It's also a subtle nod to a character in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion where a mages guild character states that "Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic"
Actually he was helping decommission that datacenter as the company was consolidating in another location. This was near the end of the decommission. My buddy worked as a datacenter tech under this guy with one other on the team and all 3 of them got pictures with this. This is the only one that went viral as far as I've seen though.
Amy Wong: He knows when you are sleeping,
Hubert J. Farnsworth: He knows when you're on the can,
Turanga Leela: He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
John A. Zoidberg: Oh...
Hermes Conrad: You'd better not breathe, you'd better not move,
Bender Bending Rodriguez : You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Philip J. Fry: Santa Claus is gunning you down!
Sitting atop the Wiring Throne designed by the most famous of IT administrators JZ Signalbringer who constructed it out of the unneeded CAT5 after bringing Enterprise level Wi-Fi to the facilities for the first time. He purposely made his throne uncomfortable before he wanted. It always remembered that IT administrators should never be at their desk.
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Godort@lemm.ee · 144 pts · 3y
gi1242@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 3y
This made me chuckle. Where is it from?
wgbirne@feddit.de · 43 pts · 3y
It is from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/838/
EmiliaTheHero@possumpat.io · 21 pts · 3y
Relevant xkcd
roon@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 2y
Just posting it here for people who are lazy (like me) to open links
krebstar@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
konata_izumi@ani.social · 62 pts · 3y
That's the "wizard" that installs all your software
derpo@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 3y
Lmao you finally helped me understand a meme I saw the other day saying “installation” is a valid school of magic
Gork@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
It's also a subtle nod to a character in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion where a mages guild character states that "Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic"
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 3y
It's him. That's the installation wizard
TheMadIrishman@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 3y
That’s the Norse god of throughput.
saltdream@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 3y
Somewhere underneath all of those cables is a rack running business critical infrastructure!
smashboy@kbin.social · 11 pts · 3y
The box that holds the internet!
MagicShel@programming.dev · 7 pts · 3y
Pictured: an elder of the internet.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
"The Elders of the Internet....?!
Know my name?!"
dattas@pawb.social · 3 pts · 2y
Actually he was helping decommission that datacenter as the company was consolidating in another location. This was near the end of the decommission. My buddy worked as a datacenter tech under this guy with one other on the team and all 3 of them got pictures with this. This is the only one that went viral as far as I've seen though.
EherVielleicht@feddit.de · 18 pts · 3y
Amy Wong: He knows when you are sleeping,
Hubert J. Farnsworth: He knows when you're on the can,
Turanga Leela: He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
John A. Zoidberg: Oh...
Hermes Conrad: You'd better not breathe, you'd better not move,
Bender Bending Rodriguez : You're better off dead, I'm telling you, dude.
Philip J. Fry: Santa Claus is gunning you down!
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
It's rumored that he exited Vi with his first ever attempt.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 3y
Dear user, you've attempted to use sudo yet your name isn't in the sudoers file. Curious.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Sitting atop the Wiring Throne designed by the most famous of IT administrators JZ Signalbringer who constructed it out of the unneeded CAT5 after bringing Enterprise level Wi-Fi to the facilities for the first time. He purposely made his throne uncomfortable before he wanted. It always remembered that IT administrators should never be at their desk.
018118055@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 3y
That's MR root
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 2y
I thought it was this guy: https://xkcd.com/838/ (Maybe both?)
GreenMario@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
Data for the data god, cables for the wire throne!
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y
We did it. We found the archlinux.
zaph@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y
Master Sudo
Sygheil@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Gandalf of cable management
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
gandalf the greybeard
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 3y
Blessings unto him, mighty overwatcher of superusers, Codin, keeper of permissions
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Scrum master
federalreverse@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
Guise! You can have this man curse at you! Edit
sudoersto add this:Clbull@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
He looks like FitMC.
Zehzin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Terrible cable management, pull them out.
docAvid@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y
The Copper Throne, the Throne of Cords.
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
The grand master
roon@lemmy.ml · -6 pts · 2y
And this isn't AI generated? 👀
stratoscaster@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 2y
I remember seeing this image years ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Yes, but you're also AI generated, so those memories are just training data.
droans@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Well the numbers aren't random gibberish so I'd say it's real.
const_void@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 3y
A middle aged, balding man wearing jeans and hiking shoes? I expected better.