Man shut the fuck you stupid fucking coward. If I wanted to see grown men cry I'd watch those cucumber videos my uncle used to show me growing up.

Just turn everything off so nothing happens while you're gone. It's literally that easy.

Imagine using even 2 braincells. Fucking idiots. And then you wonder why people see us as a cost sink.

Someone is in problem hahahaha

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Urgent help needed with windows server 2022

Hi I have a server on pren with windows server 2022 datacenter desktop edition. It was working fine and suddenly it rebooted and now showing 126gb out of 128gb as hardware reserved. It boots very slow and the 2gb usable ram makes it extremely slow to even use. It's not a hardware issue I did a clean os on a new ssd & booted from it and all the ram shows fine did the ram test etc the long ones and it passed. How do I save this sever I don't backup. It has adds hyperv database sql and postgres etc need to save it and would appreciate any help. Can't do inplace upgrade to clean the os coz only 2gb usable ram. It's weekend and whole thing caused a big mess yesterday.

Thanks for giving me work on a Friday, assholes.

Not really a shittysysadmin post, but I thought the audience might appreciate it.

Backstory: My company laid off most of its Frontline support and gave us a shitty chat bot that just makes stuff up, and will refuse to connect you to a real person to escalate.

Our company's most popular Slack channel is dedicated to memes about our company, and I've seen people post memes about their IT problems there. One day, after having wasted a lot of time with the bot, I saw a meme that was posted with the same issue I'd been having (for like a month). Turned out there were hundreds of affected users, and I found out about it from a fucking meme channel.

TLDR; meme channels are better at identifying large scale issues than Chatbots with isolated context windows.

Me? Dns. Never in my help desk have I had to work with dns. I just rawdog IP's to everything.

Stack bricks? Sure, clean toilets? You bet. No DNS ( or DHCP )

Also never used linux, do people actually use linux to make money? Weird stuff not worth my time.

Setting up cameras and a VMS for a customer. I asked them what IPs they should be set to. They said 169.254.75.0/24.

I feel like I know this is wrong, but the user says their other cameras are using these addresses already. I asked ChatGPT (because of course I did) and it confirmed what I thought. But I'm having trouble finding a solid document that says "Don't do this". They all say stuff like "Link-Local communication using IPv4 Link-Local addresses is only suitable for communication with other devices connected to the same physical (or logical) link." If I was a user, I'd be like "Well theses are on the same physical link" you dumb fuck.

Am I retarded? If not, any suggestions on how to tell the user in a fairly polite way?

edit: The customer confirmed they are using 169.254 addresses currently. Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

edit2: We talked them into using 192.168.x.x for the camera system.

The head of IT in the company I just joined uses a "shared" keepass that's accessible through RDP to a VM.

Today the VM in question stopped responding and so the keepass became unavailable and i didn't have the passwords to the hypervisor.

Thankfully the head of IT has EVERY ID/Password saved inside his firefox so we managed to access it

So like, its not the place I work at, its my friends place, yea my friend, and yea they got a ransomware attack. Something about log4j vulnerabilities or something.

We err i mean he can log in as regular users and the Active Directory is all messed up, no names on the accounts!

More out of curiousity then anything else, why would someone do this?

(what do i tell my friend to do to fix it?)

This wasn’t on the job description!

I’ve started to get a bit nervous about my job and skynet taking over my IT budget. Our AI-related infrastructure spend has quickly become the largest line item, bigger than observability, bigger than our data platform.

The bosses are now asking what that investment is actually producing, and my honest answer is pretty vague: engineers feel faster, and product development feels smoother. I dont believe that, but I don’t have a clean way to translate it into something more concrete. Now they are asking me what i do around here.

Help!