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What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Vcio@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Computer related:

Don't be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs...
Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.

Buying stuff:

There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
Buck buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.

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[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Depends on who it is. I'll spend 10 hours on a pc issue for my mom but if it's a cousin and it takes more than 10 minutes I'll either say it's outside of my knowledge or straight up say I would have to charge because of time commitment.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Depends on your level of agency as well. As a tech savvy teenager I felt I wasn't allowed to say no to my family asking for computer help. Now I follow what you outlined, close family and friends, free. Not so close family, 10.00 to look at it. 20.00 if it's difficult.

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haha did you get woken up in the middle of the night to fix things too?

I had the opposite solution though. I just threw money from my summer job at computing infrastructure until they had things that wouldn't often break. Maybe a bit silly, but it did eventually work!

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think anyone woke me up in the middle of the night to fix their computer when I was younger. If it did happen it was so infrequent that I don't remember it happening today.

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