WaterproofBeanie

For art at school we had to draw a self portrait, so we had to print off pictures of stuff we loved. I came with Unity, Blender, Beavis & Butt-head and South Park on mine. Someone points out I like Unity. I say yeah, 'cuz it's fun and easy(er) to use. He says "Unity games suck. They're the worst developers ever! Everytime I go get a crappy app from the app store on my iPhone, it has the Unity sign at the beginning. Unity sucks."
 
I explain to him what a game engine is and point out some good games made in Unity. On the way out of the locker I get stopped by someone else, who says the same friggin' thing. Dammit.
 
UNITY IS AN ENGINE FFS!

The library supervisor in my school doesn't know much about tech. I just unjammed the printer twice because someone didn't load the paper in properly (she just stared at the thing like a lost puppy) and I had to teach her how to use the formula function in excel all in the last 20 minutes. 

Hard-wired ROM is the best way to stuff it with bloatware that is truly irremovable.

I've had so many ridiculous stories but this one happened most recently so I remember it. I was showing a regular customer a laptop we had on sale, meanwhile shooting the shit with him about some of the stuff he has at the current time. He said if he bought this one he would have to wipe the data on his other one because his brother (who passed) was very conscious about his data falling into the wrong hands. I explained that it is a service we provide, however he immediately declined. He begins to explain that data is very easy to recover (which isn't wrong, however after wiping it in store we recycle it through a program) and he will just do what he did last time. What did he do last time, you ask? He put his computer ON HIS GRILL AND MELTED EVERYTHING.

Some of my experiences:
My friend: "I got a Mac so I can game"
Me: /facepalm
There's a method of rotating the screens via ctrl + alt + a direction key. So in middle school we switched all of the computer lab computers' screens upside down and sideways. They brought over "the tech guy" and a few tech savy teachers and no one could figure out how to fix the screens. They even started considering buying new monitors until we fixed em back.
My college history professor thought that dropping an application shortcut into the trash bin uninstalled it.
People jamming usb's into hdmi slots...WHY IS THIS SO COMMON
Cheap hp laptop user: "My computer has more RAM than yours so mines faster. You got ripped off."
"If I buy a bigger hard drive will my computer get faster?"
People who use Internet explorer.

At school today, somebody's phone didn't have much batter life left, so they said this "does anybody have an android cable" another person responded "I don't, i have a windows phone". First off, its called micro usb, second, windows phones use that too... :blink:

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I actually have a funny story about this haha. I helped my buddy build a computer, a rather powerful one as well. it was an Intel I7 with 16G of ram, a 500G SSD, a geforce gtx 780ti and some other stuff i don't quite remember, but we built it and we installed the OS and whatnot and went on with out lives. The next day, he calls me and says that the graphic settings were't working and that WoW was not playing on ultra, and i thought that was weird because he has a F****ing 780! But i didn't think much of it and told him that its because something was plugged in wrong and that i would come over and help him when i had the chance. Well that chance didn't happen until about 4 months later when i realized, when he brought his computer over, that he was plugging his monitor into his motherboard and not the GPU. I laughed at him and he laughed with me and ultimately fixed his ridiculously powerful first custom computer haha.

My parents bought a GT 610 instead of a GTX 650 because they think the former will run all games at ultra better than the latter because the former has "more VRAM"...  :blink:
 
Moral lesson: Never let your parents buy a GPU for you...  :lol:

Google? You mean that bar at the top of the screen with all the letters and numbers?

It's not disgusting, it's life. I do it every time I get a chance.

My brother doesn't share my interest in tech either but at least he listens to what I have to say about technology and doesn't act like I know nothing. (Although that could be the result of me being older than him)
 
As for nontechies that think you know nothing I think that a good cure for them is to just leave them alone or give them enough information in a txt file so that they could fix it without having to spend hours troubleshooting/googleing the problem. You could also sabotage their stuff and see if they figure it out but that's a little on the evil side of things so I'm not going to endorse that.
 
Actually giving someone enough info in a txt file or just leaving them alone is also a good enough method for getting people to stop treating you as 24/7 tech support and actually forcing them to use 2 brain cells before calling you for help. After all most of us likely learned about tech as a result of stuff not working like they should, right? (That was a major contributing factor to the development of my tech knowledge and overall interest) So if we just show everyone what to do each time instead of letting them try and figure it out for themselves or even worse do it for them 100% of the time they will never learn. Am I right?

So my sister got a laptop (Lets say August 21th). I tell her that some of the programs that come with her computer (bloatware) such as Mcafee aren't good programs and that there are better ones than that. She says "Your stupid with computers and break them all the time. You might even put a virus on the computer".
I'm 14 right now and the last time I broke a computer was 6 years ago! I've: Fresh installed Windows on 10 computers, cleaned 60+ viruses/malware/adware/ and trojans off our old computer, installed a GPU into a desktop, installed memory into my sister's old laptop aswell as an SSD I've done more, but you get the point... I AM BETTER WITH COMPUTERS THAN I WAS 6 YEARS AGO! I think everything I did above is more than enough proof that I'm good with computers.
 
Moving on...
 
On September 2nd, she complains that her touch screen on her laptop isn't working along with her webcam. She blames it on me because I "touched it". I denied it and I can tell she is a bit mad.
The first and only time I touched the computer was on September 4th, when I went to uninstall the bloatware and install Malwarebytes and Microsoft Office 2007 for her. Two days after her problem arises. I forgot to mention this in the last problem, but she dislikes me for my interest and some of my aspirations so she will find a way to make me look bad sometimes. Moving on again...
 
I plead with her to let me fix the touchscreen and webcam. She says, and I quote "If you are soo good with computers, than prove it to me. Actually do something helpful. Do something with your life instead of sitting on the computer all day watching Youtube videos"
YOUR COMPUTER TOUCHSCREEN AND WEBCAM DOESN'T WORK, THATS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE ME!!! I've proved to her numerous times that I'm good with computers. She is either being stubborn or stupid. I don't spend all day on the computer. Probably 2 hours or less. If I do, I spend it watching youtube videos, looking of PC stuff or talking with friends or even doing homework.  
I guess this isn't really an experience with a non-techie. Depends on how you view it.

"Bing is google with a skin"