Jonty WareingRE: https://chaos.social/@jonty/115775842659927602
Along with #duvetknowitschrismas, time for a new yearly tradition:
#ITschristmas, where we share IT support horror stories from helping family over Christmas.
Here's mine to start:
I'll be reposting the best ones throughout the evening. Tell me your nightmares.
From someone who is no longer on social media:
"I'd supplied several months of phone support for a windows PC someone had thoughtlessly given my MiL. One sticking point was that she'd been unable to use the CD-ROM drive successfully. On visiting I retrieved about 10 discs that had been carefully pushed between two plastic blanking plates on the front of the case" #ITschristmas
From @ModernDayNTK on bsky:
"Parents' Macbook had fallen behind on major OSX updates, with the result that many (/all?) Firefox pages looked like this" #ITschristmas
@ModernDayNTK Another one from me:
Sorting out a Brazil-esque cable nightmare behind the family TV I was baffled by three HDMI connections plugged in, given they only have one device.
Yes, a HDMI cable had both ends plugged into the TV. The TV input switcher was *very* angry about this. #ITschristmas
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