jayctech

Not sure if I've posted this already but oh well if I have...
 
Around Jan/Feb last year while I was out of the house, my dad decided to buy a new laptop. Before I left at some point we briefly spoke about what he should get. I told him to stick with a light ultrabook of some kind. Avoid wasting money on those touchscreen models and stick with an i5 (all he does is use Office and IE). I come back home from term to find he's spent £1.7k on a "hybrid" Sony Vaio where the keyboard folds behind the screen with an i7.

Happened like a minute ago.
 
Mom walks in saying her laptop isn't accepting her password. I ask her what her password is, type it and hit enter and it works...
 
 
She then asks if I made the first letter a capital..

People that don't know what "internet browser" means.
 
This is one of those things that make me think people just go stupid the second technology gets involved.

What's his reasoning for 100x stronger? Can't be the math. <_<

Recently got an accommodation offer for my Uni. I sent an email asking (among other things) if they had wired access points for internet..
 
Their response:
 
I don't know what to make of it tbh...

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..

Red, Crystal (not sure about this one cause I didn't own this game, but I owned every other game of the western release of Gen1+2 so by the process of elimination..), Sapphire, Leaf Green

Porn tab? Scrub..
 
 
 
Porn virtual machines are where it's at..

Got a ticket from someone saying the printer isn't working and it's appearing as offline. I distinctly remember the person next to him telling me that they're taking the printer to some festival they're organizing.
 
Turns out they still haven't put the printer back. Apparently he didn't have the common sense to turn around and visually confirm the printer is actually there.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can inform me, but for what possible reason could management handcuff cpu developers?

There is nothing inherently wrong with vga image quality, the only difference is that if the cable is of very poor quality or has taken a beating the image may be affected.

My family doesn't know the word "Beta" in software.
I told them that Beta isn't actually a full release.
They said this to me:
 
"What? How come?! They (people who created the software) are smart people! They should fix this immediately!"
"Yeah, they are smart.... But this isn't the real software yet, it's still under development."
"This is unacceptable! They should fix this right now!"
"But..."
"No BUT! Call the company! I want to speak with them!"
 

Not really an experience but my school's computers filter out websites, which is understandable when it's gaming or social media, but they also filter information technologies, so I can't go on linustechtips. What's even worse is that they also filter out educational websites, so we can't even go on our school's website.

One of my teachers asked me to upgrade her computer yesterday because it is running very slow. When I told her that part of the reason could be viruses and malware, though component age is a major factor, she said viruses wouldn't be a problem because she has several antivirus programs...
*facepalm*

The EULA was ridiculously short and did not even mention Microsoft collecting all typed keyboard input by default. There was an option to opt out of the "Make Windows Better" rubbish (this programme makes no sense anymore, since MS now has the 'insiders' as data prostitutes, no offence ) on the pre-install screen, but no options provided to disable the keyboard input collection as well as other various privacy switches in that control panel section.
 

 
I use both the on screen keyboard (with my graphics tablet occasionally) as well as my physical keyboard, so either way MS definitely have some of my passwords >_> all of which I have changed by now. I have also enabled extensive logging on my home network so I can keep a close eye on what MS is doing to my laptop. As much as the Windows 10 UI looks good, there will be some features I'll miss (such as running windows apps on the desktop like a normal program) as well as the new redesigned start menu - but I can't settle for something I have miniscule control over. Microsoft didn't even include the group policy editor, and it takes more than just a few registry tweaks to get control over your system. Group Policy Editor was on my system before the upgrade, and now it just says the application isn't found. Sideloading GPE doesn't work as it just throws a different error and closes.
 
Some of the spyware that MS has included in Windows 10 may or may not be on purpose, some may be just left in from the testing - but the fact that they are still there is raising eyebrows. If MS is collecting data from my system, depending on what it is (things like how long I use my system & what programs I use while it's on is fine as long as they make clear the extent of data that is actually being collected) but currently their choice on collecting a wide range of data under an 'improvement programme/make windows better' is just unacceptable. Google collects data, quite a lot of it and quite frequently - but they actually let you know what is happening and when it's happening(in my case). A frequent example would be the notification popup on my phone when they are updating my location on Google Now, and Android Device Manager. I am able to access that location data under my Google account when I log in from a computer. Google also collects information on what articles I like to read (You set these manually at the start, then google's prediction takes over), as well as YouTube channels I watch frequently (Some people may find these intrusive) and deliver suggested content via notifications or Google Now. I have left the features on as I find the suggested content to be of my interest. These can however be turned off in both YouTube settings and Google Now settings.
 

 
As far as I have seen, MS doesn't allow a user to pick what extent of data can be shared, or even allow the user to access that data at a given time - maybe that user may want to view their browsing habits, or view what programs they use often. I personally prefer Windows 8.1 because I've been using it since the early developer preview and I have a licensed key for the pro version that I haven't used yet - I'm planning on dual booting that as a secondary OS alongside Elementary Linux.
 
I'm personally the kind of person who likes to know the guts of how something works, or I simply won't trust it. Windows 10 appears to have so much going on behind the scenes that it's ridiculous. My hard drive was never being consumed 90% of the time by rundll32 when I was running Windows 8.1. Only since moving to Windows 10, my hard drive is literally always ticking away with rundll32 being the culprit. For those wondering, rundll32 is Microsoft's program used to run system applications, such as windows background updates and the win98-style personalisation panel. I would be scared to use Windows 10 on an SSD. It does way too much reading and writing pointlessly to the storage drive. The majority of the time I check resource manager, the System process is having a peek at Firefox's 300MB data cache folder (I don't know why at all, Windows 8.1 never used to do this - and Firefox accesses that data in resource manager under it's own process name - and I disabled Windows Search...). I think you generally get the idea of what I'm getting at.
 
In my opinion, Windows 10 is great for casual home users who don't want to worry about their computer getting infected or compromised - at the loss of effective control over settings for power users. For me personally, that control loss is a deal breaker. Had I waited a bit longer for before upgrading to Windows 10 I wouldn't have done it at all. I have enough difficulty fighting with Windows Update preventing it from installing shitty generic drivers instead of ASUS's official ones. When Windows updated my touchpad driver to some ELAN bullshit, I noticed the change immediately. Scrolling, moving the mouse around and even just clicking things felt laggy and lifeless. Device manager even has built-in functionality to select your own drivers to be used on a device, in my case I use generic drivers for my laptop speakers - just because they support a wider frequency range compared to the Realtek drivers, and it have a bunch of enhancements including Bass Boost, which is shitty on the realtek driver. Despite manually selecting that driver about 3 times already, Windows Update insists I use Realtek drivers. To be honest, I haven't restarted my laptop for weeks - simply because no restart = no driver update. Shutdown for me means either hibernate or sleep.
 
Anyways, before my response which turned into a rant goes too far from the original point, I'll just end it here.

Before installing windows 10 I read the entire EULA. They did not mention all of the extra 'spying' functionality which is being discovered now. Technically illegal imo and MS has lost every last ounce of my trust. Me and the majority of my computing class have already began switching to various flavours of Linux.

I don't get people who act like that. It's fucking annoying.
 
Basically
1: Win 7 is shit, it has slow boot time. bla, bla, bla.
2: It's not OS's fault you shut it down installing updates so you are the problem here.
1: It's not that bad.
 
How can you fucking change your mind that quickly ? If it's not that bad, don't bitch about it in the first place.

My friend has this habit of force shutting down laptop, doesn't care even when Windows is updating or game is saving, bla bla bla.
Then lots of his files became corrupted then he came to me.
I was like...

"You're just f*cked up."

I totally forgot about this one, happened a few years ago, a coworker was complaining about Windows 7 and how slow his laptop was on boot and shutdown ... I asked him to bring it and I could check it.
Next day when I start the laptop I'm greeted with the startup repair tool, surprised I asked him if if something happened (battery fell off maybe??????).
That's when it all went south... From what he told me, Windows update kept coming up when he was shutting down the laptop but "he didn't care" and wanted the damn thing to turn off immediately, so he would hold the power button to turn it off WHILE Windows was updating!!!!!!!!
*sigh* some people should be banned from owning tech!

Sounds like a porno.. "Close the window. Close the door.. Turn off the lights.. Take your clothes off..."

Technically - it's Spyware - it just spies for MS.

"Windows 10 is a virus." - A friends mom.

The 5400rpm drive in my families computer is going to s***.
Logical response : you're the only one who knows what you're doing and pecause you installed python , it must be your fault 'cause you OBVIOUSLY rewrote the OS and messed with some critical stuff

I had this happen to me during GYM class. (we were bored and i started talking about my gaming pc and steam games)
 
Friend:"I plan on upgrading my pc soon, its not very fast when playing games."
Me: "Cool, so what are you getting? New GPU, Ram, or CPU Maybe?"
Friend:"uh, im getting 250 GB of memory so it runs better."
Me:" Oh so you meant that you are running out of space or...?"
Friend: " Nah, i just want my computer to run games better."
 
(I explained afterwards how a Computer works) lol

So about a year ago, I was on a school excursion, and as I sat on the school bus I got out my Nexus 7. One of the teachers, sitting across the bus from me (who is the most tech illiterate person I've ever met) looked at my tablet. He smirked and said:
 
Him: That's not an iPad
Me: Nope
Him: It's a Samsung, isn't it?
Me:... It's an Android tablet
Him: A what?
Me:...... An Android tablet
Him: What's that?
I ignored him for the rest of the trip.
 
ALSO
 
This teacher used to have an iPhone 5 in a LifeProof case. But he only had a film screen protector on the phone. One day he dropped it face down on a gravel path, and was really mad at Lifeproof that his precious iPhone's screen was now cracked. He then ranted about sueing Lifeproof. I walked away.