Experiences with non-techies

[NerdNinja]

My chemistry teacher took 45 minutes of our 1 hour class to plug her laptop into the TV and play a 5 minute YouTube video.

Why?

imagine every issue possible.

and then add stubbornness and constantly staring over and asking if we can plug her "New iphone 7" into the tv so she could do it that way.

She lies a bunch to sound smart.

At one point we stopped helping her. Why? Because fuck chemistry.

 

My Chem teacher has his smartboard hooked up to his laptop in a dual screen scenario. I was literally the only one in my class that could use it without any sort of effort when we had to do presentations.  

[jayctech]

Just got reminded of something I had to deal with a couple of weeks ago I think.

 

[Tech support]

 

One of our clients are in the same building as us. We get a call that people aren't able to connect the TV in one of the meeting rooms to their laptops. There's actually a computer bolted to the back of the TV so I was confused why people were connecting their laptops to it. Well, regardless, I head down, hook up a laptop I bring with me, change the settings on said laptop into dual screen mode.

 

Works. No issues.

 

I call in the girl that reported the issue and show her and she was like "How did you do that?". I proceeded to show her how I did that.

 

"But we never had to do that before."

[Dude]

My older brother told my grandparents that even if you have a Sky box, you need a separate Freeview box to get Freeview channels.

[Guest]

My older brother told my grandparents that even if you have a Sky box, you need a separate Freeview box to get Freeview channels.

He's not wrong if they aren't paying for sky. Freesat has different channels to freeview. They would need several paid for packs on sky for the same channels as freeview.

[Pugs501]

Just happened today!

I was using Kahoots today and my teacher wanted the Names for identifying who is who while quizzing. So I got out some UniCode and entered my name Upside Down. My teacher and classmates though I was hacking Kahoots!

[Ceatra]

My friend who bought "Le GAMING PC" said: "I can run all RECENT games at MAX" yea.... with FPS under 60....  <_<

 

My laptop can run all recent games at max too... but with _{ULTRA LOW FPS} 

[Nowak]

My Research Writing teacher didn't understand why mechanical drives are so slow and that solid state drives are significantly faster. On the bright side, though, I learned that most of my remaining classmates in said class are system builders.

[WinNut]

My Spanish teacher had a problem with her computer today. She instantly telephoned the IT guy and implied a dire emergency, then called me up for assistance. It turned out she had the monitor on the wrong input.

[Xsinar]

I was invented over to a friend of mine to game on his so "awesome" and overpriced alien ware PC.

 

I was "invented" to a friend? had me totally confused when I read the sentence but later realized that you probably meant invited.

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

we needed to write an essay in word at school, so when everybody was done, the teacher gave us USB sticks to put it onto.

 

i was done, already had the stick in my pocket ready to leave the class, when 15 from 18 kids ALL ASKED ME how to put the FILE ON A USB STICK!!!!!!

 

So there i was spending 10 minutes on 15 usb sticks and needing to explain it several times...

 

finally i can get out of the class. and guess what my teacher said:

 

Its so cool you know how to do that!! Thanks!! i know you're very intelligent in computers.

 

 

*Inside facedesk*

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

Oh yeah and once a kid from my class asked:

 

Can you build me A gaming PC that can play BF4, COD 4 on ultra for 150 Euros????

 

*Inside facedesk*

 

No, sorry. for ultra on those games you should atleast be around the 700-800 Euro mark..

 

He says: 

LOL U R WAYY TO EXPENSIVE HAHAHAH

 

 

**A week later**

 

 

Hey bro i saw this PC on the internet, can it play my games?

 

*Sends crooked pic of specs*

 

AMD A4 4xxx series

 

AMD Superior graphics 1GB DDR3

 

4GB DDR3

 

*Cheapo 350W PSU*

 

500GB HDD.

 

 

 

 

Me:

 

Cool! Have you been playing minecraft lately, this PC will do just fine!!!!

 

 

he: GTFO SHUT UP!!

[RononDex]

Also once my neighbor came to me to "fix" her Laptop. It was a XP laptop that was loaded with all kind of crapy bloatware, toolbars and all the stuff you guys can imagine.

I told her the easiest thing to do would be to re install the OS by reformatting the HDD. So I "sniffed" through her documents to make sure that there are no important docuemtns, files, music or other stuff lying around before I process to reformat the drive. Note: The Laptop actually belonged to her husband. I found folders full of porn videos and in his email (I went through them with her, to check if anything needs to be backed up) were full of dating site mails and notifications.

Well long story short: They got divorced shortly after that because I found all that stuff on the laptop of her ex-husband and she found out about his affairs that way...

[nekomata]

Also once my neighbor came to me to "fix" her Laptop. It was a XP laptop that was loaded with all kind of crapy bloatware, toolbars and all the stuff you guys can imagine.

I told her the easiest thing to do would be to re install the OS by reformatting the HDD. So I "sniffed" through her documents to make sure that there are no important docuemtns, files, music or other stuff lying around before I process to reformat the drive. Note: The Laptop actually belonged to her husband. I found folders full of porn videos and in his email (I went through them with her, to check if anything needs to be backed up) were full of dating site mails and notifications.

Well long story short: They got divorced shortly after that because I found all that stuff on the laptop of her ex-husband and she found out about his affairs that way...

That went bad fast

 

Anyway, one time in english class my teacher went out for a bit after turning the computer on. So, I did what any student would do. I downloaded a bluescreen wallapaper, put it up, ended explorer.exe, and VOILA, his face was priceless as he tumbled about pressing anything before restarting the PC.

 

Note: All of my former high school's PCs had DeepFreeze on, so he didn't suspect anything. Perfect crime

[Frankie]

we needed to write an essay in word at school, so when everybody was done, the teacher gave us USB sticks to put it onto.

 

i was done, already had the stick in my pocket ready to leave the class, when 15 from 18 kids ALL ASKED ME how to put the FILE ON A USB STICK!!!!!!

 

So there i was spending 10 minutes on 15 usb sticks and needing to explain it several times...

 

finally i can get out of the class. and guess what my teacher said:

 

Its so cool you know how to do that!! Thanks!! i know you're very intelligent in computers.

 

 

*Inside facedesk*

 

I can get that old people have problems with technology. It's easy for us because most of us we're exposed to technology from a young age. But class full of I assume young people that don't know how to use usb stick ? Like really ? That has to be some kind of IT hell.

[RedOwen1177]

That went bad fast

 

Anyway, one time in english class my teacher went out for a bit after turning the computer on. So, I did what any student would do. I downloaded a bluescreen wallapaper, put it up, ended explorer.exe, and VOILA, his face was priceless as he tumbled about pressing anything before restarting the PC.

 

Note: All of my former high school's PCs had DeepFreeze on, so he didn't suspect anything. Perfect crime

That is so perfect! I love reading all of these posts!

[nekomata]

And another one i remembered

True story

I have a friend, genius, IQ of 155, grades above 90, awesome at playing he piano, the textbook stereotypical asian kid.

He asked me 2 questions in succession.

1. Can your CD/usb get viruses if you don't cover it up?

2. Can you move files by rubbing usb sticks together?

He was dead serious

[Decon]

And another one i remembered

True story

I have a friend, genius, IQ of 155, grades above 90, awesome at playing he piano, the textbook stereotypical asian kid.

He asked me 2 questions in succession.

1. Can your CD/usb get viruses if you don't cover it up?

2. Can you move files by rubbing usb sticks together?

He was dead serious

IQ just dropped to -1000

[Beskamir]

And another one i remembered

True story

I have a friend, genius, IQ of 155, grades above 90, awesome at playing he piano, the textbook stereotypical asian kid.

He asked me 2 questions in succession.

1. Can your CD/usb get viruses if you don't cover it up?

2. Can you move files by rubbing usb sticks together?

He was dead serious

Well with NFC you can move files from one device to another by bringing them very near each other (basically touching them) so maybe he just predicted the future. (I still have to get around to trying NFC! Even though I've had my S4 for over a year I have yet to use NFC. I know it's shameful... )

[RedSphyxis]

And another one i remembered

True story

I have a friend, genius, IQ of 155, grades above 90, awesome at playing he piano, the textbook stereotypical asian kid.

He asked me 2 questions in succession.

1. Can your CD/usb get viruses if you don't cover it up?

2. Can you move files by rubbing usb sticks together?

He was dead serious

Even geniuses have their faults.

[jayctech]

1. Can your CD/usb get viruses if you don't cover it up?

What does this even mean?

[DigitalHermit]

What does this even mean?

 

Pretty much the same as believing that you can get your PC infected with viruses by sneezing on any part of it...

[jayctech]

Pretty much the same as believing that you can get your PC infected with viruses by sneezing on any part of it...

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/212/e/a/Faceplam_divided_by_0_by_MistyMiasma.jpg

[RedSphyxis]

Pretty much the same as believing that you can get your PC infected with viruses by sneezing on any part of it...

If that were true my PC would be in shambles right now, since I have hay fever right now

 

oh god it's hay fever season again

[NeatSquidYT]

My sister was about to put a chocolate pudding in a microwave, while leaving the metal top on. We all shouted at her before she started, and she doesn't understand why.

[Boink]

So there was a student in one of my classes today who asked how to send a document with outlook (our teacher has us turn most of our stuff in via email) As it turns out, not only did he not have a Microsoft account which makes it pretty difficult to use outlook, but he also didn't even know how to attach documents to an email. It makes me wonder what he's been doing the last 3 and a half years...