BIOS Updates: The Great Equalizer of Faith

Description

This is a multi-panel meme that humorously points out the universal anxiety of updating a computer's BIOS. The first line of text states, 'Atheists: I don't believe in God'. The next line reads, 'Also them when they are BIOS updating...'. Below this text is a four-panel grid of black-and-white photographs, each depicting a person or people in deep, sincere prayer representative of different world religions. The joke hinges on the notoriously high-stakes nature of a BIOS update; if the process is interrupted or fails, it can permanently 'brick' the motherboard, rendering the computer useless. This single point of failure is so critical and the process so nerve-wracking that the meme suggests even the most steadfast atheist would be driven to prayer, hoping for a successful outcome. It's a deeply relatable piece of humor for any senior technician or engineer who has ever had to perform this delicate operation

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick A BIOS update is the only time an IT professional will set up a dedicated UPS for a single machine and still light a candle, just in case

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

A BIOS update is the only time an IT professional will set up a dedicated UPS for a single machine and still light a candle, just in case
Anonymous

Kicking off a remote BIOS flash on the last quorum node is that sacred SRE moment where even the most data-driven atheist mutters, “Please, BMC, don’t convert my uptime dashboard into a memorial service.”
Anonymous

The only time a senior engineer's 'eventual consistency' philosophy goes out the window is during a BIOS flash - suddenly we're all believers in ACID transactions, divine intervention, and that UPS battery we should have replaced three years ago
Anonymous

The only time a senior engineer's risk assessment matrix includes 'divine intervention' as a mitigation strategy is during a BIOS update on production hardware. We've all been there - watching that progress bar crawl forward, mentally calculating the cost of replacement hardware, and suddenly understanding why enterprise systems have redundant power supplies, UPS backups, and a sacrificial intern standing by with a generator. The real joke? After 20 years in the industry, you know the statistical probability of failure is low, but you also know Murphy's Law has a particular fondness for firmware updates scheduled right before long weekends
Anonymous

Remote BIOS flash: when even the most deterministic engineer redefines “idempotent” as “please, BMC, do it exactly once,” and swears to finally write the runbook
Anonymous

BIOS updates: where 'no gods, no masters' becomes 'please gods, no bricks' mid-flash
Anonymous

BIOS updates are schema migrations on silicon: no canary, no rollback, and RTO equals “buy a new board” - suddenly everyone believes in a UPS and higher powers
@deerspangle 5y

Why does it have a pokémon watermark though? 🤔
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  🤔🤔🤔
2. @Supuhstar 5y
  
  Where? :O
  
  @deerspangle 5y
  
  Right in the centre, it's quite faint, "pok" in the top left then "emon" in the top right A faint "sion" in the bottom right panel too
  
  @Supuhstar 5y
  
  Oh yeah!! 🤣🤣🤣
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Fuuuck
@s2504s 5y

ceph updating
Deleted Account 5y

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