• superkret@feddit.org
    68·
    4 days ago

    I’m a sysadmin by trade. My hobbies are:

    • cooking with nothing but a cast iron pan and a knife I forged after a medieval design
    • tinkering on bicycles ('90s MTBs, the golden age of component compatibility)
    • sewing clothes by hand
    • smashing printers with baseball bats
    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      39·
      4 days ago

      smashing printers with baseball bats

      I have years of IT experience, offer Linux support, and am visibly the kind of guy you just know can fix your computer problem (or, if I take my glasses off, I look like I sell weed apparently), and when asked to help with printers I have one answer:

      They’re sentient and they hate you. I was trained in IT, not exorcisms. Send it as a PDF, PNG, or smoke signal before you try troubleshooting.

      Like, I broke my big office one the other day so bad the tech had to come out. What had I done to brick it so badly? Tap a menu option, tap back, then tap a different menu option. If you don’t wait 3s between the second and third tap it errors and freezes and they have to send a tech out to do some sort of 2 hour long ritual where he rubs it and whispers how sorry he is.

      What the fuck is wrong with printers

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        4 days ago

        Fun fact: the entire Free Software movement exists because Richard Stallman got pissed off at Xerox one day, for not giving him the source code so he could fix his printer.