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Hah. I once started the defragmentation on a friend's Windows 98 machine. His father comoletely lost it when he saw that. He was yelling at me, I was shocked as a child. Of course he did not know anything about fragmentation of harddrives, but I was "damaging the computer" and was not allowed to do anything ever again.
...and he's an engineer. I would expect some level of technical affinity...
This is why you should NEVER do tech favours for friends...
As a Christmas present I setup a WiFi router for a friend (Natted to the ip it acquires through DHCP). Since then I have had numerous messages from her because her brothers are blaming the WiFi for any internet issue they have.
I told her they need to check their cables since they looked quite dodgy when I installed the router.
Today they discovered they have a termite infestation. Her father is losing his shit with her and wants her to remove the router because he is adamant that the WiFi attracted the termites and they would not have an infestation without it.
FML... I just can't.... any fucking issue in that house is going to be blamed on the WiFi router as long as it exists.
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dont do work for friends/family