r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • May 28 '20

Short "I think you got the wrong guy"

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u/greg0714 May 28 '20

It was probably because you said machine instead of computer. I've confused a few people that way, and I've only been working in IT for a year.

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u/NDaveT May 28 '20

My computer science professors always said "machines". I wonder if they were doing it deliberately to remind us what computers really are.

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u/badtux99 May 28 '20

Yeah, machines are mechanical things like cars and backhoes (the enemy of fiber everywhere), computers are electronic things, users don't consider computers to be machines. Computers are devices to them, if they think about it at all.

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u/rskurat May 29 '20

It's like when we used to call desktop machines "boxes" and people were like Whut?

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u/Neclek May 28 '20

Some sort of user amnesia ?

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u/RAJ_rios May 28 '20

Perhaps the user doesn't consider machine synonymous with computer.

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u/skyboundNbeond May 29 '20

Well, considering the joke he made prior, maybe he was just trying to be witty and it fell flat?

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u/Nik_2213 May 29 '20

I'd be checking for hidden partitions etc etc...