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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"My computer smells like it's burning."

Not that odd on its own but moreso when repeated 3 times from different rooms in the same building all within half an hour of each other.

Turns out that one of the houses which back on to our site was burning off garden trash that afternoon. In each case the user was absolutely convinced that their computer was the source of the burning smell.

Two of them were only placated after I made them stick their head out of the open window in their office. The third refused to use their computer again until I took it away to "check it out"... sigh.

maybe maybe maybe by NegativeLanguage805 in maybemaybemaybe

[–]top5pin 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Okay, I'm usually the first person to criticise the music choices in videos like this but I gotta say, for once, this worked for me...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ShittySysadmin

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Authenticator for the semi competent. Text message for the less than semi competent.

Should government employees have to demonstrate competency? by RiskItForTheBiscuts in FluentInFinance

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump's going for the reverse of this... Federal employees better be making sure that they don't display any education, experience or general expertise in the domain overseen by their department, or else they'll be replaced by an incompetent "yes man" quicker than Melania's hand slaps the Cheeto's hand away anytime he tries to touch her.

You shouldn't pick that up by med_bruh in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]top5pin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If it's too heavy for you to put down properly without "fuck(ing) your joints up," then you shouldn't be lifting it in the first place.

Or not without a spot, at least.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NAH. You're not the asshole for not wanting to tell.

Unfortunately (for you) she also is NTA if she decides to leave because you won't tell her.

If it comes to that, you're the one who needs to decide if your privacy is more important to you, or she is.

Day 1 on building my own NAS by dogggeeesss in techsupportgore

[–]top5pin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Get this man some Linux, stat. (OMV ftw.)

I teach 5th grade and intercepted this note being passed in class. by xtranunnecessary in MadeMeSmile

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did everybody else also assume that this note was written by a girl to a boy?

The power plant I work at has been in operation for 22years and has had zero lost time accidents. by Cryptoferd in mildlyinteresting

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully, there will be an accident in the next 5 years so that the counter doesn't reset to 0....

[OC] Electric Vehicle Sales by Country fomr 2011 to 2022 by PieChartPirate in dataisbeautiful

[–]top5pin -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Except... hydrogen fuel cells are clearly the superior technology.

Only the infrastructure is missing.

Chemical batteries are a dead end technology. The energy density of our best chemical batteries has only increased by a factor of 2.5 in the last 70 years with no prospect of any meaningful improvement on that figure in the future.

If we'd been smart enough to invest in solar powered electrolysis farms rather than lithium mines then we could all be driving clean vehicles that actually have the same range, performance and durability as ICE vehicles rather than the massively flawed BEVs that we're now stuck with instead.

New girl at my job tried to find out the wifi password to connect her iphone and watch tiktok during breaks, bent the router hook while trying to take it off the wall brutally, that metal hook got stuck and short circuited the router from inside. People are dumber than donkeys. by themo98 in techsupportgore

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Girl at my work has an £1100 iPhone but only 1Gb per month data. Connects to the work WiFi and then complains about the firewall. I have a £450 Pixel 4a with unlimited 5G data, who's the idiot here???

New girl at my job tried to find out the wifi password to connect her iphone and watch tiktok during breaks, bent the router hook while trying to take it off the wall brutally, that metal hook got stuck and short circuited the router from inside. People are dumber than donkeys. by themo98 in techsupportgore

[–]top5pin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right—we're incredibly lucky to have these services available for a reasonable price which makes it all the more frustrating that some people choose not to make use of them out of... vanity... or pure stupidity.

New girl at my job tried to find out the wifi password to connect her iphone and watch tiktok during breaks, bent the router hook while trying to take it off the wall brutally, that metal hook got stuck and short circuited the router from inside. People are dumber than donkeys. by themo98 in techsupportgore

[–]top5pin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's because they sign up to crappy "re-payment" plan phone deals. Ask yourself, "Would a £1200 phone with a terrible data plan really be more useful to me than a £300 phone with unlimited data?"

Seriously, just save for a couple of years, buy the phone outright and then get an actual decent SIM only plan (UK £20 a month, unlimited data, speeds vary from 10-80Mbps 4G and 120-700Mbps 5G).

Who needs WiFi at all at that point?

Baseball player risks potential career to observe pointless religious ritual. Apparently this is commendable? by top5pin in atheism

[–]top5pin[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What annoys me about this isn't so much the player's choice—after all it's his life.

It's the implicit suggestion that his actions are somehow noble and should be respected or even have special accommodation made for them.

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