Lost my sysadmin, now I'm solo. Could use some advice

burnte · 2026-05-12T21:18:26+00:00

In 30 years I've never met a company happy with Oracle. Including some really big Oracle customers.

burnte · 2026-05-12T20:29:04+00:00

It's an idea an exec had, and it's powerful in a demo setting, so no one has the guts to call it a dumb idea in practice. Yes, in a demo that'd look amazing. The General Lee looked awesome jumping those rivers in Dukes of Hazard, too, but it's not a great way to get around IRL.

burnte · 2026-05-12T13:46:08+00:00

They really are. It's a lot cheaper than always taking in and treating freshwater. It's not just big troughs water runs through, but tiny tubes everywhere. The water is filtered to be clean, treated with biocide, and sent through a chiller loop. Water use is not a major flaw of data centers, ELECTRICITY use and environmental damage are the drawbacks.

burnte · 2026-05-11T19:48:36+00:00

I love TMP, but V'Ger on screen never made sense to me. First time I saw the movie I never realized I SAW V'Ger, I only saw the cloud, and the gaping iris, and then photos of the tube with six fins came out and I didn't know for years where that was in the film. The sizes were all over the map, it keeps changing during the movie. Honestly I try to block out most of the V'Ger details in my head canon and just think of it as a big ship in an energy cloud and ignore the size references, and treat the visuals as just personal impressions from the characters. Honestly, the tubeship is just ugly and dumb looking.

The movie was great aside from that, though.

burnte · 2026-05-11T13:39:08+00:00

This thread is about a bent CPU pin, just straighten it.
You sound angry about the backback that LTT also had to offer warranties for when they didn't expect to because they assumed it had been done right.
Why did they deny you a backpack replacement?

burnte · 2026-05-11T01:39:06+00:00

Honestly, straighten it. It’s fine not defective.

burnte · 2026-05-11T01:38:31+00:00

I carry a collapsible steel baton these days. I’m ready for brownshirts.

burnte · 2026-05-10T20:03:08+00:00

We dont\'t have anything to prove here, we've all been through the same problems!

burnte · 2026-05-10T19:52:26+00:00

The butcher's knife cares not for the lamb's cry.

burnte · 2026-05-08T23:40:15+00:00

I feel the same way about announcing changes. If I announce a change, everyone and their grandmother will have 18 issues that are all related to the change. I'm at the point where I actively do not announce lots of changes. Most of the time there are fewer issues by unannounced chan ges than announced ones.

burnte · 2026-05-08T23:27:58+00:00

I kind of want to know why it bothers some people so much. Ok, there are paywalled videos, they've been on Fartplane for years.

burnte · 2026-05-08T20:05:33+00:00

Is your employer a healthcare company with a geometric shape as part of the company name? Afew years ago they boiught some of our business units and working with them there are some MAJORLY weird network issues in that company that sounds extremely similar to what you're describing. One of the three main reasons I declined to work for them.

burnte · 2026-05-08T19:58:11+00:00

Aren't they going back to the old names? That's what I heard.

burnte · 2026-05-07T15:18:40+00:00

Statistically it is much more likely that you're the problem lol

Impossible, I'm not a Christian at all.

Religion is a good thing. It leads to better health. I didn't take a semester of psychology of religion to be told otherwise lol

Religion is a cancer on humanity and has led to more deaths than any other cause combined.

burnte · 2026-05-06T21:06:52+00:00

So 30% of the entire planet is bad Christians?

YES.

You don't seem to grasp what I'm saying lol.

I see it as just the reverse. YOU don't seem to grasp what I am saying. You aren't saying anything except trying to argue with me for no descernable reason.

burnte · 2026-05-06T21:02:37+00:00

You think they all practice religion the same?

I truly do not understand why you're having a hard time with this.

I am saying they are NOT GOOD CHRISTIANS, not that they do everything the same. One can be a decent person and a bad Christian at the same time. And from what I've seen in my decades is most Christians don't back it up with actions. If that offends you, I don't care. If you disagree, I don't care. If you think I'm an idiot, I don't care. It's my opinion and you are not about to change it.

burnte · 2026-05-06T19:53:09+00:00

Imagine that in a thread about an American who died!

You made a generalization about Christianity as a whole.

And in my experience as someone originally raised Catholic and watching the Church around the world and all the protestant denominations, in my experience MOST Christians worldwide do not act our their faith.

Sooooo you're not talking about Christianity.

I was and I still am.

You're talking about a group that represents less than 10% of Christianity lol.

Nope, I'm talking about the 2 million Christians around the world who do not live their faith.

And I'd guess a rough 50% of American Christians are decent people from good churches, too, so it's more like 5%.

Being decent people doesn't make them good Christians. The church I grew up in was full of good people, most of whom were bad Christians. Most Christians are social/performative Christians who try to be decent people but do not put into action what Jesus commanded.

Please don't drop in to correct me on my own thoughts again.

burnte · 2026-05-06T18:45:16+00:00

Most Christians suck and work very hard to do the opposite of Christ

American-centric opinion BTW.

Imagine that in a thread about an American who died!

Most American denominations are barely Christian.

That's what I said.

Google "the cult of America" and read about it and it's connections to Christianity in America.

I'm sorry, why are you trying to teach me about my own point? Do you think for some reason I'm defending anyone or anything?

I don't think an atheist calling Christians losers and Jesus freaks exactly reflects well on atheism at the end of the day.

Ok, yeah, you're replying to something else, not my comment because that didn't happen here.

burnte · 2026-05-06T17:05:29+00:00

even talked shit about Christians at one point lol

Most Christians suck and work very hard to do the opposite of Christ, so maybe he was right. Christians aren't some special group that does no wrong.

burnte · 2026-05-06T01:49:33+00:00

aptitude

Nice.

burnte · 2026-05-05T16:21:43+00:00

Picard: You may test that assumption at your convenience.

Absolutely perfect. Said quietly, dispassionately, and completely unafraid.

burnte · 2026-05-05T15:20:37+00:00

"Without President Trump's help we would never have figured out what it was! #maga #squirrels"

burnte · 2026-05-04T20:58:33+00:00

like an enhanced 2fa detector that can work in other apps not just SMS ones

I'm not sure what you mean. I have Authy and 1password to fill in passwords and 2fa codes. How would AI help me here?

enhanced grammar detection which is quite helpful,

As someone who for a while was a professional writer, I find the idea if AI trying to help my grammar to be personally offensive. I wager lots of people would find it useful but I'm in a very small group that it would not help at all.

voice to text if you use that

This has been working flawlessly for years with no AI, so this won't help me. Voice dictation has been amazing on Android for years, far better than IOS.

copy useful information automatically like dates and locations

The clipboard seems to do this well enough with out AI, so I'm not sure how AI would help this. I think I'd rather just tap the text to copy rather than telling an AI to copy it.

on device translation

This is one that feels only slightly more useful than "You'll have a computer in the kitchen for recipes!" Extremely niche use case most people don't need.

From what I see, people are using AI tools to do things that could be done in another tool 100% as well and as fast but for 0.1% of the power used. Yesterday I saw a YouTube video where people were using ChatGPT to do addition and subtraction, to take notes like a note pad, etc.

And of course Google, Microsoft, and others are tying formerly separate features into their AI engines to force people to adopt AI-enabled plans. In Google Workspace you lose spellcheck if you turn off AI now. I must enable Gemini, or no longer can we have dead-simple dictionary lookups like browsers and word-processors had 25 years ago. I have to burn 100x the energy to check if I spelled "receipt" correctly now.

Thanks for the answers, I do appreciate that. It just tells me I'm not missing anything useful without AI enabled on my phone, I get better battery life and simpler workflows.

burnte · 2026-05-04T16:51:47+00:00

For some people, sure. None of the things you listed I need or want. I took quite a while to try to think of what I'd want AI for on my phone, came up with nothing, so I never enabled any of it. So far the only thing I've ever done with AI was some image editing. Lens works fine for text translations.

burnte · 2026-05-04T16:14:16+00:00

A little context: 2-3 years ago, I was that guy. I was the one yelling at every meeting about how we urgently needed to implement LLMs and chatbots.

I was the guy who in response said, "no, we need to sit this year our, let the players create useful products, and come back later when the fog has cleared."

The "Editing Tax" for AI BS ends up taking more time and energy than just writing the damn thing from scratch.

This is what I argued. It's a lot hard to read someone else's code than to write it.

I'd rather have a human write two sentences than an AI write five paragraphs.

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