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

i am the portable IT department

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 · 12d

Both

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Kio · 13d

Generally the first.

Pyrox · 13d

i guess im tech support but i don't really even do anything. i just search it up on google and see if that works or not

⟣ Vanitas · 14d

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 · 14d

yeah

marlothecat · 14d

neither

QuARC · 15d

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 · 15d

I don’t do anything tech at all really. I guess if anything I get ‘relied’ on? I help my friends do very basic things that I have lack of understanding in myself.

Sleet · 16d

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