House-of-Suns

Am I right in thinking - This is outrageously low

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We started stripping old PC’s

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What's the biggest lie you learned about working life?

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House-of-Suns@reddit

It's complete horse shit. If you look at the poorest people in the world, they usually work in some of the most demanding and unsafe jobs just to survive.

What most expensive "cheap decision" have you ever seen in your sysadmin career?

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Back when everyone thought tablets were the future of IT. My org refusing to buy tech illiterate mobile workers with minimal IT needs an iPad as they are “expensive toys”, but then buying Surfaces instead. Then when staff figured out they could use them as a PC at a desk they were all purchased a docking station, a keyboard and mouse, a monitor and a printer regardless of whether they asked for them or not. Cost per user quadrupled over just giving them the iPads and most either didn’t use the equipment or found it too clunky or complicated, defeating the point in giving them an iPad in the first place. Hundreds of thousands of pounds wasted.

Apparently british people "raise" tickets instead of creating them

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Do you permit selling or giving old equipment to employees?

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Not in my current work place. Everywhere I’ve worked where this has ever been allowed, even if they’re done as a one-off, the employees will feel entitled to the businesses IT to provide support if they have any issues afterwards. They ask formally and get shot down, so they’ll pester different IT staff till someone helps them (usually the younger guys who don’t dare say no) Even if they’re don’t get their own way you still have to spend time dealing with it.

What percentage of your job is actually IT vs. managing expectations and politics?

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On paper I’m 100% a technical sysadmin, but as the years have gone by its reached a point where I’d say about 80% of what I do now is a combination of managing expectations, coordinating things or people, dealing with higher level decision making and politics. Not in a management role at all though, it’s just the work that comes my way. I’ve seen it happen to people in our field. Technical people with no aspirations of management who become so time served, experienced and relied upon that they end falling into a manager position or become a defacto manager without the pay or title.

Do you have a rare or retro email address?

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Back in \`99 I had a [britneyspearsmail.com](http://britneyspearsmail.com) email address on her website. I currently have a few others which are either really old, rare or was lucky enough to get them day one so have great names: A [googlemail.com](http://googlemail.com) since late 2005. A Apple [me.com](http://me.com) email address from 2008 from their failed "MobileMe" service. An [Outlook.com](http://Outlook.com) email address from release day back in 2012, which I was able to get my name without numbers etc. You'd be amazed the amount of emails I get from people trying to reach someone with the same name as me.

How do you manage finances as a couple?

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You’ve got to be wary of any situation in which someone insists on controlling your finances, and using baseless reasoning like that you cannot be trusted etc. Real red flag for an abuse all round. Most nowadays seem to have an account each and separate finances, and pay bills out of a joint one that they both pay into. Just seems more fair.

Do you expect your frontline manager to be a Subject Matter Expert?

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It depends on the size of your team and your environment I think. I’ve seen small teams of 2 or 3 people where the manager is really just a senior sysadmin who also manages. In that sort of scenario I’d expect the guy to know the ins and outs of just about everything. The larger the team and your IT setup though the less that applies.

What is your org’s "Users per Sysadmin" ratio? Currently drowning at 1:200

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K12 Equivalent UK Secondary School here. Ratio is 1:1000 with all users, and about 1:125 if you just include the staff and not kids. There’s never quite enough time to do everything and team of generalist sysadmins is always spread too thin. In our kind of environment, from experience I’d say the ratio needs to be half what it currently is is to be optimal (1:500 inc kids, or 1:65 with just staff users)

How accepted was being gay in your school?

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This exactly. The one gay person we knew about was one that had outed by someone. Treated like a total deviant and bullied relentlessly after that. Ended up leaving for another school.

How are you dealing with enshittification of Windows 11 in the business world?

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In the business world Windows 10 & 11 are no different to manage. You can configure most of the stuff you’re talking about via Group Policy or intune, and if you’re running a network and use M365/Entra you likely wouldn’t be using local accounts or want to turn Onedrive off.

Is Henry hoover overrated?

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Higher Ed: The IT environment I will never work in again

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I work in a large K12 and this is all very relatable. My team spend incredible amounts of time managing upwards as there’s no strategy and no budget. You’re asked to deal with whatever requests come in, but as there’s no real steer from the people in charge you’re just expected to comply with any staff or departments shadow IT practices unless they’re actually burning the place down. They sleep walk into disaster after disaster time and time again because the place is largely ran by disinterested, ego driven academics with no management experience outside of controlling kids in a classroom.

As a system administrator, do you ever feel like your brain never stops thinking?

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IT Department's Relationship with Facilities

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When I first started out, one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was "Always look after the Facilities staff and they will look after you". IT stuff aside, if you consider your place in the average organisation, the Facilities staff are often the ones who will understand the practicalities of your job, your responsibilities and the difficulties you face better than anyone else. The job attracts super practical people who just want to get stuff done without fuss or egos, who keep their ear to the ground and don't mind bending arbitrary rules. When you're bogged down by bureaucracy and a lack of productivity elsewhere, they're often a breath of fresh air to work with. I'd rather coffee break with my caretakers than most in my own department.

Is Pizza Hut dying in the UK?

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Their products are not competitive anymore, particularly given the rise in competition and the ability to order online and have it delivered. Their products dropped in quality but increased in price, now being ridiculously expensive for what it is. Why spend £30+ on a pizza which skimps on toppings and still happens to be greasy AF when competitors offer better products at cheaper prices?

What's the smallest hill you're willing to die on?

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What's you personal touch to newly deployed devices?

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I intentionally don’t on my network. My team debated doing things like putting the Start Menu on the left, or changing the Right-Click context menus etc but didn’t in the end. It’s a large K12 equivalent school and I think that, in my case at least, it would be more useful to the kids to have a UI that matches both their personal device and what they may use at University or in a job later.

What is your current CPU and gpu

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Is My R5 7600 & 7800XT Considered A Mid-Range Build?

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As others say, it’s upper-mid range, but the 7600/7800xt/32GB combo is a sweet-spot in terms of value/performance for 1440p. You have a great system. To put that value/performance into perspective; I just built one with the same basic specs as you, in a Fractal North XL with all white and silver parts, additional fans, a great mechanical, aura sync compatible RGB keyboard and mouse. I didn’t cheap out on quality for anything, it looks great and runs 1440p ultrawide like a champ, all for about the price of a single 5080 in the UK. I have zero regrets, and as long as you’re playing the games you want well you shouldn’t either.

How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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I get what you mean. TBH figuring out what to do here, and keeping something old running here is defiantly part of the appeal. Otherwise I'd just bin it and start new.

How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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Really?! That has blown my mind. I heard the requirements jumped a lot with Odyssey particularly on planets etc. I'll defiantly give that a try. Thanks

How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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No budget. Happy to spend whatever, just looking to also re-use my parts if possible. The 5600/5600x seem really highly recommended for cheaper builds, but don't they use the old AM4 socket? Is it not worth going Am5 instead for future proofing?

How would you resurrect my 10 year old gaming build and bring it up to date?

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What is the most unexpected things you have seen working in IT?

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So I’m with a customer, whose known to be a bit of a cougar, helping her transfer some photos off her phone. Whilst doing this a bunch of her nudes pop up. She just laughed it off, told me she wasn’t shy, she has them to send to guys she meets via online dating and hopes I enjoyed them too.

What's the first OS (and version too) that you used?

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What age were you when you first had a personal computer in your household?

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We’ve found this to be the case for the past 10 years at our school; overall computer literacy notably declines every year as less and less of the students use Windows/office etc before the age of 11. Nowadays to combat that it’s actually baked into the curriculum to have to teach keyboard and mouse use, file management, what office apps are etc etc at 11. all of it, particularly files/folders, are usually a completely alien concept to them. Not being critical of Gen Z here either, they just typically aren’t exposed to these things at a young age.

Higher Ed IT, fuck this....

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What British companies seem to have absolutely terrible IT/computer systems?

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Like many of the other apps people are talking about on here, much of the underlying code in SIMS is indeed decades old with layers of patches and add-ons to keep it running, add more features etc etc. Created in a time where Capita really had a monopoly on that sort of thing in the UK so there was never any real pressure to improve it, so they just expanded upon and patched forever. I used to deal with their developers all the time for both that and their absolutely horrific [SIMS.id](http://SIMS.id) product. Technical issues that lasted for years and were never ever fixed. They'd pretend that there weren't issues, or must be something my own IT team had been doing wrong. Then you find out many schools were having the same issues but ESS just kept their heads in the sand as they couldn't fix them. After dealing with them for years i'm not convinced anyone over at ESS, or Capita before that, really understood how these apps actually worked under the hood.

Do you allow users to keep old equipment?

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Same. When our managers have insisted on giving away old equipment and trying to enforce a "no support Poilcy" they always come back eventually and will try every trick in the book from smoozing, feigning ignorance or "forgetting" about the no support, asking for personal favours or intentionally going to the younger guys who haven't learned to say no.

Do you feel the generational divide?

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I work in a big secondary school. It's just accepted now that computer literacy is very much on the decline for kids starting Year 7 and has been every year for about a decade.

Do you remember a teacher at school humiliating you regularly?

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I remember seeing arsehole teachers like that as a kid, and they definitely still exist (I work in a large school). Teaching can be a very difficult and thankless job, but it’s obvious that for a minority of teachers the act controlling a class of students can be real power trip for their ego. The kind of person who likes to make others feel bad to boost their own self worth will have a field day in a classroom.

What "piece of information" you often assume is common knowledge to instead relearn often that the average person doesn't know anything about?

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You guys remember where you were on this day 23 years ago?

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Was skiving from 6th form at home watching TV. News came on after the first tower was hit, watched the 2nd tower hit live. Pretty unreal. Dad was telling me how there would be a WW3 and insist I’d be drafted.

What excites you at work?

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Will British high streets ever return from this, and what changes need to happen to make it so?

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Retail will never return to the high street the way you remember it. That's just something we all need to accept. Even if the risk in investing in small businesses was reduced the business themselves need to provide something of value to people that can't be sourced more cheaply or conveniently than via online/big businesses and that isn't easy. Whether you like them or not these places, and others such as barber shops etc, do those things very well and it's why they've survived where many others haven't.

What is the funniest thing you've accidentally overheard?

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About 14-15 years ago just after iPhones came out I was sat behind some hysterical woman on the bus screaming down the phone to her network provider. “What do you not understand?! I am an IPHONE USER! Without the internet my life is OVERRRRRRR!”

Is X (Twitter) now virtually unusable or do you still get something from it?

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Twitter/X/Whatever was always a the cesspit of the collective unconscious, but the algorithms on there seemed to just change for the worse overnight as soon as Elon took over. He talks a lot about free speech but out of all the social media platforms it seems like the only one intent on showing me what it wants me to see and feel something about, rather than what I want to see to keep me engaged and using the platform.

Did you ever have to really fight for a win that you thought would be a no-brainer?

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