• FrChazzz@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    There’s this guy named Voultar on YT. I watched his video on how to make a GBS upscaler for old game consoles and it was so happy and encouraging. He talks about soldering resistors like Bob talks about painting a mountain. One of the comments on the video calls him the Bob Ross of retro gaming and they’re correct. He makes me feel like I can acquire those parts and make my copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga look good on my TV!

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      6 minutes ago

      This is how I feel whenever I stumble upon some random Indian dude explaining math or something.

      That high-effort calm optimism is so good for teaching!

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    1 day ago

    “Now to get into our BIOS we’ll just take the Del key and” taptaptaptaptap “beat the devil outta it.”

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      “You might not get it the first time, but that’s ok. Every computer is special. Just need to give it another go, but with careful attention to the F2 key this time.”

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    Two weeks in IT and Bob would absolutely lose his shit… That man is too calm for IT. Or he’d stay calm as ice while planning to burn the place down Office Space style.

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      21 hours ago

      Don’t forget, he used to be military, described himself as the person who has to yell at everybody, and intentionally distanced himself from that. I feel like calm might not be the issue.

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      I think that calm is really good for IT. We let others out too much of a demand on us and let their anxiety become ours.

      In a crisis, security incident, or outage that calm is going to be so beneficial. “We’re going to have a little downtime. The application isn’t ruined. It’s just a little unplanned patch. It’s going to be better because we needed to fix it.”

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        16 hours ago

        I know a guy who channels that energy, and it worked really well as making the C-suite types listen to him (more than they typically would listen to an IT dude).

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    Don’t forget to clean your fiber. Shake it off and then just beat the devil out of it. That has to be the most fun part of troubleshooting your SAN.

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      Take a deep breath. Hold it and count to 8. Breathe out.

      I hope you feel a bit better now.

      IT helps people in corporations, government, education, charities - everywhere where you have computers or electronic equipment.

      People working in IT, just like every service industry, work to help people do what they need to do quickly and safely. Without them a lot of modern society simply would not work, and you could only work in a job if you knew a heck of a lot of technical stuff otherwise irrelevant to what you are doing. And just like other service workers, they are abused every day by the people they are helping.

      Don’t be one of those abusers.