Well that was fun

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 03/09/2016 at 18:28 • Filed to: None

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Just another day in the life as my family’s designated unpaid help desk technician. There were many more texts and a phone call after this, of course.

Echo51 > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:32

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I feel this, and it’s why i honestly don’t openly talk about tech stuff anymore..

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:36

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You should have my dad. Every time he comes back from a trip he calls me to ask how to get his pictures into iPhoto. Every. Time.

scoob > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:37

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The second people find out I’m “good” with technology, I cry inside.

Nibby > Echo51 03/09/2016 at 18:39

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A few years ago in college, a friend had a friend of hers talk to me and said “Hey, _ told me you’re good at fixing computers. Can you install this inside my laptop?”

It was one of these.

Slant6 > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:43

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I’ve been able to pus this responsibility off to my brother. I probably know more than he does, but I just act clueless when something goes wrong.

Nibby > scoob 03/09/2016 at 18:48

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hey babe can you fix my DVD drive?

it’s not ejecting. i try with the button, i tried via my computer, even the paperclip through the hole. nothing works

i guess it has...

ejectile dysfunction

extraspecialbitter > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:55

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“have you seen the IT crowd lol?”

Spaceball-Two > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 18:57

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Ugh. This!

Whenever we go to my inlaws there’s always a stack of tablets, phones and laptops that need “fixing”.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 19:35

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I just tell them I work on Linux machines and don’t know Windows, either they believed me or got the hint I wasn’t their unpaid 24x7x365 help desk.

Maybe it was also the http://lmgtfy.com responses...

BKosher84 > Textured Soy Protein 03/09/2016 at 20:19

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Tell everyone in your family to download Teamviewer. I did that and it has saved my sanity.

Rico > Echo51 03/09/2016 at 21:15

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Hah! I also do this for a few things I know a lot about. If I see that this person might end up asking me for a bunch of favors I play oblivious.

Textured Soy Protein > BKosher84 03/10/2016 at 00:07

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That’s actually a great idea, but I’ll wait until the next time someone bugs me about some tech issue. Because if I do something related to “hey this will help me troubleshoot your computer the next time you have a problem,” it only encourages them to bug me even more.

uofime-2 > Textured Soy Protein 03/10/2016 at 12:04

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I helped my girlfriends parents with this once, they in fact went out and bought a whole new printer to try to solve the problem but could only get it to work while connected to USB

Guess what the problem was?

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They didn’t connect the printer to their wifi, once I did that the computer found it instantly, windows downloaded the driver to make it work automatically, and it worked fine.

They actually gave me the “broken printer” in the end for “fixing” the new one, Its a nice printer so it kind of worked out.