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Don't You Dare Ask Me About Your Printer
Programming Webdev Frontend Backend
22 days ago 88.3K views 0 shares
Don't You Dare Ask Me About Your Printer
The eternal curse of being a developer - mention your job at a social gathering and suddenly you're tech support. Guy proudly announces he's a Full Stack Developer, and within seconds, he's being asked to fix a printer. The final panel showing him pulling a gun is just the mental breakdown every dev experiences when someone thinks "I build complex web applications" means "I know why your printer is making that weird noise." Printers remain the final boss that no amount of JavaScript frameworks can defeat.

Based On Personal Experience
Programming Hardware StackOverflow Debugging
23 days ago 187.2K views 0 shares
Based On Personal Experience
The eternal struggle of being the "tech person" in the family. First you're desperately trying to explain that programming skills don't magically transfer to printer repair, then five seconds later you're elbow-deep in printer parts because—let's face it—you actually can fix it. Not because of any programming knowledge, but because you've developed the sacred debugging mindset after years of staring at error messages that might as well say "something's wrong lol good luck." The real programming skill is knowing how to Google the right question while maintaining the illusion that you're doing something complicated.

Professional Printer Fixer
Hardware Programming Debugging
1 month ago 133.1K views 0 shares
Professional Printer Fixer
The unspoken truth of software engineering: you can spend years mastering complex algorithms and distributed systems, but your family will only ever be impressed when you fix their printer. Nothing says "I have a computer science degree" like standing next to a Canon inkjet for 30 seconds, turning it off and on again, and being hailed as a technological messiah by your relatives. The formal attire and aristocratic frog just perfectly captures that misplaced sense of accomplishment we feel when solving the most trivial of technical problems for our non-technical family members.

Never Fails: The Accidental IT Department
Programming Hardware Debugging
1 month ago 120.1K views 0 shares
Never Fails: The Accidental IT Department
The eternal paradox of being a programmer. You spend years mastering complex algorithms and data structures, only to become the default IT support person at every family gathering. Sure, I can debug your printer—not because I know anything about printer drivers or hardware interfaces, but because I've been conditioned to Google error messages until something works. It's the same skill set that lets me solve actual programming problems, just applied to your ancient HP inkjet that's probably older than some programming languages I use.

Based On Personal Experience
Programming Hardware Debugging
2 months ago 145.0K views 0 shares
Based On Personal Experience
The eternal tech support paradox strikes again! Every programmer has experienced that moment of internal conflict. First comes the righteous indignation: "I write code, I don't fix printers!" Then the pause... because let's face it, we do know how to fix that printer. Not because our CS degree covered "Advanced Printer Troubleshooting 101," but because we've spent years debugging cryptic error messages and reading obscure documentation. The printer is just another poorly designed system waiting to be conquered. We'll fix it, but we'll be silently judging the manufacturer's UI choices the entire time.

It's Always Magenta Missing When You Need Black
Hardware Debugging
2 months ago 88.4K views 0 shares
It's Always Magenta Missing When You Need Black
The eternal battle between humans and printers continues! On the left, a 3D printer confidently accepts the challenge of printing a human head with some random yellow filament. Meanwhile, the office printer on the right has a complete meltdown when asked to print basic black and white text, screaming about missing yellow ink. Nothing says "technological progress" quite like a $2000 machine that refuses to print your tax forms because it's out of a color you never use. The irony that complex 3D printing seems more reliable than 2D printing is the kind of technological regression that keeps IT people drinking heavily.

Nope, I Can't Help You There
Programming Hardware Debugging Testing
2 months ago 125.2K views 0 shares
Nope, I Can't Help You There
The duality of every programmer when family asks for tech support. First panel: confident, top-hat wearing gentleman pondering a printer issue like it's beneath his intellectual capacity. Second panel: same gentleman gleefully announcing "NOT A CLUE!" with the enthusiasm of someone escaping a trap. Third panel: the crushing realization that he's now obligated to try anyway because he's "the computer person." Being able to build microservices architecture doesn't mean I know why your printer is making that weird grinding noise. It's like asking a neurosurgeon to fix your kitchen sink because "you're a doctor, right?"

The Birth Of Open Source: A Printer's Revenge
Linux Hardware Programming Debugging
3 months ago 156.5K views 0 shares
The Birth Of Open Source: A Printer's Revenge
The entire open source revolution—GNU, Linux, Firefox—all born from the collective rage of programmers who couldn't get their printers to work. Nothing motivates innovation like the silent fury of watching a printer smugly display "PC LOAD LETTER" while holding your career hostage. Linus Torvalds probably created Git just to version control his printer troubleshooting attempts.

The Cobbler's Smart Home Has No IoT
Iot Hardware Programming Debugging
4 months ago 151.5K views 0 shares
The Cobbler's Smart Home Has No IoT
The cobbler's children have no shoes, and the programmer's house has no smart tech—just a demonic printer that might need to be put down at any moment. Nothing captures the duality of tech life better than this. Non-tech people building smart homes with IoT everything, while actual developers know better than to invite that chaos into their lives. We're too busy fixing bugs at work to come home and debug why our refrigerator is suddenly speaking Portuguese and ordering 50 gallons of milk. And that printer? The universal enemy. The one piece of technology that has somehow escaped decades of innovation and remains stubbornly, maliciously stupid. It senses fear and feeds on desperation. It requires blood sacrifice to print a simple PDF.

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The Cobbler's Children Have No Smart Home
Hardware Iot Programming Debugging
4 months ago 149.5K views 0 shares
The Cobbler's Children Have No Smart Home
THE ULTIMATE TECH IRONY! 💀 While your cousin won't shut up about his voice-activated toaster, actual software engineers are living in digital POVERTY with ONE printer that's basically on parole! The sheer AUDACITY of printers to make those unholy demon noises at 2AM is the real reason tech workers have trust issues. We don't need smart homes when we're too busy contemplating HOMICIDE against our HP OfficeJet that decided printing is more of a "suggestion" than a "function." The cobbler's children have no shoes, and the programmer's house has exactly ONE piece of technology—and it's the most TRAUMATIZING one!

The Reluctant Tech Support Hero
Programming Hardware Debugging
4 months ago 148.2K views 0 shares
The Reluctant Tech Support Hero
The eternal paradox of being a programmer: telling people you can't fix their printer, then fixing it anyway because of course you can. It's like saying you're not a doctor while performing open-heart surgery with a Swiss Army knife. The truth is, we've all mastered the arcane ritual of turning it off and on again—a skill mysteriously absent from 90% of the human population. Printers specifically exist in a quantum state of both working and not working until observed by someone with technical knowledge, at which point they suddenly behave perfectly.

Yes I'm A Programmer And No I Can't Fix Your Printer
Programming Hardware Debugging
4 months ago 121.5K views 0 shares
Yes I'm A Programmer And No I Can't Fix Your Printer
The eternal struggle of every software engineer on Earth. Tell someone you code for a living and suddenly you're the designated IT support for their ancient HP inkjet that's been spitting errors since 2007. Listen, I can build distributed systems that handle millions of requests, but printer drivers exist in a special hell dimension where programming logic doesn't apply. Printers were clearly invented by demons to make us question our career choices. Next family gathering, I'm telling everyone I'm a professional dog walker.