Absolutely perfect. I was traveling with a friend and we decided to watch a movie I had on my hard drive. Once I booted into i3 and I had to use a couple key chords to navigate, they said, “Your computer gives me anxiety.” 😂
Same person almost shit their pants when I replaced youtu.be with yewtu.be in a URL to get a region locked video to play. I am a bonafide hacker in their eyes.
My idiot brother, who fancies himself a tech guru… because he reads the news marketing around the tech specs of new console releases every couple of years…
Legitimately thought I was hacking into our own ISP when I opened a terminal infront of him to configure a VPN setting that didn’t yet have an option to do so in the GUI.
Lile he tried to have an ‘intervention’ with me over it.
For … running a few commands to check my existing and active network interfaces, then glancing at a webpage and starting the vpn process with an extra flag or two.
I was completely unable to convince him that I hadn’t done anything even remotely close to like pen-testing the local DNS server… which is what he… seemed? to think I was doing?
Gotta love incredibly overconfident + incompetent people.
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I have also had people at cellphone shops either get angry at me for mentioning outloud, or try to hide the fact that you can plug a phone with a broken screen into a usb hub, and then their own keyboard, monitor and mouse, in certain situations, and be able to log in to the phone to do inane parts of their recovery or migration processes … when your screen is borked, but the phone itself is still functional.
I had employee guy laugh at the notion this would work, another guy say sure you can try it, and then got angry that it worked, and another act like I was performing some kind of dark magic that the other customers in the store could not be allowed to know about.
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EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention the abominable absurdity of my brother trying to give me an ‘intervention’ over anything, at all, ever.
See, while I was studying the blade getting two simultaneous bachelors degrees from the best Uni in the state, he was going to raves, giving himself serotonin shock syndrome, all while functionally being homeless.
Multiple times in my life I have had to drop everything I was doing and prevent him from carrying out a very credible suicide threat, or save him from ODing.
Myself on the other hand, … uh, no nothing like that, and I’d not even given him an ‘intervention’ after saving him from an OD or two.
Anyway, I’m fairly sure I could drive him back to drug use if I somehow forced him to learn how some of the R code I used and wrote for statistical analysis actually works, or the same for any of the insane spider webs of 200, 300 line custom, one-off SQL queries I often had to write in various data analyst positions before they let me restructure their DBs a bit into something less insane.
Yeesh. I relate fully to the brother part. Mine also likes to pretend, but at least isn’t that oblivious about the terminal. Intervention, though?! LMAO
He has an extremely thin skin, a massive inferiority complex, somehow has worse social skills than myself, despite me being autistic and him not… I could go on, but I already added more in an edit to my above post.
So anyway I went no contact with my entire dysfunctional family (they’re all this magnitude of nuts but in their own special ways) years ago rofl, my mental health has never been better.
I was installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 5 and was using the kitchen TV as a temporary monitor. My parents thought I was sending encrypted messages. I was just updating the repository list to find the quickest mirror.
It’s funny to me how some people see text scrolling by on a screen and immediately think witchcraft.
I used to do something similar when I was working in embedded systems, specifically because my superiors had no idea. I would just put our OS up to compile on repeat so one if my machines was always spitting out nonsense (but vaguely related to work).
“Sorry boss, just waiting on the new build to finish up so I can start on that.”
Used to keep a terminal sesh up that was just scrolling top on the dev server whenever I felt like being lazy while looking productive. Took my very tech savvy boss a couple months before he finally noticed.
I’m pretty sure the VP of engineering knew what I was up to, but I think he also understood that I didn’t get paid enough to be as neurotic as he was and I generally got stuff done ahead of schedule any way.
Absolutely perfect. I was traveling with a friend and we decided to watch a movie I had on my hard drive. Once I booted into i3 and I had to use a couple key chords to navigate, they said, “Your computer gives me anxiety.” 😂
Same person almost shit their pants when I replaced
youtu.bewithyewtu.bein a URL to get a region locked video to play. I am a bonafide hacker in their eyes.My idiot brother, who fancies himself a tech guru… because he reads the
newsmarketing around the tech specs of new console releases every couple of years…Legitimately thought I was hacking into our own ISP when I opened a terminal infront of him to configure a VPN setting that didn’t yet have an option to do so in the GUI.
Lile he tried to have an ‘intervention’ with me over it.
For … running a few commands to check my existing and active network interfaces, then glancing at a webpage and starting the vpn process with an extra flag or two.
I was completely unable to convince him that I hadn’t done anything even remotely close to like pen-testing the local DNS server… which is what he… seemed? to think I was doing?
Gotta love incredibly overconfident + incompetent people.
…
I have also had people at cellphone shops either get angry at me for mentioning outloud, or try to hide the fact that you can plug a phone with a broken screen into a usb hub, and then their own keyboard, monitor and mouse, in certain situations, and be able to log in to the phone to do inane parts of their recovery or migration processes … when your screen is borked, but the phone itself is still functional.
I had employee guy laugh at the notion this would work, another guy say sure you can try it, and then got angry that it worked, and another act like I was performing some kind of dark magic that the other customers in the store could not be allowed to know about.
…
EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention the abominable absurdity of my brother trying to give me an ‘intervention’ over anything, at all, ever.
See, while I was
studying the bladegetting two simultaneous bachelors degrees from the best Uni in the state, he was going to raves, giving himself serotonin shock syndrome, all while functionally being homeless.Multiple times in my life I have had to drop everything I was doing and prevent him from carrying out a very credible suicide threat, or save him from ODing.
Myself on the other hand, … uh, no nothing like that, and I’d not even given him an ‘intervention’ after saving him from an OD or two.
Anyway, I’m fairly sure I could drive him back to drug use if I somehow forced him to learn how some of the R code I used and wrote for statistical analysis actually works, or the same for any of the insane spider webs of 200, 300 line custom, one-off SQL queries I often had to write in various data analyst positions before they let me restructure their DBs a bit into something less insane.
Yeesh. I relate fully to the brother part. Mine also likes to pretend, but at least isn’t that oblivious about the terminal. Intervention, though?! LMAO
“Friends don’t let friends Gentoo”, or something
He has an extremely thin skin, a massive inferiority complex, somehow has worse social skills than myself, despite me being autistic and him not… I could go on, but I already added more in an edit to my above post.
So anyway I went no contact with my entire dysfunctional family (they’re all this magnitude of nuts but in their own special ways) years ago rofl, my mental health has never been better.
I was installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 5 and was using the kitchen TV as a temporary monitor. My parents thought I was sending encrypted messages. I was just updating the repository list to find the quickest mirror.
It’s funny to me how some people see text scrolling by on a screen and immediately think witchcraft.
I used to do something similar when I was working in embedded systems, specifically because my superiors had no idea. I would just put our OS up to compile on repeat so one if my machines was always spitting out nonsense (but vaguely related to work).
“Sorry boss, just waiting on the new build to finish up so I can start on that.”
Used to keep a terminal sesh up that was just scrolling
topon the dev server whenever I felt like being lazy while looking productive. Took my very tech savvy boss a couple months before he finally noticed.I’m pretty sure the VP of engineering knew what I was up to, but I think he also understood that I didn’t get paid enough to be as neurotic as he was and I generally got stuff done ahead of schedule any way.
Hollywood fucked over everyone