When Android Apps Just Won't Play NiceI recently had my kid's tablet throwing a fit. Instagram would just close itself a second after launch, then the browser started freezing. No specific error, just a hard…
The phantom "Offline" status is my least favorite ticket I distinctly remember the last time I walked into an accounting department to fix a "broken" printer. The LED lights were solid green. The network cable…
Nothing grinds my gears quite like booting up a game, excited to finally relax, only for Windows to throw up a cryptic error box: "The program can't start because [insert random DLL name here] is…
There is nothing quite like the panic of seeing the "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" screen right when you are trying to pull up a QR code for a flight.…
This is easily top three on my list of "Most Useless Windows Error Messages." You are in the middle of a render, a game, or even just watching a 4K YouTube video, and suddenly the…
You clicked the wrong "Download" button on a driver update site, didn't you? Now your default search engine is "SafeSearch24," your fan is spinning like a jet turbine while looking at a blank desktop, and…
Bluetooth is a technology that works perfectly right up until the moment you actually need it, then it commits ritual suicide. I get a ticket about connecting earbuds at least once a day. The problem…
Your Android phone slows down because it's running too much garbage, not because it's old. I get this complaint constantly. Users panic, click "Close All Apps," and wonder why the battery still drains by noon…
The only people who don't worry about backups are the ones who haven't lost data yet. I've been doing this for long enough to know that hard drives fail, houses burn down, and the cloud…
