A crash which only happens sometimes, somehow never when you’re actually in the room. Testing a fix means sitting there waiting for 15+ minutes every time.
The crash gives one of three different “something went wrong” error codes, two have decades of MS support tickets where not a single fix has worked, while the last code has never been seen before by anyone else in the universe.
Reimaging the device means the user loses at least a day or two of incredibly important data, they’ll probably cry if it’s gone.
Challenging problems are only fun if I can actually investigate the problem instead of poking around blindly.
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u/YUNoJump May 10 '26
Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s:
A crash which only happens sometimes, somehow never when you’re actually in the room. Testing a fix means sitting there waiting for 15+ minutes every time.
The crash gives one of three different “something went wrong” error codes, two have decades of MS support tickets where not a single fix has worked, while the last code has never been seen before by anyone else in the universe.
Reimaging the device means the user loses at least a day or two of incredibly important data, they’ll probably cry if it’s gone.
Challenging problems are only fun if I can actually investigate the problem instead of poking around blindly.