He has a point. It’s ironic that the only piece of “evidence” most religions have is a book written by humans.

Any belief in the sun/moon/stars/whatever… At least you can point and say, there it is.

But Christianity is normal and not crazy at all, and believing in Ra is the crazy thing… Sure. Yeah.

I think it’s all nuts. But whatever.

Yeah. Closest we come to something like that is either scan to email (directly from the printer) or scan to (network) folder. I’ve used both in the past, but both require a network connection.

If they had a network connection to the printer then the user would have direct access to it, and they wouldn’t need a computer to act as a print server.

Hilariously, in that case, the printer has Ethernet, so it’s entirely possible to do what they want. They just need to find a way to plug the printer into Ethernet. I explained this to them, they basically said that there was no way they could do that. Sure. Ok.

After careful consideration, I think their intent was to say…

You can come back anytime and if you do, you can always cancel at anytime.

… More or Less. Basically saying you can join and cancel at your leisure.

That’s a terrible way to say it, but ok.

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…

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.

Why are you describing me so well?

The number of times I’ve seen eyes glaze over after someone asked a question they shouldn’t have and didn’t want the answer to, is too damned high.

Also, sometimes, I’ll go into a ridiculous level of detail just to intellectually beat someone over the head with how much I know so they’ll stop asking questions. They seem to think they’re being clever and trying to “prove” that tech guys don’t know much more than the rest of the “tech literate”.

I’ll tell you, the amount of information in my brain from working IT support for a decade would make most people’s head spin for hours. And that’s not including the countless years of time in college, and doing personal/independent research, simply because a fancy new technology captured my ADHD hyperfocus.

I’ve gone from being a novice with a technology, discussing it with someone who seems to know a lot about the topic, to researching everything about it, and the next time I meet them, they don’t have half of the knowledge of the subject that I do by that point. It happens… A lot.

If you don’t want a lecture, and just want things to work stop asking questions, just tell me what you expect as the outcome and I’ll figure out everything in-between.

Skate bread

Bread flip

Kick bread

Kick flip loaf

I have no idea what this image means.

It very much used to be.

Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…

Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.

I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.

Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…

This. This is the reality and the root cause of a lot of the issues regarding homelessness, starvation and preventable illness in the world.

Aggressive capitalists value money more than anyone’s, and everyone’s life.

They will let you die to bump their profits a fraction of a percent.

I would say, they’re not necessarily good, just less bad.

Same idea though.