Did I know how printers work and can fix their printer.
Look, I have a computer science degree (utterly pointless qualification folks don’t get one) and I work in cyber security. I haven’t got a clue how those fuckers work, I don’t know get a brother or something they seem to be fine.
Printers are so cheap nowadays that the solution to every problem is to buy a new one. Paper jam? Out of ink? Random pages coming out with grayscale pictures of demonic forces? Lost the power cable? Buy a new one
I actually do enjoy human interaction (to a reasonable degree).
Software engineering.
Most people don’t have a clue what we do. Especially management. Most people think we’re code factory workers, just writing code all day. In reality, it is closer to being an artist than it is a factory worker. There’s a ton of thinking, discussion, design, and unfortunately politicking.
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Fully agree with you. People think anything can be done with Software. But often not really and we just create a work around. Its always funny to see people think developing is easy and then get shattered by reality. Sometimes you just sit there, screaming for why it doesnt work!..then you see you set the wrong variable.
Sometimes you are an artist, sometimes a high mathematician, sometimes a wizard and sometimes you want to get an axe and hack your computer
People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we “know about computers.”
Can you hack Roblox?
“Accountants spend most of their time preparing tax”
No, hardly any time is spent on tax. Management accountants and auditors don’t do tax work at all.
User end hands on IT for the elderly.
that it’s hard. “Oh I could never do your job”
It’s literally a customer service job with tech paint. Reboot the device. Don’t yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world. Collect check and praise.
The amount of times I’ve been called a genius for relogging into someone’s email is greater than 7.
Yeah. Real hard.
Don’t yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world.
I think this is the part some people might struggle with
Lol, I was the computer genius in my office job because I knew how to change the paper size on the printer from Letter to A4. Soak up the praise!
It’s one of those things I’d probably have to Google because how many times do you do that, but yeah think most people just give up when they hit a technical problem and stop thinking.
People are always amazed at how physically active embroidery is at an industrial scale. Everybody thinks it’s just sitting around with an oldschool hoop, but I’m up and down the length of an 8ft machine all day, embroidering the same design on 6 garments at once.
I think the most I ever did was 300 garments in an 8 hour workday, but I put 17k steps on my fitbit and was dead tired afterwards.
Edit:oh heck it was more steps than that
What do you use? Our shop has a Tajima T-MAR
We’re running with the Barudan BEKY, but they run .dst files too.
People praise me up for “saving the bees”. Honey bees don’t need saving. It’s the other bees that do, the hundreds of species of bumblebees, mining bees, solitary bees etc etc. Bees that are outcompeted in some areas due to the number of hobbyist beekeepers and commercial bee farms. I’m one of the baddies.
I have a wildlife garden with lots of wild plants and insects and stuff. I thought I was helping the bees but I mean just helping some body make artisanal honey to sell to me at the craft fair?
I have red-belted bumblebees living inside the wall of my house. We need to fix the broken light fixture they’re using to gain access, but I dun wanna kick them out, haha.
I’ve always been interested in the business side of beekeeping, do you rent out for pollination and is it worth doing?
I’m working with computers => I can fix their windows problems.
Nope. If I work on windows, and it eats itself for no reason, I call IT. I don’t waste my time on that crap software.
That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still
That’s so fucking true. If I’m honest its usually trying to figure out how the fuck something actually is supposed to work. Its either by searching stuff online or changing single lines of code until it finally works.
I’m in engineering. If I tell someone I work for the phone company they think I work on phones. Not sure what my mom thinks I do.
I’m in school for electrical engineering. Everyone I tell that to then says they are going to hire me to fix the electrical issues at their house.
Software dev and game dev: Being lazy, it not being a real job, not much effort, it being easy, everyone is a super genius, AI will replace us
Work - that I do math and science and stuff all the time. Reality - I do that some times. The rest of the time is investigating why an operator put toilet paper into the gear box or other oddities. People are weird.
Hobby - that 3d printing can make anything and it’s better bc it’s printed. Reality - it’s just another tool, does some things well, others not. 3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.
3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.
But the news told me they would solve the housing crisis!
Oh man, I can and do make a lot of wild things on my printer, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to talk people out of this as a hobby. I’ve had my box for 7 years, I’ve completely redesigned the print head, the fan assembly, the extruders, the feed method, the bed, basically everything but the body of the printer. You are not going to drop $200 on marketplace and start printing miniatures this weekend. You are not going to replace all the hardware in your house with printed parts. You are not going to print an armory of ghost guns.
This isn’t sci-fi replicators, this is at best goblin artifice.
Idk I have a $300 printer upstairs and you totally can just print stuff on it immediately. The days of super expensive (money and/or time) printers is past.
Oh yeah, you can get printing immediately, even make some really good stuff, but I’m taking about the people who think they can pick up some bunk diy thing and bag of pla and get professional resin detail on their first go.
Oh, yeah, it’s gonna be a little rough around the edges. I don’t really mind layer lines, but if you want a perfect product you’re going to have to put in some design work to get it to that level and have a good printer for it.
I actually love layer lines, it’s such a distinctive look and feel that few other things have. I keep a second profile for my printer that prints at 0.4/0.2 just for that feel.
I’m still amazed you can draw something on your computer and physically print it into reality. I do agree that layer lines can look pretty cool.
Therapists are not “always analysing” you.
Seriously, you gotta pay me before I’ll spend the energy to do that
My ex girlfriend is a therapist, and she was CONSTANTLY “analyzing” me, even when I begged her to turn that shit off and just be my girlfriend.
Count Dracula doesn’t like in a castle because he’s a vampire.
He lives in a castle because he’s a count
I feel like even after paying therapists don’t do much
Sucks that you’ve not found them helpful.
Therapy can be great, a place to get stuff that’s hard to find in the day to day life.
But it’s not the only place to get that stuff. So I hope whatever it is you need, you find a place that works for you.
- unless they are autistic. Then they analyse every little twitch
AI can do it - translator.
Example of Google lens fail:
