PvilleStang

Million Dollar Baby that every other moron uses for their Reels song... Tommy Richman can EABOD.

/noCR

My experience with this: QA are a bunch of morons who can follow a script to test the bug fix or functionality of a given piece of software, but they don't necessarily have the ability to find what's now broken after a code release. DEV gives two shits about the side effects, and the code review process is headed off by management, who's been out of the DEV game long enough that they don't really understand to the T what's in front of them. They're rubber stamping dozens of these code fixes in a given 30 minute review, and with the current agile approach, this shit breaks downstream due to QA not knowing a bag of dicks from a fallen stack of logs. Someone gets the build pipeline to successfully deploy a few times out of 100 tries, and calls it a success, and pushes DEV to Prod and runs out the door for a long weekend (and puts no comments on the commit, so it's another task to find the responsible party).

Well, worst day I've had in ages. And it beats yesterday by a mile. Yesterday: son wakes up in excruciating pain, wouldn't move, had to call an ambulance to come out at 6:45am. Trip to Dell Childrens screws the day. Today: get hit up by APAC support at 1:30am stating we have systems down all over with BSoD and need help. My counterpart starts in, looks at watch, 30 minutes. Make BS excuse as it sounds like our usual mountain out of a mole hill type issue. I get the sitrep a few hours later after he's pretty much knocked out the low hanging fruit, and it's end users with laptops that are all over the damn planet that can't get to the office. EASIEST FIX: tear laptop bottom cover off, remove drive, mount to USB-C to NVMe Adapter, then mount it up to my machine, enter bitlocker key, remove offending file, then reassemble. Can do in roughly 5 minutes, 8 minutes if I didn't have the bitlocker key already on hand. Shitty fix: Most newer Dell machines mount the primary drive in a RAID-type config, regardless of whether it's an array or not. The WinRE does not see RAID drives, so if you were to find yourself in TROUBLESHOOTING menus in the boot process, you didn't have the option to boot into safe mode if your Dell XPS has been built in the last 2 years or so. Swapping it to AHCI / NVMe operation mode lets the WinRE recovery wizard see the drive after inputting the BitLocker key, and then allows you to either use CMD (if you know the damn Admin password, which no one does, as it's a rando 20 character p/w cycled every 60 days), or you can reboot to Safe Mode. This was tested and proven to work at 4pm, and every other user that was left had signed out and decided to drink heavily by the time the procedures were written up. All this said, I've received 1 communication from our CS account exec, and that's after calling him and asking for an update from them. Dell had at least 40+ tickets opened with the same issues I described in the shitty fix, but hadn't found that work around yet. I will be in a drunken coma just as soon as the kids get down.

This was a Thursday evening patch release. And frankly, it's better to do it then vs Friday at 5pm and walk out the door.

VMs are the easy ones to repair, it's the end user laptops that are being a PITA right now. Forcing safe mode when the end user is remote and doesn't understand how to use F keys is almost as fun as trying to show aggy their empty trophy case.

The problem with that is how homogenous their testing machines can be. Same problem Microsoft has. The patches perform well in a bubble, but throw other software, XDRs, etc onto the test environment, and stuff crashes and burns.

That's cute, you think cybersecurity platforms wait for admins to approve patches.

Fucking pager-dutied in the middle of the night for this crap. Bunch of servers and laptops down. Luckily I have reinforcements in EMEA, so not as bad as it could be.

Was this dude on here?

It's ingenious really. When you use the dick-shaped drones, it forces the blurring of the drone before the video is posted, thus concealing vital evidence. Chess and whatnot.

The only things stronger than aggy traditions are the top two buttons there.

Probably something very heavy, cause clearly they're doing truck things.

I sweatergawd, if you people keep bumping this thread without an obituary linked...

Well, for Windows 10, you either stop syncing / backing up your "My Documents" folders, which then leaves them on your machine in the user profile folder, or you log out of OneDrive completely. Windows 11, well, I don't hate myself enough to use that one yet. The "every other Microsoft OS" rule still stands.

Makes you wonder how much markup there is on boats and boat mechanics...

Take the clothes to Once Upon a Child or some other thrift store and see what they'll give you, or donate to a good cause. If she knows what she paid for 'em, write it off!

When they started using autotune in Nashville Country, the good ol' days died.

I hear they got the idea from the aggy hall of champions. Needed something to hide all the empty space.

"Boomer Sooner" rhymes with the next "Boomer Sooner", wash, rinse, repeat 200 times or so, no?

There's an entire bathroom stall in the A&M library dedicated to aggy traditions, too.

Blippi is annoying as hell, but found out this gem, and now the wife won't let the kids watch him:

That's a lot of poors cars for Westlake...

What's worse, Rocky Top or boomer pooner?