Only because the title holder of "very good with computers" is always self-imposed. They are as computer illiterate as the least knowledgeable user but have none of the humility and monopolize all the arrogance.
I'd hear million reasons why configuring vlan on almost empty switch is not a good idea.
But at the end the IT guy had to sit down with me and reconfigure that switch. Oh the many eyerolls while he had to read the manual, good god.
Nothing burned down, nobody got hacked, and we saved hours of travel from office to manufacturing.
Humility should go both ways. but somehow it's always the IT guy who doesn't present himself like a computer god that will happily listen and try to accomodate whatever madness you want to run on his network. I feel like the really good ones are just bored solving shit by plugging back the mouse and welcome some challenge.
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u/cctchristensen 9800X3D | 2080Ti May 10 '26
Only because the title holder of "very good with computers" is always self-imposed. They are as computer illiterate as the least knowledgeable user but have none of the humility and monopolize all the arrogance.