Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

You’ll notice responses from people that seem to have no context or applicability to the post before it, and it’s because they’re replying to someone whose post you can’t see.

Look at post numbers in threads too. If you see, for example, 5 and then 7,8,9 then a poster that has you on ignore likely has contributed to the thread.

 

[RealAlHazred]

You’ll notice responses from people that seem to have no context or applicability to the post before it, and it’s because they’re replying to someone whose post you can’t see.

I thought maybe there was a user tool that I missed.

 

[Ryujin]

Co-worker left 5 laptops on the work bench, with no information about them and nothing recorded in our database, a week ago. Now he's on-site a week later and can't find them. I've told him a hundred times to record stuff the moment that he takes it out of storage but he refuses to because if he doesn't, he hopes that someone else will do the paperwork for him. Well he had better locate that $10K worth of hardware.

 

[payn]

Co-worker left 5 laptops on the work bench, with no information about them and nothing recorded in our database, a week ago. Now he's on-site a week later and can't find them. I've told him a hundred times to record stuff the moment that he takes it out of storage but he refuses to because if he doesn't, he hopes that someone else will do the paperwork for him. Well he had better locate that $10K worth of hardware.

So, our work PCs get updated every so many years. Ive no idea how or when they decide. I had one that eventually tossed a bearing in the fan and sounded like an airplane during my meetings. Turns out I was way over do for a replacement. Which was the first thing that struck me as weird. So, my replacement came and there was a return for my old laptop. I kinda didnt want to becasue it had all my cool work stickers on the lid. So, I didnt send it back. Good thing too, because the replacement was a lemon, which I had to send back and get another new one. Anyways, the old one is still sitting on my back desk. Nobody ever inquired about it, which I thought was also weird. Then, everyone suddenly was telling me how they never send them back to tech team.

 

[Ryujin]

So, our work PCs get updated every so many years. Ive no idea how or when they decide. I had one that eventually tossed a bearing in the fan and sounded like an airplane during my meetings. Turns out I was way over do for a replacement. Which was the first thing that struck me as weird. So, my replacement came and there was a return for my old laptop. I kinda didnt want to becasue it had all my cool work stickers on the lid. So, I didnt send it back. Good thing too, because the replacement was a lemon, which I had to send back and get another new one. Anyways, the old one is still sitting on my back desk. Nobody ever inquired about it, which I thought was also weird. Then, everyone suddenly was telling me how they never send them back to tech team.

We replace them on a 3 year cycle and make sure to purchase them with a 3 year warranty. I'm also a certified service tech for the laptops that we buy. We definitely request the old computers back and prepare the ones that are still completely serviceable as temporary loaners, then recycle the rest. We're currently doing a replacement of something like 90 departmental laptops and these are 5 of them.

 

[Scribe]

NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'

The engineering and coding for those things, just blows me away.

 

[RealAlHazred]

So, our work PCs get updated every so many years. Ive no idea how or when they decide. I had one that eventually tossed a bearing in the fan and sounded like an airplane during my meetings. Turns out I was way over do for a replacement. Which was the first thing that struck me as weird. So, my replacement came and there was a return for my old laptop. I kinda didnt want to becasue it had all my cool work stickers on the lid. So, I didnt send it back. Good thing too, because the replacement was a lemon, which I had to send back and get another new one. Anyways, the old one is still sitting on my back desk. Nobody ever inquired about it, which I thought was also weird. Then, everyone suddenly was telling me how they never send them back to tech team.

After being let go from the Data Center team a few years ago, I was immediately rehired by the Lab team from the same company. It's a great fit for me, as in my decades in IT I've never been able to specialize in any one thing in IT -- most of that time I worked for a terrible boss, who would lie to the customers about my abilities to get the contract and then send me in with no info on what he told them I was an expert in. I ended up picking bits and pieces of a lot of the things, which is exactly what you need when there's just two dudes in a Lab supporting a Fortune 100 company.

Anyway, when I got in, I noticed we had a bunch of laptops in the Lab. Like, a dozen, stacked on a shelf in one of the cabinets. Come to find out they're for one of the project teams we support, and are used for testing. I couldn't find any documentation on how many there were supposed to be, or who owned what. So I made a spreadsheet with all the serial numbers and started digging into whatever documentation I could find. Three of them were in the system as "Lost". All of them are high-end, expensive laptops with the corporate image installed; heck one of them's a high-end MacBook, and I know how expensive those are.

Meanwhile, I've been working for the company for five years, and am still using a cheap laptop from the subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor who I actually work for. It's so far distant from the corporate network that I have to jump through two hoops just to log in (Windows App to get to a virtual desktop, and then RDP into the Lab).

They can get twelve high-end laptops that get used twice a year to test wifi rollouts, and I can't get a single good laptop that I would use literally every day...

 

[Willie the Duck]

Nope. I bounce up as easily on 4 hours of sleep as I do on 8 or 9. I just get up and go. Now if I am on 4 hours of sleep, I'll start lagging in a few hours since I didn't get enough sleep, but I'm generally not groggy or slow in the morning when I first wake up.

It could well be genetic. Adenosine receptor perfusion or cerebral blood flow regulation or the like. I likewise can get up after truncated rest or wake up in the middle of the night and deal with <insert pet or house-related micro-emergency> with minimal impairment whereas my wife fumbles and mumbles and tries not to walk into things, etc. And yes, it does not change your doing best on a full night's rest.

I generally try to get at least seven and a half hours. But quite often it ends up being six, or even five, or four. I know from experience that I can generally go for four or five days on four hours of sleep before I hit the wall, but I've never actually discovered my real hardline limit, which kind of worries me.

There might not be one. If you were forced to keep going with that sleep pattern you'd just keep going in your 'having hit the wall' mode semi-indefinitely (with the reduced capabilities and slow erosion of long term health that come with it). I know any number of people* who have normalized this and just keep going in that mode, having kinda forgotten that they are always tired.
*particularly people who have full time, mentally taxing jobs; and then also have houses and spouses and social lives; and then finally also want to spend 3-4 hours in the evening keeping up on all the computer games like they did when they were young and single.

I have a good-paying job in a nice city, I am married to a hot spouse who treats me good, I have beer on tap in my kitchen, and I play D&D every Friday night with my friends.

Thirteen-year old Me is high-fiving me so hard right now.

We all should take time to do something like this now and again. I have a spouse and a house and a dog and an enjoyable and respected job that pays triple what 13-year old me thought was great money and two weekly and one monthly gaming groups and am decades sober and have learned to live with the TBI and get to pay it forward on multiple different fronts. Thirteen-year old me and 20-something 'ruined failure' me are both high-fiving me like mad.

Gawd, I wish someone would nuke that thread.

I don't know if you need this, but maybe it helps. I, a random near-stranger, give you permission to just walk away.

 

[TiQuinn]

I don't know if you need this, but maybe it helps. I, a random near-stranger, give you permission to just walk away.

No, I just need to be able to type out the words I typed.

 

[Maxperson]

So, our work PCs get updated every so many years. Ive no idea how or when they decide. I had one that eventually tossed a bearing in the fan and sounded like an airplane during my meetings. Turns out I was way over do for a replacement. Which was the first thing that struck me as weird. So, my replacement came and there was a return for my old laptop. I kinda didnt want to becasue it had all my cool work stickers on the lid. So, I didnt send it back. Good thing too, because the replacement was a lemon, which I had to send back and get another new one. Anyways, the old one is still sitting on my back desk. Nobody ever inquired about it, which I thought was also weird. Then, everyone suddenly was telling me how they never send them back to tech team.

My wife is an executive and a new company bought one of the subsidiaries of the company she worked for. The new company wanted her to go over to them as part of the deal, so she did. The location of the subsidiary also went to the new company. Anyway, the old company asked for all laptops to be returned, but gave the location owned by the new company as the spot to return them. Nobody ever came to pick up the laptops and the new company doesn't own them, so they are still sitting there. My wife and one of the other executives who went to the new company were slow in returning them, so they were able to figure out that there was no point in returning the laptops they had, because they would just sit in the new company office collecting dust.

It's funny how little some companies care about their computers.