• Years ago, I convinced my parents to ditch the phone line and use an early VoIP company. When things went wrong with our ISP, I would call the 1-800 tech support line, who would immediately ask me to reboot the modem…

    It was nearly impossible to get them to understand (a) of course I already tried that and (b) that would disconnect the phone call we are currently on.

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      1 year ago

      It’s unbelievable how many times I have pretended to reboot my PC to placate a tech support moron on the phone.

      ipconfig/release
      ipconfig/renew

      Okay, it’s at that black bootup screen now, now windows is loading…