The Tech Support Survival Guide

Content 1989 It's amazing to think what great and exciting things people will be doing with PC's in 30 years Now This PC can't run Windows 11 The processor isn't supported for Windows 11. While this PC doesn't meet the system requirements to run Windows 11, you'll keep getting Windows 10 updates. Learn More

The eternal battle between developers and printers continues! This poor dev thought mentioning his profession would somehow help with his printer problems, but instead triggered a PTSD episode in his therapist. Ten years of coding experience and I still whisper sweet nothings to my printer before every job. "Please work, I'll update your drivers, I promise." Printers are the final boss that no amount of Stack Overflow can help you defeat.

Console gamers are getting absolutely destroyed right now. Xbox raising prices, $80 games becoming the norm, and Nintendo charging $499 for a Mario Kart bundle? Meanwhile, the PC gaming prophet descends from the heavens with his divine message: "Don't worry and come to PC, you can trust me." Sure, you'll need to sell a kidney for a graphics card, but at least you won't be paying $70 for a game that goes on sale for $12 three months later on Steam. The PC Master Race welcomes another batch of console refugees with open, angelic wings.

Content Look at all this unsaved work. It would be a shame if I suddenly had to ... update and restart. H H I LOLNEIN.com

Windows Search is the feature we all love to hate. It can't find a file that's literally named exactly what you're searching for, but somehow manages to surface that embarrassing PowerPoint from 2013. The guy claiming to be the lead developer is basically admitting to creating one of Microsoft's most frustrating products—no wonder the dad wants him gone faster than a memory leak in Internet Explorer. Finding anything with Windows Search is like trying to find a specific semicolon in a 10,000-line codebase written by an intern.

The bell curve of software installation intelligence! On the left side, we have the blissfully ignorant user with an IQ of 55 who just clicks "Express Installation" without a care in the world. In the middle at IQ 100, we have the sweating, paranoid user meticulously reading every custom installation option like they're defusing a bomb. Then on the right side, we have the enlightened 145 IQ user who confidently chooses "Express Installation" because they know that fighting the inevitable bloatware is futile and they can just uninstall it later anyway. The true galaxy brain move is accepting that resistance against PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) is ultimately pointless.