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3y

So, as a programmer, I'm basically the go-to tech support guy for my family (and now my gf's family).

So, my gf's mum updated windows and her computer stopped playing around through headphones, asks me for help.

I've got no fucking idea, I don't even use windows.

She's like "if your computer did this what would you do".

"I'd google the problem and randomly try solutions until it started working again. And hope I didnt break anything else."

She didn't seem happy with my debugging technique...

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  • 11
    3y
    Your explanation makes it sound so much less epic. We need more multi-syllable words with scifi connotations. Also, say quantum and temporal a lot.
  • 3
    3y
    @Demolishun help me phrase it better for next time
  • 5
    3y
    @YADU Just lamenting that to us our job sounds mundane.

    We want our reality to be much more:

    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
  • 6
    3y
    "As a programmer, I'm the goto tech support..."

    *Bzzzzzzzt error buzzer*

    When people ask you to fix their printer, always answer: "Would you ask Michelangelo to paint your garage door?"

    Sure, you come off as an arrogant asshole, but at least you can go back to playing Factorio or masturbating in peace during the weekends, instead of kneeling under your uncle's desk to clean his crusty hardware.
  • 1
    3y
    @bittersweet I always say its not my job and I dont know how, but people still ask.

    I dont think I've ever actually helped someone fix their computer though...
  • 1
    3y
    @bittersweet
    Well, Michelangelo made some ultra pornesque frescos. So yeah, i would sure as hell ask him to paint my ceiling or walls, or design my windows!
  • 2
    3y
    What’s this? Windows?
    Never heard of it.
  • 1
    3y
    She thought we were superman
  • 0
    3y
    @bittersweet I approve factorio and masturbating 👌
  • 1
    3y
    @Root confirmed: root lives in an underground bunker.

    I knew there had to be a reason why my drones could not find such magnificent creature
  • 1
    3y
    it seems so weird to me but people still have a stigma against looking stuff up on the internet. I'm still in the stage where I use it to show off how cool I am with computers, but I seriously think we should adapt our education system to improving search skills instead of memorization
  • 2
    3y
    A family member of mine was actually pissed off when I tried explaining that programmer != technician and said "why don't you switch jobs? that way you'd be more useful".
    To this day I still can't wrap my head around this level of entitled idiocy
  • 2
    3y
    @Ten91 Jesus, I would be pissed if that happened to me.

    It's incredibly frustrating that no-one seems to understand what I actually do, although I guess if they did I would be out of a job.
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