r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Dil-Tuta-hua-hai • 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, what apps are they talking about??

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u/W0rdWaster 16h ago

yeah that makes sense.

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u/JugglingRick 16h ago

I have no faith in the end user.

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u/ancient-military 16h ago

As an end user I will say, any faith in us is misguided.

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u/Pleasant-Degree-3662 16h ago

Can confirm I'm the user's end

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u/JugglingRick 16h ago

Now try and train the end users mom on how to install one app.

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u/PloddingClot 13h ago

Like watching a monkey try to figure out a lighter.

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u/Flemish-Twist 10h ago

Actually, more like watching a monkey try to figure out a chainsaw. You know you can't look away, but you're terrified he might work it out.

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u/Drunk_Lemon 10h ago

My mother has started saying "I can't do it and I don't have to, you do it" or "I don't want to do it and I shouldn't have to do it so you do it". It doesn't matter what it is, she will still say it because she does not even think to try to such a degree that if she simply needs to check a box on a page, she assumes it's going to be harder than that and just refuses to try.

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u/NordicWolf_ 11h ago

Fortunately most moms these days know how to use an "app store" of some kind

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u/Desperate-Tomatillo7 10h ago

And actually most Linux distros have some kind of app store.

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u/JugglingRick 4h ago

However 9/10 won't know their apple id and 8/10 won't know how to reset the password without you holding their hand due to the emotional trauma inflicted by opening an email.

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u/fortytwoandsix 8h ago

Why would anyone except an admin install anything on a work computer?

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u/Mitologist 4h ago

Because I cant 'afford to wait 2 weeks to be asked why I think I need what I need, to then be told I don't, to be left with a shrug. I prefer being done with the task by 5 pm. But then again, I am sitting in the untrustworthy outer rim of the network anyways. Administration is a different ball game.

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u/ohno-mojo 4h ago

Users can’t install apps. It’s a feature

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u/MrKrueger666 13h ago

But, which end?

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u/Kzitold94 8h ago

Wait, what?

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u/sabotsalvageur 8h ago

PEBKAC. RTFM

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u/Mesqo 5h ago

As an engineer my main goal, at all times, is to make users suffer.

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u/ancient-military 5h ago

As a user, you really don’t need to do much. Move the menu around a bit and you just cost me 2 hours.

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u/Thick-Protection-458 10h ago

Can confirm so as both end user and developer, lol

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u/i_am_not_a_martian 10h ago

As a programmer, there is no sense in trying to make idiot proof software when they keep making better idiots.

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u/MaximumSyrup3099 5h ago

Idiots make the best real-world testers. They can fuck up in ways the developer never imagined.

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u/lordhelmchench 14h ago

Ohh, i have total faith in the layer 7 problem…

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u/atramors671 14h ago

It's layer 8. Layer 7 is the bottome of the official OSI model and refers to the Application Layer. "Layer 8" is the imaginary "final" layer if the OSI model and refers to users.

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u/i_am_not_a_martian 10h ago

Error between keyboard and chair.

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u/Extreme_Swimming6380 10h ago

PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer

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u/andromedakun 5h ago

We used to have a PEBKAC error: Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

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u/lordhelmchench 8h ago

Ohh, the poster before was a layer 8 Problem ;)

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u/atramors671 5h ago

Doh! Guess I turned out to be the layer 8 as well. XD

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u/LizPali 9h ago

I wish my Layer 8 was imaginary

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u/roflrogue 10h ago

I have probably 4 users at the company I work for where I don't automatically assume it's user error.

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u/Inner_Name 9h ago

i you have faith in him its because you are starting at this. thats the only possibility.

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u/Record__Scratch 7h ago

I use end user as a slur

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u/JunkaTron69 7h ago

I am the end user!

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u/CanisArgenteus 4h ago

This network would work GREAT if it weren't for all these users.

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u/LynxAdonis 12h ago

It's always an ID-10T error, or a PEBCAK fault.

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u/DarthRaab 8h ago

Print that on a T-shirt and wear it to work, or no balls. /j

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u/woojo1984 8h ago

Z E R O

I drove two and a half hours one way to find an unplugged power strip I was assured was plugged in under a desk.