I remember this comment. Best advice I’ve seen on this sub.

Yep. I have one registered for professional email. I don’t host anything else.

I know it’s RPG memes, but all I can hear in my head is the Mortal Kombat fight music from the old movie (Techno Syndrome).

Fight!

Well what if I want to sexually harass you? I need to know what genitals I’m going to threaten with a good time against your will!

Can they do that to the crime that has affected the greatest number of people and caused the greatest amount of lost money? Because that’s wage theft and it’s probably the only way I’d be cool with it.

Came here to say this. I’ve worked on systems for a restaurant on the beach and it was corroded as hell. We had the wireless access points in cheap “weatherproof” boxes and they got corroded. We replaced them once a year or so because it was so bad.

I thought it was Eric the Paladin. I remember because I have a ttrpg friend named Eric who we mocked in a friendly way about that story.

You’re right, and it’s only been a few thousand years. I’ll still complain to anyone who will listen. If I don’t complain how will you know I really enjoy the series?

If we start pulling at this thread people will start wondering why Wheel of Time had a bunch of pale redheads in the desert.

His name is Dennis. Once you really get to know him you’ll understand.

It’s definitely difficult over text unless you know someone.

No one could have seen this coming. Obviously LLMs absolutely completely understand the difference between people joking around with each other and authentic advice.

Sarcasm aside, Reddit does have some good information about niche topics. There’s just currently no way for AI to understand the difference between dry humor and serious responses. I think the AI summaries are unhelpful anyway, but even if I didn’t it’s pretty obvious Google didn’t think further than “Shove AI into it like a drunken prom night encounter”.

Why are these corporate schmucks unable to take any blame?

Because they never have to.

The issue is that there are a lot of bad actors “just asking questions”. You’re not one. A lot of folks have a hard time assuming good intentions because of all the shit people pushing bad agendas by feigning ignorance.

I try to assume the best, but I don’t always make it.

And all the companies committing wage theft.

In addition, with all Microsoft’s faults they had a hell of a small business package for years. In a lot of small businesses, the current CIO came up during those times and dictates policy.

Plus there are a lot of VARs and MSPs who push MS due to favorable terms and kickbacks. Small and medium sized businesses who outsource IT go with whatever they’re told because they don’t have the expertise, time, or desire to explore alternatives.

Plus there’s a load of self hosted software for certain industries that only works on Windows servers.

Yep. I no longer have to administer Windows servers (everything I do is serverless these days) but I did for many years.

Adding anything to a server without vetting it against policies is a huge no no. Back when I was doing it, a big part of our monthly update deployment was updating the test environment first so we knew we weren’t about to break a bunch of shit for us and our customers. Not just “does this brick Windows server”, but “do our applications still function” (usually yes, but the answer was no on several occasions over shit smaller than this).

I don’t know what adding copilot does. Is it going to accidentally break some custom application by accident because it’s tied directly into the system? Is it going to report shit that I’ve already opted out of due to our data policies and possibly fuck up our audit compliance because of government regulations (defense, medical, and energy sectors have huge responsibilities in that area, just don’t ask how I know)? How does it interact with our in-house developed software?

Fuck, I dunno. That sounds like a nightmare for infrastructure and ops, several managers, government regulators, and a payday for legal.

I was able to do that for years. For me to give a shit what’s in your email you have to be more interesting than the rest of the internet, which pretty much means you’d have to be doing something at least borderline illegal and have it brought to my attention by someone who noticed it over your shoulder.

You say that, but people being attracted to the same gender in the real world are still demonized. It wasn’t that long ago (and is still an issue in some places) that interracial relationships were looked down on and even illegal.

So eventually it would be considered normal, but I think it would take a while.

I was super excited for a minute thinking maybe we were getting a movie about vampire circus performers hurtling through the air.

Ok, so I like bad movies.