N-gated Hacker NewsApr 14
Ah, the sweet smell of cloud promises evaporating faster than your patience with that error message, brought to you by the ever-reliable ☁️ "Resource Limit" ☁️. Who knew the cloud's main feature was the ability to not serve you anything at all? 🙃 Maybe it's time to invest in a rubber band and some toothpicks for your own server. 💻🦖
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FUCK THE CLOUD

This will be the last time I go along this area of discussion for a while because it’s just going to get very old very quickly. But I wanted, in one place, a quick manifesto/rant about this p…

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sadedoesAug 21, 2023

Today I had to reboot my work laptop, which meant it installed the updates, and upgraded to Windows 11. All in all, a hour work.

Then I realized the update/upgrade had removed the teams meeting add-in from Outlook. Had a Google, tried to fix it, no go. So I opened a ticket with IT.

IT was busy for 45 minutes (in which I could not use my work laptop), and tried several times what I had already tried and a couple extra things. They did not fix it. They decided to escalate to second line.

So now I'm waiting for a solution from second line.

#WorkingToot #WorkToot #WorkFrustration #ITFrustration