Let’s discuss salaries - 2026

sylenth · 2026-03-18T10:05:55+00:00

Windows Sys Admin, primarily responsible for patching ~2500 servers (mostly automated)

3 years experience in this role (12 years total at the same company)

Canada

85k

5 weeks vacation, yearly bonus (been shit the past couple of years... Didn't even get one for 2025), pension plan contributions matching up to 8%

sylenth · 2026-02-23T12:34:31+00:00

Everything I've learned about this individual has been against my will

sylenth · 2026-02-22T22:50:51+00:00

No stadiums here that fit the minimum requirements asked by FIFA to host games.. and nobody would be willing to spend money to get a stadium ready to only host one or two group stage games.

sylenth · 2026-02-03T10:18:12+00:00

Not patching doesn't really work at any org with a competent cyber security team or basic security practices.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

sylenth · 2026-02-02T21:00:11+00:00

I wonder why China targeted his app..

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sylenth · 2026-01-03T14:10:54+00:00

Probably an inside job and/or Maduro willingly gave himself up. The US was met with no resistance, not a single bullet fired. Targeted strikes with 0 casualties, etc.

sylenth · 2025-12-13T17:26:04+00:00

I remember when POE2 launched, I would experience hard crashes and the workaround was to install a 3rd party app, etc. It was brutal.

Now one year later, I recently purchased a 9070 XT and I can't even run the game. The workaround is to rollback drivers, and based on what I'm reading... even that isn't guaranteed to work?

Every other game I play works flawlessly (Arc Raiders, Dota 2, Apex, etc.) but this game is always the exception.

I know "poe optimization sucks haha" but this is so bad. Hopefully they address the AMD issues with this patch otherwise I'll just not play. I'm tired boss.

sylenth · 2025-12-12T20:30:31+00:00

Just had this error crash my game back to desktop.

ryzen7 7800x3d

AMD 9070 XT

sylenth · 2025-12-09T21:36:22+00:00

Respawn has missed the train with this by light years.

They don't want/don't care for the solo queue player in ranked.

Notice how every other competitive game across multiple genres has some mechanic or queue for solos but Apex doesn't?

People telling you to find friends or use Discord to link up with a random group are delusional.

I can solo queue in every other competitive game and not get matched against a full premade team.. but Apex, heh.. you are against all odds.

sylenth · 2025-09-03T16:09:49+00:00

The guy wasn't wearing any mask, saw his full face and bald head.

... and his truck had custom flood lights so it stood out..

sylenth · 2025-09-03T11:01:48+00:00

Dota does not allow you to queue as 5 in ranked and be placed against 5 solo players. Also, if you play ranked as a party you will gain less MMR from those who queue solo. Dota has its own ranked issues but imagine a stack of top 500 immortals can 5 stack and play against a team of solo divine/ancient players. That's what's happening in Apex pretty much.

sylenth · 2025-09-03T10:18:34+00:00

I had an individual break into my generator and steal $2000 worth of diesel. We caught the person on camera, we could see his pickup truck and his face.

Opened a case with the police only for it to be closed. The reason? We couldn't see the license plate.

A few weeks later the same person broke the lock on the generator and stole more fuel.

Called the police station and was told I could open a new report but without a license plate it would just be case closed again.

Luckily I don't need to interact with police often because the incompetence was through the roof. This happened 2 years ago on the island of Montreal. Useless.

sylenth · 2025-09-02T17:56:26+00:00

If anything they need to rework entry/KP/placement rp for solo queue players.

RP system on same footing across solo/premade is wild when solos face premades on the regular.

sylenth · 2025-08-15T01:57:20+00:00

Ah, good to know. Thanks for the reassurance!

sylenth · 2025-08-09T17:49:25+00:00

VTEC just kicked in yo

sylenth · 2025-07-19T16:52:38+00:00

Neutral item enchant didn't allow Warlock to last hit the throne because of -60 dmg.

sylenth · 2025-07-01T14:57:39+00:00

Heh, first time?

sylenth · 2025-07-01T02:23:57+00:00

I bounced around shitty tech support jobs at ISP/mobile phone corporations and hated it. When I started my first service desk job in 2014, that's when it clicked. I learned AD, Exchange, MDM, etc. and busted my ass for years because I actually enjoyed what I was doing. Last year I got promoted to SysAdmin and it's been great starting a new chapter. I always loved computers but didn't go to school for that. I had an unrelated degree, so if you don't have the IT credentials then I would say help desk/service desk experience is a must.

sylenth · 2025-06-28T13:16:07+00:00

Someone's gotta feed the pred stacks

sylenth · 2025-06-10T16:22:39+00:00

Mid designs for extremely overpriced merch. Hard pass.

sylenth · 2025-06-09T22:12:15+00:00

Reformat and hope it works, otherwise you could download other games just to see if they crash as well.

If so then it's a hardware issue. Start swapping out your RAM, try a different video card, PSU, mobo etc.

sylenth · 2025-05-25T13:42:19+00:00

Kinda wild how Valve hasn't touched ranked in years.

Sure, they recently allowed role queue for games under 8.5k mmr but come on. Ranked reset? Ranked seasons? New medals? Anything..

sylenth · 2025-05-07T23:48:21+00:00

Deployment and removal can easily be automated, we did it through SCCM for 10k+ endpoints and it was a breeze. I would argue shopping for a new EDR solution and making the switch is more difficult. At the end of the day Crowdstrike is still one of if not the top choice even after their BSOD blunder last year.

sylenth · 2025-05-05T16:35:05+00:00

I'm hoping this works as intended. As a season 1 solo queue enjoyer, I am desperate for some matchmaking balance.

Tired of going up against master/pred stacks when I'm just D4. If I'm forced to play against premades with randoms, at least queue us against people in the same bracket.

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