MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?message-squaremessage-square131linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down11
arrow-up1101arrow-down1message-squareWhich computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?MrLLM@ani.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square131linkfedilink
minus-squarebaines@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoit’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim source: 7 years of phone tech support
minus-squareosanna@lemmy.vglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days agoI did IT for 10 years. fuck. “Have you tried restarting?” “yes” Uptime: fucking millennia.
minus-squareNoam_Calhoun@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 days agoI used to be nice and not remotely restart their machine without telling them. Used to be.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoThat’s because they think logging off or turning the monitor off/on is the same as restarting, or, in the case of laptops / rackmount KVMs closing the lid and reopening
it’s because most errors are software state issues and those kinda people never ever power cycle regardless of what they claim
source: 7 years of phone tech support
I did IT for 10 years. fuck.
“Have you tried restarting?”
“yes”
Uptime: fucking millennia.
I used to be nice and not remotely restart their machine without telling them. Used to be.
Channeling the BOFH.
That’s because they think logging off or turning the monitor off/on is the same as restarting, or, in the case of laptops / rackmount KVMs closing the lid and reopening