what was your field if i may ask? and what degree you planning on getting?

I work in IT. With my 2 year degree I was able to walk into a low level admin role immediately after graduation, and I think it was my internship and callcenter experience filling the expected help desk experience.

Its actually funny, I got laid off at the end of 2024 as part of the company relocating, I landed a pretty sweet role at a pretty lousy company that made up a reason to fire me, then my old job called begging me to come back as a contractor. I did the math and I’m making more now working part time than I did when I was working for them full time.

As for what I’ll go to school for if I do find myself unemployed again, I’m not entirely certain. I’m in a weird spot right now where I’d love to get hired on full time and do what I currently do for a few years but it’s also not quite the dream job that I keep seeing people working and I find myself feeling a twinge of jealousy. I’m thinking there’s a good chance I might aim for a side transition maybe into business analytics or project management, but I could also just go all in and get a bachelor’s in networking. It might just come down to what degree programs are available at schools I can attend if/when I do it

I did it early in the pandemic in anticipation of the current recession. Honestly I got pretty dang lucky with the timing but not for the reasons I thought going in. Graduated at the tale end of the hiring craze in 2023, snagged a pretty sweet role that honestly puts me in a good spot resume-wise

I do think if I lose my current role I’m probably going to go back to college and work on my bachelor’s. I’ve been job hunting for most of 2025. I’ve applied to about a hundred jobs, had 5 interviews and no job offers. Two years ago I applied to 5 jobs got 3 interviews and 2 job offers within 3 weeks.

I know someone who couldn’t land a job for 6 months while hunting for shitty retail work, y’know the kind of job where the only requirement is a semi-warm body. That’s how utterly fucked the current labor market is

How does it been in the cloud make it any worse. User management is user management I don’t really care if it’s hosted locally or not. I’d prefer it to be hosted locally but I’d take Entra over not having it at all.

The big difference is the gaping Grand Canyon sized feature gap between M365 and on-prem AD. Sure you can enforce some desktop policies via Entra but rarely the specific one you’re after. And if all you’re really using AD for is central authentication and you’re not using group policy much anymore, alternative options start actually being options

I’ll be the first Linux fan to say it’s better to manage windows from windows, and that includes using the Windows Server stack to manage your Windows clients, but Microsoft’s really making that less and less compelling as they move everything into the cloud and off of local software and instead into less featureful web apps. At some point it makes far more sense to just kick them to the curb and instead deal with the wonkiness of Linux where at least you get control over changes and updates

because we can’t remote into a Citrix box

Citrix literally makes a tool for doing exactly that! Its called Citrix Director and while yes it’s just as slightly-not-quite-wonky as everything else Citrix, it works quite well for remoting into a thin client’s session among other management features

They said they it’s a Citrix thing.

Pretty sure it’s more of a redirected folder thing with Windows, but Windows has been pretty wonky recently about redirected folders and profiles. By memory of my last Citrix environment redirecting the recycle bin is completely possible but bad practice since it’s just more profile data to fling around and slow down login times

Its really funny, I’ve noticed in organizations where they only purchase based on support availability they tend to have a lot of random broken stuff because vendors never sorted it out and tons of technical debt from 3/4 configured stuff that nobody took the time to dig into and finish cleaning up after the vendor completed the initial setup, meanwhile organizations which actually take an active role in their infrastructure and focus more on using the right tool for the job tend to have much more robust systems, but more outages where they can only blame themselves

I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor

I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That’s the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there’s text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I’d probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying

Some of the bits of the Epstein emails I’ve seen made it clear that some of his friends were really just people who turned to him for validation and occasionally favors. Almost gets me to feel a little bad for the guy

And over 36,000 vehicles crash into buildings every year in the US (that’s roughly 100 per day!)

My understanding is that it’s related to the frameless glass on the doors, it needs to roll the windows down a smidgen to clear the water seal on the door frame, so you press the button which tells the computer to roll the window down a couple of mm then actuate the door.

The more Red Dwarf references I see the more I realize I badly need to go back and actually watch more than a few episodes of it

Since others explained most of the joke, I’ll point out that the last line is a reference to women’s jokes about guys who will fuck them in the least arousing ways possible then ask afterwards “so you came too, right?”

Clearly his pull out game is weak then…

Can we have a breed-off in 3-5 business days then?

I like the Gay Bar or Steak House one

I happened to have a dentist appointment the day after doing exactly that. The hygenist and dentist enjoyed some playful banter at my expense regarding the painful joy of hot fresh pizza

I swear the 3L bottle has become an endangered species. When I’ve gone looking for a 3L bottle of soda for a party I’ve had a heck of a time finding them

I struggle to drink a US “small” fast food cup of anything but water because even that is way too much sugary drink for my tastes

If you’ve not seen the Blues Brothers go watch it right now. Order the DVD if you have to. Its absolutely worthwhile. Its an SNL spinoff film with a Legendary soundtrack featuring the biggest names in the Blues and Jazz scene. Great soundtrack, brilliant gags, incredible car chases and just a ton of rediculous chaos.

I have no clue what MultiPlex theaters are

So back in the earlier days of cinema, you’d go to the Cineplex to see a movie. A Cineplex would only have a single screen for viewing movies while the multiplex would have multiple screens for seeing movies on. This started with the first duplex theatre in 1915 and later the first triplex in 1966, shortly followed by theatres with 6+ screens which is around when the term “multiplex” started being used. Basically for anyone born after the 80s (therefore anyone under the age of about 40) the term is largely obsolete since most theatres have at least 4 screens and qualify as multiplexes, plus the industry has seen so much consolidation that smaller independent theatres with 1-2 screens are pretty uncommon now