Sounds like you know at least enough for a junior admin job if you can find one. What you’re missing is the “street smarts” that only comes with experience. How things actually work in real life businesses, with real life users and salespeople and managers and C-levels throwing shit into the sauce.
Getting the job is going to be the hard part, for numerous reasons that have nothing to do with you personally. It’s a shitshow out there. Best of luck.
The LLM peddlers seem to be going for that exact result. That’s why they’re calling it “AI”. Why is this surprising that non-technical people are falling for it?
$10 says whoever’s in charge of this $500 billion project is just going to wrap ChatGPT, pocket $490 billion, then go ask for more.
They’re scream testing the whole government, one piece at a time.
This would be a lot more chilling if you weren’t familiar with Elon Musk in real life, as opposed to his delusions of grandeur. The real Elon Musk insists on funnier-shaped rockets and throws tantrums when he gets bullied over sucking at video games. The only dangerous thing about him is being born rich, spoiled, and enabled.
Yep. I replaced a bunch of ancient HP switches in a SMB with all Aruba. Works like a charm, and (at the time) used ones were dirt cheap.
I will almost guarantee some update will break shit at the most inconvenient time humanly possible and the people you’ve done this for will need your help, all at the same time.
Well, yeah. That’s life as an admin under the best circumstances. There’s a running list of Windows ticking time bombs over on r/sysadmin. There are lots of good reasons to ditch Windows, but I wouldn’t say the risk of MS shutting down technically unsupported hardware is one of them (because I don’t agree it’s a substantial risk).
And nobody who is familiar with how technology companies operate was shocked to hear that the 100k incel camino is literally held together with cheap glue.
I still can’t believe that 46k people are both that stupid and have 100k to spend.
Hot take from an IT guy: save your important data, make a plain vanilla W11 boot USB (nothing fancy, no Rufus tricks), wipe your hard drive to zeroes, and install W11 like normal. I’ve reimaged a ton of older PCs and literally never seen it not work. My 10 year old Optiplex, supposedly ineligible for W11, runs W11 just fine.
Microsoft might someday break it, sure. That’s not new. Microsoft products were always, in practice, available to us at Microsoft’s pleasure. This is the same company that allows massgrave to exist on github because they’d rather we pirate MS Office than allow LibreOffice any oxygen. We’ll probably be fine.
I’ve been donating for a while. Not pleased to learn about the lavish CEO pay. Probably going to stop.
I once had a person refuse to troubleshoot a monitor issue over the phone. 2.5 hours away. Swore to me that they hadn’t messed with the monitor cables since it last worked. They had both ends of the HDMI plugged into the same monitor.
But I was hysterically assured that AI was going to take all our jobs?
The bots have really ramped up since Trump took office again. Seeing so many top comments with thousands of upvotes just gaslighting the shit out of frightened Americans, telling them they need to touch grass and everything is fine…it’s so chilling.
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