I wish I never told anyone I worked or studied tech. Especially older family and friends, because their requests for help are relentless.

A lot of friends are chill with it, and I don’t mind doing a little bit of help, but sometimes people are who are OFFENDED when you don’t want to help. In the same way a contractor friend won’t remodel your home for free, I am not going to fix every single issue you have with your computer for free. I’m happy to give advice, but i’m not going to work for hours without pay to fix everything.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Quadruple the amount of questions you get with this one weird trick! With great questions like “Is this not Windows? I asked if you could set me up an ad blocker, what the fuck did you do to my computer? If you were upset with me asking, why not communicate boundaries instead of vandalizing my belongings?”

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      1·
      2 days ago

      Not the oc but when I ditched windows lots of years ago I dropped the free tier for its support too. I’ve had no major troubles with anyone that accepted my offer to switch to Linux, it’s more effort upfront to teach them a few things but after the initial phase of getting used to it and setting everything to their needs and taste they’re roll mostly on their own.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        This is part of the reason why my parents got my grandfather and iPhone. It was getting harder and harder to find feature phones (flip phones) and this way they have the same phone as him so when he’s having trouble describing something they can see the same thing on their phone.

    • 01011@monero.townEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      You take the time to show them where the browser is. Where the word processor is. Where the spreadsheet app is and you’ve covered 95% their average daily use.