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mos_8502  πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
Nobody hates computers as much as someone who loves computers.
Jul 10, 2024 at 4:13amWeb
Show threadLudic πŸ§›Jul 10, 2024

@mos_8502

"I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human."

"Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?"

The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened.

Show threadjesterchen42Jul 10, 2024
@ludicity Glorious! πŸ†
Show threadJoe Cooper πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‰Jul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 it hits different when you know _why_ computers are terrible.
Show threadDave Smith has movedJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 Nobody hates computers as much as they hate printers
Show threadLandsilJul 10, 2024
@scudderfish @mos_8502
Hey, do you also work in IT?
Show threadDave Smith has movedJul 10, 2024
@Landsil @mos_8502 How could you tell? πŸ˜…
Show threadLandsilJul 10, 2024

@scudderfish @mos_8502
Certain levels of hate can only be achieved by doing things like maintaining a Windows XP box in your network room to host an HP monitoring app that tells them when toner goes low...

We live, we learn, we never ever again sign management contracts directly with printer manufacturers.

Show threadDec [{()}]Jul 11, 2024

@scudderfish @Landsil @mos_8502
"And if an engineer's tie got caught in a drum printer they had about 10 seconds to scratch out a message to their next of kin before they choked to death.
AND THE PRINTER WOULD KEEP ON RUNNING!"
https://www.theregister.com/2013/07/26/bofh_2013_episode_5/

There is a much older BOFH article (from the early 1990s) where a service engineer's tie got caught in a drum printer, but I found this more recent one first.

BOFH: Don't be afraid - we won't hurt your delicate, flimsy inkjet printer

'Member when engineers studied ENGINEERING?

The Register
Show threadLandsilJul 11, 2024
@dec23k @scudderfish @mos_8502
That post was a wild ride πŸ˜‚
Show threadDec [{()}]Jul 11, 2024

@Landsil @scudderfish @mos_8502
Chapter 12 (1992):

"Now the second engineer only has to come out after another 4 hours, there's no death of engineer penalty clause, (but I'm thinking about asking for one) so I've got to fill in some time. This guy's going to be a technical engineer, the sort that comes in with a raggedy tie where he got it caught in the drum printer at 3000 rpm a couple of years ago, and he'll have the grazes on the face that indicate that he didn't get the gate open in time."

Show threadDave Smith has movedJul 11, 2024
@dec23k @Landsil @mos_8502 Ah, I miss the BOFH. I used to have a 'BOFH Excuse Generator' on my Palm Vx (natch)
Show threadjesterchen42Jul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 I'm in this text and I (don't) like it. πŸ˜…
Show threadPeter CohenJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 familiarity breeds contempt…
Show threadtech-kiJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 I don’t hate the computer, I hate that I don’t get it yet. Until I do.
Show threadDer rote Ritter βœ…Jul 10, 2024

@mos_8502 on the other hand, nobody hates printers as much as someone who loves computers.

Maybe the it's the same nobody.

Show threadSon of a SailorJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 Absolutely!
Show threadRookJul 10, 2024

@mos_8502 Our IT guy was the only one who didn't laugh when I said my work desktop might accidentally fall out of a window one day.

He's the only one who knows I'm not joking.

Show threadDec [{()}]Jul 11, 2024
@amateur_ninja @mos_8502
And he can think of several other practical 'accidents' that don't require windows.
Or hot drinks.
Show threadFranchescaJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 he hates and loves the computer, as he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it.
Show threadFriend ComputerJul 11, 2024
@Frantasaur @mos_8502
This is the way.
Show threadVladimir SavićJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 Word!
Show threadLuciano Jul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 so true
Show threadErg0t4min3 Jul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 This is so real and I have been trying to capture it in a sentence
Show threadjaxu@homeJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502
I don't hate computers, but many programmers.
Show threadTunafishTigerJul 10, 2024
@mos_8502 @marioguzman Nobody hates Mac OS design as much as someone who loves Mac OS design.
Show threadferricoxideJul 11, 2024
@mos_8502

I'm 25+ years into a very diverse IT career. If there's one thing I've figured out, it's that, like the organizations that use them, all IT technologies are broken in one way or another. It's best to look at computing tech as any other tool you might pull out of a toolbox and try to find the one that works best for your situation: there's no point in computing religion.
Show threadFriend ComputerJul 11, 2024
@mos_8502
But what if you are a self-hating a Computer?
Show threadImikoyJul 11, 2024
@mos_8502 our relationship with lovecraftian bytes of horror is... complicated
Show threadnjsgJul 11, 2024
@mos_8502 Segmentation fault
Show threadGarrett WollmanJul 11, 2024
@mos_8502 "We have no choice but to live among these alien powers which we create, and to try to direct them to human ends. [...] What we can do is try to find the specific ways in which these powers we have conjured up are hurting us, and use them to check each other, or deflect them into better paths." Cosma Shalizi wrote that about markets, but computers fit.
Show threadyakkoj 🦊Jul 17, 2024

@mos_8502 much of my hatred is fueled by MS.

It didn't have to be like this, but Capitalism had other ideas. ;o)