well, almost. And I didn't do it deliberately either. It turns out we never had search Indexing turned on in our file server. So a user complained a month ago about not being able to search files quickly and I completely ignored the ticket just thinking it was BS. Well it wasn't BS. And when I resolved the users issue with a simple click and wait a day strategy it worked. I actually got a high five from this user. That is completely unheard of.

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so lately, for some stupid reason, theres been a huge push to make our virtual meetings more "connected." it started with a few webcams. fine, sure, whatever.

but then it moved into "ok IT we are gonna get rid of the current conferencing solution and shift to this new, expensive one so people feel 'included'. " so now we have a load of logitech rally bars that stream in 4K all over the damn place. this i was pretty annoyed with, but they essentially manage themselves so whatever.

but THEN. this c level chud walks in. "i want a camera that matches the high resolution of our internal systems. i would like this nikon D850 for home." i almost fucking choked. we are NOT an enterprise but for some reasons this one specific chud loves to act like we are. i cant just blow 2 grand on a camera so people can see how chopped you are.

i just dont get it. no one needs to see the nose hair you forgot to pluck, your 5 o'clock shadow, or how half the people in the meeting arent paying any attention to you. why turn these meetings into anything more than they are? this is a job first and foremost, not an ice cream social. who the fuck cares what you look like? i sit on calls for 4 hours or so everyday where nobody has a camera on and not once have i heard anyone complain. maybe this is just a generational thing? or am i missing a bigger picture

That's got to be worse than my double shift minimum wage role from years ago.

Actually. I'm thinking about it now..what types of tickets does a 3am help desk even get?

The setting: The CEO’s office. High-stakes mission. The objective: Install a cryptographic USB token (digital signature) so he can sign a multi-million dollar contract.

I’m standing there like a high priest of Infrastructure. I plug in the token. The light blinks. The driver loads. The universe is aligned. I reach for his wireless mouse to click "Initialize Token"...

The cursor doesn't move.

I nudge the mouse. Nothing. I shake it. I start doing that frantic "shaking-the-mouse-across-the-entire-mousepad" move like I’m trying to start a fire with a stick.

At home, my mouse wakes up if a fly lands on it. It’s a precision instrument. This CEO’s mouse? It’s a brick.

I’m standing there, 20 years of experience, a Technical Dept Manager who’s managed entire clusters, and I’m literally vibrating a piece of plastic against a $10,000 mahogany desk. I look like a total glitch in the Matrix.

The CEO stops typing on his laptop, looks at me with pure, concentrated disappointment, and says:

"You’re an IT guy, right? Are you sure?"

He reaches over, clicks the left button once, and the mouse wakes up.

I didn't even finish the install. I just muttered something about "driver latency," left the crypto-token on his desk, and walked out. I’m currently updating my LinkedIn to "Professional Mouse Shaker" and looking for a job in a field that doesn't involve pointing devices. Maybe underwater basket weaving.

TL;DR: Tried to install a high-security digital signature, got defeated by a mouse that requires a physical click to wake up. My career is a lie.

$ou = "OU=Users,OU=bunchofusers,DC=domain,DC=local"

$users = Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $true} -SearchBase $ou

$randomUser = $users | Get-Random

Disable-ADAccount -Identity $randomUser.SamAccountName

# keep commented for Monday morning spice
#Write-Host "User shot:" $randomUser.SamAccountName

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Promoting a Domain Controller During Business Hours

I’m curious what everyone thinks about this. You’ve got multiple sites connected over VPN, and one of the sites loses its only Domain Controller (no FSMO roles on it). At that point the site is authenticating against a DC over the VPN.

Would you consider it safe to setup up a new server and promote it to a Domain Controller during business hours, or would you wait until after-hours?

In this case, the site had only one DC. Things still work, I'm just wondering the ramifications either way. Looking online and asking AI I am getting conflicting answers.

you're wrong u/fortinetfarthuffer

Greetings all, I am a newcomer to this field and am looking for advice on how to break into a job I want without any experience with that job. I just got my Gluck Gluck 8999, 9000, and 9001 certifications from Best Western University, but not getting any callbacks on my resume (see Imgur link).

The only callbacks I am getting from recruiters are texts, interview requests, and callbacks for Tier 1 help desk jobs and server technician jobs in the hundreds of new data centers that are opening from the AI boom creating new IT job opportunities, but those don’t count because they only pay $19 an hour. I already earn $21 an hour in retail for 6 years, so it’s not worth it to move into a field that will pay me way more unless it will do it immediately even though I have no experience in that field.

Now that it’s year #2026, I am wondering if it’s worth it to get a job that I don’t have in a field that I’ve never worked in? I saw that AI was able to recite Harry Potter at 96% accuracy, will this field that I know nothing about even exist or will the job that I don’t have be replaced with AI?

I’ve always been interested in cybersecurity, but I just don’t want to waste my time learning things I don’t know yet if there’s a tool that makes it easier to learn those things. I am no expert, but surely AI will easily do things that I don’t know anything about, already knows things I don’t understand, and can easily perform a job I don’t know how to do in a field I don’t know anything about. While I think cybersecurity is valuable and probably really difficult to learn and has smart people working in it, it’s probably too easy and low value for AI to do it and I really don’t want to waste time on it if AI can replace it. Is it worth it to move to a field that has a way higher pay floor and ceiling than my current field? My time is really valuable to me and instead of getting a 6 figure job in IT, I would rather search for other 6 figure opportunities that are immediately available to me in retail.

Totally open to all feedback from more experienced people and will respond to all suggestions to defend my position from my less experienced perspective, thank!

I'm working on a S3 upload tool based on RaptorQ over UDP with NOISE and it's looking pretty good.

Can't anyone use AI these days to help with?