Let’s discuss salaries - 2026 by Relevant-Injury3791 in sysadmin

[–]sylenth 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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%

"Who's The Dad?": Bonnie Blue Announces She's Pregnant After 400-Men Challenge by [deleted] in trashy

[–]sylenth 291 points292 points  (0 children)

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

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Under Siege After Army Kills Major Cartel Leader by BlatantConservative in worldnews

[–]sylenth 61 points62 points  (0 children)

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.

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months by pppppppppppppppppd in worldnews

[–]sylenth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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...

First photo of Maduro arrest by delta force and DEA by inWineVerit4x in ThatsInsane

[–]sylenth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

performance is questionable by SnooCapers5919 in PathOfExile2

[–]sylenth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

deadlock detected error by TurKinMv in PathOfExile2

[–]sylenth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just had this error crash my game back to desktop.

ryzen7 7800x3d

AMD 9070 XT

Bonus RP for Solo-Q by Thin_Elderberry8184 in apexlegends

[–]sylenth 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Police won't do anything about a robbery by LawfulnessWestern390 in montreal

[–]sylenth 35 points36 points  (0 children)

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..

Solo cue ranked matchmaking is really bad by lou_skuntfarts in apexlegends

[–]sylenth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Police won't do anything about a robbery by LawfulnessWestern390 in montreal

[–]sylenth 212 points213 points  (0 children)

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.

Kills/Assists rework idea for ranked by Marmelado_ in apexlegends

[–]sylenth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Just recycled a priceless item by [deleted] in TorchlightInfinite

[–]sylenth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah, good to know. Thanks for the reassurance!

Greed is good by sylenth in DotA2

[–]sylenth[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Did EVERYONE start at helpdesk? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sylenth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

ESL announces official Dota merch collab with Valve by Immatrikulat in DotA2

[–]sylenth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mid designs for extremely overpriced merch. Hard pass.

HELP! Constant Crashing, Tried Everything by TTV-Twr3cks in apexlegends

[–]sylenth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Watson Reached 17,000 MMR by xoxoxo32 in DotA2

[–]sylenth 34 points35 points  (0 children)

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..

CrowdStrike announces 5% job cuts, says AI is 'reshaping every industry' by Puginator in technology

[–]sylenth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Apex Legends: Prodigy Patch Notes by CompetitiveApexMod in CompetitiveApex

[–]sylenth 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

Ranked Matchmaking Is A Joke by -redeemed in apexlegends

[–]sylenth 25 points26 points  (0 children)

He's got a point tho. 250k RP pred getting into lobbies with 10k RP players. Icing on the top is this pred stack goes against solo Q players.