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How I Fix Stuff Working In IT
Debugging Programming StackOverflow
19 days ago 59.9K views 0 shares
How I Fix Stuff Working In IT
After 15 years in tech, I can confirm this pie chart is scientifically accurate. The blue slice representing "restart whatever isn't working" is basically our industry's version of percussive maintenance. That "IT placebo effect" is real too—walk into a room and suddenly the printer that's been jamming for 3 days works flawlessly. Users look at you like you're a wizard, but really you just interrupted whatever cosmic force was enjoying their suffering. And let's be honest, that quick Google search is just us typing "why the hell is [software] doing [weird thing]" and hoping someone on Stack Overflow had the same existential crisis.

When Your Tech Brain Hijacks Reality
Hardware Windows
2 months ago 95.4K views 0 shares
When Your Tech Brain Hijacks Reality
Someone saw a building with "BIOS" lit up in the windows and immediately thought it was a gathering of hardcore IT professionals, only to realize it's just a New Year's decoration that reads "2018" backward. The classic case of tech brain taking over your perception of reality. When you've spent so many hours tweaking boot settings that you start seeing BIOS everywhere—even in innocent holiday decorations. The digital equivalent of seeing faces in electrical outlets.

I Am Caught Now
Networking Security Linux
3 months ago 109.1K views 0 shares
I Am Caught Now
Just another day in network troubleshooting. Forget fancy tools—all you need is to yell IP addresses into the void. The IT person immediately responds with their subnet mask, like a Pavlovian response to hearing numbers in that format. Can't help it. It's hardwired into our brains after years of config files and ping tests. The knife is just for dramatic effect... or maybe cable management.

Forced Shutdown
Programming Hardware Microsoft Windows Linux
3 months ago 138.8K views 5 shares
Forced Shutdown
The duality of forced shutdowns! Physically, it's just a simple power button press. Emotionally? You're basically Boromir dying in Aragorn's arms after slaying your unsaved work and 47 browser tabs. That moment when you hold down the power button feels like executing Order 66 on your digital empire. "I'm sorry little one, but these 8 hours of compiling must die because Windows Update decided today was the day." The ultimate digital mercy killing that somehow feels like a war crime.

Very Accurate
AI Webdev Devops Programming Cloud
3 months ago 140.6K views 0 shares
Very Accurate
This meme perfectly captures the duality of AI usage in tech. At the top, we see "normal people" using ChatGPT for sensible things like getting help with writing or homework. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the true essence of tech culture: sleep-deprived IT professionals at 3 AM forcing multiple AI models to do manual labor in a cotton field. Because nothing says "I'm a programmer" quite like staying up until ungodly hours to make AI tools do increasingly bizarre and questionable tasks instead of, you know, sleeping like a functional human being. The desperate creativity that emerges at 3 AM is a universal programmer experience that no amount of caffeine can explain.