Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.
Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”
Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.
It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.
Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100
100 calls an hour BABY.
sigh
So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.
So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.
Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.
Then we do it all over again for the live.
Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.
There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!
I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.
No hackathons from my school, I do game jams, and so maybe doing one using only code and not a game engine would be an interesting challenge. Plenty of game jams where the goal is to have the game be like under 10 megs, so straight code is the only way to go.
I work full time while also going to school so no freedom during summer or anything.
I’ll see if any foss projects look interesting!
If I could get an internship that could pay all my bills I would love one. But I have a mortgage as I’m currently 30. I probably don’t have time for college, my full time job, and a part time internship!
If there are any internships paying around 70k a year I mean I’ll start it in a heart beat XD
Every mc pvp server I looked at had wonderful “Supporter packs”
Brain says bad. Because I’ll be there, working on trying to get a new shiny ship and then the brain is like… “You make 40$ an hour overtime. That’s a lot more ship than doing this.” or "instead of checking in on your skill queue every day for two years to make sure it’s optimal $300 worth of plex and you have your dream toon. "
And yeah… I know myself. I need to avoid games that make that lil voice pop up.
My brain is like “I played that game just like… last year right?”
Nah bro, you played that in high school, which was most certainly not last year.
I mean… in eve you were allowed to straight up buy perfect characters or skill injectors, then the isk to buy a ship. So you could have a newbie with the same character power as a 3 year old player.
My brain does not like grinding games with strong P2W aspects, it messes with me.
I see gold is for sale in the shop, is store bought gold a big influence in the game? Or pretty irrelevant?
Oh I’m so sorry to hear that as well :( those old cats who love you with all their heart are just so amazing. He would happily sit on my lap all day and whenever I sleep he would come up and rub his face against me and then sleep on my chest.
Like I keep thinking I want another cat… but I don’t want another cat. I want MY cat back who I had for 16 years!
But now I gotta take care of my little 3 year old boy and figure out how to keep him happy!
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I wonder how long that has been the case!
Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.
Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.
So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?
You’re so right and never thought of it like that! If you Google and find a new service you’ve never heard of, we’re expected to give up our soul in a heartbeat! Even for a new email so many are like: First name Last name Phone number for dual authentication Install this app for dual auth Birthdate!
Like dude, there are a lot of services that just that information alone is enough to call in and take my account. It’s so scary how common that is.
A game I play uses PayPal as the payment processor, and pay pal decided to pay this specific company I had to upload the front and back of my ID.
Just… ugh.
Oh man see I knew i was missing stuff! My gf wanted more if an explanation of why I didn’t love a vpn but I couldn’t really explain more than “if you leave sign pots everywhere that you live here, probably don’t need to worry about bread crumbs”
I’m annoyed that worked.
I had already reset the CMOS, but this time after installing it with the PSU off and battery out I went and had dinner.
I am now fully upgraded and running!