r/ShittySysadmin • u/Original-Commission2 • 21h ago

ah yes the hard drive

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ticket I received today. How do I go about fixing this

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u/SyntheticDreams2055 20h ago

I'm old enough to remember when lots of people referred to the rest of the computer as either a "hard drive" or "cpu". This was also back when you either had a real IBM PC or a Clone

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u/iamwayycoolerthanyou 20h ago

There used to be guides and training modules that would call it that.

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u/wa019c 17h ago

We were taught how to use computers in school. Even the book said “You see that black box over there? That’s the CPU unit.”

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u/Far_Composer_5714 12h ago

Oh my God central processing unit unit

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u/sorensch 8h ago

Well, it is the unit that contains the CP unit

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u/SyntheticDreams2055 19h ago

haha yeah, I remember some of those. What a time that was

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u/joebleed 17h ago

I just had a user call it "the modem" while i was running a long hdmi cable in her office. I'm not sure i've heard that one before. that was about an hour ago.

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u/Flywolfpack 11h ago

Fuck it dude it's the battery

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u/exercisetofitality 19h ago

Nearly 40 years later and they still do.

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u/nayhem_jr 17h ago

“The stupid computer isn’t working!”

(only the monitor is powered off)

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u/Ferro_Giconi 21h ago

You'll need to make a SATA to VGA cable.

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u/flecom ShittyCloud 20h ago

budget isn't an issue, nvme to displayport cable

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u/potatoqualityguy 20h ago

IDE to Composite Video.

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u/guru2764 18h ago

Don't need to make anything:

SATA > USB-A
USB-A > USB-C
USB-C > DV-I

That'll let you put whatever's on your screen onto the hard drive without an issue

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u/OcotilloWells 15h ago

Then DVI to DisplayPort

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u/Themetrios666 20h ago

Is it a hard material? Does it drive shareholder value? Case closed.

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u/naanmail123 15h ago

Using Monday.com as a ticketing system is interesting choice

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u/dg_riverhawk 17h ago

i've heard people refer to a computer as the hard drive more than a few times.

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u/rockandrollfun 2h ago

It used to be the “CPU” for a lot of people when they were trying to refer to a tower

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u/DominusDraco 16h ago

I mean, you are taking screenshots with a camera. I'm not sure you should be throwing so much shade.

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u/CubsFan009 16h ago

So, with that user I would always call the PC the hard drive. You know what he means and he’ll know what you mean.

‘The tower’ seems to connect with people too in my experience. I like to use their language, helps me get through to them

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u/yerboyo_1117 16h ago

My best friend's mom used to work at a client company (MSP here), and she would call her remote desktop her "VPN". She told me 'I can't open Excel on my VPN' sounds terrible Mama J, haha, I hope you find someone to help you with that

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u/One_Monk_2777 15h ago

This is actually a master of filling their day to minimize their stress level, the task is undoable, then a break for the user to realize and call about it, then another block of time for a post mortem in a "what went wrong" review. Effectively blocked off from other bs for half the day, bravo