• chippy1402@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I work in gas turbine generation and told a customer that his equipment must have been built on an ancient burial ground and by the problems that he has had that he might want to get a blessing for it. He had been having random shutdowns and trips for many days. ( it was really probably down to the mountains and lightning TBH)

  • Tutunkommon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    When troubleshooting equipment I sometimes use “evil spirits” or “sunspots” when nothing else makes sense.

    • sj7trunks@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Anything to do with the internet or even your home network, I call them network gremlins. When a network wire that is not reporting any errors can be replaced to fix packet loss or file sharing issues is wild to me.

  • Hangry @lm.helilot.com
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    1 year ago

    Not for something that happened, but still a weird explanation :
    I tried once to compare in lenght what it feels like to wake up amnesiac and trapped in a Portal like game system, to explain the parallel threads of a GPU, for a technical article at work.
    Thank f*ck one of my coworkers kindly told me it was a terrible idea, before making it public to the whole company.

  • crazyfedora@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Computers had problems with installing. Best explanation was ‘its Thursday’… After a lot of troubleshooting it became evident that some people installed laptops withouth the powersupply plugged in, causing bitlockerissues.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    14 up votes and no comments? Y’all are really looking forward to a response here.

    I’m sorry to disappoint you.

    Not that sorry.