Family member asks you to sort out a tech issue

you do realise how shit the hardware is
I had a 2014 iPad start lagging out in basic apps like Pages by 2016, guy would just get mad at me because it runs slow

>Not replacing that ipad for a similar looking high end microprocessor with the ipad casing and then illegally entering apple building and stealing proprietary ipad firmware
Imagine being this retarded

>user can you upgrade my computer from Windows XP to Windows 10 so it'll be faster
>what do you mean? It's newer so it must be faster!!

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>mom makes dinner for me to thank me

Imagine your mom not cooking for you on every visit just because she loves you

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>Living within visiting distance of your parents

>staying at a cousins house for a week
>connect to wifi
>internet doesn't work on my laptop, still works on cousins pc
>call isp
>they fail to fix it, instead they break it completely
>leave my cousin, who doesn't own a tv and spends at least 5 hours a day streaming, without internet for a month waiting for isp to send a technician with a new router
Our relationship never recovered.

holy fuck user don't make me think about that........

>Ever since you installed that mozzarella browser on my computer, my coffee machine stopped working.
>Please delete it and make it work like it did before.

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>Hey user, you're good with computers right?
>Can you make a logo for my business?

What the fuck

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damn...

>Hey user, you're good with computers right?
>So I have this idea for an app (won't tell you what it is in fear of you stealing it), can you develop it for free? I can't pay you money but trust me it's genius and will make us rich!

>brother asks me to fix something because he knows shit
>go and explain the problem and how I'm going to fix It
>questions me

Every time.

>windows 98 days
>aunt's computer acting up
>no problem.exe
>fix the problem
>two days later cousin fucks up the computer again
>it's my fault

>Hi sweetie how have you been? Working on your big projects? I know you are busy, but I was wondering if you could see if my photos are on my computer anywhere? I bought a new one because my old one was a little slow, and I didn't want to bother you. Where are my old photos? Are they in the Desktop? Thanks user, I love you! *voicemail beeps*

>fix or change literally anything on somebody's computer or network
>blamed for the next few years whenever literally any problem arises
I will never again help anybody with their computer problems. except for you baba, I love you grandma.

Based and grandmapilled
My grandparents don't use anything except TV, so I have rarely s problem with them, but my parents, oh boy, I want to sometimes go out and never comeback.

>tfw just helped my mother with her iMac a few hours ago with that "cannot install MacOS" boot error
She's a macfag but I love her too much

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This
>be young and retarded
>fix irredeemably infested winxp computer that barely ran courtesy of full hard drive and swap
>wow user this is amazing it's like new!
>sometime later
>user our computer no longer starts we had to take it to tech because you infected it with viruses few months ago!

I've never fixed anything for anyone since then.

I'll never forget my mother blaming me for ruining her computer because I played tf2 on our network

I just blow off family members with "I don't use Windows anymore, haven't for years". If they persist I just start talking about Linux and free software and shell programming and so on. The prospect that having me fix their shit might have to make them deal with a lot more techy computer stuff than they already have makes them drop their requests pretty quickly.

shit like this makes me seethe

at least identify the problem for them.... if you can't do that much neck yourself

>t.dad

>I need you to build me a website for my business.

>Having parents
Sucks to be you children. Y'all need to get on my level.

>No parents
>Free from being pestered to do shit they could do
>Actually make meaningful money doing serious tech work
>Enough to afford fancy dinners with a girlfriend

*sends them a link to squarespace.com with my personal referral link attached*
nothing personnel

t. batman

>be me 10 years ago
>playing halo on my Xbox upstairs
>stepdad's hard drive fails
>it's the Xbox's fault, he decides
>takes it until I can "fix what I've done"
>he literally won't allow me to get a job even though I want one, won't listen that we have to take it to a computer repair shop

He was such a piece of shit. Never listened to anything I told him, and held me responsible for things I didn't do and had no authority over.

you're supposed to fuck it up so they don't keep asking for help for free

Highly unlikely. They really do nit want to see me ever again if possible

If they do it's always some basic shit + some weird esoteric and useless feature.
>A calender with a recipe book so you can plan your meals!
That one's from my grandma.
>an ebook reader with cats in the background!
>Facebook but for car mechanics!

Sounds like my fucking mom. She’ll ask me what time a random ass store that I’ve never been to closes and obviously I won’t know so I say I don’t know and she legitimately gets mad at me for not knowing something so fucking stupid and random. The fuck.

>relatives asking for tech support
>purposely fuck up each time
>never be bothered with dumb shit again

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>all this time you thought they were stupid
>pop just wanted to see his boy again
>mom wanted her crafts to be cherished again