Experiences with non-techies

[pythonmegapixel]

Guilty of having multiple browsers because I want to make sure code I write plays nicely with Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chromium) and WebKit (Safari).

[KatanaDV20]

3 hours ago, Mitko_DSV said:

@KatanaDV20 Well... I'm gulty of this as well. For me the reason is that I use different browsers for different purposes, just easier to separate for example university and personal stuff. Though I usually don't have more than two browsers open at the same time. Currently tiping this in Firefox and have an online lecture running in Chrome.

As @CT854said, profiles is the way -  or go to town organizing bookmarks into folders separating university from personal. I use Vivaldi (which uses the Chromium engine)  and I like that it has a sidebar which I can keep open, makes navigating and searching favorites easy. 

 

[KatanaDV20]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Guilty of this on my laptop because used to be some flash stuff ran better in Chromium than FireFox.

Oh I see ok, something I haven't considered!

2 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Guilty of having multiple browsers because I want to make sure code I write plays nicely with Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chromium) and WebKit (Safari).

But see - you have a very good reason and a proper IT/tech reason to want to do this.

 

My friends are just casuals who will open YT in Edge, read a blog in Chrome, browse Reddit in Firefox & shop on Amazon in Vivaldi 

[Mitko_DSV]

@CT854@KatanaDV20I used to use Chrome only years ago, but had some issues with some websites, so started using Opera, then had issues with it as well, so now I mainly use Firefox on my main PC. There are still some websites that work well only on one browser for me, though that's rare, but I still have them as backup (sometimes one website stops working one one browser and only works on a different one, the next day everything is fine). Also I have Chrome on both my main PC and my laptop I use for university and are synced. Firefox I use on my main PC. That's the reason for the split - don't have to install Firefox on my laptop, and I prefer to use Firefox on my main PC. Yes, I'm making excuses doing something, because I'm too lazy to do it (it will take me a few days to get everything set-up to use only one browser).

[pythonmegapixel]

I'd wager that for everyone who doesn't spend a large number of hours gaming, the browser probably spends more time open than any other window on their computer. So it makes sense to get it right.

[da na]

My school has two wifi networks, one for students and one for guests. the student one is throttled down to 1mb/sec per computer for all of the student computers on the network which is around 500. One day my laptop disconnected and I accidentally joined the wrong network, I joined the guest instead of the student.

They had the same password

Students aren't supposed to join the guest network that has no throttle, no firewall, and no proxy restrictions at all.

[da na]

20 hours ago, KatanaDV20 said:

Multiple browsers 

 

I notice many of my friends on their laptops and no joke on the taskbar I see Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Edge, Chrome all open at the same time, each with 20+ tabs. I ask why and they give me that look like..."why not?" "who cares" but then they whine at me that the laptop "gets kinda slow". 

 

Their bookmarks are scattered all over the place. So they tell me "Oh check this funny video out on YT, I bookmarked it" and they have to check each browser and then find it. I want to tell them to try and stick to one browser to streamline things but they wont care. On the other hand I am impressed that as non-techies and non-nerds they have discovered browsers like Vivaldi!

Well I use Edge for my school stuff and Firefox for home stuff, because Edge is faster and Firefox is more secure

[KatanaDV20]

9 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I'd wager that for everyone who doesn't spend a large number of hours gaming, the browser probably spends more time open than any other window on their computer. So it makes sense to get it right.

This a great comment, that is very true. After trying out all the big names I have settled on Vivaldi because its so customizable. I sound like a commercial for it I know but you really can make it your own once you get under the hood. 

 

5 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Well I use Edge for my school stuff and Firefox for home stuff, because Edge is faster and Firefox is more secure

I agree, while I have settled on Vivaldi being my browser of choice I have noticed the sheer speed of Edge, its very very fast. If it had features like Vivaldi does (specially the Sidebar) I would consider jumping to it even because of its speed. 

[Bitter]

I like that Firefox desktop and mobile can run the same plugins, so it's mostly what I use.

 

HTPC runs Chrome because some streaming media wasn't jiving with FF years back and I never switched it to FF after. I don't share any stuff between PCs like logins or browser history.

[sub68]

5 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Students aren't supposed to join the guest network that has no throttle, no firewall, and no proxy restrictions at all.

thats not nice

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I like that Firefox desktop and mobile can run the same plugins, so it's mostly what I use.

I can agree

I use both

[Results45]

On 3/25/2021 at 12:29 PM, Mitko_DSV said:

@KatanaDV20 Well... I'm gulty of this as well. For me the reason is that I use different browsers for different purposes, just easier to separate for example university and personal stuff. Though I usually don't have more than two browsers open at the same time. Currently tiping this in Firefox and have an online lecture running in Chrome.

 

I moved to the Baltimore at the beginning of the pandemic to live with my sister and brought my Chromebook with me instead of my Windows laptop and guess what? Zoom only launches properly if I use Firefox.

 

So there you go. Firefox for Zoom, regular Chrome for Youtube, docs, & email, and Incognito Mode for browsing with the peace of mind that history and cookies will be automatically deleted when I close the window.

[KatanaDV20]

On 3/26/2021 at 6:14 PM, Bitter said:

I like that Firefox desktop and mobile can run the same plugins, so it's mostly what I use.

 

I agree that this is a cool feature. You can do the same with Chromium type browsers as well. I use Kiwi browser on my cellphone and Vivaldi on desktop and as both have Chromium base I can use all the same Chrome extensions. 

 

You might wonder why I dont use Vivaldi on the phone too and I would like too but it currently lacks a very useful and simple function that Kiwi has - exporting bookmarks as a HTML file. 

[BulletSponge]

This is actually not a joke the other day my aunt was going though here attic and found 8-9 old computers throughout the years and they are the type of people that buy a new pc when it gets slow or the get a virus and they decided eventually to destroy the information on the computers they were going to put them in the bathtub and fill it up with bleach to destroy the information on the computers

[whm1974]

9 hours ago, Dancam38 said:

This is actually not a joke the other day my aunt was going though here attic and found 8-9 old computers throughout the years and they are the type of people that buy a new pc when it gets slow or the get a virus and they decided eventually to destroy the information on the computers they were going to put them in the bathtub and fill it up with bleach to destroy the information on the computers

People actually do that? Just wipe the HDDs/SSDs and remove them, the destroy... I have "Fix" System before by simply reinstalling Windows... Of course this was back when Windows XP was around.

[RockSolid1106]

On my recent trip to India, those Tap to Pay or NFC credit cards(The cards which can simply be tapped on that machine to make the payment), the cashiers call it a "WiFi" card, because they apparently have the same WiFi symbol on them.

[Bitter]

18 minutes ago, LTTfan2006 said:

Here in India, those Tap to Pay or NFC credit cards(The cards which can simply be tapped on that machine to make the payment), the cashiers call it a "WiFi" card, just because they apparently have the same WiFi symbol on them.

That makes sense, the symbol is nearly the same.

[dilpickle]

On 3/28/2021 at 3:34 AM, Dancam38 said:

This is actually not a joke the other day my aunt was going though here attic and found 8-9 old computers throughout the years and they are the type of people that buy a new pc when it gets slow or the get a virus and they decided eventually to destroy the information on the computers they were going to put them in the bathtub and fill it up with bleach to destroy the information on the computers

 

23 hours ago, whm1974 said:

People actually do that? Just wipe the HDDs/SSDs and remove them, the destroy... I have "Fix" System before by simply reinstalling Windows... Of course this was back when Windows XP was around.

The sad truth is most people don't understand the distinction between software and hardware. So many people end up buying new computers just because of software problems.

[whm1974]

I had a Supervisor who GF like that and she going to buy another computer. I just him told I'll reinstall Windows for Free. After informing Him that is a common fix for Windows XP Issues... He though his GF was Nuts...

 

MY Landlord's Wife didn't know any computers either....

[BulletSponge]

On 3/28/2021 at 11:30 AM, whm1974 said:

People actually do that? Just wipe the HDDs/SSDs and remove them, the destroy... I have "Fix" System before by simply reinstalling Windows... Of course this was back when Windows XP was around.

i got in contact with them imma be taking all the harddrives cpu's ram sticks and gpu's before they recycle them

they are most likey to old to put a gpu in and flip them as entry level gaming pc's

[whm1974]

7 minutes ago, Dancam38 said:

i got in contact with them imma be taking all the harddrives cpu's ram sticks and gpu's before they recycle them

they are most likey to old to put a gpu in and flip them as entry level gaming pc's

The their computer had DDR2 RAM. The Computer was something cheap from Walmart.

[BulletSponge]

Just now, whm1974 said:

The their computer had DDR2 RAM. The Computer was something cheap from Walmart.

most likely

[WkdPaul]

On 3/28/2021 at 4:34 AM, Dancam38 said:

This is actually not a joke the other day my aunt was going though here attic and found 8-9 old computers throughout the years and they are the type of people that buy a new pc when it gets slow or the get a virus and they decided eventually to destroy the information on the computers they were going to put them in the bathtub and fill it up with bleach to destroy the information on the computers

I've had a client do that, they gave us a bunch of PC saying they destroyed the data already.

 

After opening the PC, we found the motherboard had been drilled into and the PSU wires were cut ... and the HDD were left intact

[BulletSponge]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

I've had a client do that, they gave us a bunch of PC saying they destroyed the data already.

 

After opening the PC, we found the motherboard had been drilled into and the PSU wires were cut ... and the HDD were left intact

that is hilarious.  

[Bitter]

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

I've had a client do that, they gave us a bunch of PC saying they destroyed the data already.

 

After opening the PC, we found the motherboard had been drilled into and the PSU wires were cut ... and the HDD were left intact

I was allowed to take a PC from the community college I attended, it was next to the dumpster and I asked permission from the maintenance worker who was dumping it. I assumed that the PC had been wiped. NOPE! It was FULL of resume`s and job applications and personnel files that had name/address/DOB/Social# as well as information about schools attended, years, previous jobs, etc. Literally 90% of the information needed to open a line of credit in someones name. I destroyed the hard drive responsibly but damn. I also didn't tell anyone because I was afraid it would come back to bite me in the ass or get the maintenance guy in trouble. I've trash picked a PC that had a lot of personal info on it and once when I lived in an apartment someone just had their computer WIDE OPEN and connected to my WIFI so I browsed their PC and left a note on their desktop in a text file to please get their own internet.

[sub68]

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

I've had a client do that, they gave us a bunch of PC saying they destroyed the data already.

 

After opening the PC, we found the motherboard had been drilled into and the PSU wires were cut ... and the HDD were left intact

 

12 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I was allowed to take a PC from the community college I attended, it was next to the dumpster and I asked permission from the maintenance worker who was dumping it. I assumed that the PC had been wiped. NOPE! It was FULL of resume`s and job applications and personnel files that had name/address/DOB/Social# as well as information about schools attended, years, previous jobs, etc. Literally 90% of the information needed to open a line of credit in someones name. I destroyed the hard drive responsibly but damn. I also didn't tell anyone because I was afraid it would come back to bite me in the ass or get the maintenance guy in trouble. I've trash picked a PC that had a lot of personal info on it and once when I lived in an apartment someone just had their computer WIDE OPEN and connected to my WIFI so I browsed their PC and left a note on their desktop in a text file to please get their own internet.

 

My school is government so they have to wipe every computer before being resold.

that being said all the workstations we use (student use) are wiped every summer