I’m gonna say I spent 8 months cloning my windows environment and then learning Linux basics, and trying to figure out how to make everything work after I migrated to Linux and now they want to backpedal the bullshit that made me leave windows in the first place?

Fuck you, I’m not walking any of this back. I’ve finally got out of their shitty fucking ecosystem, and I’m actually happy with where I am. Fuck Microsoft, I’m not going back.

Herpes. It’s sexually transmitted, and it’s lifelong. You don’t want it.

My local mall got leveled and replaced with a giant Amazon distribution center. So now we have two anecdotal stories about malls.

Seriously, I popped in just to say this. How fucking hard is it for people to understand the Streisand effect?

I’m in business operations, downstream from you guys. Reading posts like these are helping me understand better what you all are going through.

We had several of our systems “upgraded” and broke a lot of our tools. The dev team vanished off to work on the next shiny bullshit “upgrade” and turned my 15 minute tickets into 3-4 hour tickets.

My manager was telling me to ping someone and let them know. After nothing happened there, I started opening tickets. After about 140 in 2 weeks, I finally got someone’s attention and we’re grudgingly getting a couple devs assigned to start repairing the automation that broke.

I am sorry to have to do that, but our entire team was drowning and pinging someone on teams with API errors wasn’t getting anything done.

Spends 45 minutes creating a vlan when he could have turned on the guest wifi and walled that off from the main network in about 3 minutes.

The blocking ports and QoS move was just funny as hell though.

No argument here, I was only explaning why it exists.

Not too far into my first campaign, I was playing a Hexblade warlock with a level of sorcerer for some extra spell slots / CC spells. We get ambushed by some bad guy guards trying to rob us. As they’re stalking us in the bazaar we were shopping in, the initiative rolls begin out of nowhere.

Roll a nat 20 for initiative, and end up going first. I cast grease and catch them all in it. 4/5 guards fail the save and fall prone. The 5th guard goes second and shoots an arrow at me, does a few damage. I react with hellish rebuke. It ends up engulfing all of the guards, the hay cart next to them, and half the bazaar into a raging grease fire inferno.

I learned to be more aware of my surroundings after that day.

followed by issues at Microsoft Azure that brought Xbox offline for hours.

It’s funny how this is how the Azure outage is described. All of my customers were locked out of their M365 admin portals all day. But won’t you think of the poor Xbox users.

As L2 support at a CSP for M365 customers, that day was fucking terrible.

It does look terrible, however it definitely serves a useful purpose. Since the LA basin is basically desert, the ground doesn’t soak up water very well, which leaves it prone to flash flooding.

So the dangerous part about physically being in the concrete river is that it might rain in the mountains 50 miles away, and in just a few minutes there’s a roaring wave of water passing through. Every time it rains out there, someone inevitably gets caught up in it and needs to be rescued, or worse.

¿Porque no los dos?

Doing things the “wrong” way is overwhelmingly about service issues, not money issues. I came across the same issues where I live, and decided to take up “sailing” instead.