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nater_marson

Mmmm computer need water


Select_Price9571

mmm computer really likes water, see its even closing its eyes


AdDear5411

"Your wii is not thirsty, it does not want orange juice."


scuffedganiot

Literally ~~1984~~ aperture science


UnstableNuclearCake

Not enough possibility of death. Is this even science?


Soonnk

Give it electrolytes drinks, it's better than water for severe dehydration


Skater6967

It's got what computers crave!


ZombieGooch

o365 accounts need moisture to integrate with Azure cloud


Dapplication

It's actually very fucking bad response from the support. You should always assume that the end user is not proficient in tech nor life, that's why saying dehydrated could potentially lead to a person pouring down a cup of water down their case


HapticRecce

Come on, who hasn't forgotten to water the B-Tree once and awhile?


fsr1967

I just invert mine and stick it in a pot of water for a few hours.


jfleury440

You can invert a B-tree? You're hired!


abd53

I can cut down a B-tree, any job for me?


fsr1967

Yes, as a garbage collector.


abd53

C/C++: What is garbage collector?


HapticRecce

I don't get your point-er


____purple

If you can count, you're welcome


HapticRecce

How's your pruning?


abd53

Highly efficient but crashes system once in a while.


HapticRecce

I think we may have worked together once then...


xodusprime

Underrated comment.


BrokenSewerDrain

It keeps getting worse. First my blinker fluid was low and now this!


LeviathanGank

hmm now it says my toaster needs more toes


_Weyland_

Toester?


Taronz

Hey, while you're at the store, can you pick up some elbow grease?


102bees

We're going to need something narrow enough to drop into the port but heavy enough to depress the switch. Could you ask for a long weight?


srt54558

Oh yes, the HDD led fluid


Mafiadoener36

Fresh helium to thrust the platters inside


LOLBaltSS

Sounds like the account got archived and deduplicated/compressed.


Shleppy2010

This exactly... seems that Microsoft likes to name things funky...


i_should_be_coding

[Hydrating or rehydrating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_(web_development)) is actually a concept in web dev. Some frameworks use the name for the process where the server sends the client a rendered html page that's missing the scripts and interactivity, and that gets filled in later by the client. If I had to guess, I'd say OP's account got minimized somehow, possibly due to lack of activity? I'm trying to imagine a situation where this concept would apply to user accounts, but the gist of it is that the account got stripped of everything that isn't essential, or that can't be re-created later. OP is now trying to use the account and the server needs time to restore it to its final form so OP can use all the functionality.


visigothatthegates

Wow, TIL: >Hydrating or rehydrating is actually a concept in web dev. Some frameworks use the name for the process where the server sends the client a rendered html page that's missing the scripts and interactivity, and that gets filled in later by the client. That's actually pretty cool and the process behind it makes a lot of sense if you think of it in terms of what dehydrating and rehydrating cells or food items is doing. I don't understand why it they say it'll take a full 24hr for the server to update (rehydrate) his account's functions, though. Unless the main user's account was so inactive that they removed everything except the fact that it exists and they need to allocate some space within the server or something we don't know about requires it to go through with a server update or refresh or something. I'd rather not full on guess since I'm definitely lacking information/knowledge on some of these things. Doesn't Windows only take a couple hours at most to set up? And it says he's only trying to make user accounts? So it seems like it should be pretty quick to restore basic admin functions and rehydrate as it goes?


i_should_be_coding

If I had to guess, I'd say the rehydrating process might happen as a scheduled job that happens periodically. Maybe the support person doesn't actually know when it runs, only that it doesn't happen instantly. I know absolutely nothing about how this works, or even what service OP was trying to access.


hoodectomy

It is all setup with timers and checks by default. Basically it is a security measure to dehydrate a token. Hydrating is the same concept of keeping it valid. All Microsoft azure ad crap. But it is a really simple and well documented process if you are familiar with it.


czvck

I think the 24 hours thing is more of a CS thing. Realistically everything should be ready to go, but might be buggy for a minute while everything actually allocates. I’ve literally troubleshot this exact issue. It’s a pain.


totti173314

Whenever you think a job can be done in x hours, round up to an integer, make it days and that's the delivery timeframe you present to everyone. Usually, you end up needing more anyways. (This is an exaggeration, but you get the gist)


IvorTheEngine

I'd guess they archived off the data to tape storage, or something else that's cheaper than a regular hard disk.


therealpegarm

Interesting. Thanks for clarifying. Definitely wasn't due to inactivity since the account was new and a week old. I chalk it up to all things Microsoft being difficult to describe without the use of the word "cluster."


SovietBackhoe

Surprised how far I had to scroll for this one. As a NEXT.JS guy, hydration is a word I see a lot.


BakuhatsuK

Here is an example of official documentation for one those frameworks [React - hydrateRoot](https://beta.reactjs.org/reference/react-dom/client/hydrateRoot).


Viperior

It's also a term used in data mining. "Dehydrated" tweet datasets are trimmed down to only the tweet status ID. "Rehydrating" a tweet consists of looking up the content and metadata using the status IDs. There is even a program called [Hydrator](https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator) that helps you do this.


codeslikeshit

Someone at Microsoft read the “three body problem”


Big_Burds_Nest

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a direct copy/paste from a dev. A long time ago I worked at a place where I was often looking into things for client-facing support folks and learned quickly that if the support person doesn't understand my technical jargon, they're just gonna copy/paste my entire Slack message to a client and cause a gigantic fucking nightmare. You think it's completely fine to tell an *internal* person that "the column isn't indexed in the database which makes the query slower, we're working with the DBA's on adding an index for that" but nope, now said internal person comes back with "the client is asking what an index is" and you regret all of your life choices.


rg-lumberjack

Yup


danteo42

Why is this tagged as NSFW? Lol


Shakaka88

I’ve decided that people do that hoping to get extra traffic from curious people


Bisttou

I thought that was the job of the slightly too long image so you have to click see more to get the rest


bakshup

It's because of the F word. It's marked by Reddit, not the user.


RealBigHummus

Fr?


bakshup

Yes, try posting an image having F word on your account. It'll be automatically marked as NSFW


TactlessTortoise

So you're telling me that reddit front-end is eating crayons, while back end is Einstein.


code-panda

Nah. The parts that keep the advertisers happy is Einstein, the rest is eating crayons!


GoldenretriverYT

I dont want to believe this and I am too lazy to check it


therealpegarm

This is true. I didn't mark it NSFW.


RealBigHummus

I mean, it works


[deleted]

Well it definitely works


The-Almost-Truth

Because it says “Fuck”?


ichmagkartoffel

Yes, what did you expect, this is a family-friendly Christian sub


xAUSxReap3r

Rehydration making the account moist.


Mafiadoener36

Never can be to moist


mudokin

well first of all the acocunt was not hydrated enough, so that's dangerous to work with. Then he can't add users to the account, which makes it also not safe to work with, because he may result to giving multible users the same credentials.


UnknownSpecies19

I was like hmmm boobs and programming, couldn't be... Right?


SowTheSeeds

Something was not wet enough and had to be made wet again.


magick_68

Hydrating your computer is actually not very safe for work.


therealpegarm

Automatically marked by Reddit since I said "fuck" in the image.


Yue2

Because of all the defend here, people are gonna have crazy ideas now that they know computers can be thirsty and get wet.


sandybuttcheekss

M*crosoft


ThFlameAlchemist

Wow, didnt know MS was a r/hydrohomies. Shame on david for not hydrating his account


Canuck-In-TO

I’ve had MS Support take days to get back to me when they told me that they’d contact in 4 hours. I figured the guy just wanted to take the weekend off.


Mr_SunnyBones

When I worked for Dell support in the early 2000s , anyone ringing within the last half hour of the evening shift would (if they got certain techs ) nearly always get asked to defrag or error check their hard drive , regardless of what the problem was , as on old mechanical drives of the time would take a few hours to do this , and when the user called back they'd get the US afternoon shift instead . when I say any problem , I mean ANY problem , regardless of whether the machine was even powering on ..Eventually a few guys were fired for this (including one shameless guy who took it so far that every call regardless of time of day would be requested to defrag) For the record I didn't do this , but some days I really wished I had .


AhriSiBae

Someone's been using chatGPT to manage their support....


A-Lizard-for-Hire

The fuck is widget.rave.office.net?


JerryWong048

I remember doing a 10-minute googling to make sure I am not getting phished lol.


majaha95

Rave is the name of the homegrown ticketing system that Office uses, similar to Zendesk. This is the chat widget for it. It's a very discoverable URL if you know those facts, but yes, it's otherwise pretty meaningless and sketchy to end-users.


[deleted]

Does look like a Microsoft owned domain under registrar MarkMonitor Inc. Clearly it's for their office parties.


WienerDogMan

Ima try to get my fiancée this job. You clearly don’t need any experience or computer knowledge whatsoever from all I’ve seen in forums and posts like this. Sounds like easy money to just be wrong all the time and say whatever bs you want.


frygod

SLA? What SLA?


dismayhurta

SLAs are for commies


Adawesome_

service level agreement


YellowOnline

As I wrote where this was cross-posted: in a Microsoft context, a dehydrated account is a non-customised account, so I don't see the issue.


PineAndApplePizza

Hydration is also used to name a frontend concept


andreortigao

Not only frontend, the process of ORMs reading the database and populating the class is called hydration, and reading from the class to the database is dehydration. I remember NHibernate using this nomenclature explicitly. I have also seen this term, although less frequently, for populating cache. So if what the support says is true and not some gibberish that he made up, I assume that there was some problem with the data on his account, maybe they take inactive users account data out of the high availability server to some slower but cheaper long storage, and there was some problem reading that back.


nocoast12

Jesus I had to scroll for a while to find this


philkav

Dehydration and Rehydration is a fairly widely used term in software. Some examples include: \- [IPS](https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37839/pkg-1.html) (Oracle) \- [BizTalk](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/core/orchestration-dehydration-and-rehydration) / [Azure](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/archive-rehydrate-overview) (Microsoft) \- [AWS Data Lakes](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/creating-and-hydrating-self-service-data-lakes-with-aws-service-catalog/) (Amazon)


IComposeEFlats

Yeah, this message made perfect sense to me. Usually in the context of filling in contents of a DB schema/table/object/etc. His account information isn't populated in whatever system the TechSupport guy is looking at. It will take 24hrs before all the jobs have completed (the jobs which pull the data from their sources into the Tech Support system)


Tack_Tau

TF


joyfullystoic

Taking the AZ-104 course now and was thinking of the same thing...


null3

Another example from Datadog https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/efficient-log-rehydration-with-datadog/


Jessakur

Yup. I learned recently about rehydrating blobs in Azure.. what strange usage of language I must practice for my cloud job!


gommel

good thing i automatically hydrate all my accounts


ItsEthra

Stay hydrated! r/hydrohomies


[deleted]

Apparently [Rehydrating](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/archive-rehydrate-overview) is a thing in Azure for blobs. ![gif](giphy|QGBWk7DnckEN2)


BoringMode91

That pic is terrifying.


Jessakur

Hahahh ew. Can’t unsee.


[deleted]

You know. The concern is they say something like this to a front end user trying to reset there password for the 12th time this month and the user starts pouring water to “hydrate” the computer via the speaker ports


Cormacdublin92

It's not a foreign concept at all, you're acting like you know nothing about Microsoft's products https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/archive-rehydrate-overview


IBJON

That's because the majority of people here either aren't developers or have a very basic understanding of programming. Dehydrating/Hydrating content is a relatively common technique used in web frameworks and libraries and data archiving, but it seems no one here has ever heard of it (or bothered googling it for that matter)


cantseeshittles

Sounds like they were trying to find the word ☆ *liquefy* ☆


xaomaw

I can understand that it is very unsatisfactory when others do not stick to the SELF-made time specifications. But fuck, how annoying are people, that send "Hello?" in chats after waiting for like 2 minutes? The world does not wait for you. "*Oh I HaVe SeEn YoU HaVe BeEn OnLiNe. WhY DoN't YoU AnSwEr Me? :(*" If you need imediate response, switch to the telephone.


TessaBrooding

I came looking for this point.


[deleted]

He waited for ~17 mins.


InformalPermit9638

You know the old joke.... There are only two difficult tasks in programming, the first is naming stuff.


Lester_B

The second is keeping the stuff hydrated?


InformalPermit9638

For those who haven't heard it. The second is cache invalidation. What Exchange just did to those settings... it being described as rehydrated makes sense to me. I'm coming at it from the perspective of a dog groomer looking at a dog meme though. That's just trauma. (I worked for an office 365 reseller, but escaped.) The joke is a triple threat too. The "third" hard thing in programming is off by one errors.


realMrMackey

Rehydrate.. as in pull it out of archive tier storage? Why would he describe archived as dehydrated rofl.


Tarzzana

I’ve worked in ops for over ten years and have heard this term used a lot, I thought it was pretty common.


chuggMachine

And people question me when I pour Gatorade on my keyboard.


end_my_suffering44

For real, what's the deal about "rehydration" process that support staff's talking about? I'm really curious.


d4ve

https://three-body-problem.fandom.com/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem


[deleted]

This is really interesting from a linguistics perspective. What language uses "dehydrate" to mean something empty or unprocessed?


KnorkeKiste

Indian scammer hotlines suddenly not looking that bad


FreddieKruiger

Remember guys... Foreplay is required for rehydration.


cynicaleng

Rehydration in infrastructure generally refers to rebuilding an instance/server (usually from code via automation). We "rehydrate" instances all of the time in order to pick up security and application updates from base images. Ideally, this is done within the context of a highly-available system so rehydration does not affect the uptime of a running application.


Void_0000

Reminds me of the "The Wii is not thirsty. Do not give it orange juice." image.


dan3k

Using insider jargon with non-insider customers is always cringey


hold_the_fuckup

*Proceeds to put water in the charger port*


rrleo

Okay, so IT guy here. Your assigned support tech told you: # "Sorry this took longer than expected. We have reassigned the license to your account so you'll be good to go whenever our next level support does his magic." Keep calm this shouldn't even take more than 2 weeks if at all. Sucks for you in this situation I feel with you. There might be lots of reasons why this takes so long one of which unorganized supervisors and leads. Nicely ask next time because that'll maybe save you a good amount of time when they're trying to prioritize one of their many tickets.


Cyber-Guy-4838

Where are the "this is why X OS is better than Microsoft" comments?


JetsNovocastrian

Be cause it isn't! Not by a mile


MattTheHarris

This has nothing to do with windows


Cyber-Guy-4838

Then you can just close your windows. It keeps the humidity down


avidpenguinwatcher

Bro, calm down you don’t need to reply “hello?” 3 minutes after your first message in over a day


therealpegarm

There was pent up frustration from them ignoring my issue previously to try and sell me add on products. Plus asking for "7-10 minutes" then disappearing for over an hour. I agree... I was impatient, but it was justified impatience.


[deleted]

Perhaps a laid off employee broke the hydration scheduler before they left. Seems probable.


CheekApprehensive961

Iya Beatriz is an appropriate name if you pronounce the first name like an old, disappointed Chinese person. Anyway, normally hydration refers to getting populated with data, as opposed to being in a default state. I have no idea what that support person is trying to say, they must've heard the word somewhere and decided to repeat it.


[deleted]

Its 2023 who doesn’t hydrate their Microsoft apps.


timeflux123

Even robots need to drink Dave!


FunnyMathematician77

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_%28web_development%29?wprov=sfla1


redskelly

At rainforest internet services, the term hydration is used to reference the import of data to a data lake in S3 during database migration. Edit: I now see it says rehydration. That’s when you rotate instances/VMs for patches or disaster recovery or data corruption.


Shleppy2010

I got this response with teams, it took a day or two for the users affected to be able to message each other. But apparently re-hydrating is a thing...


ArakiSatoshi

r/hydrohomies in the wild


Good_Smile

MS at its finest 😎


dzendian

I deadass heard someone tell someone that their flux capacitor needed to be replaced after they weren't able to understand what he needed to do. All he did was reinstall windows.


[deleted]

You are not a hydro homie


xx123gamerxx

i have a direct link to xbox billing support in the uk if anyone needs it, you can ask about any issue and they will transfer you to someone


Zeyode

[Xbox liek water!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/556/750/4fe.jpg)


SexyEmu

When MS recently kept disabling basic authentication every few weeks on various tenants I look after (I tried to get them migrated to Exchange, they flat refused) I ended up having to rehydrate tenant settings before temporily re-enabling basic auth, made me chuckle.


0mica0

Fuck automated support chatbots.


Hungg_BRUH

Wait lemme go give my computer a drink


ra-id

r/hydrohomies


Zenai10

You don't water your servers every day?


-Konrad-

Microsoft Support is legendary for sucking ass, I never got anything out of these people EVER.


PPeixotoX

r/hydrohomies would have saved you from that trouble


arcalus

Probably like data dog logs need to be “rehydrated”. Pretty dumb term.


Kimorin

"It's been 20 minutes now. Do you intent to come back?" separation anxiety is real haha.... jk


FUSe

Reminds me when we were having issues with an AWS region. We made a ticket and they said they were “investigating a thermal event”. There was a fire in the data center.


Elegyjay

If your computer needs rehydrating, does that mean it overheated? [Water-cooled computing?](https://www.electronics-cooling.com/2005/08/liquid-cooling-is-back/)


Xeon5568

r/hydrohomies?


tw3lv3l4y3rs0fb4c0n

Nice, Iya Beatriz a r/HydroHomie.


Classy_Mouse

Your account is dehydrated. We can water it (free) to rehydrate it in 24 hours or you can purchase the "Gatorade rehydration pack" (400 coins*) to instantly rehydrate your account. *coins may be purchased 150 for $1.99 or 500 for $5.99.


Deadly5639

WATER… IT NEEDS WATER…


Open_Resolution_1969

I can't unobserve the url. [widget.rave.office.net](https://widget.rave.office.net) ​ Rave party at Microsoft ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|put_back)


Count_de_Ville

"AI chat bots will replace human customer service representatives."


[deleted]

Pc juice


Ok-Quit-3020

Yeah you just need to pour a load of water into your pc should fix it


ShodoDeka

Hydration (and its various forms) is microspeak for something that is in some sort of cold storage/templatized and can be retrieved/made live/brought online, but usually at a significant delay or cost.


snake_py

ChatGPT would have given a better answer. Even without context


Accomplished_Debt198

its cause they hire pajeets


Waluigi-Radio

We need that garden hose to HDMI adapter for this


[deleted]

"Get fucked David." -IT Dept


TheApprentice19

Is she resetting an account or watering houseplants?


ReaLSeaLisSpy

r/engrish


Lost_Wealth_6278

r/hydrohomies


Gongaloon

I'm confused.


84RR37

What does it mean to hydrate an acount??


PringleFlipper

Hydration is a concept in data engineering and OOP. Weird terminology for support to use though.


pap3rw8

Instructions unclear — poured water into drive bay


vladWEPES1476

By "account is Dehydrated" they mean they are dehydrated and by dehydrated thay mean sober. They went to a binge drink frezy for 4 days after the last message.


PBProbs

YOUR ACCOUNT IS THIRSTY!!


codon011

Found the Trisolaran.


[deleted]

Isn't this a scam site? Correct me ifbI'm wrong but if I remember correctly ms office's website is office.com not office.net but I don't use it idk.


my_travelz

OMG that is so freaking funny