Experiences with non-techies

[Proxyy_]

On 1/16/2013 at 1:12 AM, nillas12 said:

Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech.

Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them.

I'll go first:

So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago.

My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.

What is the biggest lie in the entire universe?

"I have read and agreed to the Terms & Conditions."

 

How do computers get drunk?

They take to many screenshots.

[wONKEyeYEs]

On 4/6/2018 at 1:34 AM, Canada EH said:

Those adults who pay in lots and lots of coins (dimes, nickels and quarters) at the cashier. Its like I want to flick them a damn twoonie right to their noggin. They are usually dressed in shabby clothing and are old, which translates to poor most of the time. T

Seems a little intolerant.

[sub68]

this

[Turbokees]

After building someone their first PC (just being nice, you know?), they expect to be able to call me 24/7 for the next 5 years if they need tech support.

 

I  am  not  your  personal  IT  technician. 

[sub68]

Just now, Turbokees said:

After building someone their first PC (just being nice, you know?), they expect to be able to call me 24/7 for the next 5 years if they need tech support.

 

I  am  not  your  personal  IT  technician. 

I stil;l help my freinds cause it the thing to do.

but if its a random person I don't know.

I will say no

[CommanderAlex]

My parents and I were at a local car dealership yesterday after my mom's car was involved in a car accident (was my dad and I, everyone was ok, only about a mile away from our house), where insurance deemed it a total loss. The car we were looking at was a "Certified Pre-Owned" where it went through a 173 point inspection. The cabin air filter has an airflow indicator that has to point down for proper airflow and as also noted in the owner's manual. I asked the used car manager what they did and they did replace that filter, but with the airflow indicator pointing upwards. You'd expect the car dealership that sells the same make and model of cars to have knowledge on what they are repairing/selling.

 

Do your own research and investigate as always, as car dealerships are car "steal"erships. 

[Turbokees]

Just now, sub68 said:

I stil;l help my freinds cause it the thing to do.

I started with that as well. But after a few years, anyone in need of a new pc would come to me first. Now I've got a small collection of around 11 PCs that I've brought to life, resting at their houses. It's one of the reasons I started referring people interested in custom PCs to LTT & TQ channels, so they can learn themselves*.


*And not bother me

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Turbokees said:

It's one of the reasons I started referring people interested in custom PCs to LTT & TQ channels, so they can learn themselves*.

I slowy start doing this

[sub68]

my schools block filter block aton

including LTT but I use my personal pc and other devices.

One is nico video (japan youtube)

but hey forgot about bili bili (chinese youtube)

[sub68]

[whm1974]

On 3/29/2021 at 2:58 PM, 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

Good Gods they destroyed a bunch of working Computers? How old were they? As long as they are not too old and depending on Specs, those Systems would be still useful to a number of Folks.

[weeblord]

On 3/29/2021 at 12:58 PM, 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

Why would you want to destroy the data anyway? Company files that you don't want leaked?

[WkdPaul]

28 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

Good Gods they destroyed a bunch of working Computers? How old were they? As long as they are not too old and depending on Specs, those Systems would be still useful to a number of Folks.

Those were Core2Quads and 1st gen i3's, nothing extraordinary, we pulled the CPUs and RAM in case we needed it, we have a PC recycling company that usually will resell those business pre-builds for cheap, but not those obviously.

 

19 minutes ago, weeblord said:

Why would you want to destroy the data anyway? Company files that you don't want leaked?

Corporate computers, all the corp PC we get rid of get the drives pulled of and they get sent to a company that destroy the drives and supply a certificate. Regular office computers shouldn't have any compromising information, but you never know, some of our clients are in finance, insurance, etc... you don't want to take any chances, especially with laws regulating personal information around financing / insurance / medical.

[weeblord]

Just now, wkdpaul said:

Corporate computers, all the corp PC we get rid of get the drives pulled of and they get sent to a company that destroy the drives and supply a certificate. Regular office computers shouldn't have any compromising information, but you never know, some of our clients are in finance, insurance, etc... you don't want to take any chances, especially with laws regulating personal information around financing / insurance / medical.

That sounds about right. Still, I'm surprised they've never known where the data is stored, especially for a company that has a lot of sensitive information in hard drives. Kind of worrying...

[WkdPaul]

8 minutes ago, weeblord said:

That sounds about right. Still, I'm surprised they've never known where the data is stored, especially for a company that has a lot of sensitive information in hard drives. Kind of worrying...

That's what happens when smaller companies (less than 50 employees) go from internal IT to a MSP, the IT director was the accountant, and the people that did that were just regular employees told to make sure the PCs were disposed of correctly.

[whm1974]

3 minutes ago, weeblord said:

That sounds about right. Still, I'm surprised they've never known where the data is stored, especially for a company that has a lot of sensitive information in hard drives. Kind of worrying...

Well even if they know where all of their Data is stored like everything is on Servers and not on Local Storage, I expected Companies to remove the HDDs anyway. Before replacing that is.

 

I'm not sure about this, but aren't SSDs much harder to recover deleted data off of?

[whm1974]

2 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

That's what happens when smaller companies (less than 50 employees) go from internal IT to a MSP, the IT director was the accountant, and the people that did that were just regular employees told to make sure the PCs were disposed of correctly.

So the Employees just took the PCs home with them then? Of course considering that a lot of Companies do keep Computers in use long after they should have been replace, I'm not sure I would bother doing that...

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, whm1974 said:

So the Employees just took the PCs home with them then? 

What ???? Where did I say that ????

[whm1974]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

What ???? Where did I say that ????

I didn't say that you did. But that isn't unheard of.

[WkdPaul]

2 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

I didn't say that you did. But that isn't unheard of.

What ?

 

You're sure you're quoting the right person ? Go back to read what I posted, I said they drilled the motherboards, cut the PSU wires and gave the PCs to us saying they destroyed the data but they left the HDD alone, I never said they took the PC home.

[weeblord]

13 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

What ?

 

You're sure you're quoting the right person ? Go back to read what I posted, I said they drilled the motherboards, cut the PSU wires and gave the PCs to us saying they destroyed the data but they left the HDD alone, I never said they took the PC home.

He may have mistook you for another guy that was talking about a PC in a bathtub or something like that, implying it was taken home

[whm1974]

1 hour ago, weeblord said:

He may have mistook you for another guy that was talking about a PC in a bathtub or something like that, implying it was taken home

No just the guy who mention a mentioned a  small company who told regular employees to wipe Data off of Old PCs and dispose of them. Those Employees are the ones I'm referring to.

[RobBoss]

A person I know telling me that if i get faster SSD's the files can get to L2 and even L3 cache

[Rauten]

So it's not an experience with a non-techie, but... worth telling? Also, what the everloving f**k...

 

The company I work for, let's call them "KillMinds", has many locations around the world.
In a certain location, the factory contracted some work to be done in the server/UPS room - some sound proofing, bit of painting, stuff like that.

Due to several factors, the work had to be done on a weekend, but the local IT guy there didn't want to go to the factory on a weeked. So what did he decide to do?

 

Before leaving, Friday afternoon, he left the door open. To the server room.

 

Now we have an opening in the IT department to fill that position, and a reported crime with local police for networking and server gear worth several dozens of thousands of Euros.

[da na]

"But EA made fortnite"

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