how about a meme generator thread...

[balrog]

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Kent88]

I was about to say something about running Linux on my raspberry pi, but now you all have me concerned that the militant vegans are about to show up.

 

[balrog]

I was about to say something about running Linux on my raspberry pi, but now you all have me concerned that the militant vegans are about to show up.

I'm getting ready to set up a PiZero running Linux at a vaca home so I can review syslogs for power "events" I suspect are happening.

But if I'm not around when the vegans drop by, will I still be annoyed?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[day_trippr]

 

[Kent88]

I'm getting ready to set up a PiZero running Linux at a vaca home so I can review syslogs for power "events" I suspect are happening.

You're a vacation home kind of person??

Tell me more...

 

[balrog]

I know this is supposed to be about the small scratch at the wheel well opening, but am I the only one who sees the scary clown face?

 

[Agent]

I know this is supposed to be about the small scratch at the wheel well opening, but am I the only one who sees the scary clown face?

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Reading some folks posts is like picking up Clockwork Orange all over again. I can easily read all the words, but as a sentence, I've only got the gist of an implication.

 

[Agent]

 

[Snuffy]

Reading some folks posts is like picking up Clockwork Orange all over again. I can easily read all the words, but as a sentence, I've only got the gist of an implication.

At least Clockwork had a glossary in the back.

 

[Kent88]

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It ain't Christmas yet

 

[Agent]

It ain't Christmas yet

But it is Generator season, which is like the next best thing!

 

[Kharnynb]

But it is Generator season, which is like the next best thing!

as an electrician, if you use that on a generator, i'll come to your house and stuff that cord where the sun doesn't shine.

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

You're a vacation home kind of person??

Tell me more...

I am nothing if not multifaceted.

 

[balrog]

Reading some folks posts is like picking up Clockwork Orange all over again. I can easily read all the words, but as a sentence, I've only got the gist of an implication.

You’re welcome.

My work here is done.

 

[balrog]

This.

Exactly.

Yep. Lived it. The struggle was real.

 

[Kent88]

Just gonna file this meme about the vegan topic away for later

 

[balrog]

I part my hair on the left.

There.

I said it.

 

[Snuffy]

This.

Exactly.

Yep. Lived it. The struggle was real.

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One week, I crawled under a desk to find that a scanner was not working because the user had repeatedly forced the usb cable into their now-completely-destroyed spare display port. The next week, I was notified by their supervisor that they had requested a second monitor.

 

[Kent88]

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Agent]

 

[Snuffy]

We used to interview kids for in-house tech support jobs and I would wait until everyone else had asked all their questions of the candidate and then I would ask one question. "If a user calls you and says email is down, what is the first thing you do?". If they said anything besides check their own email first, it was thumbs down. Another was, "What is the first thing you ask a user to do when troubleshooting any workstation issue remotely over the phone?". Anything besides "reboot" was a disappointment.

 

[Broken Crow]

We used to interview kids for in-house tech support jobs and I would wait until everyone else had asked all their questions of the candidate and then I would ask one question. "If a user calls you and says email is down, what is the first thing you do?". If they said anything besides check their own email first, it was thumbs down. Another was, "What is the first thing you ask a user to do when troubleshooting any workstation issue remotely over the phone?". Anything besides "reboot" was a disappointment.

I always made them delete their temp files and disable all the stupid garbage they'd installed before a reboot...

 

[balrog]

We used to interview kids for in-house tech support jobs and I would wait until everyone else had asked all their questions of the candidate and then I would ask one question. "If a user calls you and says email is down, what is the first thing you do?". If they said anything besides check their own email first, it was thumbs down. Another was, "What is the first thing you ask a user to do when troubleshooting any workstation issue remotely over the phone?". Anything besides "reboot" was a disappointment.

“Email has been down half the day!”

“That’s awful, did I miss you telling me this somehow?

“How was I supposed to tell you if I can’t email you??!!”

Literally two office doors down.

With a telephone.

Coffee. Because murder is somehow frowned upon.

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Kent88]

I always made them delete their temp files and disable all the stupid garbage they'd installed before a reboot...

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COMET CURSOR!

We had that, or something like it, probably on our win98 machine.

I shutter to think what malware was installed with it.

 

[Broken Crow]

COMET CURSOR!

We had that, or something like it, probably on our win98 machine.

I shutter to think what malware was installed with it.

 

[Kent88]

Yeah, some years ago I deliberately steered a sister of mine towards Mac because 1) I wasn't proficient with Linux yet; 2) I was already trying to do remote support for my parents, which was frustrating enough, and I didn't want to mess with her gear too; & 3) at the time Macs seemed solid and she wasn't running any obscure software that Macs couldn't handle.

These days, I understand SSH well enough and I could probably set up an Ubuntu or Mint install for somebody, spend an afternoon tweaking it, and give them a file and a printout of instructions for what information to have ready before they call me with a problem, and remotely login to update their machine and reboot it, hopefully solving their issues.

But the way things have gone most of my family are in the Apple ecosystem, a lot of my in-laws use their phones, and I don't even tinker with new Linux distros like I did back in the mid-late aughts.

 

[Broken Crow]

Yeah, some years ago I deliberately steered a sister of mine towards Mac because 1) I wasn't proficient with Linux yet; 2) I was already trying to do remote support for my parents, which was frustrating enough, and I didn't want to mess with her gear too; & 3) at the time Macs seemed solid and she wasn't running any obscure software that Macs couldn't handle.

These days, I understand SSH well enough and I could probably set up an Ubuntu or Mint install for somebody, spend an afternoon tweaking it, and give them a file and a printout of instructions for what information to have ready before they call me with a problem, and remotely login to update their machine and reboot it, hopefully solving their issues.

But the way things have gone most of my family are in the Apple ecosystem, a lot of my in-laws use their phones, and I don't even tinker with new Linux distros like I did back in the mid-late aughts.

I had to run window$ for file compatibility but I also kept Free BSD as a boot option on every system I had so that I could easily repair the M$ garbage when it inevitably barfed and passed out.

 

[Kharnynb]

modern techies have it way too easy, I did tech support in the early 2000's when you still had to do modem strings to figure out why a customer wasn't connecting at the right speed.

 

[balrog]

I shudder to think what malware was installed with it.

Um, Windows?

I don't even tinker with new Linux distros like I did back in the mid-late aughts.

And don’t you miss that? I know I do.

modern techies have it way too easy, I did tech support in the early 2000's when you still had to do modem strings to figure out why a customer wasn't connecting at the right speed.

Pfsh.
Modems?!!
Luxury!!

 

[Broken Crow]

modern techies have it way too easy, I did tech support in the early 2000's when you still had to do modem strings to figure out why a customer wasn't connecting at the right speed.

You're doing it wrong!! By the time Window$ Vista came around I told everyone I used BSD, Mac and Linux now and had no idea how Vista worked..... Amazing just how fast people at work stop being available to run out to the street-vendors to grab your lunch for your and family and friends are calling significantly less!

 

[Kent88]

Um, Windows?

I didn't know about Linux until the early-mid aughts, and I didn't switch to primarily Linux until around 2010.

And don’t you miss that? I know I do.

You know, in some ways I do miss trying out all the different distros. Sure, it was probably a nightmare for tech support with all those upstart distros that looked promising but one didn't know which one would be around in 5 years. An "early" favorite of mine was SimplyMepis. That distro was one of the first to be able to test off a liveCD, had nice tools for new users, and the community around it was pretty good, even if a bunch were more of the Debian mindset. But it was a one-man shop and when he decided he was done, that was it. antiX was based on it and that had its 15 minutes. I think the community tried to come together to make something else, but I'm unaware of that even getting 5 minutes, much less 15.

But those were also interesting times for us who had a couple spare machines we saved from the dumpster to see what new distros could make of them. Linux distros were going to absurd lengths to catch up with Mac and Windoze in aesthetics and user friendliness. I remember in particular testing Mandriva Metisse off a liveCD on my main laptop. It didn't run quickly, but it looked fancy.

These days, what are the popular, libre & free to download distros doing to be exciting? I haven't been following as closely, but from what little I've seen, not much.

 

[Kent88]

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What does GrogNerd's contraption have to do with operating systems?

 

[AzOr]

 

[Snuffy]

I always made them delete their temp files and disable all the stupid garbage they'd installed before a reboot...

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Depends on the issue, but yeah you gotta start with the basics and work forward thru a process of elimination if it's something you haven't seen before or something that could have multiple causes. Is it plugged in? Is the person in the next cube having the same issue or is it just you? Can you surf any other website normally? Knowing that you establish a baseline and then proceed to the more in-depth confusion indicates troubleshooting experience.