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November 5, 2025

Getting to Yes in the land of Noah

IT Department is here to help?

For many of us techbros, all we want our company to provide is a nice, fast Macbook. Other folks have more specific demands for their equipment, like more memory, a better graphics card or an NVIDIA chip(!). You can ask, but shall you receive? Let’s see how that works out for Liz, a new hire at Strategent.

Cartoon of Liz, new hire, trying to get help from Noah, the IT Department bunny.
WiFi, Please

If you’re just joining us, Lowered Techspectations is a biweekly newsletter made up of comics by Theora Kvitka and an advice column by Zen Paycheck. Liz, the new hire elephant above, had her first day a few weeks ago. If you’re impatient to read more, there’s a zine version for purchase made from real paper pulp!

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