My evening “required reading for the ears”:

please tell me i am not the only one who knows that 😄
Other people fall asleep to rain sounds, meditation, or cozy audiobooks.

I listen to BOfH and call it IT self-care.

Somewhere between Unix basement therapy and advanced user tolerance training. XD

#BOfH #Linux #Unix #Sysadmin #ITLife #NerdLife #OldschoolInternet #ThinkPad #LinuxMint

15 Laptops runderneuert, 2 tote PCs exhumiert und erfolgreich wiederbelebt (Frankenstein wäre stolz! 🧟‍♂️💻) und 5 Pakete in die Freiheit entlassen. Wenn ich jetzt noch eine Fehlermeldung sehe, antworte ich in Binärcode. 01000110 Feierabend!

#ITLife #WorkHardPlayHard #TechnikGuru

Me: -reboots a user’s machine in a last-ditch hope-

Machine: BIOS Update

Me: “Well I didn’t trigger that, so if this works, I don’t know what fixed it…”

#ITLife

You know it’s bad when…
someone asks “when did this start?” and no one knows.

#CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse #ITLife

4 or 5 days of troubleshooting, poking at Active Directory and the printer backend to learn the user was inserting their card upside down.

#ITLife

You know it’s bad when…
the logs don’t agree with each other.

#CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse #ITLife

You know it’s bad when…
the incident bridge suddenly gets very quiet.

#CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse #ITLife