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My family found out quickly this was a bad move, because if all future issues are my fault, then clearly I did a bad job for you and I shouldn't ever touch your computer again. Here's the phone number for geek squad, GFL.
I was probably a dick making them go to geek squad multiple times before helping, but that's how long it took to get an apology.
Not a dick move making someone experience the other option if they can’t appreciate the service you were willing to provide for them out of the kindness of your heart and presumably asking nothing, or very little, in return.
I recently had someone mention that I’m not updating my self-hosted stuff frequently enough (by their entirely arbitrary personal metric), and had the pleasure of writing out some.. not overly nice messages about how I’m being selfless and generous sharing my very time consuming hobby with them and asking absolutely nothing in return, and if they want more they can pay for it from someone else or learn to do it themselves. If you make my hobby feel like work, I’m not going to treat it like a job, I’m just going to stop sharing it with you.
I forget the details because it's been a long time now, but I once was pressured into fixing my dad's Windows computer. Note that, while it was long enough ago that I was still using Windows for gaming, at the time I used Linux for everything else both professional and personal.
Anyway, it took me a while, but eventually I discovered the issue was a little known conflict between Hyper-V and some driver that Windows update had applied. IIRC the solution was to revert the update and wait for the next one. Figuring this out involved borrowing his computer for a few days, which was awkward because though it was his personal computer he primarily used it for work. Fortunately his company and customers really liked him and gave him a lot of leeway.
To my dad's credit, he didn't blame me for subsequent issues ... But it seemed like any time after that when he complained about his computer to someone who knew both of us, they would suggest that it was probably my fault for fixing it that one time.
Had a manager like that.
Went by once to fix their computer, had a little problem with the solution so I had to reinstall Office. Now every subsequent problem they encountered was my fault. Even after I prove to them the new issue is caused by completely different computer. The next issue they have was caused by me again.
Afterwards I just refuse to help that one. Someone else has to take it up.
It's a very short step from "can you help with my computer", to "what have you done to my computer".
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