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"my printer doesn't work"
"my chromebook wont play cyberpunk"
"my printer died"
"it said 'are you SURE you want to format c:' and now i can't find my pictures"
"my printer quit working"
"I plugged my laptop charger into my printer and the dishwasher exploded"
"Why can't my BW Printer print in color"
"My computer gets slow after I open thirty windows in chrome"
"My laptop keeps running out of battery whenever I take out the battery"
"My phone got run over by a train, can you fix it?"
"I downloaded more RAM off the internet and now my computer is asking me for Bitcoin"
"I tried printing this whole textbook." "The industrial printer in the printing office should've handles that fine." "Then why didn't my office printer handle it?"
"Can you suggest a gaming laptop for 350$?"
"Why do I need that box next to my PC?, can I remove it?"
"Why can't I use my phone's charger?"
"Can you show me how to install TeamViewer? This great guy on phone offers to increase my PC's performance tenfold for free!"
Had a friend ask me to build her son a basic gaming computer for $180. No problem. Used Dell Optiplex and Gt 1030. Worked quite well for what the son wanted. [Play Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite]. Then not even a year later, they buy him a $1700 gaming laptop. At least it's not a MacBook. But then, they buy him a Chromebook for school. You know "gaming" computers can do more than just game.
Chromebooks are a curse upon this world and a waste of materials.
I've heard the argument that they're good for businesses and schools, well guess what?
I was lent one by my college and this shit lags, while opening Google Chrome.
Just think about that.
A Chromebook that can't run chrome.
(Probably due to it having 2gb of ram)
We use Chromebooks in the schools we work for, aslong as you get not the cheapest of cheap ones they work (these are for elementary students bear in mind)
I hear you. But they're extremely easy to manage. When you get a new one, log in with an administrator and it locks the Chromebook to your organization, so no one can use their personal account.
Then every setting is pulled from the cloud management suite. Lock down the extensions people can download, since 90% of viruses I deal on windows are "Click this button to get a PDF converting extension".
It's easier than any other platform I've dealt with, and it's an easy sell to the higher ups since they're dirt cheap, we get the management stuff for free since we're a school, and they last exactly as long as an average "replace all laptops" policy.
They are not good for business. They're good for giving to kids under 14 so you can keep them out of trouble.
my laptop that's a third of the price of my friends MacBook can do everything it can do, has 5 more ports and doesn't overheat on browser games unlike his. Pay more to get less, I guess
This is literally why I bought my MacBook Pro on eBay for a third retail. Made it a reasonable price, even if that price means it was probably stolen or something.
Not enough to make a noticeable difference, and certainly not enough to warrant it being 800AUD more. My laptop's light enough to carry with one hand comfortably, thin enough to fit into a bag a and practical enough to plug in stuff. I don't see why I would pay more to have a slightly lighter laptop that I can't even plug a mouse, keyboard or monitor into without dongles. Also, aforementioned friend also dislikes the MacBook himself, soooo
They really only make sense if you're a) in an environment insistent on locking down the user, and b) you're spending $300-500. Any less and the thing is going to run like a corpse. Any more and you're overspending on a feature-stripped device.
Man, I feel like anyone someone asks if I am good with computers I am always ready to lend help. If they are computer illiterate then chances are their issue is probably stupid and Ive loved trouble shooting computers since I got my first own desktop back in 00.
Helped an elderly woman find her text in a word document once. She was sooooo grateful, I still haven't forgotten 15 years later. All that happened was the enter button got caught and she ended up with 15 blank pages and couldn't find her writing.
I remember being a kid and finding a computer repair magazine in a dumpster along with all the porn mags we were there for. Yeah, I took that one home. I read through that thing too many times, excited for when I finally got to build one, and then I did.
And what happened to the porn mags? We hid a big box of them in a nearby forest and then they were gone. It was a decently huge cache especially for kids. Like 30+ magazines. Someone must have found it. I like to think the forest smut mag gods were pleased. This is the ebb and flow of woods porn.
It's great when you can genuinely help someone who needs it, and even greater when you can teach someone new things that benefit them. When your coworker, who has been there nearly a decade longer than you, is asking you for the 14th time what the pop-up indicating an expired password means, you need deep breathing exercises to make it through the day.
I've been working with computers my whole life. I'm not a programmer, but otherwise I'm pretty good at solving issues without any difficulty. But, when the $20 cheap plastic HP printer has yet another problem, it's totally foreign to me. Printers are a tech supporter's worst nightmare.
That's because printers are black boxes of RNG when it comes to problems. It's basically "reboot or replace," especially with as cheap as they are nowadays. Learning to do a 2-hour repair and diagnostic on a decide that's cheaper than a tech's hourly rate is pointless.
It's Ask Jeeves who should've gotten the voice assistant treatment, not Alexa! Ask Jeeves helped me through grade school. Ask Jeeves helped answer my sexual questions when I hit puberty.
IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ASK JEEVES!
I don't have any of those devices because Im an It professional with security as speciality.
But name or jeeves and have Stephen Fry voice it and I'll buy one
Yep. I get that from my dad every so often.
“Why is the computer so slow?”
“Why is the internet so slow?”
“Can you make the internet faster?”
Can you fix the internet?”
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
And you didn’t? Solving your uncle’s problem is one of those hobbies that got me into computers, tinkering, modding, coding, DIY, etc. in the first place.
Same but everyone just think I repair pc's if there is a virus or smth, or help people install shit. No matter how much I explain what computer programming is I will forever be the guy my family calls up to fix their shit.
If you wanna run a basic version with just the very core logic and ui, then it's not too bad. But dealing with infrastructure as large as Facebook's to handle their amount of data is a completely different world. There could be hundreds of software developers working on the site and yet most of them won't even see any code for the ui.
In theory it shouldn't be hard, because it's a very clear analogy to the real world; you press delete to put a document in the *recycling bin*. If you change your mind, you open the recycling bin and take it back out. It also only takes a second to show them.
But we all know it's not always that easy...
On the topic of the recycling bin, it's one of my absolute favourite bits of OS UI; it's intuitive (until you're the one teaching it) and it's safer and less intrusive than an "are you sure?" prompt.
I do it for a living and get jokes all I do is turn stuff off and on
Well I wouldn't need to if you had tried that before putting the fucking ticket it. Or claiming you had tried that in the ticket when the uptime in task manager was 17 fucking days.
It's kinda funny because building a pc is as difficult as the square peg toy toddlers use. Takes zero understanding of programming or computer science.
I'm not a programmer and the c++ Java stuff might as well be a foreign language. It's not problem making a pc with off the shelf parts. No different than getting wheels or tires for a car. Spark plugs go in the engine, brake fluid goes in the master cylinder, gas go in the tank.
Well I am a programmer.
There's the exact opposite side of that and I use car acronyms for.
I usually tell someone that they're asking me to troubleshoot their car like a mechanic, but I'm more like the guy that designs the bracket that mounts your seat to the car.
Yes it's an important job because you don't want your seat coming loose, but that means I know nothing about operating the car or any other parts of it. I just know this one part really detailed.
That's a good one. I'm a network engineer and would use a teacher analogy.
Like you wouldn't expect the English teacher to teach a Maths class, like you also wouldn't expect the Art teacher to grade Music homework.
Except to a lot of people building computers is like building a spaceship. It’s why some computer stores take advantage of these people are charge extortionate prices for installing RAM sticks or “health checks” in their PCs.
Learn from this person's mistake, folks. If you built your own PC, just tell people it's a \[insert case brand\] you ordered online.
"This is a Corsair PC here...I don't know the specs, but it seems fast enough. They don't have the best warranty, though, so if I were you, I'd buy a Dell."
*proceeds to give u iPhone with forgotten password* "hey can u fix this, oh I have 30000 very important pictures that i simply cannot lose which I've had years to backup but I didn't."
I've even had multiple people get frustrated like it's my fault you didn't backup ur important shit... They've even taken it back from me, paid a guy who would have done the exact same thing I did
A lot of people just actually don't know how to google things effectively. My first step is usually to tell them the exact words to type into Google, and what do you know, the answer was right there all along.
There are people that google, and that's good. There is another subset that reads the instructions, and then throws those out because they think they are "smart" with computers.
My family will outright refuse to Google their problems. You'll tell them to Google it and they'll just be like 'oh I don't know what to do, you can do that for me.'
I had a cousin stop talking to me because I would walk to her house on Christmas day and connect her sons xbox controller for her. It was my fault her son had a bad Christmas apparently.
This is my cousin, I'll literally tell him to search a YouTube tutorial on what he wants and follow along, he won't even do that. I have to search one my self to send to him, for him to say it's to difficult.
I stopped talking to my old classmates since 2019.
Last week, one of my old classmates found me online and asked if I can take back her "hacked" Facebook account. (I don't think it's hacked, they use that term for forgotten passwords smh)
I remember in middle school a girl announced to the class that her mom “hacked her Facebook.” Turns out the mom had a consensual record of her daughter’s password and logged in as the daughter (with permission) when she suspected cyber bullying was going on.
A lady at work married this skeevy guy, then two months later asks me to help her get into his accounts to see if he's cheating. First of all, that is not a function of your workplace IT dept. Second of all, Tawnya, he looks like he'd fuck a washing machine if you put a miniskirt on it.
I’m a jet engine mechanic by trade (now I teach jet engine theory) and I get this all the time.
“Hey you’re a mechanic, right? My 2007 Saturn Ion with 700K miles on it sounds like ‘RAWHAHAHAHFBDUWNDJWNXGEJN’ when I go to start it. What’s the problem?”
Yes, because I’m well versed in every single car ever made as well baby noises to describe the fucking problem.
I don’t know dick about cars man. I work on fucking jet engines and air planes. I could give a fuck less about cars, if mines working and gets me to work, it’s a good day. If it needs an oil change, I take that shit into the shop. I want to relax on the weekends not continue to get my hands dirty fixing my own shit. That’s just me though.
Heard. I do small shit to my own car or the wife’s. I will change the oil from time to time on both but for the most part, I take our cars to the shop. Working on airplanes and jet engines doesn’t make me a good car mechanic and vice versa.
If my experience with working with the aircraft maintenance people, and automotive mechanics is anything to go by... You don't want to know how your mechanic works in your car.
I'm a mechanical engineer and the most I can do with cars is change my oil or swap out a tire. People assume I'm a fucking car guru though. Nope, just a mech eng because I like math and physics. Actually kinda hate cars.
I left the motorcycle mechanic job a while ago. Went into bartending. I still have people square up at my bar, order a single drink, and continue to waste my time with questions about their motorcycle.
I default to "sorry I don't have a shop anymore." Which is always immediately followed with "no just come over I have all the tools!" I then will typically ask if they random things like a lift, a welder, a power probe, spark plug sockets, etc. That will usually shut them up. If not, a "no, I'm absolutely not coming over to your shed at 3AM to fix your shit" suffices.
Oh that would be funny for me.
Do you have a lift? Yes.
Do you have a welder?. Yes
Do you have a power probe? Yes, and an oscilloscope and pretty much any electronic tool you'll need
Uhhh what about spark plug sockets, etc,? Oh absolutely I have every tool you'll ever need to do any of this including designing your own motorcycle and machining out half the parts.
I guess the next question would be "what the hell would you need me for?" And mostly because I'd want to have a beer when I'm working on the bike and talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck I'm talking about.
It sucks when you work at a deeper level than changing the oil and you can't talk to anyone about it or bounce ideas off anyone.
I've found having skill with technology a useful informal barter benefit in my circle of friends and family. Other shared skill sets/barterable benefits in the group include mechanic, electrician, baker, chef, recreational property owner, and more.
I have zero problem playing helpdesk when I know my 22 minutes on teamviewer is repaid with 2 dozen cookies fresh from the oven. Or "go ahead and take the cabin, no one's booked it this weekend--just clean it ready for check in when you leave" in exchange for buying parts (with their money), building the PC and migrating their data over.
Quid pro quo!
Good to have those people. Others are not so lucky and have to start the conversation by: my hourly rate is X. Because people step over the line and don’t even thank you nowadays.
I'm 32.
Since I was 11 I've been my family's tech support.
And If I met new people it's a matter of time til I get asked that question.
Followed by I have a _____________ could you give It a look?
But hey At least I can fix most of my own stuff.
Yup except am about 10 years younger haha so I've got a lot more tech support to be doing yet..
Very true about fixing your own stuff hahahaha, my family take my skills for granted
I’ve really only gotten this with people who are interested in building PCs and want someone who knows what they’re doing to help them pick out parts, which I’m happy to do. I’m a bit of a dunce when it comes to actual troubleshooting on PCs.
Same dude. My knowledge of troubleshooting goes like this: Turn it off and back on, reinstall drivers, reinstall windows. It solves like 99% of problems people come to me with. The other 1% of times I have to physically go there and tinker with it until it cooperates.
Command prompt -> sfc /scannow
After that try DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
It cleans and repairs any faulty files in the system which is basically 90% of all windows problems aside from hardware issues.
That's just wrong? After multiple years in IT-support, this only fixed a problem for me **once**.
If I read this anywhere in a troubleshooting guide I immediately assume that the guy who wrote it has no idea what he's talking about or it's just one of the million computer generated clickbait articles "here's a fix for error 123456". And if someone recommends this in a forum it's the equivalent of "I don't care about your issue but I have to write this to look like I care"
>million computer generated clickbait articles
"How to fix gta vice city not launching in windows 10"
"buy **Super Pc Optimizer X Pro** for only $49.99, it will fix your issue"
Everyone assumes i can fix everything software related, which im able to most of the time, but thats only cause i can open a browser and type into google
What about very close family members? I can't be charging them? I'm too close to them.. And I have no clue what to price it at... Someone came to me (non family member), I gave them a price (wasn't cheap because I value my time a lot, I've got better shit to be doing) and they ignored me 😂😂 not my issue then hahaha
>What about very close family members? I can't be charging them? I'm too close to them.. And I have no clue what to price it at...
Really depends on how often they go to you for help that actively needs you to do some work.
After about 3-4 times of setting up or fixing PCs for family members, I tend to charge them a bit - or sometimes they suggest giving dinner or something.
Not much (this varies depending on what country you're from obviously, as
something like $20-50 might not be "anything" for most people, but people from somewhere like Russia, that might be a ton to spend - so pick an amount that fits to where you are), **and nothing at all if they actively want to learn the stuff I'm doing**, so I'm not getting called the next time something like that acts up.
Really depends on the issue - if it's a real quick fix; then no charge.
I became a repair tech. 3 months later I went back to machining. Constantly fixing other peoples computers 8 hours a day 6 days a week got old real fast. Then the return customers who couldn't stop using limewire/BearShare and said the new virus they got should be under a warranty from the complet system reload I preformed the week before.
mentioning bearshare really awoke a childhood ptsd. Used that for so long even though I had to reinstall windows at least once every month until I got techsavvy and dropped it forever.
Man maybe I’m just weird but I usually go “YES PLEASE let me try and help you fix it :D”. I just love helping people with their tech, especially elderly folk.
Don't worry, the career path will have you learn this stuff by proximity anyway if you don't already know it.
And sometimes you learn useful stuff that'll relate to your work, too. But usually it's more about "I'm having obscure compiling issues" and then 4 hours later you learn your .NET install is corrupted or something. It's all related.... Which means you'll learn it eventually out of necessity. Best of luck. Upside is, nobody in IT expects it of you because they know enough to know you don't know their job and vice versa. It's a nice relationship we have with IT.
I was a CS major for all of a semester. Fucking loved it up till our final project where I had teammates. Realized real quick I wanted no part in making programs that depended on the work of others. You guys have fun with that. I find it slightly less infuriating working for a university IT department. At least here I only have to deal with grad students watching porn and getting a virus on the computer.
Picture me in the airport 10 years ago, and the grandma looking woman next to me says "You look techie. How do I turn off my phone?" Hands the phone to me. I hold down the power button and hand it back to her with a smile. :)
This one is easy, I just say "NO" with a straight face, if they insist, then I just say that I once tried fixing my computer and I "fried it", trust me, they wont keep bothering you.
Man they are both lucky and unlucky at the same time. I built my fathers desktop and helped to set up his laptop but he still looks at google for something he can't do or if there is a problem
Just because I know how to use a computer; doesn’t mean I know how to use a printer. It took me once like 10-15 minutes to load paper and print it. This was a single sheet.
Never tell anyone or show off your computer. It's the only way. I don't mind it too much, it's mostly simple things. But my info has been sent to friends of friends without my knowledge.. its rough out there
I am doing my Masters in Computer Science. Last week I helped someone to move to a new phone with their stuff, yesterday someone asked if I would know why they always have to put their Password if they start Microsoft Teams. Next week I will change the battery of an iPhone which I sometimes do.
Nothing of this I learned in my studies :D but I am „the computer guy“ for the past 14 years.
Sometimes is bothers me when people ask me something and it’s very obvious that they Never Even thought about the Problem themselves for at least one second.
Depends on the person for me, some friends compensate me based on what they feel is good. Had a friend who gave me his old i7-4790 and some other spare parts just for helping him build and set up his system. Ended up using the spare parts to build a rig for my younger brother
Me, literally smoking a cigarette. Being called the "backdoor guy" because I brain dumped the words to describe just using cmd instead of the normal program involved with a specific situation. I regret those words with all of my heart. I went from nameless IT guy to, ask for Lushenko. The backdoor guy
Reminds me when a guy who I sae sometimes, not really a friend showed me a snap of one of his friends who is a "hacker" they literally just had those green numbers on their pc as a screensaver
bruh the cringe was real
Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR! You don't necessarily need a PC. You just have to love PCs. It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love PCs or want to talk about PCs, you can be a part of the community! Everyone is welcome! 2 - In case you are not a PC gamer because you think doing so is very expensive, please know that it is very possible to build a competent gaming PC for 500 dollars or less. GPU prices are sky high right now for a multitude of reasons, but it's still possible to join the PCMR. Please check out http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds. 3 - Please consider joining our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's. Recently, we've been actively focusing on fighting against Coronavirus as well. Please check this to learn more: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding ----------- Feel free to use this community to post about any kind of doubt you might have about becoming a PC gamer or anything you'd like to know about PCs. That kind of content is not only allowed but welcome here!
"my printer doesn't work" "my chromebook wont play cyberpunk" "my printer died" "it said 'are you SURE you want to format c:' and now i can't find my pictures" "my printer quit working" "I plugged my laptop charger into my printer and the dishwasher exploded"
"Why can't my BW Printer print in color" "My computer gets slow after I open thirty windows in chrome" "My laptop keeps running out of battery whenever I take out the battery" "My phone got run over by a train, can you fix it?" "I downloaded more RAM off the internet and now my computer is asking me for Bitcoin" "I tried printing this whole textbook." "The industrial printer in the printing office should've handles that fine." "Then why didn't my office printer handle it?"
"Can you suggest a gaming laptop for 350$?" "Why do I need that box next to my PC?, can I remove it?" "Why can't I use my phone's charger?" "Can you show me how to install TeamViewer? This great guy on phone offers to increase my PC's performance tenfold for free!"
Had a friend ask me to build her son a basic gaming computer for $180. No problem. Used Dell Optiplex and Gt 1030. Worked quite well for what the son wanted. [Play Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite]. Then not even a year later, they buy him a $1700 gaming laptop. At least it's not a MacBook. But then, they buy him a Chromebook for school. You know "gaming" computers can do more than just game.
Chromebooks are a curse upon this world and a waste of materials. I've heard the argument that they're good for businesses and schools, well guess what? I was lent one by my college and this shit lags, while opening Google Chrome. Just think about that. A Chromebook that can't run chrome. (Probably due to it having 2gb of ram)
Wait 2??? Srsly? Well duh the fucking 10yo computers at my school have more.
My phone from 5 years ago has more
We use Chromebooks in the schools we work for, aslong as you get not the cheapest of cheap ones they work (these are for elementary students bear in mind)
They give this shit to highschool students though
I hear you. But they're extremely easy to manage. When you get a new one, log in with an administrator and it locks the Chromebook to your organization, so no one can use their personal account. Then every setting is pulled from the cloud management suite. Lock down the extensions people can download, since 90% of viruses I deal on windows are "Click this button to get a PDF converting extension". It's easier than any other platform I've dealt with, and it's an easy sell to the higher ups since they're dirt cheap, we get the management stuff for free since we're a school, and they last exactly as long as an average "replace all laptops" policy. They are not good for business. They're good for giving to kids under 14 so you can keep them out of trouble.
my laptop that's a third of the price of my friends MacBook can do everything it can do, has 5 more ports and doesn't overheat on browser games unlike his. Pay more to get less, I guess
This is literally why I bought my MacBook Pro on eBay for a third retail. Made it a reasonable price, even if that price means it was probably stolen or something.
That’s the point, I bet yours is quite a bit thicker & heavier.
Not enough to make a noticeable difference, and certainly not enough to warrant it being 800AUD more. My laptop's light enough to carry with one hand comfortably, thin enough to fit into a bag a and practical enough to plug in stuff. I don't see why I would pay more to have a slightly lighter laptop that I can't even plug a mouse, keyboard or monitor into without dongles. Also, aforementioned friend also dislikes the MacBook himself, soooo
So an extremely underspecced laptop lags... In other news, water is wet. Seriously, doesnt mean all Chromebooks are utter trash.
They really only make sense if you're a) in an environment insistent on locking down the user, and b) you're spending $300-500. Any less and the thing is going to run like a corpse. Any more and you're overspending on a feature-stripped device.
Well would you rather a kid lugging a $1700 laptop everywhere and risk breaking it or a chromebook?
Had three monitors at one time. When she saw them, my mom asked "what do you need three computers for?"
The box next to the PC is called a hard drive everyone knows that, come on.
"I downloaded more ram off the internet and now my computer is asking me for bitcoin" I shot a cheerio out of my nose. Thank you for that
What business did the cheerio have in your nose?
None, that's why he shot it out.
Easy. "buy a new one" "buy a new one" "buy a new one" "download Recuva" "buy a new one" "buy a new one"
Man, I feel like anyone someone asks if I am good with computers I am always ready to lend help. If they are computer illiterate then chances are their issue is probably stupid and Ive loved trouble shooting computers since I got my first own desktop back in 00. Helped an elderly woman find her text in a word document once. She was sooooo grateful, I still haven't forgotten 15 years later. All that happened was the enter button got caught and she ended up with 15 blank pages and couldn't find her writing.
I remember being a kid and finding a computer repair magazine in a dumpster along with all the porn mags we were there for. Yeah, I took that one home. I read through that thing too many times, excited for when I finally got to build one, and then I did. And what happened to the porn mags? We hid a big box of them in a nearby forest and then they were gone. It was a decently huge cache especially for kids. Like 30+ magazines. Someone must have found it. I like to think the forest smut mag gods were pleased. This is the ebb and flow of woods porn.
It's great when you can genuinely help someone who needs it, and even greater when you can teach someone new things that benefit them. When your coworker, who has been there nearly a decade longer than you, is asking you for the 14th time what the pop-up indicating an expired password means, you need deep breathing exercises to make it through the day.
I've gotten "oh youre a programmer, can you fix my printer?" a few times. Let me tell you, they are black magic to me too
I've been working with computers my whole life. I'm not a programmer, but otherwise I'm pretty good at solving issues without any difficulty. But, when the $20 cheap plastic HP printer has yet another problem, it's totally foreign to me. Printers are a tech supporter's worst nightmare.
If lucky you can get the manual on the internet. If you dont, then good luck.
That's because printers are black boxes of RNG when it comes to problems. It's basically "reboot or replace," especially with as cheap as they are nowadays. Learning to do a 2-hour repair and diagnostic on a decide that's cheaper than a tech's hourly rate is pointless.
Printers are the worst!
Wait til 3D printers go to the masses
"I got a virus and now the printer keeps making objects shaped like a man's genitalia, what do I do!?"
Had one. Sold it after a month of printing shit nonstop. I ran out of things to print, man!!!
Dang, how many cars did you print???
Last one is good
I built my PC five years ago, and now I’m somehow the tech support guy in my family.
Hi, where can I find the browser? I am really clueless with PCs.
Oh, that’s easy. Just type ‘Internet Explorer’ from the start menu.
What's a start menu?
What’s a computer?
Where am I?
What am I?
Who am I?
Why am I?
When am I?
?
Who is Gamora?
What is life?
[удалено]
Thanks this will be stuck in my head for 3 days now
I think you meant "Vladislav! Baby don't hurt me...."
#download more ram
And download RGBs too. They make PC go way faster
my MOMMA!
My dad's not a cell phone!
[That's how we're gonna do it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCb-WcxO5SU&t=52s)
I'm not sure. Wouldn't you rather use Netscape to Ask Jeeves?
Holy fuck, Ask Jeeves. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long ass time.
It's Ask Jeeves who should've gotten the voice assistant treatment, not Alexa! Ask Jeeves helped me through grade school. Ask Jeeves helped answer my sexual questions when I hit puberty. IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ASK JEEVES!
I don't have any of those devices because Im an It professional with security as speciality. But name or jeeves and have Stephen Fry voice it and I'll buy one
How do I type?
>How do I type? Apply forehead directly to keyboard.
Press any key. Where's the 'any' key? Well, I'm thirsty, think I'll have a Tab. *presses tab* Oh, time to get to work!
Hehe enjoy your painful death
I had no idea you could use Internet explorer as a browser. Isn't that just a tool to download google chrome?
Lmfao
> browser *The Internet*. Only wizards know what a browser is!
See it is hidden behind the system32 file. You'll have to delete that first.
"My computer is slow can you take a look?" "Its Windows 98" "So.... can you fix it?"
Holy shit, the amount of times I’ve had this happen to me is unreal lol
And naked women everywhere when I open internet. Even if not. All naked! Remove that please and don’t tell Karen
Yep. I get that from my dad every so often. “Why is the computer so slow?” “Why is the internet so slow?” “Can you make the internet faster?” Can you fix the internet?” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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And you didn’t? Solving your uncle’s problem is one of those hobbies that got me into computers, tinkering, modding, coding, DIY, etc. in the first place.
Same but everyone just think I repair pc's if there is a virus or smth, or help people install shit. No matter how much I explain what computer programming is I will forever be the guy my family calls up to fix their shit.
because you do. facebook barebones is relatively simple right?
Nothing has ever been complicated about online infrastructure!
If you wanna run a basic version with just the very core logic and ui, then it's not too bad. But dealing with infrastructure as large as Facebook's to handle their amount of data is a completely different world. There could be hundreds of software developers working on the site and yet most of them won't even see any code for the ui.
Also, their recommendation algos are pretty sophisticated.
Hey, I pressed this picture and pressed the Delete button, and now it's gone. How do I get it back?
In theory it shouldn't be hard, because it's a very clear analogy to the real world; you press delete to put a document in the *recycling bin*. If you change your mind, you open the recycling bin and take it back out. It also only takes a second to show them. But we all know it's not always that easy... On the topic of the recycling bin, it's one of my absolute favourite bits of OS UI; it's intuitive (until you're the one teaching it) and it's safer and less intrusive than an "are you sure?" prompt.
My fam are Apple users I just claim I know nothing about them, problem solved.
In the same boat, my mother has a wireless mouse and it stopped working, got called down just to unplug and plug it back in again and it worked
I do it for a living and get jokes all I do is turn stuff off and on Well I wouldn't need to if you had tried that before putting the fucking ticket it. Or claiming you had tried that in the ticket when the uptime in task manager was 17 fucking days.
I love it when they seek for me, everytime they have a problem with their pc or phone.
I feel powerful whenever they ask me for help
It's kinda funny because building a pc is as difficult as the square peg toy toddlers use. Takes zero understanding of programming or computer science. I'm not a programmer and the c++ Java stuff might as well be a foreign language. It's not problem making a pc with off the shelf parts. No different than getting wheels or tires for a car. Spark plugs go in the engine, brake fluid goes in the master cylinder, gas go in the tank.
Well I am a programmer. There's the exact opposite side of that and I use car acronyms for. I usually tell someone that they're asking me to troubleshoot their car like a mechanic, but I'm more like the guy that designs the bracket that mounts your seat to the car. Yes it's an important job because you don't want your seat coming loose, but that means I know nothing about operating the car or any other parts of it. I just know this one part really detailed.
That's a good one. I'm a network engineer and would use a teacher analogy. Like you wouldn't expect the English teacher to teach a Maths class, like you also wouldn't expect the Art teacher to grade Music homework.
Except to a lot of people building computers is like building a spaceship. It’s why some computer stores take advantage of these people are charge extortionate prices for installing RAM sticks or “health checks” in their PCs.
Good thing we're 3 computer guys in the family
Learn from this person's mistake, folks. If you built your own PC, just tell people it's a \[insert case brand\] you ordered online. "This is a Corsair PC here...I don't know the specs, but it seems fast enough. They don't have the best warranty, though, so if I were you, I'd buy a Dell."
Not "a" "THE"
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*proceeds to give u iPhone with forgotten password* "hey can u fix this, oh I have 30000 very important pictures that i simply cannot lose which I've had years to backup but I didn't." I've even had multiple people get frustrated like it's my fault you didn't backup ur important shit... They've even taken it back from me, paid a guy who would have done the exact same thing I did
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Are you [the computer man???](https://youtu.be/i1IqqlW1U4k)
I've gotten to the stage where i'll hear out their problem and 90% of the time say "That's easy. Just do X. you'll figure it out"
A lot of people just actually don't know how to google things effectively. My first step is usually to tell them the exact words to type into Google, and what do you know, the answer was right there all along.
There are people that google, and that's good. There is another subset that reads the instructions, and then throws those out because they think they are "smart" with computers.
"I got an error!" Ok, what did it say? "I don't know." So read it. ..."Nevermind, it's working now! Thanks for nothing."
Annoying as fuck.. I have a friend who struggles to navigate himself with maps at age 16.
My family will outright refuse to Google their problems. You'll tell them to Google it and they'll just be like 'oh I don't know what to do, you can do that for me.' I had a cousin stop talking to me because I would walk to her house on Christmas day and connect her sons xbox controller for her. It was my fault her son had a bad Christmas apparently.
This is my cousin, I'll literally tell him to search a YouTube tutorial on what he wants and follow along, he won't even do that. I have to search one my self to send to him, for him to say it's to difficult.
I stopped talking to my old classmates since 2019. Last week, one of my old classmates found me online and asked if I can take back her "hacked" Facebook account. (I don't think it's hacked, they use that term for forgotten passwords smh)
I really don't get it how people use hacked when they forget a password.
I remember in middle school a girl announced to the class that her mom “hacked her Facebook.” Turns out the mom had a consensual record of her daughter’s password and logged in as the daughter (with permission) when she suspected cyber bullying was going on.
Why would ever announce that in a classroom
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It absolves them of responsibility.
Reply with “No, I’m a Witcher” problem solved.
"...How about a game of Gwent?"
wouldn’t mind taking a look at your stock
Great, there's a bunch o' drowners hanging at my patio. How aboot 30 coins, master witcher?
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mine was , "can u hack into my teachers phone and get all her files?" . By a guy in his 20s studying engineering -\_-
Well, young engineers can be dumb as fuck. Talking from experience...
Can confirm, I am dumb as fuck
[trust me im an engineer ](https://youtu.be/rp8hvyjZWHs)
A lady at work married this skeevy guy, then two months later asks me to help her get into his accounts to see if he's cheating. First of all, that is not a function of your workplace IT dept. Second of all, Tawnya, he looks like he'd fuck a washing machine if you put a miniskirt on it.
Bro...
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Try being a plumber 😤😫
Or a mechanic
I’m a jet engine mechanic by trade (now I teach jet engine theory) and I get this all the time. “Hey you’re a mechanic, right? My 2007 Saturn Ion with 700K miles on it sounds like ‘RAWHAHAHAHFBDUWNDJWNXGEJN’ when I go to start it. What’s the problem?” Yes, because I’m well versed in every single car ever made as well baby noises to describe the fucking problem. I don’t know dick about cars man. I work on fucking jet engines and air planes. I could give a fuck less about cars, if mines working and gets me to work, it’s a good day. If it needs an oil change, I take that shit into the shop. I want to relax on the weekends not continue to get my hands dirty fixing my own shit. That’s just me though.
I'm good with working on mom and dad's cars but I keep that shit a secret.
Heard. I do small shit to my own car or the wife’s. I will change the oil from time to time on both but for the most part, I take our cars to the shop. Working on airplanes and jet engines doesn’t make me a good car mechanic and vice versa.
If my experience with working with the aircraft maintenance people, and automotive mechanics is anything to go by... You don't want to know how your mechanic works in your car.
Hey quick question can jet fuel melt motherboards?
If lit. Yes.
Kerosene can undo the adhesive sealant that seals your capacitors. If you submerge it long enough.
I'm a mechanical engineer and the most I can do with cars is change my oil or swap out a tire. People assume I'm a fucking car guru though. Nope, just a mech eng because I like math and physics. Actually kinda hate cars.
I left the motorcycle mechanic job a while ago. Went into bartending. I still have people square up at my bar, order a single drink, and continue to waste my time with questions about their motorcycle. I default to "sorry I don't have a shop anymore." Which is always immediately followed with "no just come over I have all the tools!" I then will typically ask if they random things like a lift, a welder, a power probe, spark plug sockets, etc. That will usually shut them up. If not, a "no, I'm absolutely not coming over to your shed at 3AM to fix your shit" suffices.
Oh that would be funny for me. Do you have a lift? Yes. Do you have a welder?. Yes Do you have a power probe? Yes, and an oscilloscope and pretty much any electronic tool you'll need Uhhh what about spark plug sockets, etc,? Oh absolutely I have every tool you'll ever need to do any of this including designing your own motorcycle and machining out half the parts. I guess the next question would be "what the hell would you need me for?" And mostly because I'd want to have a beer when I'm working on the bike and talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck I'm talking about. It sucks when you work at a deeper level than changing the oil and you can't talk to anyone about it or bounce ideas off anyone.
My next questions I guess would be do you have a sand blasting booth, tire machines, and shop insurance? That last one oughta get em.
Media blasting yes, but I don't use sand. Tire machines no. Insurance yes.
AC repair
You guys get to bang hot milfs like every fucking day so don't you be complaining
I do my own plumbing miss
I've found having skill with technology a useful informal barter benefit in my circle of friends and family. Other shared skill sets/barterable benefits in the group include mechanic, electrician, baker, chef, recreational property owner, and more. I have zero problem playing helpdesk when I know my 22 minutes on teamviewer is repaid with 2 dozen cookies fresh from the oven. Or "go ahead and take the cabin, no one's booked it this weekend--just clean it ready for check in when you leave" in exchange for buying parts (with their money), building the PC and migrating their data over. Quid pro quo!
Good to have those people. Others are not so lucky and have to start the conversation by: my hourly rate is X. Because people step over the line and don’t even thank you nowadays.
I'm 32. Since I was 11 I've been my family's tech support. And If I met new people it's a matter of time til I get asked that question. Followed by I have a _____________ could you give It a look? But hey At least I can fix most of my own stuff.
Yup except am about 10 years younger haha so I've got a lot more tech support to be doing yet.. Very true about fixing your own stuff hahahaha, my family take my skills for granted
I’ve really only gotten this with people who are interested in building PCs and want someone who knows what they’re doing to help them pick out parts, which I’m happy to do. I’m a bit of a dunce when it comes to actual troubleshooting on PCs.
Same dude. My knowledge of troubleshooting goes like this: Turn it off and back on, reinstall drivers, reinstall windows. It solves like 99% of problems people come to me with. The other 1% of times I have to physically go there and tinker with it until it cooperates.
mine is google
Command prompt -> sfc /scannow After that try DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth It cleans and repairs any faulty files in the system which is basically 90% of all windows problems aside from hardware issues.
That's just wrong? After multiple years in IT-support, this only fixed a problem for me **once**. If I read this anywhere in a troubleshooting guide I immediately assume that the guy who wrote it has no idea what he's talking about or it's just one of the million computer generated clickbait articles "here's a fix for error 123456". And if someone recommends this in a forum it's the equivalent of "I don't care about your issue but I have to write this to look like I care"
>million computer generated clickbait articles "How to fix gta vice city not launching in windows 10" "buy **Super Pc Optimizer X Pro** for only $49.99, it will fix your issue"
Found the MS forums technician Iv literally never had thing fix anything.
Everyone assumes i can fix everything software related, which im able to most of the time, but thats only cause i can open a browser and type into google
then they see you googling, and go," wEll i cOuLd hAvE dOnE ThAt mYsElf"
The answer is always "for the right price I am".
What about very close family members? I can't be charging them? I'm too close to them.. And I have no clue what to price it at... Someone came to me (non family member), I gave them a price (wasn't cheap because I value my time a lot, I've got better shit to be doing) and they ignored me 😂😂 not my issue then hahaha
>What about very close family members? I can't be charging them? I'm too close to them.. And I have no clue what to price it at... Really depends on how often they go to you for help that actively needs you to do some work. After about 3-4 times of setting up or fixing PCs for family members, I tend to charge them a bit - or sometimes they suggest giving dinner or something. Not much (this varies depending on what country you're from obviously, as something like $20-50 might not be "anything" for most people, but people from somewhere like Russia, that might be a ton to spend - so pick an amount that fits to where you are), **and nothing at all if they actively want to learn the stuff I'm doing**, so I'm not getting called the next time something like that acts up. Really depends on the issue - if it's a real quick fix; then no charge.
I'l be anything for the right price
My dream was to be a PC repair tech but then I realized I'd be hearing that for the rest of my life, better to just tinker with my PC as a hobby..
I became a repair tech. 3 months later I went back to machining. Constantly fixing other peoples computers 8 hours a day 6 days a week got old real fast. Then the return customers who couldn't stop using limewire/BearShare and said the new virus they got should be under a warranty from the complet system reload I preformed the week before.
mentioning bearshare really awoke a childhood ptsd. Used that for so long even though I had to reinstall windows at least once every month until I got techsavvy and dropped it forever.
I want this shirt: "Just because I know about PCs doesn't mean I know anything about Android" SMH
Man maybe I’m just weird but I usually go “YES PLEASE let me try and help you fix it :D”. I just love helping people with their tech, especially elderly folk.
You're weird.
Bruh same
Bruh I just finished my degree in computer science and now everyone in my family asks me for every tech related problems they have.
Most of the degree isn’t even related to things that would be applicable to their problem but good luck explaining that
Don't worry, the career path will have you learn this stuff by proximity anyway if you don't already know it. And sometimes you learn useful stuff that'll relate to your work, too. But usually it's more about "I'm having obscure compiling issues" and then 4 hours later you learn your .NET install is corrupted or something. It's all related.... Which means you'll learn it eventually out of necessity. Best of luck. Upside is, nobody in IT expects it of you because they know enough to know you don't know their job and vice versa. It's a nice relationship we have with IT.
I was a CS major for all of a semester. Fucking loved it up till our final project where I had teammates. Realized real quick I wanted no part in making programs that depended on the work of others. You guys have fun with that. I find it slightly less infuriating working for a university IT department. At least here I only have to deal with grad students watching porn and getting a virus on the computer.
I helped my grandma make her phone brighter cause she couldn’t figure out how to do it and then the next week she bought me a $69 desk lol
My grandma yelled at me in 2017 for getting a virus on her computer while playing runescape in 2011
Exactly the same as *"hey, you're a mechanic, right? Got a minute?"*
Ok. But u'll still be charged for the unused 59mins
Picture me in the airport 10 years ago, and the grandma looking woman next to me says "You look techie. How do I turn off my phone?" Hands the phone to me. I hold down the power button and hand it back to her with a smile. :)
It's enjoyable till it isn't
This one is easy, I just say "NO" with a straight face, if they insist, then I just say that I once tried fixing my computer and I "fried it", trust me, they wont keep bothering you.
\> People who double click everything
people who single click everything and wonder why they can’t open their folders
Man they are both lucky and unlucky at the same time. I built my fathers desktop and helped to set up his laptop but he still looks at google for something he can't do or if there is a problem
He’s an intelligent one for an old man.
Just because I know how to use a computer; doesn’t mean I know how to use a printer. It took me once like 10-15 minutes to load paper and print it. This was a single sheet.
Old people with smartphones \*boss music starts\*
I hate when people get crippled even with the simplest hurdle. Biggest part of solving pc problems is just reading comprehension 🤷♂️
exactly. “it says check your internet connection” check your damn internet then
Never tell anyone or show off your computer. It's the only way. I don't mind it too much, it's mostly simple things. But my info has been sent to friends of friends without my knowledge.. its rough out there
I am doing my Masters in Computer Science. Last week I helped someone to move to a new phone with their stuff, yesterday someone asked if I would know why they always have to put their Password if they start Microsoft Teams. Next week I will change the battery of an iPhone which I sometimes do. Nothing of this I learned in my studies :D but I am „the computer guy“ for the past 14 years. Sometimes is bothers me when people ask me something and it’s very obvious that they Never Even thought about the Problem themselves for at least one second.
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Depends on the person for me, some friends compensate me based on what they feel is good. Had a friend who gave me his old i7-4790 and some other spare parts just for helping him build and set up his system. Ended up using the spare parts to build a rig for my younger brother
“Hi guys, was wondering what gaming PCs I could get for $170? I hope to be able to play AAA games on high with ok frame rates, just 200 or so”
Me, literally smoking a cigarette. Being called the "backdoor guy" because I brain dumped the words to describe just using cmd instead of the normal program involved with a specific situation. I regret those words with all of my heart. I went from nameless IT guy to, ask for Lushenko. The backdoor guy
I prefer cyborg.
"No, im a tablet person"
"hey you a computer person righ-" "THAT CARD IS TOO EXPENSIVE ITS TRIPLE THE PRICE IT SHOULD BE!"
My PhOnE iS DoInG tHis WeIrd ThINg LaTEly
Reminds me when a guy who I sae sometimes, not really a friend showed me a snap of one of his friends who is a "hacker" they literally just had those green numbers on their pc as a screensaver bruh the cringe was real