Experiences with non-techies

[pythonmegapixel]

2 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

"But EA made fortnite"

-kid in the hall this morning

Perhaps he thinks EA stands for Epic Games?

[da na]

6 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Perhaps he thinks EA stands for Epic Games?

hmmmmmmm, actually maybe?

[da na]

In Spanish class today:

After someone struggled to jam the Mini DP cable to the smart board into their laptop's USB for 30 seconds or so, they then struggled for 15 more to mute a tab in Chrome.

[da na]

I have another. I found a sale for a used pc on ebay that was missing the pcie slot covers... the item description said "Missing the little vent covers on the back but works perfectly!" uhhh those aren't vents?

[soldier_ph]

I once talked with a couple of dudes about Steam Games in a group IRL and some girls were apparently listening. At the end one girl was asking me if I were a Streamer. like yes Steam = Streaming

[CT854]

30 minutes ago, soldier_ph said:

I once talked with a couple of dudes about Steam Games in a group IRL and some girls were apparently listening. At the end one girl was asking me if I were a Streamer. like yes Steam = Streaming

I'll be honest, it's not exactly a stretch.  A lot of people associate video games with streaming independent of the confusion of Steam =/= stream

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

I once talked with a couple of dudes about Steam Games in a group IRL and some girls were apparently listening. At the end one girl was asking me if I were a Streamer. like yes Steam = Streaming

Dude just roll with it, a girl was talking to you!

[Bitter]

Smokers PC's are the nastiest, as bad as smokers cars. You should invest in an air compressor for blowing them out outside, just make sure the fans don't spin. Chopsticks work great to hold the blades still while blowing. I got this one for doing tires and dusting and it's super silent.

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CKRLKM9

 

Like quieter than a vacuum cleaner, I can talk at a normal volume when I'm using it.

[Bitter]

6 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

I use disposable air dusters, but I should definitely get a non-disposable air compressor, as I blow through them very quickly. Thing is, no amount of compressed air gets rid of the yellowing or the terrible smell. Literally pickling the thing in isopropyl alcohol works to some extent, but that stench is usually there to stay despite my best attempts.,

Retrobright my friend, google that one.

[starry]

I helped out with the computer stuff at a local nonprofit organization. The person who ran it once asked me if i could show them "that trick I know." It took me 30 minutes to figure out what they meant, but it was copy and paste.

[sub68]

21 minutes ago, starry said:

I helped out with the computer stuff at a local nonprofit organization. The person who ran it once asked me if i could show them "that trick I know." It took me 30 minutes to figure out what they meant, but it was copy and paste.

My teacher was amazed by Ctrl w.

I also memorized all the shortcuts

[Euchre]

The sheer amount of people who think that falling for broadcast exploits like ads with malware, or games or apps with payloads, is being 'hacked' is staggering. They think if a device is compromised, there's some single person that did it, and that they are 'out to get them'. This ain't the movies, and you fell for a simple trap. Some sleazy company or group is just wanting to make money off of your ineptitude or naivete, not a villain specifically interested in attacking you personally.

 

I think we need a better term for this kind of thing, and not abide people calling it being 'hacked'.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

49 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Smokers PC's are the nastiest, as bad as smokers cars. You should invest in an air compressor for blowing them out outside, just make sure the fans don't spin. Chopsticks work great to hold the blades still while blowing. I got this one for doing tires and dusting and it's super silent.

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CKRLKM9

 

Like quieter than a vacuum cleaner, I can talk at a normal volume when I'm using it.

 

44 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

I use disposable air dusters, but I should definitely get a non-disposable air compressor, as I blow through them very quickly. Thing is, no amount of compressed air gets rid of the yellowing or the terrible smell. Literally pickling the thing in isopropyl alcohol works to some extent, but that stench is usually there to stay despite my best attempts.,

 

 

Something like this?

Spoiler

The one we had before that (when I was a kid - born 1981; I think we got this one when I was in my late teens or 20s, I forget now) was fairly loud, but this one is capable of tripping the MAIN 100-amp breaker for the entire property when powered on.  (We've found that plugging it into a particular outlet in the living room, near where my computer is (but not the same one and probably not the same circuit), seems to work.  BTW the house was built in 1962 and not all the outlets are grounded. I presume newer houses would have less of an issue.)

 

[Bitter]

Similar but much smaller and nearly silent. Also make sure you keep those fans from spinning up when blowing, can shed a blade or burn the fan controller if it induces current/voltage into it.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

5 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Similar but much smaller and nearly silent. Also make sure you keep those fans from spinning up when blowing, can shed a blade or burn the fan controller if it induces current/voltage into it.

 

Ahh, and probably much newer too.  (Also when I took that picture, the compressor wasn't even plugged in, I was just staging the picture.)

 

  

3 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

I don't know why people even smoke indoors in the first place

 

Before my biological maternal grandmother passed away (around 2000 or so IIRC, multiple myeloma / bone cancer), when she came to visit from Massachusetts, my mom would have her smoke outside (grandma was a smoker), usually on the patio or just beyond that.  (It's got a roof over it, but otherwise open, with a couple posts supporting the roof across the long edge.)

Spoiler

 

[FRD]

Basically my best friend who is too "scared" to build his own PC and went for a $2000 ROG Strix prebuilt back in 2017 with only 8GB ram and a 1070.

Later finding out the PC isn't made up completely of ROG Strix parts and wanting to upgrade. That happens when you don't take up any advice and overspend.

Oddly he can fix and mod things like his Nintendo DS and Gameboys, using tutorials, but still...

Oh yeah, until this day he is also too afraid to clean his PC internals.

[WkdPaul]

10 hours ago, NZgamer said:

I don't know why people even smoke indoors in the first place

Dude, people used to smoke inside my highschool (ah the 80's and 90's ! lol)

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

Dude, people used to smoke inside my highschool (ah the 80's and 90's ! lol)

Back in high school 2015-2019, I'd see kids vaping all inside the bathroom, especially while transitioning between classes. I hated them as all I can smell is this shit smell - like it was chlorine gas or something . It got so bad, they had to lock all the bathrooms and leave one open closest to the two lunch rooms with a security guard standing outside. 

[sub68]

6 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Dude, people used to smoke inside my highschool (ah the 80's and 90's ! lol)

My parents were in high school during that time and that happened to

[Ankh Tech]

43 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Dude, people used to smoke inside my highschool (ah the 80's and 90's ! lol)

two years ago in my school, a bunch of high school kids left some cigarettes in the water sprinkler thingies on the roof making the water literally nicotine, and it too a couple of weeks to fix

[da na]

What to Call Various Services on the Computer

compiled by my teachers

 

-any slideshow = powerpoint (we don't even use powerpoint we use google slides, ew)

-Any video call = FaceTime

-Any messaging service, including email = texting

[sub68]

My school blocks alot.

But GitHub isn't one of them nor billi billi (chinese youtube) they do block nico video (japan youtube)

So this is me watching SACRA music festival  and a friend playing a pokemon emulator from GitHub on school chromebook on school network. 

 

[da na]

My mom told me to uninstall Cinema 4D because "she didn't want me watching movies on my computer". I had to explain to her that Cinema 4D is an animation/rendering software, and I did not build a 16 core workstation for a streaming service.

lol

[pythonmegapixel]

"Use a VPN, it [stops advertisers tracking you] / [makes you less likely to get a virus] / [stops hackers stealing your password] !"

--- people who think that watching a 30 second Nord ad and misinterpreting the already dubious claims in it makes them some kind of expert in cybersecurity

[WhitetailAni]

My mom's pretty tech literate, but about 6 years ago, I got Minecraft for Christmas.

I put it on the ASUS laptop (which is dead) and then we started getting receipts for Kindle books from Amazon.

They were sus of Minecraft since it was just installed, but guess what it was?

Spoiler

It was my younger brother on my mom's Kindle in the Kindle Store, buying everything!