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Sydney, Monte and Cami's dad. Microsoft Certified dude. Outrageous Taylor Swift fan. Him/he. @samrueby@mstdn.social
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Please consider donating to the Interim Computer Museum and supporting their preservation work! icm.museum and your employer will double your donation!
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Please consider donating to the Interim Computer Museum and supporting their preservation work! icm.museum and your employer will double your donation!
Why aren't we using emojis for passwords?
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why aren't we using emojis for passwords?
@filmgirl.bsky.social Christina I like your sweater today!
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@filmgirl.bsky.social Christina I like your sweater today!
One chaotic pattern your website can use to throw me off my game is for your "Log In" button to expose *another* log in button.
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
One chaotic pattern your website can use to throw me off my game is for your "Log In" button to expose *another* log in button.
My face when 'New Window' is under 'File' and not the 'Window' menu on MacOS.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My face when 'New Window' is under 'File' and not the 'Window' menu on MacOS.
@damianedwards.com I'm going mad! I've got a system I can't make stable. pcpartpicker.com/user/samrueb... MemTest86 fails every two with *different* pairs of modules. Already RMAed 1 Core Ultra 9 285K. RAM failures always the same: bit in 2nd position flips. What would you do next?
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@damianedwards.com I'm going mad! I've got a system I can't make stable. pcpartpicker.com/user/samrueb... MemTest86 fails every two with *different* pairs of modules. Already RMAed 1 Core Ultra 9 285K. RAM failures always the same: bit in 2nd position flips. What would you do next?
One of my favorite quirks of logging into a VDI every few weeks is it immediately interrupting me with a popup dialog telling me it needs to reboot for updates. Uhhh what have you been doing while I've been gone?!
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
One of my favorite quirks of logging into a VDI every few weeks is it immediately interrupting me with a popup dialog telling me it needs to reboot for updates. Uhhh what have you been doing while I've been gone?!
GitHub Copilot just reviewed my staged changes before a committed and made awesome suggestions and even caught where I accidentally flipped a bool 🤫This is amazing ✨
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
GitHub Copilot just reviewed my staged changes before a committed and made awesome suggestions and even caught where I accidentally flipped a bool 🤫This is amazing ✨
Fun fact: Blue LEDs were the final boss of lighting—scientists spent decades wrestling with gallium nitride until Akasaki, Amano & Nakamura finally cracked it in the early ’90s (Nobel Prize 2014). Now we just put tape over them because they’re too bright. Humans are funny.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Fun fact: Blue LEDs were the final boss of lighting—scientists spent decades wrestling with gallium nitride until Akasaki, Amano & Nakamura finally cracked it in the early ’90s (Nobel Prize 2014). Now we just put tape over them because they’re too bright. Humans are funny.
Me reading months-worth of email replies trying to understand why this task was assigned to me
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Me reading months-worth of email replies trying to understand why this task was assigned to me
Every emoji-picker on earth pretends the most basic smile emoji shouldn't be the first, or even the third choice.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every emoji-picker on earth pretends the most basic smile emoji shouldn't be the first, or even the third choice.
The downside to your AI headshot is that I can't tell if you're a real person now 🙂
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The downside to your AI headshot is that I can't tell if you're a real person now 🙂
Tech companies can't figure out how to deal with hardware they've sold that still works and people still want. Can't sell a new generation if there isn't a reason to upgrade. So they just set dates where devices (that still work great!) will be unsupported just to brick them.
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tech companies can't figure out how to deal with hardware they've sold that still works and people still want. Can't sell a new generation if there isn't a reason to upgrade. So they just set dates where devices (that still work great!) will be unsupported just to brick them.
Aren't websites that accept a passkey for authentication and then still require MFA doing it wrong?
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Aren't websites that accept a passkey for authentication and then still require MFA doing it wrong?
Alright which one of you all broke the internet again?
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Alright which one of you all broke the internet again?
Which one of you made the decision to have line numbers off by default and can I have a word?
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Which one of you made the decision to have line numbers off by default and can I have a word?
You really have no idea how much little stuff you configure over the years until you have a brand new Windows install
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You really have no idea how much little stuff you configure over the years until you have a brand new Windows install
I don't understand the argument "stop shoving AI down our throats". Just don't click that sparkle button. Change the channel. You don't have to listen. You're upset about lightboxes describing new AI stuff? That happens for all new features to make them discoverable. Participation not required!
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I don't understand the argument "stop shoving AI down our throats". Just don't click that sparkle button. Change the channel. You don't have to listen. You're upset about lightboxes describing new AI stuff? That happens for all new features to make them discoverable. Participation not required!
Talking to customer support- representative is barely a whisper . Volume up all the way. Noise-cancelling headphones just to get by.
They put you on hold- 300db WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT YOUR CALL PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE
😐
They put you on hold- 300db WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT YOUR CALL PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE
😐
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Talking to customer support- representative is barely a whisper . Volume up all the way. Noise-cancelling headphones just to get by.
They put you on hold- 300db WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT YOUR CALL PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE
😐
They put you on hold- 300db WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT YOUR CALL PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE
😐
Constantly impressed by how good Roombas are at hide-and-seek.
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Constantly impressed by how good Roombas are at hide-and-seek.
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Fun fact (or terrifying one), today’s AWS outage took down Canvas, the #1 learning management system used by 4,000+ U.S. colleges and millions of students worldwide. One data center hiccup and half of higher ed disappears.
October 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fun fact (or terrifying one), today’s AWS outage took down Canvas, the #1 learning management system used by 4,000+ U.S. colleges and millions of students worldwide. One data center hiccup and half of higher ed disappears.
I lowkey think Sabrina Carpenter could be a permanent SNL cast member
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I lowkey think Sabrina Carpenter could be a permanent SNL cast member
why is writing with a sharpie so fun
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
why is writing with a sharpie so fun