• Kramkar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I have read this ten times now, and I still can’t figure out what it is supposed to mean…

          • AnotherHelldiver@jlai.luEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.

            Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.

            Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation. Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change. Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled. The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.

            Lastly, I have a Brother printer, bought to a neighbor sale. The oven inside, which is in charge of heating the ink, had a failure. It had melted. For the price, it was a deal. I only needed to buy a new part, unplug it, replace and I had a laser printer with colours. Well, Brother had lightly soldered pins linking the connector to PCB. When I unplugged it, soldering came with it. I contacted a repair store near me telling me they don’t do it and I should ask for a repair to a certified Brother technician. Which is overpriced. I also can’t open it fully as it is placed to be impossible to repair without disassembling half of the machine.

            No printer is the same, some brands are better than others. Some are well accepted on Linux with CUPS, some other not. But so far, not one brand impressed me well enough by their design to keep it open, easily fixable and long lasting.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I hate my computer as well. That’s why I have to modify it to something completely different before I am able to use it for basic text editing.

        I AM TALKING TO YOU EMACS PUT YOUR BACKUPS SOMEWHERE ELSE BY DEFAULT ALREADY I USE GIT

  • Smeagol666@mander.xyzEnglish
    807·
    5 days ago

    Firemen hate pedophiles

    Teachers hate pedophiles

    Doctors hate pedophiles

    Lawyers hate pedophiles

    Liberals hate pedophiles

    Conservatives hate pedophiles

    Independents hate pedophiles

    Where’s the fucking list Donny? Give us the list you fat orange fuck. We know you’re on it, and so do you. How did you think this was going to pan-out, dumbass?

      • Smeagol666@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        We can put “most” in front of all of these categories. Acting like there are no liberal or independent ones is the equivalent of enabling them. Put them all in prison no matter what political affiliation.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      5 days ago

      Conservatives hate pedophiles

      Unless it’s their own, then “he’s saving a young girl from extreme poverty”/“she’s teaching a lucky boy a special lesson”/“was a human after all, no one is perfect”.

      • Smeagol666@mander.xyzEnglish
        314·
        5 days ago

        Shitlibs that pretend Bill Clinton and Joe Biden aren’t pedos give me a fucking headache. Also Bill Gates and Alan Dershowitz.

        • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          4 days ago

          I haven’t seen anything related to Biden, but I haven’t heard a single person, on any side if any aisle, defending Clinton. It’s always just seemed like a failed “gotcha” attempt on the right, because most everyone to the left of “I’ll vote for anything with an R next to their name” would have no issue throwing offenders from their own side in jail along with the others.

    • Pupscent@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      From what we’re seeing in the US, pedophiles hate pedophiles… at least publicity.

      • Smeagol666@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Like bitjunkie said:

        It’s in that performative superiority-complex way, like Lindsey Graham hating gays

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      *child molesters. Many (if not most) who sexually abuse children are not sexually attracted to children. Many who are sexually attracted to children do not abuse children.

    • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Some of this is absurd, but I feel like a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek stuff or just “let’s see how far we can push things into ridiculousness before your grandma notices that something’s off”.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    Engineers hate managers.

    Remember next time you get a shitty product, don’t blame the engineer who designed it. Blame the manager who forced him to do it that way.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      Technicians hate engineers. An engineer will drag themselves across a field of naked virgins, ignoring them all, in order to fuck one mechanic.

      • Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        As an engineer I can understand that.

        It can be a little like a dentist and a dental assistant. The assistant does all the work but the dentist gets the Porsche.

    • multifariace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      4 days ago

      I blame designers for everything. Keeps the fads and fashion for the well-to-do. The average person needs function first. Why would anything I want to buy for regular use be available seasonally or only come in over the top fancy plastic shapes with weird colors and breaks with less than 100 hours of use. I have a kitchen and office because I use them, not because it accents my overpriced home. I have worked in merchandising from many angles and it sickens me. Even what should be simple packaging on almost all retail products is overdesigned and printed full of lies. And the worst part is the cost of the product is directly related to design. Look at how cheap some knock-offs can be produced. I would never presume the engineer to be the source of the overpriced malfunctions of consumerism.

      • RobertoEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        And don’t get me started about UX designers! Motherfuckers break whatever is working so it looks “clean”.

    • espentan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      As a former tech manager, I’d argue you’re a pretty shit manager if you tell your people how to solve a problem. Guide, inform, clarify, help remove obstacles etc. etc., but the solution is for the engineers to find.

      • Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Look, I don’t wish to be insulting but with a comment like that, I find it hard to believe you worked in any business. While engineers maintain some level of control over product design, like making the product actually function (although I’ve even seen that thwarted by management) they do not usually have the last say in things like ergonomics, interoperability, improvements that cost extra, appearance, business development and many other design parameters.

        By management I should point out that I am including anyone who is above the design engineer in the process.

        I’ve seen business development guys promise customers impossible functionality because “that’s what I thought they would want.”

        I’ve seen schedules created by systems engineers that could not be met if we lived in a Star Trek universe.

        I’ve been in meetings where production logic was similar to; if one woman can give birth to a child in 9 months, nine women can give birth to a child in one month.

        I’ve seen budgets slashed to the bone or critical people removed from projects for a host of reasons, good or bad.

        In an actual example I was in a meeting where the manager of business development didn’t know what the term PC Card slot meant. When he was presented with the product design in a meeting, he asked where the PC Card slot was. So the engineer pointed out that it was internal to the unit, on the motherboard where they were always placed. He did not like this because there was no actual slot on the outside. When it was pointed out that that wasn’t really possible without completely redesigning both the motherboard and the enclosure he insisted we put a slot on the outside. When told that the PC Card slot couldn’t be reached from ANY slot on the outside of the enclosure he made us redesign the end plate to incorporate a PC Card shaped slot that served no purpose except to stroke his ego, and add a costly change to a product with existing tooling and necessitate a PC Card slot sized plug to seal the unit against moisture be designed. We, from that day forward, referred to that end cap as the vanity plate.

        Yeah a good manager would do all of those things you said assuming his manager doesn’t stop him, but that’s the point, managers suck. That’s why we hate then.

        • espentan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.

          What I wrote was based on my personal experience, managing engineers on product teams and how I approached the role as manager.

          We owned the products we developed and maintained and as a team we enjoyed great autonomy, and so we were spared customers/clients asking for the ridiculous, and I can probably count on one hand (ok, maybe two hands) the times we just had to do something because corporate said so.

          We always pushed for engineers’ involvement in product and feature development, planning/roadmaps, and they did indeed have great influence over the what and the how. Push back from engineers on products’ suggestions/ideas/plans were frequent, and attention was paid.

          This was for a company in Norway, where perhaps top down management isn’t as prevalent as in many other places, and employees are typically encouraged to speak up and get involved. Again, in my experience.

          I found that being there to support and assist my engineers, not micro managing them, gave great results in terms of team culture and work satisfaction. I made it clear that I would always have their backs as long as they didn’t intentionally fuck something up.

          I fully realize this isn’t the case everywhere, nor even typical.

          All said, I really enjoyed being a manager. On some level it triggered a father’s instincts in me, and I took great pride in looking after people and seeing what they were capable of building as a team.

          • Professorozone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            I worked for four companies in my professional career, three defense contractors and one commercial company, all in the US. But I interacted with countless others both US and international and I would have to say, your experience is definitely the exception. You should definitely be happy you had such a great experience. I find it’s difficult NOT to have pressures to cut corners or just under-design. Cost, physics or customer expectations frequently turn that pressure up.

    • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
      19·
      5 days ago

      …and a lot of them hate the end-user, too. Why must we involve people in the whole computer thing? Isn’t an abacus and a box of crayons enough?

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      CS IT but yeah. I work in a company with people with masters in CS from Ivy League schools and they don’t understand the first thing about how hardware or their OS works. Common misconception

      • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        …which, in and of itself, is sad as hell because one of the course requirements (at least when I was working on my CS degree) was Operating System Concepts & Design.

  • ronflex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    People saying users are the bane of IT professionals are just antisocial whiners. The real bane of an IT professional is fucking printers. Fuck printers.

  • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    4 days ago

    Accounting:

    Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.

    Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      As an IT person: Intuit products.

      Their support sucks and unless it’s operating as designed, you basically can’t get any answer more specific than “call support” online, and when you do decide to call them, the IT guy can never get answers unless the account holder is on the line because they refuse to talk to anyone who isn’t on the account and they refuse to add the IT guy to the account.

      Also, QuickBooks desktop is basically dead. There will be no 2025 version as far as I’m aware. They’re forcing everyone into QuickBooks online.

      Also, their automated file doctor tools are basically useless, rebuilding a file has a good chance of breaking it, requiring intervention from the data services team.

      They also seem to have no idea what automation is, and have little to no shits to give over making deployment and management any easier/simpler for the IT staff that needs to support their product.

      Fuck. Intuit.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          They can get fucked with a rusty cactus.

          But at least with Adobe, their support actually knows things, and there’s an admin console where I can see what’s happening with my team subscriptions.

          They’re expensive as all fuck, but that’s not my problem. That’s a problem for the company.

    • NoodlePoint@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I like the one guy who said he pays taxes so that he can have civilization. It kinda sucks a company has near-absolute monopoly of tax-return software, and thus I’m interested if there’s a FOSS alternative to that.

  • Corelli_III@midwest.socialEnglish
    331·
    5 days ago

    every time i pick a different direction in my career, Donald Trump personally brings about that industry’s ruin

  • medgremlin@midwest.socialEnglish
    33·
    5 days ago
    • Emergency Medicine: Alcohol and/or fireworks
    • Family Medicine: Wellness influencers
    • Surgery: Pre-op NSAIDs (eg ibuprofen)
    • Pediatrics: RFK Jr
  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    5 days ago

    Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.