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Have you ever gone into a flat panic, because you’re on deadline, and your computer just said “No!” You call the IT department, and the first thing they ask is… you guessed it: “Have you tried switching it off and back on again?” Voila! It works. And the person on the other end of the line is probably rolling their eyes. For the fourth time that day.
Answering calls like these are a big part of an IT guy or girl’s job. But there’s a lot more that goes into being an information technology specialist. Some of it is mundane, some is exciting, and then there problems that are just mind-boggling. It can help to tackle the tech troubles with a good dose of giggles. And that's where Facebook page, IT humor & Memes comes in.
With over 1.5 million followers, the page describes itself as "Just a small corner in the big Facebook world to let loose a little steam and escape." Keep scrolling for Bored Panda's pick of the funniest posts, and don't forget to upvote the ones that gave your laughter system a much-needed reboot.
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Steve Goodwin 1 year ago
Currently struggling with OneDrive on my mum's PC. I hate it with all my heart
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brookeannsimmer 1 year ago
There is a setting on Microsoft OS that you can turn on to make a blinking circle appear over the cursor just for a moment when you press ctrl to help find it
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People working in IT seem to have anecdotes for days. In one hilarious animated viral YouTube video, a guy bemoans his day job, saying that “working entry-level IT is maybe the most soul-crushing, put-your-brain-into-a-blender thing you can do.” He goes on to complain that everyone expects him to be some “Computer Jesus”.
Alex Meyers then relays some of his worst moments, which drove him absolutely nuts, but gave us a good chuckle. First, the “Computer Jesus” tells how he spent half an hour on the phone with someone, only for them to tell him that the program they were having issues with isn’t actually installed on the computer in front of them.
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Michaelann Dahlman 1 year ago
And of course the search function can't find it. Although Windows 10 is less useless than all the previous ones.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
There are many humans who would respond identically. We are not safe from them.
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James016 1 year ago
I am using CoPilot a lot for specific things for my work and it has been really useful, better then Google
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Leesa DeAndrea 1 year ago
Watched a YouTube video of Sting singing Englishman in New York. In the video an old man is shown several times. I wanted to know who he was so googled it. The AI answer was that there was no old man in the video. AI blind and stupid. (I now know it was Quentin Crisp.)
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As someone on the Spiceworks IT community observed, “The best one is the story about the boss who doesn’t know how to use Outlook, so they make their employees print out all of their emails. Then this manager handwrites replies and makes others input these written letters back into the email client. Efficient right?”
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
Trying to find a laptop with a DVD drive these days is like pulling teeth...
ManuelQue 1 year ago
I have a couple of external DVD drives. They hook up vis USB and work very well.
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Sue User 1 year ago
I got a new monitor and it only has one input. I did not have a cable to go from my old laptop to new monitor. My old monitor has VGA, HDMI or DVI. Old monitor is back on desk until i can buy cable.
Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
My new monitors have HDMI and DP only. Laptop has HDMI only. Docking station has DP only. Was miffed when the docking station wouldn't drive both monitors at full resolution (4k). So one runs on DP and the other on HDMI at half the refresh rate! And I had to go and buy another cable!
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
We need more USB ports and to be able to plug the charger on the right side
ManuelQue 1 year ago
I'm planning to get a USB hub that has its own AC plug. That'll expand capacity plenty!
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Wim Cossement 1 year ago
There are lots of other brands than Apple out there that don't try to screw you over for more money every chance you give them.
Su Boddie 1 year ago
Yeah, a room filled with cords for the unwary to trip over. I bought a desktop. I was asked if I wanted a DVD/CD player. I said, "Yes, please". Voila. You can't go down to something that fits in your back pocket AND have unlimited ability to attach stuff. That's why they developed Bluetooth. And Wi-Fi.
Glix Drap 1 year ago
To be fair you can buy a USB-C hub and the top one will weigh significantly less than the bottom one.
JL 1 year ago
Still defeats the purpose of having a portable computer when you have to plug in a bunch of adapters to hang off of it instead of having jacks built in.
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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
'Hey, I know we have 12 seconds left, but is a bad time to ask for a rise?'
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Gracie Mae 1 year ago
You don't pay for the time it takes to do some jobs, you pay for the training & education so that it's done right!
The hilarious video clocked over a million views, and the comments were pure gold. People jumped on the bandwidth wagon to share their own experiences of working in the industry.
"'My screen isn't showing anything!' The computer was turned off," said one.
"'My computer is not turning on!' 'Is it plugged in?' 'Of course! I'm not stupid!' It wasn't. The cable was plugged into the computer but not into an outlet," commented another.
“This lady calls and says she can't print a document,” relayed one person.“We've been on the phone for thirty minutes before I asked her if the printer is even plugged in. Her response? 'What printer? I don't have a printer.'"
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Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
That's not a real motherboard. It wouldn't have random serial and ps/2 ports all over it like that if it was real.
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Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago
I love to see anyone try using those ports if this were a real motherboard 😂
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Gracie Mae 1 year ago
not only did i get paid to stare at one all day, i got paid to 'break' the programs after they were written & before they were released
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Robert T 1 year ago
The OS was in ROM on my first computer. You literally just pulled the plug to turn it off.
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axle f 1 year ago (edited)
🤬🤬🤬...yeah, that's awful familiar. the USN was using W**g rather than IBM at USCINCLANTFLT in the real early 80's. Remember when you had time to do a hand washed load of dishes for 5 people after hitting the power button....waiting for it all to finally boot up and load all the way? I don't much miss *that*...
Janissary35680 1 year ago (edited)
You gotta love the way BP's autobot censor protects our sensibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W**g_Laboratories The company went bust; sadly neither because of nor despite its name. Edit: wâng
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Look at the solidity of that keyboard. I remember the clacking sound it made too
Jan van den Broek 1 year ago
At my workplace I replaced this screen with a "Game over"-bitmap.
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jjdubs W 1 year ago
I was thinking the same thing, though there are converters for that (UBC-C to headphone jack, but then you can't charge). SIGH
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any rei 1 year ago
I don't know why so many people love apple. It is capable of less but costs a lot more money. It's just a status symbol for people to say "look how much money I'm able to pay for c**p".
Wim Cossement 1 year ago
Because they wanna make a statement about how bad they are with computers. What do you mean, change a setting, do I look like I know how to do that?
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Kathy L 1 year ago
Android devices and I don't get along. I had several and they all crapped out on me.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Linux just needs the right incantation. Bash it on the head and apply some vim and vigour.
Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago
Bash it in shell and hit it with root and su.
Load More Replies... Su Boddie 1 year ago
I once had to reinstall Windows. I didn't lose anything. It's called 'backing up the files, first'.
Gregory Garcia 5 months ago
Always make a new user called "Repair" and set the pw to something you can remember. K**l viruses from there. Use it as a sandbox.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
still accurate, but at least 3 is now easier with chatgpt. can confirm.
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Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Look, even if he wanted to spend his spare time fixing your s**t, printers are a whole different thing. They run on hexes and desperate prayers.
NetworkMan 1 year ago
Kick 'em. That's what I do. Never has it fixed the issue, but it does feel good.
Load More Replies... White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago
The best way to fix a HP printer issue is to throw it away and replace it with a Brothers printer.
eMpTy 1 year ago
The best way to fix a Brother printer issue is to throw it away and replace it with an Epsom ink tank printer.
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Asking IT guy to fix printer is like asking F1 head engineer to pair Nokia phone to Toyota Corolla 2008 via Bluetooth.
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
because i worked in IT, mom thought i was a wiz & knew everything computer-related...hated bursting her bubble when it was apps i had no clue about because ours were propriatary
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Sue User 1 year ago
My friend is trying to get some papework done in France. He used a Indian guy on youtube because thee official french site is so confusing.
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Lost Panda 1 year ago
3 contacts. If you don't answer, or continue to put it off, I close the ticket
L H 1 year ago
3 is way too many - we respond once and the ticket gets auto closed if a reply isn't received within a few days.
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Strahd Ivarius 1 year ago
This is not NASA, it is from a US submarine... (UK ones were upgraded to XP not so long ago)
Maxime Lopez 1 year ago
So realistically, if they fired a nuke, would it ever even get out of the water with those old computers? 💀
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Ace 1 year ago
Is this the same guy that complains that they don't know where the autosaved document was saved to?
Sue User 1 year ago
With sharepoint 365 and an online records management system, it could be in one of five places ( just saving new): username/ documents; sharepointusername/ documents ( cloud only ) sharepointusername/ documents ( local ) ; sharepointusetname ( no subfolder ) ; recordmanagementusername/ documents( cloud)
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Legendbird 1 year ago
I installed ollama via termux (pRoot into Debian, then tmux, one pane ollama serve, one i/o), and someone said I was "hacking into the mainframe". Like, seriously.
NetworkMan 1 year ago
Open CMD and use F11. Wipe your brow and say 'I'm in'. Don't say it in a way that sounds obvious, just loud enough that client hears you, but as if they weren't supposed to hear you.
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Robert T 1 year ago
Because Micro$oft are in league with the devil and only allow chipsets of a certain age.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Yeah well neither does my laptop but gotta use it till it dies. Don't have the money for another one anytime soon.
Jeremy Klaxon 1 year ago
Install W11 Spectre superlite. No Micro$oft telemetry, no b******t, no TPM requirements, runs on 1GB RAM.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
Blame INTEL, they make it impossibly hard to upgrade, whereas AMD is is so much more upgradable, but not the market leader
any rei 1 year ago
I got that message as well a year ago before I decided to upgrade and was surprised cuz I do have a good gaming pc but it turns out that this error message isn't true. Don't know what went wrong at Microsoft that this happened but after a bit of research it was no problem to upgrade
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
If this is serious, I might invest in an expensive PC myself just so Microsoft could get off my face!
Jerry Wyant 1 year ago
YES!!!! How come my AMD Threadripper 16 core / 32 Thread CPU doesn't meet the minimum Win 11 requirements!?!??!
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Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
No, the circuit wouldn't be complete and even if it was it would only be getting 1.5v instead of the 3v it's designed for
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Estimated time remaining...2 hours 10 minutes...3 hours 45 minutes...10 minutes...1 hour 5 minutes...26 seconds...47 minutes...done
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Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
They aren't photoshopped. The first picture was on a cloudier day, and before the area became a vineyard
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Milady Blue 1 year ago
Sadly, the Googolplex of upvotes from me that I feel you deserve are virtual.
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