Title: My son passed away on his 20th birthday. I'm desperately trying to get into his phone to recover his pictures. Please help a grieving mother. 💔

I'm writing this with a broken and desperate heart, hoping that someone here might be able to help me.

On August 21, 2026, I lost my firstborn son, Nazareth, on the very day he turned 20 years old.

The day that was supposed to be a celebration of his life became the day my world changed forever.

Twenty years ago, I held him in my arms for the very first time. He was the one who made me a mother. My first baby. My first experience of a love so deep that I never knew it existed until I looked into his eyes.

I never imagined that just 20 years later, I would have to say goodbye to him.

There are no words to describe what it feels like to bury your child. There is an emptiness that follows me everywhere, a silence where his voice should be, and a longing to have just one more conversation, one more hug, one more moment with him. My soul is broken.

I'm reaching out to this community because I desperately need help accessing my son's phone.

His phone holds pieces of his life that I may never get back otherwise. Pictures he took, videos of moments I never got to see, memories with his friends, and perhaps little glimpses into the person he was becoming.

As his mother, I have thousands of memories of him growing up. But his phone holds memories of the world through his eyes.

I want to see the pictures he thought were worth taking. I want to hear his laugh in a video. I want to discover the little moments of his life that he never got the chance to share with me.

I am not trying to invade his privacy. I am simply a mother trying to hold on to whatever pieces of her son she has left.

I don't know his phone's passcode, and I am terrified of doing something that could permanently erase his pictures or lock me out.

If anyone here has experience with phone data recovery, accessing a deceased loved one's device, recovering photos through cloud backups, or working with Apple or Android in situations like this, I would be incredibly grateful for your guidance.

I'm not asking anyone to do anything illegal. I just want to understand what legitimate options might exist to preserve and recover his memories.

I never thought I would be in a position where I would have to ask strangers on the internet for help finding pictures of my own child. But grief takes you places you never imagined.

If someone can help me recover even one picture or one video that I've never seen before, it would mean more to me than I could ever put into words.

Please, if you know anything that could help, comment or point me in the right direction.

And if you've read this far, thank you for taking a moment to hear a mother's heart.

His name was Nazareth. He was my firstborn. He was 20 years old. And I will spend the rest of my life loving and missing him. 💔

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. PLEASE ANYONE PLEASE. he has a gmail account, and now i have his phone with the screen of death that says iphone unavailable

Please! please. Please!

— A grieving mother who hasn't splet since august.

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Servers, storage, networking, power protection and backups all play important roles, but some areas tend to receive attention only when something goes wrong.

For those working in IT, what do you think businesses most often overlook when building or upgrading their infrastructure?

I'd be interested in hearing your experiences.

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I know the 701 doesn’t retire until June 2027 so I’m wondering if I should just stick with what my college gives me and take the exam before it retires or buy a Udemy course for the newer version instead. I don’t wanna waste all this good study material if it’s still useful lol. What would y’all do?

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I've got a weird one.

Two identical BeeLink mini computers. Each one of them has 2 Ethernet ports. Realtec Gbe chipset. Windows 11 26H2.

After about 12 hours, these computers both become unable to send complex print jobs to any network printers.

They can print small jobs from NotePad and Word. Windows Test pages will partially print. PDFs will print a few lines then stop.

If i print the data to a raw .prn file by changing the print processor to "file" then stream the data to the printer over a raw TCP connection bypassing the Windows printer system, the behavior is the same.

Here's where things start getting odd. If I go to Advanced Ethernet Properties, open the advanced adapter options, click "configure" under the adapter, go to the "Advanced" tab and change any random value (I've been using Arp Offload since it's top of the list) then click OK, all pending print jobs will complete and we're good for another 12 hours. (I also always immediately change back whatever value I change.)

So it's definitely related to the network adapter on the computer. The really weird part is that ALL other network functions work fine. I can control the machines with VNC, I can access the Internet, stream YouTube videos, access our main database, etc.

It's ONLY the printers that seem to be affected, and it's three different brands of network printers and a network multifunction copier.

I've run all Windows updates and downloaded the newest Realtec Ethernet driver and newest printer drivers on both machines.

Both machines are on different network switches.

Resetting the NIC by changing an advanced parameter consistently works. Unplugging the cable and plugging back in works occasionally, but not reliably.

I've ordered USB nics for both machines since the built-in nics aren't replaceable. In the meantime I have a powershell script that resets the nic that seems to be working.

Anybody ever seen anything like this?

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I recently got a job as a IT Help desk for a Hotel company. I'm finishing my AA degree in IT (the classes were literal bullshit) and i only got 2 years of experience in customer service. At my own time tho I do troubleshooting tasks and watch simple videos on ticketing systems and learning AD and entry stuff.

I worked for the same company when I was a cashier so I have little to no knowledge about my Hotel company. I wanted to leave my job badly because of the pay and saw the opportunity of a IT Help desk which was the exact thinf I was studying for. With the help of networking for HR recommendation I got an interview and passed the technical interview. Yeah I got some wrong here and there. BTW the job is literally stationary so im not technically walking to places fixing it.

I didn't expect them to hire me until I got the phone call. I was so excited and it had a 2 week training program. I thought to myself I would have plenty of knowledge that I would fit right in.

Boy I was so wrong..I felt so uncomfortable with the amount of applications and what they are used for. I understood them but I don't have an understanding on when to implement them. I never worked with a team before in my previous job. I was by myself most times so I was super awkward around my co workers.

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Im scared shitless every when I get to work and never feel relaxed. I stopped doing my favorite hobbies and fitness life studying all day but still feel like it isn't enough. I've been crying myself to sleep for like 2 days because of this shit and I hate it.

How do you guys deal with this?

edit: I feel embarrassed because even when talking to new coworkers to see if they felt the same way. They all have certifications before this job and here I am with no fucking knowledge other than my 20 years of life and a lame homelab

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As for my background I am a Computer Engineer graduate.

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My question, as a non-IT person, is, is this the industry standard? I’ve lost the ability to work efficiently and don’t understand why they wouldn’t just assign new logins rather than handicap us in this manner. I’ve logged about 65 hours of downtime specific to this. No explanation or timeline has been provided.

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Hello

I was wondering what is happening to actual students, especially those in the software concentration, knowing that vibe coding and outsourced projects into other cheap labor countries will likely take all their jobs (it takes one week to train vibe coders).

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