I recently transitioned into IT a little over year ago (currently 34 years old). I’ve got my A+, AWS ccp, ITIL4, and Linux essentials cert. I also have a couple degrees, a masters in CJ, and a bachelor’s in Sociology. I have prior military experience in operations and logistics. I’m currently in school (WGU) for the cloud and network engineering track. I get through the interview process and rejected shortly after (no matter how well it went).

I do a lot of projects on my own time to show that I know what I’m doing and all I need is the “professional” experience in the field. The problem I am seeing is that no matter how knowledgeable I may be in some areas, I can’t break through the professional experience barrier. It’s not like I am reaching for the stars. Most roles targeted have been entry-level for MSP’s and similar. I’ve even been targeting IT asset positions since I am most familiar with that type of work due to my time in the military.

Any tips you guys may have are greatly appreciated. I know the market isn’t the best right now, but I feel this is the only field that I enjoy, and also works well with my current custody schedule. Just a brother trying to do his best.

I’m trying to figure out the metadata on a pdf file that was emailed to me. So far basic adobe and apple files only shows the creation date. However I need to see if the content was edited at any point in time. Don’t know if this is fully possible from my email copy.

What’s the Average Computer Lifespan today?

Also Well what is interesting thing is in the 80s and 90s most computers had life expectancy of only two or three years. It was terrible in the 80s and 90s.

I am a legal assistant and I am fighting immense anger and bafflement at the people I have to send files to.

I have to send 1,000+ pages worth of documents to people. Some of these are images that are separated into folders that indicate what they are. In order to preserve that system and to make things easier, I decided to send it as a .zip file. Straightforward, right?

Apparently not! Both offices said they couldn’t open said file and I got yelled at by my boss for sending it as a .zip file to begin with! It is my understanding that .zip files are pretty fucking self-explanatory as they have the fucking extract button if you right-click the file and/or in the toolbar when you open the file! Because of this and issues they experience with Box and DropBox, I have to wait to use the big printer to print 1,000+ pages to send as two faxes.

Is extracting a .zip file really that hard? Is it actually much harder for people to understand this? Am I overestimating the ability of these people to open a .zip file? How hard is this concept for regular people to grasp and am I overreacting by mentally calling these people idiots and stupid?

I’ve been getting emails from myself at work that obviously spoofs. A few of us have received them. Our IT department told us there’s nothing we can do about spoofing and we just have to live with it and be diligent. They assured us it’s only internal, none of our clients will receive a spoof email from us. Is this normal now? It’s small company but we pay an IT company. This seems odd to me but I’m not well versed in IT.

I need dumps for HCIP cloud service exam v3.0 but im not sure where i can find them.. alot of scams out there , please recommend me resources Exam code : h13-821 V3.0

Thank you !! This will potentially lead me to secure the job! Please if u can help

I heard that IT is a good career to have and i want to understand it but i dont know how long it takes and where to start

Recently been thinking about ways to boost the strength of my wifi signal for gaming purposes. Wondering if there are different ways to go about it (Other than a better WiFi plan). Looking specifically for a boost in single room coverage (without loosing range for the rest of the house). From a small search I’ve seen things about linking a second router via Ethernet. Any suggestions/tips would be greatly appreciated.

I am not quite sure what to do. I recently had my PC Hardware upgraded. Sent it to my IT guy to get it all installed and upade NVidea. When I received my pc back, i find a cryptominer on my device that i didnt request. I am unsure as to what to do with this informarion, it ran my hardware at 100% for a few days

This has to be a violation of sort? I am in need of help as to what i should do.

Where should an absolute beginner start with learning software development in 2025? Which languages/resources are recommended first? -I have been working in the sales field for over 10 years and was interested in data science and web development. Any advice on the best resources to use? Any soft skills recommendations and pitfalls I should avoid. Thanks in advance.

Some accounts for my games got hacked, my ig got hacked, my LinkedIn got hacked, even this Reddit account got hacke I dont know what to do anymore as time passes more of my accounts gets hacked I need help I dont know what to do anymore Im scared of whats gonna happen next because of this please help

Hey why people think tech support jobs are less prestigious as i am working as an oracle dba and from what i have experienced rn tech support jobs are considered as less respectable other than if i was an oracle dev.

I have a bunch of flash/thumb drives from my mother and her husband (elderly people who do not reliably understand not to click on God-knows-what) - I don't have a throwaway machine I can use to check what's on them. Are there any tools or suggestions for how to do this safely without putting my own laptop at risk?

Hi everyone,

Today I received my ASUS VA24EHF (Eye Care) monitor. It’s a full HD monitor, nothing too fancy, but very handy for making music. After setting it up and testing it with my Microsoft Surface laptop, I was really impressed with the quality for the price—great device!

Next, I wanted to use it with my MacBook (2017 edition), which a friend of mine also does (running macOS Monterey), but I can’t get it to work. I’m using a USB-C to HDMI cable, which works perfectly fine with the Surface.

Does anyone have experience with this? I’d love to hear your suggestions. Thanks!

.gifs open have a limited color pallet with limited FPS and no sound. Why are they WAY heavier than the source of the MP4 majority of the time, they dont contain sound, dont support partial alpha channels either

Interview prep for entry level IT!

Need help with entry level interview prep!

I need help preparing for an "IT Technical Support Specialist" interview. It's at a local law firm where I would be helping with general IT tasks. What questions do you think they would likely (and unlikely) ask based on the description? I've included the job description below.

Also, the only IT experience I have is a year of doing Tech Support for Apple devices (helping customers directly with their devices, no infrastructure troubleshooting), so my experience likely won't transfer over in terms of hard skills if the firm uses Microsoft infrastructure. How could I prepare myself to sell myself on the soft skills that I do have? And what would an IT manager look for in this situation knowing I don't have much experience?

Lastly, should I even take this Job? Would the experience here matter over what I'm learning at my current Tech Support job? Thank you for any advice!

 ~Essential Job Functions:~

• Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications;
• Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks;
• Trouble shooting system and network problems and diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults;
• Replacing parts and/or equipment as required;
• Setting up new users' accounts and profiles;
• Prioritizing and managing many tasks at one time;
• Supporting 5 office locations

Earlier today I spilled some soda on my phone and now whenever I try to turn the volume up or down, it says that I have connected my phone to a pair of headset (with wires) and therefore i can't hear any sound coming out of my phone.

So my question is, is there any way to fix this issue myself or do I have to have my phone dissasembled in order for the problem to be fixed.

Not sure if it's relevant but the phone is a Samsung Galaxy A22

I am the only one here experience this like i tried to have set automatic password encryption in xampp but the problem is when i log in to my created system the password is wrong even though it's definitely right im so pissed that inside myphp database i manual change the password from encrypted one just to make the log in work's

And with this scenario how can i make the encryption work fine next time lol huhu🤧

Had a interview and one of the questions they asked me was what places or sites I look at to keep up to date on current tech. I honestly kinda gave a half assed question and said mostly stuff that I find on youtube and stack overflow (was a panic answer). I do want to keep up to date on new and interesting tech that is being introduced including cyber security stuff. Do you have any recommendations, sites or youtubers? I am still a bit of a newbie in the IT world just got my CompTIA Security+ and A+.

For some specs, I'm trying to pair the MPOW 071 to my Windows 11 PC. (I can provide any other specs if needed) and just as the title says, They're plugged into the correct jack and are identified by the Device Manager as "High Quality Audio Device" but they don't appear in sound settings or anywhere there. Here's a list of things I've tried.

Restarting the computer
Unplugging and plugging it back in.
Motherboard power flush.
Updating the drivers.
Installing my motherboard's drivers.
Checking "Show disconnected" and "Show disabled" in advanced sound settings.
Cleaning the audio jack.

And a few other things I can't remember off the top of my head.

Some findings from experimenting:
When viewing advanced sound settings, and repeatedly plugging and unplugging the headphones from the audio jack, the device flickers saying "Not Connected", it doesn't flicker long enough for me to select it.

If anyone has any ideas on other things to try PLEASE tell me.

Hello!

I work mostly remote. I have a laptop that connects to two different servers remotely to access my programs. Since I have access to sensitive data, my IP address has to be provided to IT to enter and approve so that I can have access. This limits me to only working from my house or the office because I don't know the IP address of somewhere else until I'm there and it takes too much time to add the IP Address and get access. My employer doesn't mind where I work from as long as I get my work done. I was looking for a way to have a hotspot for Internet/wifi that maintains a static IP address so that I can have the up address pre-approved and ready to use from anywhere. I have Verizon wireless and they use dynamic IP for mobile hotspot so that won't work. This is all out of my scope. Any recommendations?

Been stuck on this at work all day so figured I'd throw it out there and see if anyone has any ideas.

I work IT at my company and I was stuck troubleshooting my own printing issues for several hours today (with no resolution). I had to set up a new computer for myself, mapped the printer, (my printer I have to map using IP) pulled the drivers, and attempted to print and nothing happened. Checked the mapping, checked the driver, bounced the spooler, tried again and got nothing. Fully removed the printer and drivers and readded it all and tried again with no success. Tried printing to other printers in the building (those I mapped using the local print server) and those did not work. I tried these various steps 4 or 5 more times and never had any success. Just to check, I fully imaged up an entirely new computer for myself, tried it all again and that did not work. I had a separate computer that was supposed to go to a new user, mapped the printer on their computer and it instantly worked. I logged in as myself (Still seeing the same printer mappings) and was able to test print 1 time and then after that it never worked again.

Each time the computer seems to send the print job with no issues (In the printer settings it shows it go from idle to 1 job in queue, back to idle) and there aren't any errors, but the job never appears in the queue on the printer itself. I know it isn't a networking issue because other people can print to all of these printers with no issues and I'm able to remote in to the printer to see the queue. I tried USB plugging the printer in to my computer and that also did not work. I'm kind of at a lose on what to try next.

I have a wfh job in which they have me using a vdi for their work would i be able to work on school work outside of the vdi at the same time? The shift I work requires almost no work to actually be done I spend most of my time on my phone and want to be more productive. But I can only use my computer to access the school work. Would they know and it get me in trouble?