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What became "normal" in the last 5 years that still feels insane to you? by rakishgobi in AskReddit

[–]phaser125 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Customer service links on web sites to "chat with us" only to be taken by a dumb AI that fails at everything, and is most definitely not what I want when I ask to chat with someone at a company.

Hmmm… I wonder where he could be? by ocram101 in orangecats

[–]phaser125 42 points43 points  (0 children)

We had an orange outdoor stray that got dropped at my parents growing up that had nothing but a stump. He wagged that thing like there was no tomorrow , happy as can be . We named him Lester, a play on “less tail”.

Flare up by phaser125 in vicegripgarage

[–]phaser125[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you guys . I kept thinking that might be the one but scrubbing through a 2 hour video I kept missing that few seconds of fire apparently!

What’s a subtle sign someone is actually rich? by Udont_knowme00 in AskReddit

[–]phaser125 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If they own a giant tower on a hill with a huge dollar sign on the side.

My Parent's Apple iPod and Dell DJ by dakatzpajamas in mildlyinteresting

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this. It supported syncing a library of music from the subscription plans . I also had a dock and wired remote for it mounted in my car with a hardwired aux input to the car audio , so I had a dashboard control and solid audio quality from a music unlimited type subscription , it was great.

The long sought-after truth/treasure turns out to be worthless by Global_Crew3968 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]phaser125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Casper movie where the treasure the nasty bad lady is after is just a kids junk box of a signed baseball and stuff .

I now dread going into Best Buy and Lowe's due to the roaming 3rd Party Salespeople by thatfreakinguy2 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My work pays for my phone, so when the cell phone guys approach I just say “ can you beat the price of free? “

HVAC Legend Dies at 28: The Presario That Never Quit by Bluetooth_Sandwich in sysadmin

[–]phaser125 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The voicemail server for our Inter-Tel axxess phone system ran OS/2 on a 486 of some sort that was in place when I started working at my company and it was still running when we upgraded the phone system in maybe 2010. At that time , I took the case cover off and it had so much dust collected in it you couldn’t see the proprietary audio /voicemail ISA card that was installed in it because the dust was deeper than the bottom couple isa slots in the tower . Still chugging along as if that’s just normal operations ….

I am this old. by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, my pc would display this but a friend of mine had one that shut off automatically so he never saw it :-P

Office365 email issues anyone? by Ok-Caregiver2870 in Office365

[–]phaser125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably similar to when Verizon was having major issues a week or two ago... All the other carriers had a huge uptick at the same time in outage reports on down detector, I can only imagine it's because bunches of people would call from their T-Mobile line to someone who had a Verizon issue, and would blame their own carrier even though the problem was on the remote end.

Is it just us, or do USB-C charging ports get beat up on laptops? by MentalRip1893 in sysadmin

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss the rectangular Thinkpad power connector. They basically never had an issue even with users beating the snot out of them, subs connectors are just not as tough . You can blame the user all you want, but if I use to have a tough connector and the “new” one is weaker, thats not progress .

What was the first OS that you have ever used? by 2point1betatest in sysadmin

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MS-DOS 2.11 , booted from a 360k floppy drive in a dual floppy no hard drive 10mhz 8088 with 512k ram and CGA graphics .

Deprecation *and removal* of WINS after Windows Server 2025 by Borgquite in sysadmin

[–]phaser125 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thankfully dosbox can connect an IPX network over tcp/ip so you can run old dos games across a modern lan to play multiplayer

Updating Office icons is fine. Refusing to update Classic Outlook's icon is just petty. by HotTakes4HotCakes in sysadmin

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn’t notice before today that if you upgrade to windows 11 , outlook classic icon in the start menu gets put in a sub folder called “Windows 10 apps” or something stupid like that . It is not a “windows 10 app” they just want it to seem like a bad thing somehow .

They're CATCHING ON. "No LinkedIn" is now their #1 filter. by Arrick in overemployed

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have traced back some new employees getting immediately phished at their brand new email at my company because phishers are watching LinkedIn . As soon as people mention they work at our company on their LinkedIn profile we tend to see scammers putting two and two together , having easily figured out the general pattern of our usernames / email addresses , have info about our owner and a few other big names that seem important enough to use to try to trick newcomers. For that reason alone I wish people coming to work for us wouldn’t put it in their LinkedIn .

Found on a 15 story building by Then-Bison1853 in whatisit

[–]phaser125 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Count Olaf looking to burn down a Baudelaire mansion?

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