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7 hours ago, DocSwag said:

What the... WHAT IS THIS!!!

Finally watched the whole video and he mention he's doing this because Apple refused to issue a refund for some reason (which might be illegal depending on the exact details) ... Talk about over-reaction! xD

 

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I havent checked this thread since we were celebrating something-hundred pages ago.

i have a lot to catch up on.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. 
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2 hours ago, fisch1l said:

OK she apparently figured my disabling of their monitoring systems out. They got County IT involved. Sat me down, explained that if I didn't show how I disabled things, they would give my 3 days of in school suspention. Crap. 

So I had to stop. Apparently, I managed to corrupt the monitoring software file and they had to reinstall it. Now they are watching me like hawks. 

 

Tl;Dr: messed with computers at school, got the county involved and almost got suspended. 

GG..

34 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Me too, man. Me too. 13 YEAR OLDS UNITE.

Haha yay

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29 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

dumb enough to leave intel display settings accessible to normal users

We have it accessible too. Very useful for trolling :D

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7 hours ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

When you get in trouble at school because the school folks were dumb enough to leave intel display settings accessible to normal users and they think you broke the monitor because it's entirely green... smh.

At the summer camp I went to over the summer (duh) all the monitors used VGA so some of the monitors were all red or all green or whatever. I fixed them by screwing in the cable better.

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14 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

At the summer camp I went to over the summer (duh) all the monitors used VGA so some of the monitors were all red or all green or whatever. I fixed them by screwing in the cable better.

Did you make them sacrifice a goat to your mighty powers and bow down before you?

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*sigh*

Got to work to discover lots of tickets about people being unable to login because of password change ... Despite the numerous emails, and the warning when changing your password, people are still using a broken portal. (Portal works, and still needs to be used, but the password change through it is broken, we have a ticket for it with the software manufacturer but it's not being taken care of).

 

The average user still clicks "OK" without reading ... Then complain about things not working and that we should issue a warning ... REALLY??? HOW ABOUT READING THE FUCKIN WARNING YOU GOT RIGHT BEFORE CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD!??!!!?

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2 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

*sigh*

Got to work to discover lots of tickets about people being unable to login because of password change ... Despite the numerous emails, and the warning when changing your password, people are still using a broken portal. (Portal works, and still needs to be used, but the password change through it is broken, we have a ticket for it with the software manufacturer but it's not being taken care of).

 

The average user still clicks "OK" without reading ... Then complain about things not working and that we should issue a warning ... REALLY??? HOW ABOUT READING THE FUCKIN WARNING YOU GOT RIGHT BEFORE CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD!??!!!?

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4 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Did you make them sacrifice a goat to your mighty powers and bow down before you?

No. Actually, most people didn't really care but it annoyed me so I fixed it while they were using it and annoyed them.

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Just now, BingoFishy said:

No. Actually, most people didn't really care but it annoyed me so I fixed it while they were using it and annoyed them.

:( You should have made them tremble before your power!!!!!!1!

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Just now, Lurick said:

:( You should have made them tremble before your power!!!!!!1!

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31 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

Your profile picture does a good job displaying your anger.

xD

 

Was actually thinking of changing it to something more "festive" :P

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9 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

To be fair, I think it's Nara Shikamaru every time. Every. Single. Time.

lol didn't even realize but you're right, my avatar looks like Shikamaru! xD

 

I should go back and modify the hair! :P

 

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The worst thing is when people ask you to build them a computer.

Everytime I talk to them and think about suitable hardware. Then I proceed to qoute them a price of the finished build, after which (and this has happened several times) they tell me they have decided to pick something cheaper.


In the end they tell me it's not as fast as they thought it would be...

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2 minutes ago, Fattedd said:

In the end they tell me it's not as fast as they thought it would be...

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1 hour ago, Fattedd said:

The worst thing is when people ask you to build them a computer.

Everytime I talk to them and think about suitable hardware. Then I proceed to qoute them a price of the finished build, after which (and this has happened several times) they tell me they have decided to pick something cheaper.


In the end they tell me it's not as fast as they thought it would be...

I found this a lot working in retail. People buy the cheapest piece of shit they can. Then bitch about it not being fast and not being able to do what they want. I work on the basis you get what you pay for. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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Don't you love it when the marketing department of a company screws up so badly

 

"Windows Gaming PCs give you the ultimate Xbox experience on a PC"

 

LMAO :D!!!!!!

Judge a product on its own merits AND the company that made it.

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I work as an IT technician and well I ask someone to type our remote connection tool web address into the address bar and they ALWAYS type it into the search bar and cry about the weird languages it appears in or not coming up at all... Grr...

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1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Don't you love it when the marketing department of a company screws up so badly

 

"Windows Gaming PCs give you the ultimate Xbox experience on a PC"

 

LMAO :D!!!!!!

Yeah, they should realize that, regardless of what they might want, "Xbox experience" is a bad thing to PC gamers xD

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1 hour ago, JackHubbleday said:

I work as an IT technician and well I ask someone to type our remote connection tool web address into the address bar and they ALWAYS type it into the search bar and cry about the weird languages it appears in or not coming up at all... Grr...

At least they can find the search bar amiright. :D 

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1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

At least they can find the search bar amiright. :D 

https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/55tkr1/internet_browser/?st=itvjzqr8&sh=fb6c721f

I read this and died a little on the inside. If you dont know what a web browser is. Then why in the fuck are you even touching a computer? 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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Just got a "work stoppage" call, lady was panicking, her PC wasn't working anymore ... lights on the PC were working, light on the monitor was working but she wasn't getting any image.

 

Went to her desk, I hear the PC "restart beep" (she had just restarted it) ... I look at the monitor and I can see it's ON but it's on power saving mode. Looked behind the monitor, played with the DVI cable and I realized it's wasn't connected properly. Only one of the leg was screwed and it was only slightly screwed. She later told me she had moved he monitor to "straighten it out"

 

 

TLDR; Lady panic and restart her PC 4 times after she inadvertently unplugged her monitor by moving it ... at least she did try the "have you tried turning it off and back on again" !! xD

 

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Never read comments under Digital Foundry's videos, they are full of fanboys and non techies.

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