Cree340

I have a MBP retina (probably gonna get hate over it) and because the screen is glass, people constantly touch my screen thinking that its a touch-screen and leave their fingerprints everywhere. Also another one, (probably said before) people who think that you are only playing games when you are on a computer or some people that think you are "hacking" when all you did was use Terminal or CMD to diagnose some issue on your own computer. Lastly, people thinking that Wifi is faster than wired Ethernet cabling (As long as its not like Cat3 or Cat5 with some Hub instead of a switch).

A girl in my class the other day kept asking if anyone was studying computer science. When someone said they did and offered help, she handed them her iPhone which wouldn't turn on and didn't have a home button. She expected us to magically fix it for her because we were learning computing...

AMD CPU and Intel Mobo?! Good god, those pins must have been more bent than Donald Trump making his racist presidential announcement! For the GPU and RAM, did he not realize that you can't force two physical objects together that won't fit, or did he just not want to go back to the store and exchange everything? Did he just think "Oh this'll be a piece of cake, I don't need to watch any tutorial videos on how to do this!!!"?!
 
I find it ironic that he has a gaming PC, yet has the nerve to say that Macs are still better for games. Honestly. Oh no, wait he must be lying because there is no way in hell he got 60+ frames on BF4 Ultra on a macbook pro. PERIOD. If his 1000$ computer stutters on BF4, chances are he probably fucked up his build log like that kid I saw at fry's with an AX860i and GTX 960.
 
You went so ranty that I don't even know who "he" is. Your Aunt's boyfriend? That asshole uncle that took credit for your build and doesn't know jackshit? I know you're pissed, hell I kinda am too reading that, but explain what's happening before you go apeshit. Whoever "he" is sounds like a fucking idiot for not reading instructions for a cooler, and cutting himself on sharp metal.

I have another one... People who ask you to help them with something computer related and all you have to do is google it and click the first link.

My friend has used the statement "high end $40 gaming graphics card".

My friend's got a laptop with i3-2330M using iGPU (HD Graphics 3000).
He kept on saying that he's got dedicated GPU (have checked his laptop, he doesn't have it), he even challenged me to run Assassin's Creed: Unity in his laptop. I'd said that he wouldn't be able to run the game, but he resisted.
If his laptop could run the game, I had to buy him foods, but if his laptop couldn't run the game, then it's the other way around. 
 
When he ran the game, it lagged, didn't respond, then blue screened...... (But I fixed it later, after he'd bought me foods)
He said "IMPOSSIBLE!"
 
I was like...

"So, where's my food?"

My friend wanted to game on his PC, so he got a GPU. He wanted me to help him over the phone to install it and he had a friend of his to help him, who was supposed to be "computer savvy". So, I tried to help him on the phone, but they wouldn't tell me what they were doing. Then they say "The card won't fit. The fan is too big." I go to his house because they needed my help and I thought it was awfully weird that the card wouldn't fit when it was a fairly small card for the size of his case. Turns out when I get to his house, they tried to fit the card into the case from outside the case. So, they open up the case, took off the expansion bracket for the PCI Express, and, between two expansion brackets (which left a gap for the GPU PCI Express slot), they tried to fit the GPU though the thin gap from outside the case. Yes, really.

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I'm pretty sure the integrated GPU would run better even running on 0.1gb of undercooked memory.

*ahem*
i7 with GT210
*ahem*

Okay so a friend of mine wanted to build a computer by him self. (He has zero experience he's only seen me build them that's it...)
So I order most of the parts and he orders the power supply and hard drive.. 
I had everything shipped to his house it was all their in June the 15th... 
He calls me June the 25th... 
 
Sooo kyle, I have tried to put this dam blasted crap together a thousand times now and I just can't fiqure it out like where does the CD even go in at? And blah blah blah... I couldn't stop laughing half way threw.
 
So I get their at his house and I'm looking at this disaster on the floor... (HORRIFIED) 
The Hard drive was for an IDE cable... (WHERE DID HE EVEN FIND AN IDE HARD DRIVE???)
the sata cables where crammed into the hard drive like he had bought more because he said their was still pins left over... (face palmed)
The GPU was in the bottom slot at least it was in a GPU slot...
The fans where duck-tapped on...
The CPU cooler had no paste on it (he used it when inserting the GPU....) Was told by one of his friends I guess that it would help slide it in.....
The power supply was not even in the case he tapped it to the top... I don't even know how the cables managed to reach...
I mean I could go on... but I'm just gonna let you figure the rest out...

Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech.
Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them.
I'll go first:
So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago.
My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.

Ah I remember, one year ago today I sold my old iMac. My mom was super confused as to why I was selling it (my dad had given me his old Core 2 Quad system that was halfway decent to replace my *10* year old iMac with a PowerPC 1 core CPU) as "why replace your Mac with a PC? I think you're making a big mistake here."
 
Yes, a system over 4 times as powerful and 4 years newer was worse simply because it wasn't a Mac.
 
Like I like Apple PCs and all but ffs who would take a single-core, DDR1 iMac over a Core 2 Quad?

I was staying at a hotel which offered free Wifi for all their customers, but oddly enough, I didn't have Internet access in my room while I did in the lobby. (Probably they configured the Access Point wrong or something) So I told the reception lady and she just gave me the login data for the admin account of the network. Holy shit, I could've done anything from shutting done the network completely to changing the password, accessing their NAS (I didn't check what kind of data was stored there, maybe sensible customer data), installing malware on the router etc.
And of course, they chose their password and user name very wisely, both were literally "admin".

There's this person at my school, that no matter how many times I've convinced him otherwise thinks that a computer is a tower and a laptop is not a computer. So whenever I say "so your computer..." he says, "I don't have a computer" and then I reply with, but don't you have your acer laptop and then he says, "Its a laptop not a computer"

There's this person at my school, that no matter how many times I've convinced him otherwise thinks that a computer is a tower and a laptop is not a computer. So whenever I say "so your computer..." he says, "I don't have a computer" and then I reply with, but don't you have your acer laptop and then he says, "Its a laptop not a computer"

here.

Had an issue yesterday. Lots of stuff happened (some wtf stuff), end result was I had to re-setup a user on her machine. A mapped server folder vanished as a result of the new profile and I have no clue which folder was mapped. I called her up and she said "it's the S drive". I had no clue what that was so I opened every folder (was like 8 of them) and asked if it looked familiar, she said no. She then mentions she doesn't even use the folder so I didn't bother mapping...
 
 
Get an email today from her saying she still doesn't have the S drive..

The following story occured minutes prior to me writing this. I was sitting in my living room reading Twitter. My mother says "thats weird, I just got an email from PayPal saying there is an issue with my account info. Sirens scream in my head, RED ALERT RED ALERT! I yell out STOP DON'T click anything. I go over and just as I had though it was a phishing email. Thank god I was there because she was about to give up our her PayPal account. I investigate more. I show her why it is fake and how to find phishing emails. This email was a classic phishing email, starting with the email address: paypal-account@supportkiller.com (shady). I move on to the email itself. To begin the PayPal logo at the top was not even a logo. It was plain blue text in a font similar to the one used by PayPal in there logo (even shadier). The body of the email was next. Classics, starting with Dear Customer, (knowing that PayPal starts all emails with the customers first and last name). Next was the broken English. I had confirmed it was  a phishing attempt that I had just prevented. I reported it to PayPal and taught my mother to not even click anything in emails and to just go straight to the companies website and deal with it there. CRISIS AVERTED!

got asked by a good friend today if i would build a gaming PC for him sometime soon. but when i started to discuss about what parts he wanted to use for it he just got this blank stare over his face.
yeah i believe this is gonna be a learning experience for him

maybe the teachers wanted some "entertainment" during planning

There's this person at my school, that no matter how many times I've convinced him otherwise thinks that a computer is a tower and a laptop is not a computer. So whenever I say "so your computer..." he says, "I don't have a computer" and then I reply with, but don't you have your acer laptop and then he says, "Its a laptop not a computer"

I have another one... People who ask you to help them with something computer related and all you have to do is google it and click the first link.

I have another one... People who ask you to help them with something computer related and all you have to do is google it and click the first link.

THE PAIN IS REAL. I tell everybody not to touch my screen and they still do. It hurts my OCD  :angry: