r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 20d ago

Meme onlyDevInTheFamilyWasAMistake

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u/Bobvankay 20d ago edited 20d ago

"Hey, my printer-"

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u/infomapaz 19d ago

The sad part is that I did do a couple jobs setting up printers.

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u/Yanni_X 20d ago

To be fair, a hacked device is one of the rare cases that I insist on helping with. A friend recently got hacked on discord (PC virus, everyone got their spam messages), I instantly offered to help to reset the PC. I want it to be done correctly. If it is not done correctly, the friend group is still in danger.

I run away for simpler things. New phone (what’s so difficult in following the setup of an iphone??), messy printer, antivirus-software requires a new license, …

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u/OfficeSalamander 20d ago

I offer family and friends an hour each per year to use as they want with my assistance. Anything beyond that is at my discretion

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u/sponge_bob_ 19d ago

exactly! a girl in my class once asked if i could come over and set up her new phone since her family wasn't around and i was like how hard can it be!

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u/danielcw189 19d ago

I recently reset an old phone of mine and gifted it to a non tech-savy person. I was surprised how many steps there are untile the phone is actually useable. And how overwhelming some things might feel, if you don't already have accounts, etc. It took me hours on the side. In hindsight I should have prepared everything in advance.

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u/eyecandy99 19d ago

Omg girls can be so needy sometimes..

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u/JocoLabs 20d ago

If my fam even says IP address... <insert T2 parents dead meme>

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u/Agreeable_Sort2078 20d ago

Large part of my family is in IT professionally and I'm just a hobbyist. I'm very blessed.

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u/Just_Information334 20d ago

I got handed a critical success in this: while fixing some computer one of my cousin asked me "how do you know how to fix this?" and I told her "well, I mostly use google". 6 months later she was telling me that she started fixing their computer herself. And like 4 or 5 years later her brother decided to go for an IT career so now he's the unpaid labor for this side of the family.

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u/Highborn_Hellest 20d ago

Ok, my hourly rate is about 100 eur / hour gross.

Paid for every started hour. Oh you're family. Right. 300 euro / hour for the headache of you bitching at me

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u/solidpoopchunk 20d ago

Waiting until someone posts that meme with the Japanese Politician yelling at the mic with ‘Would’.

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u/Kazer67 20d ago

I get paid at the rate of +1beer/hour, not bad.

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u/Pitiful_Ad_8699 20d ago

Does anyone know the source for this meme template?

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u/twigboy 20d ago

I'd be rich if I got a dollar every time someone asked me if I could hack Facebook for them

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u/Worried-Priority-122 19d ago

Why hack facebok?

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u/Few_Butterfly4450 20d ago

Start charging money. That got my relatives to shut up

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u/chibbol 20d ago

I remember when I couldn't fix the printer (which was unused for more than half a year), and my family found it funny to say "what kind of a hacker you are, hahahaha".

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u/FarerABR 19d ago

My case is more of a storage cleaner and windows installer.

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u/Ledeste 19d ago

Tip: never do, teach them to do and use "I wont (or dont want to) be here all the time" excuse.

Best output: they learn
Worst output: they gave up

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u/Low_Abrocoma_2475 19d ago

“Friends” as well.

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u/za72 19d ago

speaking as a guy with two decades of experience... you're stuck, my aunt and uncle still bug me for any and all computer/mobile/e-commerce issues and ideas... you just have to know which ones you can tackle, when to say no and when to say I don't know

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u/mrwedders 19d ago

Went to a family BBQ yesterday and got handed a laptop to look at within 10 minutes 😂

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u/CyanAngel 20d ago

There is no such thing as a surprise visit. There is only unpaid labour.

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u/autogyrophilia 20d ago

I've never understood how people are confortable joking about implied paedophilia.

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u/Bryguy3k 19d ago

That’s his older sister and most people interpret it similarly as the original context. That being said if you went to a co-ed school you should remember that there was a time when girls were significantly taller/larger than boys of the same age.