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A shitty reddit for shitty sysadmins.

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/r/ShittySysadmin

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12 years ago, I created a Microsoft PKI for my company's internal WiFi.

It's not workyness started to annoy me so I set it up to just approve everything. Literally any certificate made by anyone anywhere will allow full authentication and access to the corp wifi. I left for a better role about 4 months later, fully expecting every day to get in trouble for it. I found out recently they are still using it..... it even passed an external audit with flying colors :) :) :)

12 Comments
2025/01/31
02:26 UTC

101

The fcc is here asking us about the radios we setup

We were contracted to setup radio communication system for a city in America.

The fcc is here and they’re asking a lot of questions. I’m so confused. Any advice on how to tell them “it’s working for us”?

35 Comments
2025/01/30
14:51 UTC

15

End users cybersecurity training

As the title says,

how should I complete the task of performing an in-person cybersecurity training for a company of +-200 people alone? There's been a suggestion of splitting them into groups of 10-15 maximum and they should all take 10 minutes.

What should I do to make the management think over their decision of taking me (shitty sysadmin, the only person in IT department) instead of an qualified person to perform an actually good job, any ideas?

9 Comments
2025/01/29
19:48 UTC

52

We are in government baby

9 Comments
2025/01/29
07:16 UTC

7

A user sent me a ticket that their monitor was "intermittant". Do I need ant bait traps, some kind of spray, or do I need something else?

I've never had intermittants before, and I don't know what they would do to a computer or it's monitor.

10 Comments
2025/01/29
03:50 UTC

2

Just learned the \\hostname\c$ command and it blew my mind

35 Comments
2025/01/28
20:47 UTC

87

What's a cloud engineer, anyway?

Someone who click the "new profile" button and enters new user information in Office 365? I'm not a disgruntled old head on-prem guy, I'm perfectly gruntled.

33 Comments
2025/01/28
19:40 UTC

12

No more password post-its?

18 Comments
2025/01/28
15:30 UTC

6

I want to create an MDM tool that can automatically wipe devices when they violate compliance policies.

6 Comments
2025/01/28
03:03 UTC

18

JDK 30 or The New TikTok?

10 Comments
2025/01/26
16:02 UTC

101 Comments
2025/01/26
14:42 UTC

40

How to build a 1 Tb/s Ceph cluster

How would I go about making a 1 Tb/sec capable Ceph cluster? I have a 8 port gigabit switch and one raspberry pi 3

8 Comments
2025/01/26
01:43 UTC

23

Can I use this client used to pirate content to securely transfer project information?

5 Comments
2025/01/25
20:32 UTC

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>26 win drives or maybe 23 or 22 wait what! OMG I LOVE THIS PLACE!

Seriously! I it just ran across this sub and I'm getting real euphoria just by reading the first two or three posts. I love this place! I love you guys! And I genuinely cannot wait to read everything!! I truly had no Idea I possessed the heart and soul of a shitty sysadmin. It's always been inside of me all along! I feel like Moana cresting the surf and break, then leaving the reef for the first time! I'm sorry reef chief dad, I love you! But I finally feel free to be me! There really is a place for all of us on the internet!

In all seriousness though, total and honest seriousness. Please Please Please Please don't ban me for the frivolity of this post. I never post anything I won't get into any trouble and I won't do it again. I was researching how to do more drives than A:\\ thru Z:\\ or >26 drive letters on win11/ with fitting in network mapped drives, NAS , virtual drives for VMs, long file paths mapped to drive letters for dev projects, etc. I needed to understand how to better organize and plan the scheme prior to any further convoluted expansion. So thanks for being shitty sysadmins too! Thanks for being here, in this holy shit, of holy grails (pun intended).

Oh actually wait, I'm so sorry and it's too late, I'm not changing it. Am i allowed to post shit or must I post sh*t, Asking just in case you don't ban me. Sorry if I mis stepped. No I'm not Canadian.

10 Comments
2025/01/24
23:34 UTC

4

Need your take on this

11 Comments
2025/01/24
21:36 UTC

75

Windows 10 eol plans?

What are your plans or companies plans for windows 10 eol in October? Seems like this year is going to be a busy year for us IT folk. I've already replaced some machines that aren't compatible with 11.

114 Comments
2025/01/24
21:20 UTC

13

ChatGPT bricked my PC

9 Comments
2025/01/24
20:51 UTC

21

How do you deal with such endusers?

22 Comments
2025/01/24
15:48 UTC

1

A bad workplace will destroy you, not make you stronger

The reason i’m posting this here is because alot of people here suffer from “machismo” and seem to be okay having your life interrupted with these on-call rotations. Or worse, your sleep health.

Alot of people will promote that you should choose a career that you absolutely dislike or with undesirable on call rotations just cause the earning potential is high. Alot of people here have that David Goggins like mentality where you have to tolerate everything and stay hard no matter what comes your way. On the other hand, there’s the idea that if you continue tolerating and handling unpleasant work situations and people, the mental fatigue will result in mental problems, physical problems, and unhealthy coping mechanisms such as binge shopping, drinking, or smoking because “you need to treat yourself”.

The idea that challenges are meant to fortify you is often misapplied. There are both healthy and unhealthy challenges. A healthy challenge would be losing weight to be healthier. An unhealthy challenge would be to stay at a job that destroys your sanity. Bad work environment is like being with an abuser in a relationship.

Yes there are specific challenges and hardships that will help you grow, but being in a constant never ending exhausting situation will only wear you down. “Oh but at least i drive a Tesla” yeah as if that’s going to eliminate a bad work environment.

Nothing will make a bad work environment disappear. Not a car, not a watch, not a fancy apartment, nothing. You’ll feel that high for a few months and then it’ll disappear.

Unfortunately some of you will never learn and stay just cause it pays decent.

2 Comments
2025/01/23
10:11 UTC

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