#Tech support

[colefetibaash]

(batch 7 of sparklestickers — tech support/tillson, jorange, freezerburn/polligan)

[teethstoobigmouthwontclose]

In a fantasy setting, my job would be exactly the same

[outsidewolves]

This is 40% of you

[prokopetz]

There are people in this world who approach all communication as a form of intellectual combat which is "won" by deliberately providing the most obstructive and least informative possible answer which technically satisfies the precise letter of the stated request, and literally all of them are on Stack Overflow.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Aziraphale and tech support :)

[reelaroundthedavekan]

Have you tried turning it on and off? You have? Have you tried turning it off and on? That too? Have you tried listening to "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus repeatedly alone in a darkened room? No? Well get back to me when you have.

[ovegakart]

malon, local time expert

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[cirrus-grey]

The implication that Freddie changed Colin's ringtone is sending me

[loadingartist]

new comic! - user terror

I drew 3 bonus panels for this one, see em by becoming my patron ❤

[nixcraft]

[prokopetz]

One of the fun things about web development these days is that nothing is self-contained anymore and there are so many layers of middleware talking to middleware talking to middleware that even "turning it off and back on again" has become an expert-level troubleshooting step because identifying exactly what needs to be turned off and back on again is a process in itself. I've been on multiple calls today alone where the resolution to a tech support issue has been "we restarted the XYZ", and the response from the client's own developers, who presumably set the stupid thing up in the first place, has been "we have an XYZ?"

[opendirectories]

[irradiate-space]

Problem of the day:

Firefox has stopped accepting specifically left clicks. Right clicks are fine. Time to update Firefox anyways.

Also the GNOME Terminal isn't accepting left clicks.

Wait, my package manager isn't accepting left click.

Wayland isn't accepting left clicks.

Is this hardware or software?

Where is my external mouse?

Resolution: Bluetooth mouse LMB was trapped under edge of Nalgene, in full click. Remove mouse.

[pride-knightess]

"Hey I know you said not to put my hand in the hand crushing machine but I did it anyway and my hand got crushed, is there a solve for this coming next patch or..?"