>tfw work in IT>PC having issues>ask if they have tried restarting the PC>"yeah like 5 times already">I send over a technician to the office>He restarts the PC and the issues is fixedWhy are they like this?
>>82654681>>PC having issuescan you be more specific
>>82654695nvm I read this wrong I thought you were having pc issues and was trying to help
>>82654681Most people aren't fit for computing, they're too dumb. It should be a nerds only occupation yet here we are. Computing had to be dumbed down so normalfags could join but they cant go off a script or solve anything.
why didn't you just get remote access and restart it yourself
>>82654722Because the proper way to debug any communications system is by checking its physical connections and switches. Even people. Are you getting enough nutrition?
sometimes i turn my computer off 1 million times and it never works and then 1 day it does, you just got lucky and it will break again, you didnt fix anything
>>82654732it's way quicker to do it remotely. why send a field tech over if all that is required is a reboot? sounds like your place isn't too busy if they can spare technicians to walk around clicking restart on computers
>>82654681I found its very common with female relativesThey dont do things your instructed them to do with IT tech and they blatantly lie into your face what they did it.You smell fake and start guiding they step by step through process and they suddenly stop at some stage and just refuse to do it, saying "i did this completely irrelevant thing Y what should i do?". You do thing X! Then they just ignore thing X you tell them to do and continue to talk about thing Y.
>>82654681Relax, anon. They most likely think restarting pc means turning the monitor on and off.People dont know what they dont know, no need to get mad.
>>82654857>They most likely think restarting pc means turning the monitor on and off.Duuuuude. There is no clearly visible on/off buttons on modern monitors, they cant do that, they cant find this button.
>>82654873There is no need to nitpick.The point is, they dont know how to do what you want them to do. Usual stuff for IT, isnt it?
>grandfather is a coomer>he keeps looking at porn on his phone>he cant figure out how to delete browsing history >downloads every single "clean your phone" app from every scam advert he can see >it disables everything in the phone (aka pay up and you can have your phone back)>he factory resets it (if he can)>"Anon, my phone isnt working">Its at least 2-5 times a week at this point >I gave up "fixing" it altogether I keep telling my family to set him up a kids account so he cant download virus's or look at porn but apparently that is "impossible" and they much prefer resetting a fucking phone multiple times a week endlessly while acting like no one knows whats going on out of politness >"oh i dont know why is breaks every 4 minutes haha">"mabye you are clicking on adverts by mistake or something?"No hes looking at big fat tits and i highly doubt hes going to stop, i was given his old dell PC and the history is just filled to the brim with porn
>>82654681>tfw plumber>get called to someone's house to fix a leak in the pipe>leak is on a union>Tighten the union with a pair of pliers>leak stopsI kinda get people not wanting to fuck with their pipes, but come on! That'll be $275 btw
>>82654922kek, old man still has powder
>>82654922>and the history is just filled to the brim with pornWhat are his tastes?
>>82654969Do you like simple fixes like that?low effort and high pay in comparison to labor, or is it annoying because of the time investment and low pay overall?
>>82654997I didnt go to far into it because i really dont want to know lmao but from what i saw it was mainly big tittied blondes
>>82654922are there no mobile adblockers? This seems like a very solvable problem but I don't phonepost
>>82655005I usually like it most when the fix is easy but slightly more involved. It sucks when you only have one thing lined up in the morning and it takes less than a minute. I think my two favorite easy jobs are changing out a water heater and replacing a toilet.
>>82654800If the software is locked, a physical reboot might be the only thing that unlocks it, and it's a simpler and cheaper protocol to just do the same thing every time instead of having special cases. It takes more time to try to reboot it remotely, fail, and then go over physically than to just go over there. Yes, the remote reboot might be faster sometimes, but trying that first is more complicated than just doing the physical reboot.
>>82655029No idea, it wouldn't make a difference anyway, he always manages to find the most ridiculously fake apps in his daily browsing (and 50+ different solitaire apps) Its a fucking nightmare at times
>>82655021>mainly big tittied blondesSimple but still patrician taste.
>>82654681Its thermal, probably clogged fans.No matter how many times you reboot a PC in 5 minutes, its not going to cool off enough not to crash again, especially if the operator goes right back to WTF they were doing that overheated the machine.Open a support ticket, wait and hour / day / week for someone to walk over, the PC has cooled down to room temp, it'll "work" after a reboot for a couple minutes.The other situation I've found is dying power supplies. Doesn't matter if rebooting made it work for a couple days, in about a month you'll be replacing the supply. Leaky caps or WTF has failed internally.The above is the /g/ answer. You might have been looking for a /b/ answer or a /pol/ answer, someone else can get that.
>>82655273Yeah, I remember my old gayming PC had something similar to this problem. PSU overheated, capacitor blew up, I think, fan was dead, or something to that effect. It was overheating and shut off. It stayed hot and then warm for many hours, turned off.
>>82655273If it's overheating, it'll just shut down. I assume people would then complain that it's shutting down, not that it's having some vague issues. As for the power supply, in my experience that also tends to lead to unexpected shutdowns. Worst case scenario, it could straight up fry something; but then people would complain the computer's dead. It is possible for a faulty power supply to damage something without completely breaking it, which would then cause it to misbehave; but that's pretty unlikely. I guess excessive ripple could also cause weird behavior, maybe even damage. Not OP, btw.
>>82654969what the heck is a union? you mean like it's a union job so you have to charge more to fix that pipe?
>>82654681You have experienced getting called over because the phone doesn't work only to look and see that it isn't plugged in.
>>82655273Dealing with boomers i suspect, if it was a laptop, someone was pressing power or closing the lid, putting the machine to sleep instead of rebooting.
>>82655494pic related is a union. When you have series of pipes connected with threaded connections, you can't just unscrew one pipe in the middle of that series of connections, because loosening one side tightens the other side, and presumably, the other side is fully tightened. A union allows you to open and close a series of pipe connections in the middle so you can open up the pipe later. The middle piece is a loose threaded ring that moves independently, and holds two separate pieces together when fully tightened.
>>82655539thank you plumber-san. I don't have many accessible pipes and none of the ones I can see have that in place
>>82655747if we needed to open up one of those pipes without a union, we would cut through the middle of the pipe, take both ends off, then use two shorter pieces with a union so we could put it back together without taking all the pipe apart.If you have a gas powered water heater, there will probably be a union on the gas line near where it hooks up to the heater.
>>82655369>If it's overheating, it'll just shut down. I assume people would then complain that it's shutting down, not that it's having some vague issues.If it's overheating today it's throttling and stuttering as result.I had cooler breaking off MB. It it still worked in desk top even cap pass as ok, in games it started slideshow and I was like "wtf happening".
>>82655273>Its thermal, probably clogged fans.Her is IT tip no IT department uses.These things are best dollar upgrade for normies PC. Cover every intake with them, never need to clear radiators from dust ever again, good thermals forever.
>>82654681That's not a fix anon, that's a stopgap.
>>82654681From my experience, people don't even know what restarting your computer actually even means. The amount of times someone has turned off their monitor or signed out instead of clicking the RESTART button is uncomfortably high
>be decently IT-fluent enough to troubleshoot enough of the small items on my workstation>still have to call IT because of the way permissions are set up>"Have you tried restarting?">actually have, multiple times>restart it again, 5th times the charm>IT goblin thinks he's hackerman.pngI mean I'll take it over jeet support but
>>82654713youre a rare saint
>>82654681be thankful, or be out of a job.
>>82656408Restarting your PC is the absolute worst
>>82654969Should I become a plumber?
>>82654681plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap plap
>>82654922I worked for a law firm whose like 100 year old founder was still consulting for an hour a week so I'd have to fix his stuff occasionally. It made me look like a eunuch. He had a black live-in nurse too.
