I just recently had a wfh user ship me one of his monitors back because we had exhausted every thing I could think of troubleshooting-wise. When it arrived I unboxed it, plugged it in and the damn thing worked fine. I followed up with him and finally realized he had been trying to push the damn power LED instead of the actual power button.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Searching for a button is sometimes really hard, as manufacturers are quite inventive. But then again, reading an instruction is usually an option even if it is last resort (in the list it's right after mailing the monitor to the support, it seems)

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago

I lied while RMAing a video card… kinda.

I spoke with an incredibly nice Indian fellow, and he asked me to try some troubleshooting. I had done all of it before, so I… pretended. But I told him all of the things I experienced when I did those steps (and lied further by giving ample time to pretend to do things.)

He RMA’d it just fine in the end and it works five years later. But I did feel bad about lying. I just didn’t want to take my whole working setup and do the troubleshooting steps again D:

You get a lot of shit MSI, but you did me goodly.

[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thought that was House MD rule number one. Everybody lies. Wait. That means IT lies! How deep does the rabbit hole go?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

The rabbit lies too.

[–] Iapar@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

House lied and not everybody lies.