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Brings back old memory on a AD lab, where our professor was presented with "contact your local administrator" dialog upon closing some simple configuration dialog.

He had set-up the AD himself and had no idea where it came from

Ah yes, the good old

< Contract your system administrator.

> I am the system administrator!

aka you are the brute squad!

Yeah, I appreciate it in both ways I've said it: Both "I'm the sysadmin, I'm in charge here, shut up and do what I said", and also "yeah, I'm the sysadmin and I have no idea what you're trying to tell me". In both cases I'm a bit put out with the machine, but somewhat different tones.

I guess there's also the "oh, right - sudo make me a sandwich", but that's less notable in my experience.

AFAIK he worked mainly on the GUI side in Windows, so that's not really surprising.

He may have learned a bit in the last 20 years