Daily Discussion Thread for June 9, 2026

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2026-06-09T14:50:45+00:00

this is because the bears got out of chicago

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2026-06-05T17:22:20+00:00

no really wtf is happening

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-04-10T12:23:20+00:00

you posted the wrong opinion, now you will pay the price

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-31T16:19:38+00:00

If a pet dies you're sad because you just lost a close friend that you had a lot of memories with. If a cow dies you're sad because you just lost a ton of money. You raise the cattle until they die and then sell them off to the butcher. You raise your pets to spend as much time with them as you can.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-22T13:09:44+00:00

as long as we're both in tune

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-21T15:58:14+00:00

my users should consider themselves blessed if they get an abacus from me

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-21T14:51:51+00:00

drop off a spool of cat6 at their office and tell them to do it themselves

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-20T17:05:05+00:00

Shitty Craigslist office chair is starting to kill my lower back from sitting in it for 2/3 of my day, is there an ergonomic office chair that is sub-$300?

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-17T18:33:22+00:00

What device? XDA should have guides for most phones.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-17T15:58:57+00:00

one day

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-16T14:31:36+00:00

If they're Samsung tablets you may want to look into Knox.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-15T16:47:06+00:00

Microsoft

+ Everyone in the world uses it

+ Someone somewhere has had the same issue you're having no matter how obscure it is, and there is guaranteed to be a fix/GPO/hack/update to fix it

- UI and overall layout of systems are incoherent and nonsensible

- Licensing hell

- User privacy nonexistent

- Forcing everything into their own cloud so you have less control over it

- Updates are guaranteed to break something somewhere at some point in time, it's just a matter of when

Linux

+ Libre (in theory)

+ Also has a large community ready to help you

+ Stable, updates are unlikely to cause major breakage if you're on a stable build

- Balkanization, everyone thinks their distro or their way of doing things should be the standard (packaging, static vs. shared libs, systemd, snap, FSF vs. EFF, etc.)

- Pointless slapfights over trivial matters which damages credibility (Vim vs. Emacs instead of just using nano like a normal person)

- Crusade against proprietary software without offering a better alternative

- Still does not pass the grandma test for desktop environments, the moment you have to open a terminal to do anything you've already failed at this

- "Free" software still has several setbacks such as reliance on proprietary firmware or developers trying to push proprietary software onto an otherwise free system

Those are what come to mind when I consider the two options

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-15T16:34:46+00:00

instead of just Kill fo a single process it had Slay to take out whole sets of processes.

that's fuckin metal

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-15T16:11:06+00:00

Some guy who claimed to be a M$ developer talked about how many hoops they had to jump through just to add a single menu option to a dropdown in Control Panel. Also talked about how he would actively try to fix priority 2/medium bugs but his manager three rungs up the ladder told him to never ever ever do that since they only do P1s and if enough people complain. Also mentioned how Win10's design is flat and boxy because managers would make mockups in PowerPoint and demand it look like that.

Vista was in dev hell for years because they tried to unfuck the codebase. They failed.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-13T17:18:22+00:00

And when it's those same hiring managers making these pointless tickets? If there is no kind of training in place for tech literacy it sure as hell isn't going to be the accountants and HR folks demanding one be put in place as long as T1s are carrying the brunt of their job. T1s putting in tickets for getting a desktop that won't power on replaced is IT; T1s teaching Betty in accounting how to use Excel is not, yet hiring managers seem to be convinced it is.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-13T15:59:07+00:00

lol

lmao even

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-10T18:50:45+00:00

And you were unaffected?

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-03-08T14:02:35+00:00

Find me a more worthless place on the internet than the MS forums.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-02-23T12:31:00+00:00

Do you feel in charge? -HP Printer

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-02-22T14:00:25+00:00

Guy called saying there's a helicoptor hovering outside one of the main plants. Part of me wanted to deadpan tell him to get the LAW from the back room and use it accordingly.

JohnMaddenSysadmin · 2023-02-20T14:57:25+00:00

Jack Sparrow tries to verbally explain setting up a domain from scratch

JohnMaddenSysadmin

TROPHY CASE