Actor and comedian, T. J. Miller, opens up about his role on “Silicon Valley.”

Actor a nd comedia n T. J. Miller sha res the unique challenges of his “Silicon Va lley” cha ra cter, lessons lea rned a t ha ck ca mp a nd his new fa vorite a pp. Wha t wa s your rela tionship with the tech industry before you bega n work on “Silicon Va lley?”

I was excellent at software updates and booting my computer up in safe mode.

How did you prepa re for the role of Erlich?

I booted my computer up into safe mode, and then got dangerous. I spent three months at a ” hack camp” until I found out it was a horror movie experience camp. The silver lining is hack ing and coding is not as scary as I was led to believe at camp. And there are far less k nives.

Ha s being on the show motiva ted you to use a ny new software or devices?

I’m just more involved in tech news. I watch trailers for upcoming technology. I’ve become the k ind of guy who goes on Reddit and doesn’t comment, as wellas the first ever guy to join Linkin rest, an app that is the fusion of everything that is useless about Linked In and everything that is boring about Pinterest.

Wha t’s the most complicated word or phra se you’ve ha d to memorize from the script so fa r?

I have the least heavy tech jargon of the crew, but I track ed down a line I had a really tough time with: “All right, Dinesh. I’m going to compile varnish to cache the manifests. You start reducing the seeds in the P2P

swarm!” I didn’t k now what the hell I was saying. It sounds lik e utter nonsense. And they k ept saying, “to cache the manifests. TO! Not AND!”