Oh my fucking god. Thank you!

Confusion like this got me my current job. They were looking for somebody with experience in “Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager”, and I look that up and I’m like “Oh, that’s SCCM, I do that”. Go through the interview process they keep asking me if I know Endpoint Configuration Manager and I’m like “yeah, for sure”. I get the job. Day one, the other systems engineer is like “here is the link to our Endpoint Manager Tenant”, and I’m like “oh… Shit I have never ever used this”

Well… Ends up Endpoint Configuration Manager and Endpoint Manager are two different things. Fortunately for me they are pretty similar in function and rely on knowledge of Windows and Powershell, which I know.

So my first 2 weeks of work was taking a shitload of courses in Endpoint Manager and watching a lot of videos and learning it inside and out.

2 years later and I’m an Endpoint Manager/Intune pro.

Linus was ahead of the game on this one. Nvidia should start building data centers next to public pools. Cool the systems and warm the pools.

Cool. Like 3 deaths cause by immigrants. Now do deaths caused by American citizens and guns. Maybe mass shootings.

Clearly immigrants are the problem.

I put “Chaotic Neutral Technomancer” as my title at work and HR said I had to change it.

I met a friend of a friend recently and they asked what I did and I told them I’m a computer systems engineer and they were like “oh you must be smart” and I was like “I like to think that I’m good at what I do, but trust me. I am not smart”

Mushrooms. I feel like this one is pretty split between lovers and haters, but I can’t stand them. I wish I loved them, because they look delicious and are always in things.

Same with Lobster. It looks so good. It tastes so bad. I try it every 2 or 3 years because I’m like “there’s no way it’s that bad, it looks so good, I should give it another go” and then I try a bite, and it’s so awful that when I try to swallow it my throat stops it from going down, and it comes back into my mouth, and my eyes start watering.

Also Salmon. Fuck salmon. There are so many delicious types of fish, and salmon is not one of them. And I’m so sick of hearing people tell me “oh you just haven’t had good salmon.” - and then I try some of this supposed “good” salmon, and it’s foul every time.

Yeah, I miss the old days when the stories were substantial. Like when a whore steals your lemons.

My Irish cousin-in-law recently had a daughter and named her Blathnaid. I was very surprised to learn it is pronounced Bla-nid

I’m really surprised Dokaryan hasn’t done this one yet. For those unfamiliar he’s a guy that makes videos of soaking food in liqour for a week “or until something interesting happens”. He then eats some of the food, and takes a shot of the liqour. His concoctions range from really delicious (strawberry candy in blueberry vodka) to downright foul (squid in Kraken rum).

His personality probably isn’t for everybody. He’s kinda loud and owns way too many fedoras, but he has grown on me.

Don’t forget your soapy wooder

A girl in my chemistry class learned that the hard way. I have never seen a burn blister form so fast.

Real Player.

Nobody had enough bandwidth to actually stream anything. I guess some people had IDSN, and maybe even fewer cable internet, but the majority of the world was still on dial up. You can’t stream video on dial up.

It also comes with YouTube music which rivals spotify. Kind of the better option if you are paying for a premium service.

Congratulations on being part of the problem.

I worked my way up in IT from the help desk all the way up to a Senior Systems Engineer with no degree, certificate, etc. It was all self taught through YouTube and by learning on the job. My first help desk position I was able to get because I “was good with computers”.

I was able to move up through the industry by getting an entry job, learning on the job and asking for more to do and learning new things until I felt I plateaued, then used LinkedIn to talk to recruiters and got my next job which was more advanced stuff I had never done but felt capable of doing - did a lot of learning on the job, lots of Google and YouTube, asked for more to do and learned new things until I got a promotion, got good at the next position until I plateaued, and then back to LinkedIn for more talking with recruiters. Rinse and repeat…

It’s been a long journey, but I’ve seen people start with less experience succeed just as well.

Do you count the prologue level in Mega Man X as a tutorial? Because whenever I go back to beat that game, I have no problem playing that level again. It takes like 3 minutes and it gets your jumping and shooting fingers all warmed up.

I think this explains it right here. As another commenter said “more fear than anything else”. Animals act very differently than humans when they are scared, they often get very aggressive. Anecdotally, when I was younger my loving smush of a dog got hit by a car and I ran over to her and she bit the shit out of me. She was scared for her life, and that’s just how her brain was wired to react.

And just so I don’t leave anybody feeling awful, she made it to the vet, needed a pin in her hip, and her tail was amputated, but she went on to live to the ripe old age of 15. My bites weren’t too bad because she was a small dog. No stitches needed, but I have some tiny scars left if you look really close

But if you want to feel angry about the situation, it was a cop car that she was hit by which was flying down a residential street, and the cop yelled at me and my mother and threatened to give us a ticket for having a dog off the leash. And thus my hatred for police began at the age of 10.

I actually reached out to my father to ask about this because the machanic was a buddy of his so I thought he might have some info. It was indeed a vac system issue.

I also live in a heavily salted area, so yeah. Rust did the body in before the engine went out. When you finally retire yours, make sure to pop the “Turbo Diesel” decal from the back of it. I still have mine sitting on a desk at my parents house. A nice memento of my many good years in that car.

“The plastic knife toy, which is shaped like a carrot”

They got some real weird shaped carrots in South Korea.