User: "wait, so you mean when we unplugged all those cables it made the internet stop working?"
Me: "you unplugged the equipment that had a big sign saying *DO NOT TOUCH*? Yeah that will break your internet"
User: "but the internet is wireless"
Me: 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Me: "you unplugged the equipment that had a big sign saying *DO NOT TOUCH*? Yeah that will break your internet"
User: "but the internet is wireless"
Me: 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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This stuff is built on layer upon layer of knowledge and expertise.
(veteran of decades of dealing with users…)
Glory to the machine god and all that.
150,000 lines of code execute (none I wrote) that send indecipherable glyphs (might as well be seals of Solomon) across my screen, like a magic spell
There’s an error because of a “dependency mismatch”, what this really means is an eldritch mystery lost to time
To get a better look at the injury, mom said: "Come into the kitchen so we can use the oven light. It's a gas stove."
Guess mom was still half asleep.
WiFi was the internet 😱🤦
5 miles from a decent size city, once connected it managed a whopping 3Mbps.
User: my computer is acting all wonky
IT: walks in, sees decorative magnets all over the side of the unit
🤯
Ugh I'm old.
It won't be connected to the internet.
LOOK! It's right THERE! 🫵🏼
I was speechless. Guess you got me, guy.
Me: Do you have a cable coming from the back of your computer and going into the phone jack in the wall?
THEM: nevermind
They had waited on hold for two hours for me to solve that software problem.
I've had the Gambit of 18-80 not understand basic computers so....
“Where’s the start button?”
“Yeah. It’s all the way up to the wall. Still nothing.”
I got a radio repeater system for our fledgling vol fire dept for free but we had to apply for an FCC license to get a frequency assigned. Only $105. “Why does a fire department need a frequency?” For radios. “Why do they need radios?”
This was 2015. I wish I was kidding.
If you can't read you can't think - the country is failing due to many reasons, greed & hate mostly, but ALSO illiteracy
My advice is to give your kids a flip phone for communication and a cheap computer not connected to the internet for them to experiment and learn with. Smart phones and the internet are bad for young kids.
Dev: yes, I improved the execution speed, so not me…
1/n
Dev: Yes, but I found a speed up.
Me: Let’s roll that back, shall we?
Dev (sheepishly) ok…
2/2
And so many times I get the "well I skipped that step" and now it's all borked.
My favorite is still the woman who fussed at me because I "didn't *tell* her that Step 1 came before Step 2."🤦♀️
Explains so much.
In fact: the more you had to be able to rely on it, the more wires (and fibres) needed.
My BFF said, “your neighbors are probably wondering what’s going on, and how do you know you are closing it right now and not opening it?”
That’s almost as good as the original “but the power’s out”.
And most of these people drive and vote.....
Ugh....
I'm also regularly inundated with "just have the cloud do it" or "just put AI in it to fix it" and have to explain thats not how any of this works.
His argument hit different. 🧠
The elders must know, I will ask them.