Re:Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin
by darishante on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:21PM
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Yeah, this -- the reason, why my answer to tech support outside of job is a firm "no". No to friends, no to family, no to anyone. I don't want to deal with panicked requests starting "you did something to fix my computer, now it ate my grant application, deadline is tomorrow, help!" And I don't deal with sudden stress particularly well.
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Re:Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin
by snypox on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:29PM
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Interesting approach. I don’t like to take the blame either, but I’d never tell my mom and dad to screw themselves. I usually fix whatever is up with their laptops, fortunately they don’t call me up too often. I usually try to go for long term solutions and explain everything carefully.
Re:Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin
by lotsofpulp on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:32PM
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It’s a much better use of my time to just buy my parents iOS devices and point them to the Apple store if something goes wrong. Fighting malware and people’s propensity to click on sketchy links is too taxing.