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    Anyone else out there seen as the "tech support" guy by your family and friends? Y'know, the guy that you reach out to if you think your computer's broken but it turned out you just forgot to plug in your monitor or something stupid like that?

    Yep, that's been me all day. First it started this morning with my sister needing her laptop fixed, but the thing is, she's all the way over in New Zealand... So it was pretty difficult to fix her laptop over WhatsApp, but hey, got it done. :twi:

    Then, I get a call from my friend saying that his dad's computer was fecked. I get there, and discover it's a 15 year-old colossal bastard running on good ol' Windows XP... From a floppy disk. :orly:

    And, yeah, it was well and truly fecked. Opened it up and the motherboard was in shambles, not to mention covered in so much dust that Elon Musk will probably want to colonise it in a few years. Basically told him it was time for an upgrade and that I can salvage the data on his HDD and have it back to him for tomorrow. (Before you ask, no, there was nothing I could blackmail him with. Disappointing, I know. :mlp_smug:)

    Jokes aside, he was grateful for me at least taking a look at it. And what do you know, he gives me a bottle of Jack Daniel's as payment. The customer is always right after all. :pinkie:

    How's the day been treatin' you lot out there? :)

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    2. PoisonClaw

      PoisonClaw

      Sometimes. I still remember the time I had to explain to both my parents how to use simple functions on their phones.

    3. Lord Valtasar

      Lord Valtasar

      one of my brothers is that guy you just described, we all pester him even for the stupidest little tech things, though not as simple as plugging the monitor etc, and even now that he lives in a different country, he's still the one i ask for advice on what to buy when looking for pc parts

    4. Once In A Blue Moon

      Once In A Blue Moon

      Sometimes. Almost never when it comes to hardware*, but for programmes I read the help manuals and have a tendency of playing around with them to see what they can do^. This means that I'm often asked to do this, that or the other, and I'll play around with it until either it works or Stack Overflow tells me it can't be done.

       

       

      *I go as far as 'plug the cable with that shape into the corresponding hole' - which apparently some people don't get. Presumably they didn't learn to put the circle shape in the circle hole when they were children, although I admit that with some of the circles you need to match colours too.

      ^which is how I discovered what I call VBA macros but others call Excel magic.

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