Tech support Memes

Today I Am An Engineer

2 hours ago 24.5K views 0 shares

The moment you get that computer science degree, everyone suddenly thinks you're the designated IT support person for the entire extended family. Nothing says "I've made it as an engineer" quite like being handed a printer that hasn't worked since Windows XP and being told "you can fix this, right?" The girlfriend bringing home a friend's printer is the final boss of unpaid tech support. Six years of algorithms and data structures for this glorious moment.

The Original Tech Support Trick From 1983

Programming Hardware Debugging

13 hours ago 64.6K views 0 shares

The Original Tech Support Trick From 1983

The classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" tech support trick dates back to the Jurassic period of computing! When a developer loses their cursor in 1983, they immediately resort to the oldest trick in the book—faking a hardware problem and suggesting a reboot. The best part? It actually works, and the comic perfectly captures that smug satisfaction when your BS technical explanation saves the day. Some programmer traditions never die, they just get faster processors.

Small Talk? Best I Can Do Is Complaining About Microsoft

Microsoft Windows Programming

16 hours ago 66.1K views 0 shares

Small Talk? Best I Can Do Is Complaining About Microsoft

When someone asks "How's your day going?" and you're a developer working with Microsoft products. The absolute pinnacle of social interaction for tech workers - skipping weather chat and diving straight into a 45-minute rant about how Edge keeps reinstalling itself after updates, Teams is eating your RAM for breakfast, and Windows Update decided 3PM on a Thursday was the PERFECT time to restart your machine mid-deployment. Small talk? Nah, let me tell you about my toxic relationship with Microsoft instead.

Read The Logs? Ain't Nobody Got Time For That

Devops Agile Programming Debugging Testing

2 days ago 66.5K views 0 shares

Read The Logs? Ain't Nobody Got Time For That

The classic "read the error message" saga, but with DevOps flair! Developers see that pesky note about checking build logs before bothering DevOps, consider it for a microsecond, then immediately set it on fire and smile while their problems burn alongside their dignity. Why troubleshoot yourself when you can interrupt someone else's perfectly good coffee break? That suspicious smile in the last panel is the universal "I'm about to ruin someone's day with a problem I could've fixed myself" face. The DevOps team's collective blood pressure just went up and they don't even know why yet.

The Pinnacle Of Technical Communication

Microsoft Windows Debugging

2 days ago 56.6K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of this support conversation! 😱 First, they're like "I have a problem with Outlook" without ANY details. Then when asked what SPECIFICALLY isn't working, their profound, earth-shattering response is just... "Outlook." THAT'S IT. No elaboration! No error message! Just... "Outlook." This is the tech support equivalent of telling your doctor "I'm sick" and when they ask about symptoms you just repeat "SICKNESS." I'm having an existential crisis just witnessing this level of communication breakdown!

Let Me Google That For You

StackOverflow Webdev Programming Debugging

4 days ago 57.4K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of junior devs everywhere! That moment when you're stuck on a problem but somehow asking your senior dev feels less intimidating than typing it into Google and discovering it's a super basic question with 500 duplicate StackOverflow posts all marked as "closed for being too obvious." The fear isn't about finding the answer—it's about discovering you're the 10,000th person to ask why your code isn't working when you forgot a semicolon!

Tech Workers

Hardware Iot Programming Debugging

4 days ago 61.3K views 0 shares

The ultimate irony of working in tech! While enthusiasts fill their homes with smart fridges that judge their midnight snacking habits, actual tech workers maintain a strictly adversarial relationship with the one printer they reluctantly own. That mysterious grinding noise at 2:14 AM? Definitely the printer plotting its revenge. The paranoia is justified—anyone who's debugged a printer driver knows these devices operate on dark magic rather than actual protocols. The gun is just proper threat modeling for inevitable printer rebellion.

The System32 Conspiracy

Windows Microsoft Programming

5 days ago 65.6K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic tale of the tech-illiterate conspiracy theorist who thinks they've uncovered the grand Microsoft deception. System32 is literally just the core Windows directory containing critical system files—delete it and congratulations, you've bricked your computer! The December 31, 1969 date is actually Unix epoch time (January 1, 1970 UTC) minus a timezone offset—basically the computer equivalent of "the beginning of time." It's what systems show when a file has no valid timestamp. But sure, go ahead and "save yourself 700kb" by deleting essential system files. I'm sure your computer will run so much faster in its new state as an expensive paperweight.

Only LAN Connection Available

Networking Hardware

6 days ago 65.2K views 1 shares

When the hotel advertises "high-speed internet" but you show up and it's just two ethernet cables you need to physically connect between buildings. Sure, technically it's a "direct connection" with "no router bottlenecks." Next they'll tell me their cloud service is just a USB stick taped to a weather balloon.

Removing RAM: A Computer's Worst Nightmare

Hardware Windows Debugging

6 days ago 75.0K views 0 shares

Removing RAM: A Computer's Worst Nightmare

OMG, the AUDACITY of yanking RAM while the computer is still breathing! 💀 Those screens are literally the digital equivalent of a computer having a stroke in real-time. The poor machine is SCREAMING in binary as you surgically remove chunks of its consciousness! It's like performing brain surgery on someone who's fully awake and watching you do it through a mirror. The computer's last thoughts: "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!" Pure technological torture wrapped in a four-panel tragedy!

What I Say

Programming StackOverflow Debugging

7 days ago 67.2K views 1 shares

Ah, the classic CS major paradox! You casually mention your degree and suddenly everyone thinks you're some tech deity who can resurrect their 15-year-old laptop with a single touch. Meanwhile, the truth is you're just another mortal who spends hours debugging a missing semicolon and occasionally whispers sweet nothings to your compiler hoping it'll cooperate. The only thing you're "jacked into" is your fifth cup of coffee while Stack Overflow judges your existence. This is why we can't have nice conversations at family gatherings.

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