Brazil is on something else

[@Hakeaa]

Using brazils aviation network structure as a viewbot is the biggest, most specific flex anyone can ever have.

[@angelico1]

AKA "Gambiarra".

[@Tenorio_Cavalcante]

AKA "Jeitinho brasileiro"

[@IquiFenix1]

Laziness to fix the damn computer system

[@kassiog.6595]

@@IquiFenix1 do not fix if not broken

[@LucasPeraltaGóes]

@@IquiFenix1 I'm pretty sure this is a issue that is not under the control of our aviation industry.

[@WeaponizedGoochsweat]

"why is my flight delayed?" "KZbin is down"

[@tudodaretro]

put the free auto click on

[@Ganning19]

1 in every 10000 IT guys would change the windows settings into never going idle on its own. the rest would enjoy the excuse to watch youtube

[@WeaponizedGoochsweat]

@@Ganning19 I said KZbin was down, not the computer running it

[@dylanhilton220]

@@Ganning19 The commenter said that a video would have to be playing, which means they probably already tried the auto clicker

[@TheDummyUnicorn]

Made me laugh

[@shawnboyett6816]

IT Specialist here. I can confirm this. It's not that the whatever data transfer program stops working. Windows itself will go to sleep if a certain amount of time goes by and it'll fuck up any kind of data transfer. My go to was a 10 hour timer video lol. Because playing a KZbin video will stop Windows from going to sleep.

[@Vecchete]

But there is an option to disable the sleep time on windows. Unless it is forbidden to disable it in a corporative environment, which would be totally comprehensible. Actually I worked in a company that had something similar. Every 10 min without having some input it would lock the computer.

[@blahblahboii]

Sounds to me like they need to get cyber/admin to exclude their machine from Group Policy Object so their machine doesnt lock/sleep. Theyre doing large data transfers, so i dont imagine theyre streaming YT, which would be a waste of bandwidth, but I wonder if their machine should even be connecting to the clearnet at all...

[@Mavendow]

​@@Vecchete Yes, but this setting is controlled by the ACPI. So even if it's allowed by group policy, the system might do its own thing anyway. I had this happen with my old i7-860. Nothing I did would make it stop randomly going into sleep mode when not used for a while. I eventually got a new mobo and disabled sleep states entirely, but then it would randomly reboot itself from a power-off state. Once every 2-3 weeks I'd walk in on my PC being on after shutting it down. Idk man.

[@divinecomedian2]

Another reason to not use Windows

[@Chronon88]

​@@MavendowSwitch OS, this one's garbage.

[@Khornecussion]

" Why do we play these videos on repeat? " " This pleases the Machine Spirit, so it functions. "

[@thylacinepunic5582]

Ave true to Omnissiah

[@rajkdeo]

I work in IT, we do something similiar to update our computer labs

[@garglebargle69]

Its because the AD guy refuses to push out a gpupdate that prevents the account from getting locked after too much idle time

[@Thatbendyfan_]

That’s the explanation for most coding tbh

[@aiden_jaison]

AMEN! 🙏🏾✝️ Be thankful that GOD woke you up today! Luck isn’t real, GOD IS! Pray for everyone! Please do not call people fools! AMEN! None of us are worthy! But remember, GOD hates the, not the sinner! Please do not use THE LORD’S NAME in vain! Please do not swear on anything! AMEN! 🙏🏾✝️

[@martefala]

Please do NOT unlist the videos I have been stuck in São Paulo for 7 hours and I need my plane to be working. I beg of you.

[@angel_cat]

😂😂😂

[@childpeanut5095]

LOL

[@radiofreemurray5008]

you still there man?

[@MurfBX]

@@radiofreemurray5008 He can't text in flight.

[@NayuzAqua]

​@@MurfBX I think his plane crashed then

[@anacaolsguima8872]

Foreigners will never fully comprehend the fine art that is gambiarra 😂😂😂

[@Laramaria2]

Gambiarra a gente aceita, a gente não aceita a derrota 😂

[@rewtdawg9852]

I had to look this up, cheers!

[@김성헌-k1d]

What is gambirara?

[@alguem2925]

​@@김성헌-k1d it's like a strange improvisation that, curiously, does work.

[@Laramaria2]

@@김성헌-k1d it's when you use your creativity to solve a problem instead of going for the traditional way

[@_gold_eye_2656]

I’m convinced IT professionals are tech priests from 40k, doing comically weird rituals to appease the machine spirits.

[@Ozzianman]

We don't always understand why something is broken and why the solution works. If you are capable of the "fuck around and find out" methodology, then you already know the basics. The rest of it is being able to read the holy text known as documentation, and using search engines.

[@christianschlogl6295]

@@Ozzianman Holy machine spirit of this sacred machine, pls fucking work

[@DuplexWeevil337]

If all else fails *fucking slaps computer*

[@christianschlogl6295]

@@DuplexWeevil337 Acolyte, you may proceed with the holy rite of percussive maintenance

[@MCD10000]

​@DuplexWeevil337 no if everything works but it's still a MacOS device burn it

[@padalan2504]

Ah yes, computer sciences. Everything is predictable, but the programmer's spaghetti code still turns it into witchcraft.

[@lockofmetal8894]

But what programming would you do for a file transfer? Theres hundreds of tools for that. You wouldn't tell someone to program that.

[@ciphercircel16]

i cast java ram overload version 8

[@bigboy-gw8me]

@@lockofmetal8894 yeah a tool is also called a program, every tool on a pc is programmed. The entire pc is just programming

[@lockofmetal8894]

@@bigboy-gw8me Wow, what a mind blowing revelation. Holy shiet. You mean someone actually coded the operative system?? That's insane! Was it you? I mean clearly with this massive intelligence you have, you must be Bill Gates right hand programmer, right? F*cking idiot...

[@PointsofData]

​@@lockofmetal8894 I've got some upsetting news about who makes the tools

[@jackwalkeruwu8527]

I FUCKIN love my Country, this is what we call "Gambiarra" Which consists of the phrase "question my methods but not my results" put into action

[@jenarabastos4249]

Even the medicine has It, the people don't say It because the panic this aknowledge would make.

[@feraradical29fx]

I'm a programmer working abroad and whenever I want to say "Gambiarra" I need to say "work around" instead, that in my opinion doesn't transmit the sense of gambiarra.. I'm trying to turn this word more popular here by showing my colleagues images that represents a Gambiarra and they started using it now lol

[@Lemure_Noah]

This is the "SOTA of Gambiarra", aka "working around with heterodox methods"!

[@__-kz8ft]

coisa de nerd mencionado KKKKKKK

[@jackwalkeruwu8527]

@@__-kz8ft Cara, conheço CDN a muuuuito tempo, Leon e Nilce super fofos, mas, não tava tentando citar eles não ks, mais coincidência já que eles brincam/falam bastante sobre gambiarra :V

[@VJK102]

As an IT dev, Brazilian born and raised, this seems about right

[@WeatherStone]

as a brazillian dev, yep, seen that, done that LOL

[@Pherim_]

As a Brazilian programmer, i do this when the pc needs to compile a long code or finish editing a video. Not on the computer, but on myself, if i dont have a video to keep me up, im gonna sleep, and then the process will not finish and i will have to start again

[@VoidicHerald]

South African, and just wanted to let you know you don't suffer alone. The spaghetti code comes for us all🫡

[@lockofmetal8894]

What constitutes a specialist over there if you can't even configure a pc to be on during a data transfer?? If i can start a pc by pressing the power button, am i specialist there then? I mean this video is clearly just a guy trolling about him being "second monitor content" as is a running joke. But no serious business wouldn't just configure the pc to not shutdown or go idle. I've transfered data myself for computers/servers that has gone for days. You can also usually schedule transfers where if it does get interrupted, it continues. Like a normal SFTP server or even windows own frikking shadowcopy.

[@iwatchthemooooon3002]

​@@lockofmetal8894 You see, you're talking about basic stuff that any developed country must know how to do. We're in Brazil. The people in our government were using WhatsApp to discuss important and secret matters of the state. Yeah

[@fightingblind]

As a certified IT technician, I can confirm that we do weird thing in the background to keep the systems running. 😂 We are getting a couple of Whacky Wavy Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men to keep the lights on because they are on a 5 minute motion sensor timeout 😂 Edit: corrected name and thanks for all the likes.

[@TheGosgosh]

If it works, IT works

[@fightingblind]

@@loganrogers5642 they're mini desktop units... like 18 or 20 inches. Uses a PC fan, so not really compared to normal office noise

[@L337LYC4N]

@@loganrogers5642 doesn't matter if there's nobody in there, I'd imagine they have them turned on for when there's nobody physically in the room

[@Sunless1337]

My work's new motion sensor in the back room bugged out and has went from a 15min to 15sec timer, and requires a technician to fix. We've been waiting weeks for a fix, really want to do the same. 😂

[@bread_bender5150]

Praise the Omnissiah

[@pietro6032]

"puts the entire playlist on private" Thousands die.

[@JTruong3rd]

"It's stupid and its dumb, it's stupid dumb but it will have to do for now" Sums up IT solutions.

[@ProteinFromTheSea]

And of course, as in all technical fields, if it works for now, it works forever.

[@PrecisaS]

And then I know a better way and I make a day of work out of it lmao

[@lordnootnoot2892]

And that for now usually transferers to permanent

[@saberhap2639]

Can't they change the computer's sleep settings to off?

[@ThorsShadow]

​@@saberhap2639No. Because a computer goes to sleep when idle for an amount of time. They were transferring data. Which is obviously not idle. The computer shut down anyways. Also, from the wording, the computer didn't go to sleep, it shut down. Two reasons why it couldn't be sleep settings.

[@castingspells_cz]

It pleases the machine spirit.

[@kilrnam2761]

Blessed omnisiah we know not of your goals but we shall continue your ways

[@unrealvoidgod4866]

PRAISE THE OMNISIAH we pitiful soul shall follow your rituals without any mistake

[@michaelhice7636]

'Children of the Omnissiah' intensifies*

[@noxion4143]

I got into Warhammer 8 months ago, and Now I Wonder how many references I have missed over the years

[@kilrnam2761]

@noxion4143 yeah I noticed that too. For such an obscure hobby it's spread like a silent disease everywhere

[@connorwilcox146]

The trick we use with classified computers in the army is having a PowerPoint running in presentation mode in the background to keep the computer from going to sleep.

[@GoldBean2752]

putting classified computers on windows is certainly an army moment lmao

[@TheRogueX]

@@GoldBean2752 I mean, what should they put it on? Mac? Linux, that most people don't know how to use or support?

[@blackjacka.5097]

​@@TheRogueXduh

[@marauderdz]

Which used to work up until Windows decided to let certain alerts appear over the presentation, and once the focus is taken away from Powerpoint, the system timer will once again put the computer to sleep.

[@Cheezitnator]

Ah navy here, we used one of the default 30 sec videos that windows came with set to repeat in the background. It was some nature thing.

[@stikfamaster2]

"This doesn't even effect the other bit, but if I take it out, the whole thing falls apart!" every programmer and IT guy ever lol

[@spicysalad3013]

banana png moment

[@marcusbarton7806]

@@spicysalad3013coconut

[@antdok9573]

Ah yes. The glorious miscategorizatio. of the title "Software Engineer", "developer", "programmer", and any other variation. The same people that might not know code repositories exist and that you can test your code.

[@2009samiy]

@@spicysalad3013 youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture … according the bible that you have (Matthew 4:1) Jesus was tempted (James 1:13) God doesn't get tempted (John 1:29) Jesus was seen (1 John 4:12) No man has ever seen God (Acts 2:22) Jesus was and is a man, sent by God (Numbers 23:19, Hosea11:9) God is not a man (Hebrews 5:8-9) Jesus had to grow and learn (Isaiah 40:28) God doesn't ever need to learn (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) Jesus dies (1 Timothy 1:17) God doesn't die (Hebrews 5:7) Jesus needed salvation (Luke 1:37) God doesn't need salvation (John 4:6) Jesus grew weary (Isaiah 40:28) God Doesn't grow weary (Mark 4:38) Jesus slept (Psalm 121:2-4) God doesn't sleep (John 5:19) Jesus isn't all powerful (Isaiah 45:5-7) God is all powerful (Mark 13:32) Jesus isn't all knowing (Isaiah 46:9) God is all knowing ...................

[@2009samiy]

@@antdok9573 youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture … according the bible that you have (Matthew 4:1) Jesus was tempted (James 1:13) God doesn't get tempted (John 1:29) Jesus was seen (1 John 4:12) No man has ever seen God (Acts 2:22) Jesus was and is a man, sent by God (Numbers 23:19, Hosea11:9) God is not a man (Hebrews 5:8-9) Jesus had to grow and learn (Isaiah 40:28) God doesn't ever need to learn (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) Jesus dies (1 Timothy 1:17) God doesn't die (Hebrews 5:7) Jesus needed salvation (Luke 1:37) God doesn't need salvation (John 4:6) Jesus grew weary (Isaiah 40:28) God Doesn't grow weary (Mark 4:38) Jesus slept (Psalm 121:2-4) God doesn't sleep (John 5:19) Jesus isn't all powerful (Isaiah 45:5-7) God is all powerful (Mark 13:32) Jesus isn't all knowing (Isaiah 46:9) God is all knowing ...................

[@SerunaXI]

So, what he's saying is, 2nd monitor content keeps Brazil's birds in the air.

[@Mrkiwi4107]

As a Brazilian, you are not totally wrong

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Airplane schematics sounds more like either some airplane mechanics company OR Embraer.

[@w花b]

He shouldn't. That's how brazilians get you. How do you think they kidnap people so they can finally "come to Brazil"?

[@TheEDFLegacy]

​@@rogeriopenna9014 Considering they said industry and schematics, I'm almost certain it's the latter.

[@TalentHouseAd]

Knew a guy who worked in a lab, and one of the million dollar machines in a scientific lab is surrounded by plushies. It is surrounded by plushies because unless the plushies are there, FOR SOME REASON, the million dollar machine breaks down. Sometimes the machine will hiccup, or have issues, and when that happens, one of the lab technicians has to stop what they are doing, pick up a plushie, and wiggle it in front of the machine, and then it works

[@sheeeshmaster6418]

The machine spirit requires their emotional support plushies

[@fabiosilva9637]

Lmaoooo no way. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[@BatatinhaFrita321]

I can't believe it 😂 The machine need its emotional support plushies

[@v1n1c1u55anto5]

What is a plusshis?.

[@8-D_sillyface]

​@@v1n1c1u55anto5 A stuffed fabric animal toy

[@nEiKKah]

Now even computers need Subway Surfers footage to keep their attention span 💀💀💀

[@Sh12pen]

Computers are gen alpha frfr

[@Sleet090Tech]

You say that like computers weren't the first to need it. It's actually really funny to me just how actually true it is for all computers.

[@Executioner1231]

@@Sh12pen oop

[@CaptainFordoAlpha-77]

Ultimate second monitor content!

[@EppuzGG]

Underrated comment

[@DonTinker]

Until _jiggle physics_ , then it becomes main monitor

[@HiddenOcelot]

Tbf there might be better things for it, there are 10 hour videos of noita playthroughs, and there are LISTS of those playthroughs that you can cycle through, its like hundreds of hours of game time on repeat.

[@sylnz97]

fr that's what they for

[@johnwerner69]

What?

[@Sleet090Tech]

I've both heard and experienced weirder behavior from servers. Computers that need to run for more than 40+ hours at full speed are practically running on hopes and prayers. This drives us IT technicians crazy trying to find the absolute weirdest things that allow for system stability. This is now my favorite example.

[@nathanstein589]

I run a “10 hours of silence” video and it never fails to scare the shit out of me when an ad pops up

[@Riona146]

That is fantastically diabolical x)

[@michaelangelo0305]

Who tf does not use AdBlock in 2024. Takes literally 30 seconds to save hours of your lifetime in the future with these fkn ads

[@Riona146]

@@michaelangelo0305 Me! I prefer to ENSURE the people I like watching gets paid 🙄 Not everyone agrees with being a thief 💓 What is so wrong with everyone else that they have zero self-control and integrity?

[@ayylien3070]

Put that chit on mute

[@braindeadhoovy2562]

@@Riona146 The ads are stealing your time

[@snowstalker36]

Can confirm, had to do something similar with my old Win 7 machine. Doing massive intensive work like scheduled deep anti-virus scans, defrags, and full copy backups somehow didn't count as enough "work" to stop the computer from going to sleep in the middle of it. So we plugged in a joystick. Joystick sensors almost always have a tiny bit of extraneous data, which gets ignored when you set the deadzone. So if you DON'T set that deadzone, it acts as a jiggler and keeps the computer from going to sleep.

[@FluffyTitanium]

I absolutely love that story

[@Ozzianman]

Why not just go into power management and disable sleep mode?

[@aidanpryde7720]

@@Ozzianman the amount of things people will do to get out of doing things the right way with the built in settings is mind blowing

[@Leo-sd4ps]

​@@Ozzianmanthat's what I thought

[@snowstalker36]

@@Ozzianman Did that at first, but changing the settings off an then back once a month was annoying. Joystick solution, once discovered it, felt a little easier and was funny.

[@IzidioAlex]

"Gringo descobre gambiarra" - Arte digital, 2024

[@a_1973_love_yourself]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk boa kkkkk

[@descartesbutiamnot8740]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@OneHenrik371]

É somente um ATTP, Ajuste Técnico "Temporariamente" Permanente

[@arealboiii4830]

I have no idea who you are, but this is a glorious use of the internet and im glad you got to be a part of it

[@ZnamtlaS]

And with him we as well dear distant friendly stranger!

[@T13GUY]

Agreed, wonderful stranger

[@leovillant768]

Smaf

[@KevinTraverse]

The computer just needs something to listen to while it works.

[@killerclone2177]

even data transfer servers need second monitor content

[@descartesbutiamnot8740]

multitasking goes crazy

[@roberteltze4850]

Decades ago I saw the opposite. Administers desktop was used to collect data on the serial port but sometimes it would lose data. After spending a while investigating they found that when he left his workstation he used a random screensaver, one of the screensavers in the list used too much CPU and the computer couldn't keep up with the data on the serial port.

[@FroggyMosh]

My guess is it was the pipes one or the 3D maze. I remember both of those liked to run heavy on the right settings.

[@roberteltze4850]

@@FroggyMosh those would be wrong. It was a Sun workstation so it would have been an X11 screensaver not a windows one. It might have been Swarm but I didn't remember for sure.

[@FroggyMosh]

@@roberteltze4850 Not too familiar with Sun, but looked up Swarm*. If it's the same one with the colored lines doing (dynamic) swarm behavior, I can see real potential for CPU havoc. * Found: "XRaySwarm: From the XScreenSaver Collection" Its the top one. (Pretty sure one of my algorithm professors (2010-ish) had us study this screensaver for swarm logic.)

[@glaucogomes1116]

As a certified Brazilian, I can confirm this is how we do things around here: jury-rigging the hell out of almost anything work-related.

[@darbisd]

Can confirm.

[@cioletti9752]

Yep. Good and old gambiarra

[@vaan_]

desenrascanço 🤝 gambiarra

[@OcRIPS]

O mundo não está pronto pro brasileiro e esse short é prova disso

[@SOAVGaming]

To a glorious Russian proverb! "It's not enough, but cheap!"

[@stirrcrazy2704]

I recently learned that the famous “rendering at 5am” meme video is actually a real thing IT departments do at renderfarms after installing new machines but before configuring them on short notice

[@lordskysixss]

Here in Brasil when we figure out how to fix something temporarily, it becomes PERMANENT. We call it "Gambiarra".

[@dom9407]

Haha I think it's like that everywhere. The phrase: "there's nothing as permanent as a temporary fix" is really commonly used in English

[@Carwinley]

This exact thing happens where I work! A few times, we've had to run a computer for about 16-20 hours running some stress test software to see if we can replicate an intermittent issue (I work in IT), but the policies on our network log you out for inactivity. Thing is, because we're a University, there's stuff that protects you from automatic logout if you've got some kind of presentation-adjacent stuff running, so that lecturers don't get logged out constantly. Well, it turns out that includes full-screen videos of a fishtank set to calming music. Put it on mute and leave the fishtank running overnight and voila!

[@n_tas]

Yep, same thing here. One time I accidentally left a full screen YT video open and paused when I closed my work laptop at the end of the day, when I came back the next day and opened it it took me straight in without asking for my password! Massive security flaw.

[@WhatIsSanity]

I thought that was what was happening!

[@amyr4242]

Literally did this at work today - ran a fix to stop a computer crashing under high CPU usage and stuck about 10 simultaneous KZbin videos on overnight to test it.

[@EvilPaladin11]

That explains that one video ages ago where someone set _every_ computer in a computer lab to a gif video of Gandalf nodding to a song with flashing rave lights.

[@scrantondangler8068]

"What are you running, Windows 11?" "Nah, we running that Josh Strife."

[@jjhassy]

It's like the computer is a baby and the video just soothes it

[@btchaplin7859]

You are now the PNG of a coconut that keeps up tf2

[@jamesrosewell9081]

Wait what?

[@Panha-fh3zt]

​@@jamesrosewell9081 it's a file from tf2 that's just a picture of a coconut but if you delete that file the games stops working

[@strivingtooth76]

sorry to be that guy but that's a hoax, it's actually some random cow prop in 2fort that you can't delete or it will break your game

[@tjr1071]

False

[@Kairamek]

That sounds like Mario Galaxy 1 and 2' load bearing mushroom.

[@KRJayster]

“If it’s stupid but it works” applies to a lot of fields.

[@maxwellmarques1607]

that saying is pretty much a cornerstone of brasilian culture

[@jademonass2954]

As someone who is from brazil, i am so happy to know there are other people here enjoying the great content insanely funny that it affects the aviation industry that much tho kekw

[@MrKoutsuko]

To be honest, I kinda want to know where it is and see for myself! Would love to listen to the whole story on why they decided to use JSH playlist for it, sounds like a fun story.

[@pouriya8587]

The machine spirit is pleased. (Or mildly annoyed)

[@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t]

Both

[@ashendude3394]

I can see this be a legitimate explanation for how the cult mechanicum work. In that, all their esoteric rituals have some legitimate science, but since none of them know how it works, it's all ✨magic✨

[@murilonobrega9671]

I was looking for this

[@Liquessen]

The machine spirit was bored of just transferring data and wanted some entertainment while working?

[@k.v.7681]

@@ashendude3394 Basically what happened when you stood up menacingly to adjust the fork that served as tv antenna (because an actual antenna didn't work) for it to work all of a sudden, or why you could finally fully reboot the router after the 4th time plugging it in and out but not the first three times.

[@Lungomono]

"Is it stupid?" "Yes" "Does it work?" "Yes" "Great, then don't touch it!"

[@Arvl.]

If it aint broke, dont fix it

[@TW-sh2un]

“Could it possibly work better if you were smart enough to figure out a more effective solution?” “Yes” “Then it’s slightly stupid but still adequate I guess”

[@SYLin-rs8ob]

If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid, it works

[@henriquefinger935]

That's the Brazilian way of life.

[@BrutalButtSlap]

It's like when the Navy... probably Marines give animal blood sacrifices to the Automatic targeting system in their boats because they overtaken them time to time and just starting picking up random civ target and or soldiers. Example A: kzbin.infoojatI-1B4aE

[@Mimic_Gaming]

This the hardest flex I’ve ever seen from a youtuber

[@javadmansouri8982]

Considering the fact that them watching his videos indirectly gives him money he is technically an empolyee in brazil that provides a service and gets paid

[@Onurb2821]

Don't say that. Brazil's politicians are going to tax him now for being an employee

[@o_psicopato]

We call that a "gambiarra" which is a prime piece of Brazilian culture

[@chelsey8737]

Is that pronounced gam-bee-ara? I have no idea how Brazilian Portuguese works 😂

[@TheHellMaggot]

@@chelsey8737 It's pronounced almost as you wrote except the "ara" is more like an "a-ha" because it's two "r's" and the meaning of the word is basically "an unreliable but functional fix"

[@zekihvh]

​@@chelsey8737 Gun Bee A-Ha. You're welcome, have a nice day.

[@gslom12]

In america we call him MacGuyver

[@algonix11]

This happens when you have a corporate Windows with user access restrictions to configure the screen saver, so keeping a video running prevents the screen saver from being activated, and consequently prevents the computer from sleeping.

[@BGrimoire]

This is the definition of a word we use in Brazil called "gambiarra", which is doing something on the fly by improvising a solution. Sometimes is not the most practical or safe, but it always gets the work done.

[@tafua_a]

Sums up my answer to 90% of the questions professors ask me as to why I implemented a method a certain way in my IT classes: "because it gets the job done and I'm not touching it to make sure it stays that way"

[@agnesarellano6033]

in mexico we have the "mexicanada" which is pretty much the same thing

[@davicsbr]

Aka "technical adaptation"

[@cheesi]

There's a great British English word for this too: bodge.

[@sneakylemon8513]

I think our expression in south africa is " 'n boer maak 'n plan" , a farmer makes a plan?

[@dazeen9591]

I guess they never heard of 10 hours of metal pipes dropping on loop

[@Ecne3D]

or a setting that turn off the sleep timer

[@kidzdrift04]

​@@Ecne3Dusually for corporate policy, sleep function is disabled

[@lizzy3332]

Or the 24hr “taking the hobbits to Isengard” video

[@dazeen9591]

@@lizzy3332 oh yeah that one is a classic haven't heard it in like 10 years

[@--Nabe-rius--]

We actually did this for really fun totally not classified systems because many of them use an OS where you can’t disable the sleep function… but if you play a video on loop forever it lets you leave the pc momentarily. This is a real thing and I completely believe it. Our go to video was thunderstruck by acdc on loop

[@The214thRabidFangirl]

My brother is a software engineering guy with a passion for airplanes. I am definitely sharing this video with him

[@darkdruidsvale]

What was his reaction?

[@The214thRabidFangirl]

@@darkdruidsvale he proceeded to give me the name for the phenomenon that leads to the computers needing something playing on the screen. At least that's what I think he meant by "That's called Technical Debt"

[@Void_Inc-0x]

​@@The214thRabidFangirli just read the definition of technical debt, he's just like me fr

[@Calimbandil87]

Loadbearing MMO critique, I'm not even that surprised. That's just how some stuff works. My archive has to have the computer simulate itself to get access to one of the registries for some reason. Not an old or alternative version, just itself.

[@lancepate]

Every once in awhile my computer will just refuse to delete/move/rename/cut a file. File will work, can copy to other folders/drives but it refuses to delete. The only fix I've found is opening task manager, pressing delete on the file, then trying to open a second instance of task manager. Either explorer crashes and I come back to the file gone, or I get 100 confirmation/missing file dialogues.

[@ComotoseOnAnime]

@@lancepate That's happened to me on occasion, usually with MP4 video files. I just delete it through the command prompt. It doesn't show up deleted in the folder, but then I log out of my user then log back in and the file is gone. Then there was that time my Graphics drivers failed to install ended up borking my Firefox. Tabs wouldn't load, nothing would open, wouldn't connect to the internet. Found the fix from where someone had the same problem, basically had to download a very specific VC Redist from like, 7 years ago. Installed it, magically firefox worked again. Weirdest thing I've ever seen I swear.

[@TheYahmez]

@@ComotoseOnAnime If memory addresses get messed up literally anything could happen. This is usually impossible of course.

[@DreamakerCloud]

I had the same problem and my solution was to compress the file with the option to delete the file after the compression, then process to delete the .win/.zip file and done!

[@lancepate]

@@DreamakerCloud Haven't tried WinRAR or Peazip (which are what I see people say to try), but 7z just stalls at deletion when I try with that.

[@leleite1]

As a Brazilian who never got a delayed flight, thank you for your service

[@eannliska423]

The most spaghetti code I've ever heard of

[@halycon404]

Just really old. Once upon a time stuff like this was considered a security feature. The tech had to be there watching it so they came up with hoops to jump through to make sure they didn't walk off. Then we found work arounds so we could walk off.

[@cariocadenit]

In Brazil we would call this "gambiarra"

[@LootableCorpse]

no its not spaghetti code or hoops.. its just a power setting in windows.

[@icanonlysuffer]

that has nothing to do with spaghetti code

[@JP-hr3xq]

The computer goes to sleep probably. Playing a fullscreen video prevents a computer from going into standby mode.

[@snowpython]

This is because group policy that pushes to the machines says to lock the machine after so much time with inactivity, and they can't show it's bypassed so they run the video which has a computer unlock hold when in full screen.

[@Foxstab]

Makes sense. The upper management of IT probably force a security group policy on all machines to lock up and goto sleep and disconnects the network adapter - dumping all on-going connections, after being left unattended for 15 minutes or so. Whatever process they're running in order to transfer the data likely gets halted/shutdown in such a case. One way to keep a terminal "alive" is to have a video run on it. So long it plays the terminal is considered active and stays in "awake" mode.

[@carsonperry6443]

IT worker for a University here, I play “Godzilla” in our classrooms to make sure our computers can stream internet connection and connect to a monitor at the same time for an elongated period of time.

[@Sapreme]

I use youtube to make sure the internet works too. I been using a bookmark to a video of someone singing a song cover for the last couple of years because it saves a click from having to select a video off the front page. The cover song has like 1800 views now and i'm pretty sure im like 1700 of them

[@gslom12]

I'm guessing this must be the Matthew Broderick remake. Pretty much guaranteed your students are still paying attention to lecture with that one.

[@RussBuss3]

I like using "10 hours of silence interrupted by the taco bell" for these sorts of situations

[@redninja8]

i live in brasil and is good to know this piece of information

[@tatedottech]

never heard of this channel... never seen this man's face. But here I am... subscribing... because this story is awesome.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Classic software moment.

[@DreaMeRHoLic]

Seems more like the server that does this does into standby mode if you "dont move the mouse". By playing a fullscreen video windows things the user is aktive and doesnt go into standby. I mean you could just change the settings to the server doesnt shut down the HDDs after 30 minutes but only turns the screen off.

[@simonspacek3670]

Hey, that reminds me when one server guy called me (low life IT service desk) and asked if it would be possible to change sleep timer on one server. I tried, of course it is locked and change like that would require proper requesting, agreeing and it can take days, if not weeks (welcome to IT). And the only reason for this change would be that this guy doesn't have keep RDP connected and push mouse every 15 minutes. So, I asked him if he can access youtube there. He said yes, so I sent him a link for 8 hours long video of fireplace. The funny part is when he requested additional monitor. And then he showed his boss how he managed to make sure that a) the copy process doesn't stop and b) his office feels super cozy.

[@AdamMPick]

Embraer has dope planes. They are very robust. There was the case in 2006, when a small Embraer airliner collided with a Boeing 737 mid air and everyone in the Embraer survived, while the jumbo crashed and killed all aboard. Added fact, they landed on a super secret air force base in the middle of the jungle and the air force held them for almost two days, because they thought they were spies. Those planes are build like people think soviet planes were build. "You might need to land in a jungle" adds to the requirements.

[@willausterman3104]

To be fair, the Embraer's winglet cut into the 737's wing like a knife and shore half of it off. Very few aircraft, let alone an airliner, would survive losing half of a wing. The Embraer was messed up badly, too, but thankfully, only the winglet had hit the 737. Had the actual wing edge hit instead, both planes would have been lost.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@willausterman3104 also, if I am not mistaken, the Embraer was was actually crewed by Americans who had bought the airplane and were returning to the US (since airplane can fly, that's how you pick your purchase. No sense in transporting it by sea, right) There was an accusation the Americans had turned the transponder off. AFAIKm they flew all the way back to the US.

[@shikikankillzone4239]

Makes sense why brazilians seem to have a hard-on for getting roadkills with jets in Battlefield 4

[@boartank]

It hit a Boeing. The bar was low.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@boartank The Boeing was destroyed after an unfortunate accident, where it hit air in midflight.

[@HelixLord10]

He’s Brazils version of the TF2 coconut jpeg.

[@tristianhansen1161]

Reminds me of the coconut file in team fortress 2, a 3d render of a coconut that serves no apparent purpose but without it cause the whole game to crash 😂

[@3DRC-707]

T3 Systems Admin/Systems engineer here: Can confirm that I've used 10hr Yule Log to keep a computer active with a light load vs. changing the sleep settings and running a specialized tool.

[@therealgreg5653]

I feel you, Window's Sleep settings don't seem to work anymore. Just wait till you see Dell's eye tracking system that locks the screen if no one is in front of it.

[@readyforlol]

@@therealgreg5653 That’ll be the moment everyone will switch to Linux

[@jotarokujo3080]

Certified brazillian here This is a prime example of an antique techinique called gambiara Where you use strange or less safe methods to repair or completely change something

[@katesauve3698]

How efficient is it

[@unh0ly362]

@@katesauve3698more than doing it the right way

[@caydenlord5716]

@@katesauve3698 it works until it doesnot

[@Molue_]

So it's more-or-less analogous to a 'duct tape and superglue' method.

[@Sleet090Tech]

This just describes the whole IT industry, good to know we IT technicians aren't the only ones doing this.

[@nicematerial]

Han Solo cosplayer saves South America

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Brazil needs to name it the Stryfe Hayes policy 😂

[@reznovvazileski3193]

The Hayes Protocol does sound like some super secret shit xD

[@zefft.f4010]

"the Strife Hayes Method"

[@enzovulkoor]

So Boeing just needs to have Josh's videos playing and they wont have as many issues.

[@AndreLuis-gw5ox]

Even funnier when you consider Boeing tried to buy brazilian aviation industry but couldnt because of Boeing's crisis

[@JackPorter]

I bet their technicians only found the trick because they were slacking off watching his series 😅

[@Roo-v2l]

For legal reasons, we here at Boeing can't confirm that.

[@PliskinYT]

I remember when I went to technical school for Computer Tech, one of our classmates kept his server rack on by having the gif of Squidward having his face knocked in playing

[@Breakfast_and_Bullets]

We do this in the military, too. Our tactical computers HAVE to be set to sleep during inactivity because they're Top Secret, but certain systems have an operator monitoring (not interacting with, just watching) them 100% of the time. We set our favorite drone strike videos to play on repeat.

[@gtPacheko]

I'm from Brazil, and sometimes I keep that series in repeat too!... But just because I like it.

[@leocoelho4536]

As a brazillian I must say this sounds like something we would do, yeah, nossa chamada gambiarra

[@ShikiUtoka]

Reminds me of the time an electrician cut the main line for elictricity for our apartment secuirity cameras which was in the crawl space of the ceiling to install a motion sensor light in the hallway. For 3 years no one knew why the secuirity cameras would turn off at ramdom

[@JessicaMorgani]

Wait, would they turn off when someone moves??

[@JessicaMorgani]

THAT'S NOT A CAMERA THAT'S A JPEG

[@ThatDjinn]

I was once working with a server that we had no access to from outside, just the VM's running on it. Problem is sometimes we needed a hard reset of the entire box. We placed a different machine, one we did have access to in front of it. Strapped a pencil onto the CD drive tray and aimed it at the other server's reset button. Mechanical solution to a software problem. I loved the good old days.

[@AstroxZombie]

I had an aquarium livestream where 3 times a day viewers could feed my goldfish with a command. I used an android emulator to run the wifi feeder, a script that would pull up the app and click the button, and a program that connects Twitch to the script. It was absolute chaos stuck together with duct tape and bubblegum, but the end product was spectacular. I was never formally taught coding, nor did I ever really learn it besides trial and error. I had a friend who helped with the bones. He was always flabbergasted when I sent him updates on how I had modified it. If only my laptop hadn't given out. 😔

[@ThatDjinn]

@@AstroxZombie So you connected a livestream chat functionality to a script that would bring up an emulated phone and click a button like you would do with a mouse and that would feed the goldfish? Scuffed solutions are only scuffed if they don't work, mate. What you're describing is impressive for a first timer programmer, I approve.

[@mle_mae]

We had a nature documentary saved to the computers for this

[@bones8431]

Josh is appeasing the machine spirit.

[@jasonmorley9217]

Thus confirming- JSH is the moat important second-monitor content of all time.

[@brunoseixas3982]

Thank you for your service.

[@horizonb1744]

lol that’s what he told his boss when he caught him watching your videos. “Nah dude the computer turns itself off when I’m not on this guys channel” lmaoooo

[@sirdurtle9519]

This reminds me of the classic programmer comments of "this should not work. I do not know why this works. But dont touch it or even look at it weird because if I change anything it breaks"

[@Warlock8ZERO]

Have unironically done the same thing lol, work PCs are set to lock and then go to sleep if left idle for 5 mins, a file transfer still counts as idle for some reason, this can't be changed because company permissions override local admin permissions, 2nd video content keeps the systems online. :D

[@thesphnx6836]

I have to download huge files every morning and constantly do this. Set the download, out on a video on full screen and the go out for 20 minutes to get breakfast

[@pedroemo5477]

as a Brazilian i can confirm

[@greglane334]

Sounds like something the employees told their bosses so they could watch KZbin all day

[@ramagefreak]

ok, so we have the same issue here. Corp sec has set all network computers to lockout to screen saver after 15 minutes. this setting you can not change! but! if you load good old windows media player, put a picture/video (can be anything) on repeat and minimize it to the background. Media player has windows code that overides the screen saver settings. so as long as its running in the background it stops screen lockout

[@lockofmetal8894]

That's not an issue, thats you trying to circumvent security policys. Thats like saying "we have a door to our building that locks automatically, so i prop it open with a rock, i'm smart." Jesus.

[@nestorgamer9746]

​@@lockofmetal8894 it is smart, what if you need to use the door to move large objects on time limit ? You can't thinker with the door and you don't want to wait for it to open every single time The rock solved the problem easily and can also be easily removed at the end of the work

[@lockofmetal8894]

@@nestorgamer9746 You're missing one crucial part. They use these bypasses to not need to be near the computer. My comparison with the door, would essentially be to prop it open, then leave it like that all day. While not being near it most of the day. Meaning anyone from the outside could come in to non authorized areas. Same with that computer, anyone could go to it & click around, DL bad stuff or extract data.

[@pr9039]

I imagine this is what the Adeptus Mechanicus considers ritual practices for keeping their air forces running

[@LocherYT]

In the company I am working at, we have created an internal and encrypted communication system that many clients make use of but for some reason, sometimes uploaded embedded attachments will stop processing previews and we have no idea how to fix this. For some ungodly reason, if we upload a very very specific image of an elephant holding a banana (138kb size), all attachment issues are resolved. So now we have this elephant banana image saved in case of emergencies.

[@Pwnopolis]

Genuinly fantastic

[@SallyBerry9]

Josh and some other video essayists are the reason my lone degu (her sisters passed over the last year and she’s too old to be introduced to any other Degus) hasn’t displayed loneliness symptoms when I’m not sitting by her cage! He’s keeping the aviation industry going, and a Chilean rodent company

[@sticklyboi]

FLIGHTS ARE DOWN, JOSH HASNT UPLOADED IN A WHILE

[@Stroimex]

That sounds like a contrived fix for a video game that wouldn't run properly in your console unless you like spent 2 hours playing Crash Bandicoot, change the discs without reseting and then it works

[@samg5463]

Yeah that sounds about right. When I worked for an international airline back in the mid 2010s the computer I used still ran off command prompts and we used telex printers to send messages to outstations.

[@4NT0N10MZC]

I found this when searching for Burdie's channel and holy fuck I did not expect you to return, glad to also see your growth and that you're in a safe place now! Glad to also hear bout the planned shift in content and hope it goes well for ya!

[@catrinmelldansen]

"Brazil" + "Aviation" is guaranteed to result in an insane story, and this was no exception

[@thedumbaviator5536]

Except brazil has the 3rd safest aviation industry. That kind of surprised me tbh

[@aguncomon]

Josh my favorite second monitor streamer

[@Melchiah28]

Thats so hillarious. You can be proud of yourself. On the other hand it must be hell to see the videos over and over again.

[@caffeinette]

Josh has never second monitored so hard.

[@vajaspiritos744]

I use the same thing with my work laptop, shit locks itself after like 15 sec so I play a youtube vid on the front😂

[@Ecne3D]

can't you just turn off the timer? there's a setting for this

[@natirasohumana]

​@@Ecne3Dthere's a setting but sometimes it doesn't work

[@joyxcore2]

from brazil here, don't work with it anymore but i used to work with IT and aviation and i can 100% guarantee that the story is true and the people who had the idea of just leaving it like that have been promoted several times in the last years.

[@eduardomelo151]

Muito Obrigado Josh

[@sirwolf3617]

I mean. That's pretty dope that they chose your videos. Out of random or searched, it's cool to me either way!

[@Armedmaster01]

Obrigado Josh Hayes!

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

That is brilliant

[@neyonas759]

This is beyond 2nd monitor... this is the forbidden 3rd monitor