I have a headless Debian server I’ve used for hosting media for like 10 years now with 0 issues that weren’t hardware failures. It’s solid as a rock. That said if you already have stuff up and running and you’re not having any problems there’s no reason to touch it.

I had that happen when I was on call once. Some guy called me at like 4am having internet problems with his laptop and I asked him like the basic troubleshooting questions and he got pissed an hung up (he had woken me up so I might have sounded bitchy but I was trying to help). Then he called back at like 11am still having problems and I got him up and running and he was like “wow thanks! the guy I talked to this morning was an asshole.”

I mean my mental health and confidence improved significantly once I got the stigma of being a virgin off my back. I lost it to a girl that actually liked me and wanted to sleep with me though and we did it again a lot more times. I’m not sure a pity fuck would have had the same effect.

Oh, I know. The point was that the comment I responded to isn’t a valid excuse.

Okay but why was there functionality in place for this to break in the first place? Notepad shouldn’t need the store involved at all and why are they pushing our bugs like this that should be caught in testing.

I have to manually update the clock like half the time windows updates. Also you can’t open the date and time from every monitor like you can on Windows 10.

and most people underestimate how infuriating it is sitting in a waiting room for 6 hours

In America we pay too much for healthcare AND sit in the waiting room for hours

The klaxon from Goldeneye 64

Sometimes someone will have drawn a funny hat on the picture in the library book.

The requestee in this scenario holds all the cards. They don’t owe the requester any consideration. Regardless it’s not unreasonable to expect you to your fucking ducks in a row before you bother people. You’re going to have to provide the information anyway.

you could be seen as that person who only talks to ask for a favor (wherever it is real or not).

If you are this way you’ll be perceived as such regardless of if you do small talk first. I have a relative that only ever talks to me if they want something and it’s fucking annoying to wait for the shoe to drop when they try to chit chat beforehand. Just get to the point if that’s all you really care about.

Spending 30 seconds to type out what you want is hardly a big ask. If typing is a struggle for you then go take a typing course and catch up to everyone else in this century. I don’t want a vague “can you talk right now?”. I can’t answer that question accurately when I’m in the middle of juggling multiple different things pretty much all day long. I need to know what the context is and how much time it is likely to take to make sure it’s not going to derail the other shit I have going on. As the person who is demanding attention from someone else you should be doing everything in your power to minimize the inconvenience to them.

Do what you want, as I said, I’m not answering a cold call or responding to it unless there is a voicemail and there is a lot more friction between me and listening to a voicemail than there is for checking a teams message or an email.

The objectively correct way is to send all the detail you have about the request so that the person fulfilling it has to ask as few follow-up questions as possible. This is the most time efficient way for everyone. If that person is unavailable then you either wait for them or copy paste to the next person. Being selfish doesn’t make sense when you’re the one that needs them to do something for you. If someone starts a communication with me with “ping” I’m not responding to that ever, if they follow up with what they want they’ll still be at the bottom of my list. That shit is disrespectful as fuck.

The % is for humans not water. Anything over 100 is too hot.

No, don’t you see? He’s a very important bigshot and everyone must drop whatever they’re doing to service him immediately.

*Realizes I do in fact have a second and leaves to get a cup of coffee*

It’s literally a meeting invite… Just send a meeting invite.

Then we’re back to just send the whole request and I’ll get to it when I get to it. “Hi” is worthless in every scenario.

Eh, I’m not answering a cold call either. Leave a voicemail with what you want and I’ll check it when I finish whatever I’m working on. A complete teams message or email with what you want is always going to get the fastest response from me. Respect my time and I’ll respect yours.