the f00fy one asked Do your friends rely on you for tech suppor…

online, i need tech support; irl, i'm the tech support

shroomiePerson · 7mo

i recently helped fix a laptop for my ex-wife’s lover so it’s not even just friends tbh…

I'm usually the tech support friend in that I happily volunteer my [insert search engine here]-fu whenever someone has a problem. What people end up coming to me for even more is for PC building/upgrading advice, since I keep my nose close to the market for my own upgrade dreams ;w ;

Serina · 8mo

Both

! 𝐊𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐀𝐇 🦇 · 8mo

thank you for your call, kio will be with you shortly.
while you wait, here's an important announcement. the previous Priority+ pass has been inundated with customers, so there is a new tier to get into the hyperlane, with priority+ mega pass. this will reduce your wait time from 26 DAYS to 25 DAYS.

Kio · 8mo

Generally the first.

Pyrox · 8mo

My friends usually know enough to not need much support, or they require support in domains that I cannot help at all with or with questions that go far beyond my own knowledge, and they know how annoying it can be to be the family tech support, so we take pity on each other. And I don't remember when I last asked a friend for tech support either. We just do moral support instead, commiserating about our struggles with humans who interact with computers (users, developers, etc.).

~lucidiot · 8mo

yeah

Kigurumi the furry · 8mo

neither

QuARC · 8mo

weh....yeah and I'm not even that good at it, my husband works in IT, so I tend to mostly defer people to him

mana · 8mo

Not my friends, but my family. My parents go to me for their computer troubles, and I think my sisters and nieces probably did too when they lived here. And my cousin once asked me to hack her daughter's phone to find out where she was when she'd run away, but I'm not a hacker, and it probably wasn't possible anyway. And more importantly, I'd rather the daughter have her freedom anyway. IMCO, when kids run away, it's always because they have bad parents. One time a friend did ask me for tech support, kinda--he couldn't figure out how to do something in his program for his job, he said he'd give me $200 if I solved it for him, and I did. But I never got the $200 :/ He said the $200 he'd "earmarked" for that was taken by the domain names he'd been paying for for me that he'd forgotten to cancel. A couple of weeks or months later he said he dreamed that I bumped into his car with my car, so I owed him $200. I said that he already owed me $200, so it cancels out. =P

inhahe · 8mo

I don't have friends

Shannon. · 8mo

everyone relies on me lol

Alex · 8mo

In most circles I'm the one doing tech support. I'm familiar with assembling hardware, but not much beyond that, so it ends up just being folks trusting my ability to Google fixes.

the f00fy one · 21 answers · 8mo