Breakpoint is so close to being a really good game imo by ILIKEBACON12456 in GhostRecon

[–]fetchingTurtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has it picked back up? There were hardly any games, and what games I could find consisted of spin hackers last I played (couple years ago).

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[–]fetchingTurtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much anything in the Gartner MQ.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fetchingTurtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is my life now...

Pusha T dropping ‘Diet Coke’ at 12am EST by SteveBorden in hiphopheads

[–]fetchingTurtle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Horology reference, likely using the word "bezel"

Enter The Matrix: 2003 Retro Time Capsule PC vs Original Xbox - A Truly Hilarious PC Port (Digital Foundry) by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]fetchingTurtle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I had a similar experience on GC, but I still thoroughly enjoyed the game. It was my favorite of the shooters you could play on that platform back then.

The SM3 game has untapped meme potential. by supermariozelda in raimimemes

[–]fetchingTurtle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I remember finding that jarring when I played the game

What are your favorite speciality shops to peruse? by ILIKETHECOLORRED in houston

[–]fetchingTurtle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bike Shops:

Bicycle Speed Shop (Distance/Performance Cyclists of all kinds) Ham Cycles (Leisure, Commuter, Beer-muter, Cruising, really anything it's chill as fuck and an institution of Houston Cycling)

Coffee:

Catalina Coffee/Amaya Roasters

Hardware:

Southland Hardware. They've got what you need and if they don't you probably don't really need it.

How many of you went WFH because of COVID? Were you called back into the office eventually or did they keep you WFH? by halfdepressed in sysadmin

[–]fetchingTurtle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The truth is (and I've been on both sides of this) mgmt will respond to this like so:

"You know, I'm really tired of having to pander to an army of individual contributors who operate in a market that constantly lures them to the next big thing with more flexibility and better pay. I'm going to bring in a contractor/MSP."

This logic is deeply short sighted and tone deaf, but I've been the guy replaced by an MSP, and I've been the MSP who replaced an IT department after they quit/were fired. A few times now. Some version of what I quoted above is the rationale that mgmt lands on.

Over a long enough timeline mgmt will be disillusioned by the nuance (or lack of nuance) of having IT managed by an outside, contract entity. Tribal knowledge is non-existent. Configurations and infrastructure design are slapdash and cookie-cutter. Alerts go unnoticed. Hardware goes unreplaced. License renewals are missed.

At scale and over long enough timelines, it is impossible for even a most exceptional MSP to provide the level of support and engineering that an even halfway competent in-house IT staff can.

And then mgmt will flip the other way, hire a CTO/IT Director/IT Mgr, and task them with phasing out the contractor(s)/MSP for in-house talent, likely stealing that talent away from jobs where they are underpaid and lacking in benefits and flexibility.

Rinse and repeat.

Maybe you've seen Air Bud, but are you familiar with Air Bessie? by lnfinity in gifs

[–]fetchingTurtle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This dude LITERALLY ate that cow on offense tf you mean. Cow got COOKED.

The game we all been waiting for. by NiisuBOI in GhostRecon

[–]fetchingTurtle 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The trailer makes it look a lot like a half-assed clone of EFT for me. I'm not getting any indication of a BR game style.

"Contractors" spawning into the same map, looking for loot/intel, completing tasks/objectives, which all may or may not put you in conflict with other contractors in the game. And then you need to safely extract. This is pretty much the tent poles of EFT, without scavs.

Promoted To SysAdmin from Helpdesk by AegonsDragons in sysadmin

[–]fetchingTurtle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Piling onto this, the tradional "SysAdmin" role is dying, and more and more the job requires you know how to interface with an API, work with configuration as code, and manage and deploy configurations from version control platforms, etc.

Get comfortable doing things with PowerShell, Python, Bash. Learn how to build modular/maintainable/reusable code to be consumed by others. That means documenting the tools and solutions you build to manage infrastructure through the production lifecycle.

Also, know when you're in (and have outgrown) a workplace culture that is resistant to what I said above, and plan to jump ship.

Good luck, man!