MystikIncarnate

Of course not. This article was written using vibes.

It's vibe reporting.

"come back and cancel anytime"

What the fuck is that wording?

Oh fuck yes I would.

This is the way.

Nope, just thoughts and prayers.

I wouldn't say immune, I just have a low tolerance for unfounded claims, and little interest in most of the impulse purchase junk that most ads are trying to sell.

Give me an ad for good tech at good prices (and actually list the fkin price), and I'm interested.

Like OP said, if there's no price, just a "call to get a quote" or some other similar nonsense in place of a price, then I'm either not buying that product, or I'm buying it somewhere else that they list the damn cost.

"Call to inquire" can be adequately translated to: we want to sell this shit to your entire company, call us so we can convince you to do just that" meanwhile you want to buy one so you can check it out to see if it's even useful because marketing claims are almost always bullshit.

I had to explain to someone today that, though you can print through someone's PC to their USB printer, you cannot run the scanner software and connect the same way. So scanning no worky from another computer.

We have print servers, but we don't have scan servers. Why is that?

Anyway, I don't think they believed me.

The fun part is that the printer has Ethernet, and if they plugged that in, both systems would be able to print and scan.... What a crazy idea!

But the bossman didn't think it was going to be possible to plug in the printer to the network without wifi.... Idk, I'm not there, I don't know what color the walls in your office are, nevermind being able to coach you on how to plug in a device I've never seen to a network I equally haven't seen.

Maybe people should ask their IT people if it's a good idea to buy a printer when they have these kinds of operational requirements....

It's bold of Anon to assume that the crows are not earning the money legitimately.

That's racist.

Oh heck. I can't recall the number of times someone, even myself, has driven significant distances just to plug things in because users are to much of window lickers to understand what a USB cable looks like half the time.

One of the funniest that I still regularly encounter is people who power cycle their monitor to reboot their computer. Not realizing that the monitor isn't the computer itself....

I mean, the list goes on and on and on for this kind of stupid shit. The kicker is that if you even fucking try to make them slightly less goddamned stupid about this shit, they don't want to hear it.

You'll be taking at them and you might as well be taking to the fucking wall for all the good it will do.

Yup. Most of the time, policies are in place because someone tried what you're trying and it let them do that thing... And because Windows let that thing happen, something bad happened for everyone.

So now nobody can do that thing.

The prosumer tech bro that's never touched enterprise equipment or dealt with operational requirements are the worst.

I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard that something works fine at their home but doesn't work while they're at work. Sometimes that's intentional, sometimes that's because the network in the office is about 80,000x more complex than the Linksys you plugged in at home, set a password on once that you immediately forgot, and has been doing little more than source Nat and L2 bridging every since, with no regard to what the traffic is, just sending it out regardless, and creating a goddamned mess in the process, but because it's only you and your spouse and maybe a kid or two, that doesn't really matter.

Suddenly when you're dealing with hundreds of endpoints on a LAN, you don't want every broadcast packet being sent out over the dozens of access points you have dotted around, so no, your multicast discovery won't work Brenda. So you can't use Chromecast in the office, okay? I don't care how important you think it is, it would take hours to get this to work properly and I have more pressing concerns at the moment.

I generally explain to people that the current state of technology for LLMs is that they're larger and more complicated versions of the text prediction on your phone, you know, when it guesses what word you want to put next, but with whole sentences using the entirety of the public Internet as the base of reference for that information.

And they basically burn through kilowatts of power per inquiry.

Tech Bros drive me up the wall.

Generally they're users with just enough information to be dangerous.

They know some things, but don't have a knowledge deep enough to know that there are serious downsides to (insert whatever they care about this week here).

I'm pretty sure I'd be more neckbeard nerd than techbro.