Ya know, I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to scams, but damn do stories like yours make it hard.

Man fuck those guys. Not a sysadmin myself, but from what I hear the position is criminally underappreciated. Why is it so hard for people to understand that if things aren’t breaking, it means people are doing their job correctly?

Even if I could’ve bought in 2019 I’d have been happy, but silly me was prioritizing paying off other debts rather than saving for a down payment. Damn pandemic.

I wish I could teach them how to get and keep a regular job.

Or at least do some chores, I really feel like they’re not pulling their weight around here.

I understood this until I didn’t. What the hell kinda culty language is this lmao.

??? Damn that’s the first I’ve heard of that. I wonder if that’s so the government could justify pushing around native american revervations, or taking places like Hawai’i into the States? I can’t imagine many Countries would willingly allow the US govt to just take their shit

You know those putty erasers that you could stretch out and make them super duper soft and fluffy?

I want to consume something with that texture.

You imply that you used to have a habit of buying domains for single jokes.

I want details.

If you’re looking for it to look subdued (which I would assume based on no-led no-glass) I would go with black. If you want it to catch a bit more attention, white would be good. If course, personal preference should come first.

Okay you already had my attention but I’m absolutely running with #10

Yeah no joke. Those mouth bacteria fuckers love sugar. Keep a standard western diet and brush with a salty twig and you’ll be needing dentures within the decade.

Huh. A while ago the toothpaste I was using (plus many subsequent toothpastes I attempted to use) started causing the skin on the inside of my mouth to start peeling. Wonder if that’s the same cause.

For informational purposes, the only standard brand I’ve found that doesn’t do that to me is Arm and Hammer.

For a non-boring answer:

Introduce alcohol producing microbes into your mouth to replace the plaque-producing variety

(not recommended)

The Mummy.

Conversation with my mom recently when the new movie came out:

Mom: Something something the old one was better, we should watch that one

Me: hell no I will never willingly watch that damned movie

Mom: What? But we used to watch it all the time! I thought you loved it!

Me: You loved it, I was 4 and the scarab scene traumatized me

At least posts don’t take to sniffing bleach, unlike my own shelter cat idiot. Seriously, I actually have to keep the bathroom door closed after I clean if for hours so she doesn’t go in and roll around in the stuff

Bro I was clearly talking about the phones not having a headphone jack.

Used to work for IBM, can confirm

ETA fun story from my onboarding group: They wanted us to be beta testers for a new internal training tool they had developed. On the surface, it was just a basic online course map with tests for each course, but god it was so, so much worse than that, and that was because of those damned tests. I don’t know who the fuck developed those tests, but I can’t even say it was someone who was learning programming on the fly, because that shit had to have been intentionally malicious. Questions that weren’t in the material, questions where the “correct” answer was clearly wrong, questions where the correct answer was hidden by the HTML tags. We brought that last one up to the corpo representative who was in charge of guiding us through this nonsense and her reaponse was, I shit you not, “what’s an ‘HTML tag’?” Comical doesn’t even begin to describe the level of IBM’s technical dysfunction.

This perfectly describes everything I’ve thought about them but couldn’t fully express, thank you.

This is the whole reason I switched to Linux computers and Sony phones. If I wanted an Apple product I’d buy an Apple product. Give me back my headphone jack dammit.

There’s also variable levels of sophistication for scam messages based on the desired target. If you’re looking for a whole lot of people who don’t understand technology enough to see through your premise, you go with the generic “hello sir and/or madame I am hackor send gift cards or I will delet ur phone”.

If you’re after a very specific person who is well known to be privy to the normal red flags, you’re more likely to create a custom spear phishing campaign and mimic as closely as possible the format, lexicon, domain names, etc of something reputable to avoid setting off their BS detectors.

With that said, yeah there’s enough people on lemmy that this low-effort take is worth a shot

Not even shorts