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I don't know how to make users understand that it's not because a software gives you what you want that it's not a malware.
This is because I just had a discussion with someone who uses utorrent and he usually goes on a website that forced him to use a VPN, but instead of paying for one, he tried to find something gratis and installed some Trojan horse.
This is someone which I fixed the computer of his daughter for free about a year ago.
WHY DO PEOPLE DO NOT ASK FOR HELP FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS FFS ?! https://loadaverage.org/attachment/6274376
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@mangeurdenuage Part of it is that we fix things for free or greatly reduced prices. One of my sisters used to call me to do malware cleanup whenever I came back from an assignment. One time, I told her it was too far of a drive and to take her computer to Best Buy's Geek Squad. Once she saw the price, she just bought a replacement.
It solved the problem, because once she saw that it was expensive to fix, she made sure it no longer happened.
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>Part of it is that we fix things for free or greatly reduced prices
Well he did pay me because he wanted to.
Turned out that the big sister took the laptop of the little sister that I fixed because it was now faster than her more recent hardware.
Worst is that they family never proposed to call me to fix the other laptop and let their youngest daughter with shit software.
I just don't get people. Especially these kinds of people who have money to either repair or buy new one.
>Once she saw the price, she just bought a replacement.
Disgusting.
>Best Buy's Geek Squad
I believe these guys aren't only not reasonable with their prices but also do a shit job.
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@mangeurdenuage
> > Best Buy's Geek Squad
> I believe these guys aren't only not reasonable with their prices but also do a shit job.
Well, yes, they likely do. Like a lot of places ( $EMPLOYER included ), I think they need to complete a certain number of repair jobs per day to justify their jobs. So if the repair is going to take longer, they might resort to halfway jobs that meet the time constraint.
Also, their workers vary in their level of skills (even though I'm pretty sure they have a standard procedure of what to do and how to do it). When #sonOne worked there, he was soon put in charge of teaching new employees the ropes, because he was top-notch even before he got hired there.
I don't know enough about their prices to comment, but I am aware of competing local repair shops who failed partly because (IMO) their prices were too low.
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> Worst is that they family never proposed to call me to fix the other laptop and let their youngest daughter with shit software.
> I just don't get people. Especially these kinds of people who have money to either repair or buy new one.
I don't get it either. Maybe favorite daughter and non-favorite daughter?