What's the start button? Every time I say click: they don't know if it's left or right.
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My parents had a new printer installed by a "professional" but it wouldn't show on the network. I tried everything, reinstalling drivers, unplugging and plugging cables again...
After hours of nothing working, i got desperate and just flipped through the menu of the printer on this small LCD display. There is a DHCP setting. The DHCP is set to a fixed address. The router every now and then reboots and gives new dynamic addresses. The printer refused its dynamic address all this time.
"I tried deleting all the emails"
my dad once asked me to copy files from his desktop to his disk, and then double and triple asked me if he can now delete the files on his desktop safely
you'd think he'd have had copying files figured out after a decade of owning a laptop, but alas
Unsubscribing from emails. Couldn’t figure it out myself.
Just don't. You're wasting your time with this IT stuff anyway and now theirs too. And you should have fixed the printer not printing yesterday already.
It's a thankless job.
Email?
Teaching slowly how to convert pdf to mobi to my mom for her kindle, each step, doing it with her, and 0 success. I don't mind it, I know she gets very frustrated with technology but it still sucks.
Calibre cli, make a shortcut for drag&drop?
Any time my parents, on Whatsapp video, want to turn the camera round to show me something.
But that is so much better then troubleshooting just via voice. What do you see? 😡
My parents are fine with it, my grandparents don't use it. So no issues with tech support. Also they moved over 100 miles away so I rarely see them.
Tech Support?
Bruh, my parents forced me to file their taxes for them. 😭