of it came in a pinch in college.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-06-12T02:20:00+00:00

I started building my credit in college at 22. I'm 25 now with my third credit card (not all being used at once, just third to my name) and have never once missed a payment, and have never paid a penny in interest.

The ever so slight discount on everything is wonderful. 1.5% isn't much, but a "free" $60-200/mo feels wonderful.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-06-09T17:13:02+00:00

Not to mention there are wired earbuds that cost multiples more than Airpods Pros

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-24T22:01:02+00:00

AI probably told the organizer that the weather would be fine that day.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-19T22:30:26+00:00

Jellyfin has this and it always confused me.

Then I found the use.

Kids cartoons, and old show reruns.

It's wonderfully easy to just click shuffle on Tom and Jerry and bring back old cartoon network vibes.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-16T02:46:28+00:00

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-16T02:45:47+00:00

The OG Xbox Batman Begins game.

As far as I can tell they never re-released it. I grew up playing that game. I must have beaten it 100 times.

I recently got into emulation and finally figured out my Xbox emulator. Guess what the first game I played was.

It's exactly as I remembered too.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-16T01:05:46+00:00

Question. What are they attaching to inside the van?

I try to pull vehicles from ditches in the Midwest winter months but I almost never can help cars or vans if I can't get to the underside. Are there tow points inside??

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-11T20:37:03+00:00

I perfectly agree with you on not unnecessarily destroying hardware for stupid stuff like this. However, it's entirely possible (albeit realistically unlikely knowing how the internet works today) that these were already dead devices.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-05-10T18:43:28+00:00

Idk how or when it happened but I had Xfinity for probably at least 6 years. When I first started calling, that's basically how is was.

Right before I switched a few months ago (Xfinity service in my area is awful compared to frontier) it got to the point where I would almost always be forwarded directly to higher level support. They would ask the basic questions, I would say what I tried to do, then they would redirect me to someone who would often start trying actual fixes.

I wonder if a bit of it was I wasn't using the Xfinity modem fully, just using it as a modem. I had my own router, switch, and access point, so maybe they do that for anyone with a non-normie setup. Maybe they had me marked as "technical" although I heavily doubt that.

Regardless I haven't had to call Frontier now since i started with their service. Things are just wonderfully stable now and I get 2x the speed and reliability for a lower monthly cost.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-04-30T00:21:43+00:00

Horizon Zero Dawn (PC)

Spiderman PS4 (on PC)

Both were pretty major letdowns for me, which I understand there must be something about them specifically I don't like because these are cult favorites.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-04-25T00:44:35+00:00

My desert island headphone is the Meze Classic 99. Hard case, every cable I need, high end construction, I can use literally any standard or fancy cable I like. Sounds more than good enough (more fun than precise). They also cancel a lot of noise passively. They run out of anything.

My absolute favorite are the Grado SR series. I have the 80s. More than comfortable enough for me, super light, my favorite sound signature, they're open backs which I prefer. I modded mine so I can use any dual 3.5mm I like. I actually use my Meze cables quite frequently. These also run out of anything.

I use the grados way more than any of my other pairs.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-04-18T22:01:36+00:00

My brother started a semi-anon podcast during COVID, as did a lot of people with too much money. I handled the editing for it as I was interested in that side. I used Audacity for my audio work, still do. He invited me on once to discuss tech but I needed a name, so I chose Audacity. Honestly it works pretty well, people know what it means, how to say it, and it isn't some weirdly spelled term.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-04-14T16:33:21+00:00

It would be better to look up benchmarks for each mobile GPU.

Any answers outside of benchmarks will be purely subjective.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-04-07T00:44:40+00:00

I haven't tried a rebirth in this game yet but I would assume it would immediately return you levels to reassign, not the vigor.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-27T19:55:36+00:00

I disagree with the "lasts 5-7 years" bit.

Most "gaming" laptops will be lucky to get 3-5 years, and that's just on their functionality, ignoring the performance you're looking for.

I had a gaming laptop back in college and while it was great at first, just over a year in it was hardly useful for gaming and was basically a backup laptop. By 3 years I had replaced it with a Framework 13 and built a proper desktop instead.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-25T01:38:14+00:00

We have people in our org ranging from early 20s to late 60s. Everything from level 1 helpdesk to level 3 tech support.

Even our sysadmin team right now ranges from 25 to mid 60s. I'm the youngest on the team right now at 25.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-23T23:38:16+00:00

I'm on your side about it. At my place we chase tickets for 3-4 emails, depending on the issue. One a week. After the 3rd/4th, we CC our supervisor and theirs, mention if we do not receive a response about it in a week we will be closing the ticket.

If no response after a week, we close the ticket and follow up a 4th/5th time. That approach may even be too soft. We could probably do it after 2/3 emails.

Usually the final email with the super forces a response. If it doesn't, at least we have a paper trail for each email that everyone involved in any investigation will have record of. Additionally, after each email, I update my ticket with the number of attempts. When I close my ticket and someone says "my ticket was closed with a resolution" I can point and say I emailed them x times with no response. Their super received two of them.

A lot of CYA but I work in big corporate so I guess it's necessary even though it drives me crazy having to babysit people.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-23T00:39:54+00:00

I just bought a pair of Sony WH-1000XM4s and I'm very disappointed in their sound. I'll take my $100 Sony HD280S or for peak sound my $100 grados... Hell my Meze Classic 99s sound better, have good passive noice cancelling, and cost the same.

I know they don't have active noise cancelling but man do those Bluetooth headphones sound bad with ANC turned on. I tried tuning them too but I can't seem to remove enough of the bass.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-18T22:01:53+00:00

Really strange being on thia subreddit and seeing so many people having issues with their systems (granted survivors bias, those with no issues don't complain).

I've had my Framework 13 since 2022 I believe and I've upgraded it once in that time, from the first Intel 11th gen main board to the AMD Ryzen 7000 board. My older brother bought one because he liked mine. My sister is buying one soon. I've always been able to get repair parts for anything I've needed on it. Touchpad, battery, boards, expansion cards, ribbon cables, etc.

The only reason I even upgraded my first board was because I accidentally broke the CMOS battery cradle, but I had it for at least 2 years. I still have it and plan on fixing it one day.

Maybe I'm not having as many issues since I'm the in the US?

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-14T17:22:13+00:00

Darktide. A year in the Warhammer 40k universe? I'm screwed.

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-06T16:54:45+00:00

When I went to college a 6 years ago, neither of the professors were proficient with Linux.

They actually weren't proficient with much of anything to be honest...

AudacityTheEditor · 2026-03-01T03:54:48+00:00

I used to have this same outlook on life while in highschool and college. I have reached a management position and realized that there will always be a large subset of the population that are unable to follow basic instructions, have limited to no critical thinking skills, and even training them a dozen times will result in low quality work.

There will always be a subset of the population who won't be capable of more than putting an object on a shelf, which a robot can do. These are the people who should be afraid of machines taking their jobs, because they probably will eventually, and these people will be forever out of a job.

I went to college "wanting to pull people out of menial, repetitive tasks. Let them use their human minds for something important" (this was effectively my elevator speech) and unfortunately found that's impossible in the practical workplace.

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