irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeM to iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPeople are painful.lemm.eeimagemessage-square174fedilinkarrow-up11.47Karrow-down119
arrow-up11.46Karrow-down1imagePeople are painful.lemm.eeirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeM to iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square174fedilink
minus-squareOstrichgrif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 day agoI work in IT and hear this about once a week. They also will call the computer anything but a computer. Most common name is the modem 🤦
minus-squareMalfeasant@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoSurprised that’s still a thing. I’ve heard it called a hard drive about as often, but I haven’t worked with home users in a long time.
minus-squareDroechai@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-216 hours ago “He now realizes that it’s the hardware, the Mother modem, the heart itself of the hard drive, is faulty” A classic Swedish news article circulating the internet since forever. I hope the tech didn’t burst a blood vessel due to the mangled quote
I work in IT and hear this about once a week. They also will call the computer anything but a computer. Most common name is the modem 🤦
Surprised that’s still a thing. I’ve heard it called a hard drive about as often, but I haven’t worked with home users in a long time.
“He now realizes that it’s the hardware, the Mother modem, the heart itself of the hard drive, is faulty”
A classic Swedish news article circulating the internet since forever. I hope the tech didn’t burst a blood vessel due to the mangled quote