LadyZaziki

Where did you drudge up that line of BS? Bing is independant of Google.

AMD EPYC 7281 Dual Socket AMD EPYC 7281 Dual Socket Linux Benchmarks and Review 
so good to see a high margin datacenter product line coming from AMD again.
Intel, I hope you invested in some diapers - because your shit is about to hit the fan!

Doesn't help if there's something else hardcoded into the hardware.  Think of an equivalent of Intel's ME, which also goes below the OS level.
 
 
 
True, but there's a difference between a phone made in China and a Chinese phone.
A Samsung phone made in China is made to the exact specifications and with the exact parts that Samsung ordered it to be made with.  Samsung, having the original plans, can always verify that everything is correct.
A phone by a Chinese brand may very well have government mandated surveillance hardware or low-level firmware built in.  Unless security experts completely reverse engineer every part of the phone, there's no way of telling. 
 
 
 
Doesn't matter how unimportant you think that info is, at some point it can be used against you.  Maybe you have no need to worry now, but what if later on you decide to protest against a new and oppressive government?  They'll have all the data needed to blackmail you into silence or put you behind bars for years.
Hell, you don't even need to do anything wrong.  A century ago nobody cared that there was a huge database that contained everyone's details and religion either.  Ask the Jews in Germany how that worked out for them once the Nazis came to power. 
 

Well yes, but there's a big gap between "somewhat more secure" and "surveillance proof". Maybe we should classify it as "surveillance resistant"?

it's probably just loading, does it happen every time? maybe try to reset cmos and oc again

actually the usb fits inside the Ethernet port. obviously it will not work but if its dark and you can not see the port it feels just the same. i have done that few times my self. cant blame her for that, but can blame her for not figuring it out.

I built a PC for my younger brother. Worst mistake, he thinks I owe him a lifetimes worth of customer support or something.

Lady puts Nano-sim in a regular size adapter into her BlackBerry and then complains that she was never informed it was the wrong size.

I tried to explain to her as politely as possible that a booklet shouldnt have to tell you you're an idiot.

You should have to do one of these before you can buy a cellphone.
 

I always found it funny when people think your a genious for doing the most basic things like installing ram or a graphics card.
Friend:"I got a new graphics card but my mom wont take me to bestbuy so they can install it."
Me:"Ill do it for free"
*installs*
Friend:"HOLY CRAP YOUR BRILLIANT YOU SHOULDNT EVEN BE IN HIGHSCHOOL"

I've had way too many instances that if i try to remember one im going to end up in a deep depressive rage and end up spammin facebook with "I wish guns were legal" so instead ill post with how i treat such cases

Don't waste time giving advice to people who you know wont take it.
Only give so much advice for as long as the person is willing to learn.
Be nice to those who respect you and give them a reason to keep respecting you.
If someone turns around later proclaiming you know nothing and treats you like s***, if your not smiling when you get your revenge you're not getting the right revenge.
Make sure you actually know what you're about to say, you don't want to be the aforementioned guy who thinks he knows it all that we all hate because he doesnt know what hes talking about...
Ignorance is bliss, you can always spot someone who is ignorant when they're "in love" with something you know is overpriced or rubbish (here's looking at you apple, noctua and gaming laptops).
Try to find the most simple and easiest solution you can, when you can, IF doing the easier solution is okay to do so (not a bodge job).
Building someone a good pc isn't worth doing if they have bad habits and thier stuff is full of rubbish and dont do any form of file management and their old pc is full of millions of lolcats pictures, duplicated files, corrupted files that they never sort out, it'll only end up being slow or dying and you'll get the blame.
Read what the user is like, you might think rip off the rich people and help the poor but its not that simple.
If they're VERY poor they probably do weed, have a low work ethic dont maintain things well so they will treat their pc the same
If they're poor for other reasons (just lost his job) sure help them out!
If they're the average joe, treat them with respect, always be willing to help (bearing in mind what ive said before) and try and get rid of the bad name us tech guru's, mechanics etc have as "rip off merchants".
If they're wealthy don't take the p**s, you could rip them off once but if you give someone a good service they will come back for more.

Keep the faith, remember its YOUR love and YOUR hobby, unless its actually your job (in which case you're getting paid so you cant complain), take time out when you have to prevent stressing out, you should never hate the things you love doing...
B)
hello the people going through reading every post [salute]

Some person put chewing gum in the front usb ports on some of our computers. As the "computer guy" in my class they asked me. I put the usb in the back. They think im jesus. Firstly im a hindu(lol). Secondly HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH.

You obviously haven't played anything from Bethesda.

I was helping a friend choose pc parts. He was worried about gpu length and this is what he actually messaged me no joke:
"oh okay. what if ur gpu is too short? i know too long, just don't buy it, but if it's too short, can u extend it?"
I facepalmed so hard...

There's two sorts of non-techies.
The ones that are aware of their lack of knowledge and gladly take advise
and the ones that have no clue what so ever, but think they do, and will yell at you if something doesn't work, because you were watching youtube or something ^^