Worst She Can Say Is No: Browser Edition

Ah, the classic tale of the tech-illiterate conspiracy theorist who thinks they've uncovered the grand Microsoft deception. System32 is literally just the core Windows directory containing critical system files—delete it and congratulations, you've bricked your computer! The December 31, 1969 date is actually Unix epoch time (January 1, 1970 UTC) minus a timezone offset—basically the computer equivalent of "the beginning of time." It's what systems show when a file has no valid timestamp. But sure, go ahead and "save yourself 700kb" by deleting essential system files. I'm sure your computer will run so much faster in its new state as an expensive paperweight.

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Oh. My. GOD. Only Microsoft could turn a simple "close window" function into a MULTIPLICATION MIRACLE! 🤦‍♀️ You ask Task Manager to die, and instead it spawns TWINS like some digital hydra! "Kill one process, two shall take its place!" This is what happens when your debugging strategy is just crossing your fingers and whispering sweet nothings to your code. The absolute AUDACITY of Windows 11 to look at user requests and go "Hmm, that sounds like a suggestion rather than a command." No wonder the cartoon character is having an existential crisis - we're all just one Windows update away from our computers achieving sentience through pure chaos!

The ultimate corporate irony. McAfee, the company that's supposed to protect your computer, managed to crash the entire world with a botched update in 2010. Then their CTO bounces to start CrowdStrike—which is now a cybersecurity giant worth billions. For those who don't know the backstory: that 2010 update misidentified a critical Windows file as malware and deleted it from thousands of computers worldwide. Corporate networks collapsed. Hospitals went offline. Absolute chaos. Fast forward to today, and CrowdStrike is doing the exact same thing but with fancier marketing slides. The circle of tech life continues...

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Content Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for "Religious Reasons". gets IT to provide laptop with Linux. rAskHR Posted by u-puppy-guppy- 19 hours ago 6 Policy Procedures UPDATEGA Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for "Religious Reasons" Original Post UPDATE: After many meetings yesterday with management, HR, legal, and IT we decided to give her a shot. IT is working to come up with a configuration for her that we will also make available to other employees who want to use it. HR and Legal felt that although she is able to request accommodations for a sincerely held religious belief, this would have been an undue hardship to the company and it would be ok for us to deny her request. But ultimately we decided that she can still fulfill job requirements without Windows! That's pretty much it. Thank you for all the helpful advice Reddit!