I wouldn’t say impact drill, but to me it’s like driving down the hwy, seeing an oncoming car in the other lane and thinking, “if I just jerked the wheel, it would be catastrophic”. It’s never something I’d actually entertain, but the thought has certainly flew by. I think there’s an actual term for that. But yea, that’s how I feel about just destroying drives in a data center. This guy was just nuts enough to do it.
I have an Nvidia shield for now, and run Plex on unRAID. I will be moving to a HTPC one the shield goes tits up. For the most part, I consume my media from my PC, but if I’m using the TV, it’s currently my shield.
Also, they snoop on your HDMI signal if you have a Roku device, and push advertisements based on the media passing of HDMI. I will personally never own another Roku device.
A city truck hit a powerline near us on Wednesday that caused a power blip. That was enough to kill off a couple of old computers. So that consumed the first half of my Thursday. I’m hoping I can leverage this to finally get approval to refresh our old inventory, which is most of our inventory.
I also have to work with a 3rd party dev company that’s less than worthless. For a group of people who’s jobs require solid analytical thinking, it’s amazing that they’re able to function in life without having a handler for day to day tasks, like getting dressed. They’re incapable of completing a task without explicit instructions, and seem to think that my IT services extend to them.
The joys of being the sole IT person at a small/medium size business. I need a bigger head for all of the hats I have to wear.
All of the audits we have to do, yea. They just care that we making good parts, that our paperwork is filled out correctly, and processes are being followed. Technically, if we didn’t have any of the specs but still did the process correctly, they wouldn’t care.
Tangentially related… I work IT in a CNC shop. Most engineering prints that we get to make parts to have various specs on them for materials and various finishes. Those specs used to be free years ago, but they’ve most all been replaced, but not really updated at all. Now everytime they have a revision change, we have to buy the new revision from SAE for like $70 a piece. As shitty as that already is, in recent years, they have DRM locked them to a single user. So while we have 50+ employees with multiple needing to reference these for quality inspection or processing, it’s against the ToS to share those specs. We are supposed to buy one for each user which is fucking bogus.
Fuck em. I screen snip each page and make a new PDF, or that one user prints it out and scans it in. The extra kicker is that while that’s not allowed, you can buy a paper copy that can be shared for the same cost, you just have to wait for it to be delivered.
Also true, but I thought there was a one word term for it. I probably read it in a reddit comment years ago, so take that as you will.