Schnoz

People at my school have done equally dumb things... like trying to use the - key on a TI-30X IIS calculator to indicate a negative and wondering why they got syntax errors every time...

A simple restart should fix that one.

My mom called me on the phone one day in a panic because "her tab got big and she can't fix it". She had put Chrome in fullscreen.

K so i work in retail selling laptops and printers. A few of the most common things to come up are: 
 
1. Old person reads slowly off a piece of paper "It needs to have an eyecore 3, 8 emm bee of ram, and windows vista" because they looked at the requirement  for some ancient software.
 
2. "YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. I WANT A CHEAP LAPTOP. THIS IS NOT CHEAP!" As I show them a 450 CAD laptop
 
3. "I dont need these features, Im just looking for a work laptop." (A laptop with an i5 is on sale for cheaper than one with an i3, but they insist on going with the i3 because they dont need the i5)
 
4. "Im looking for a new hard drive".  I show them the hard drives, and after like 5 min of talking I realize they mean a computer
 
 
 
 

One of my customers wanted me to repair their 2012 Macbook Pro with a failed hard drive. Thing is, they explicitly refused a speedier, cheaper SSD replacement and specifically asked for an identical 5400 RPM HDD. Why? "Because it's officially certified by Apple." No amount of persuading would convince him to let me install an SSD.

One of my customers wanted me to repair their 2012 Macbook Pro with a failed hard drive. Thing is, they explicitly refused a speedier, cheaper SSD replacement and specifically asked for an identical 5400 RPM HDD. Why? "Because it's officially certified by Apple." No amount of persuading would convince him to let me install an SSD.

The ThinkPad has been that way for about a decade. This is actually a step in the right direction as the last non-16:9 ThinkPad was the T410.
I'd personally go for 16:10 for the best balance (I have to run things side by side a lot), but it'd be cool to see 4:3 options.

Those metal pipes are amazing! I really love the look of your PC.

It's finally done! Finding the parts for this build took months, but here she is! 😄
 
specs:
AMD Threadripper 2970WX 24 core
ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha 
32GB (4X8) G.Skill Trident Z 4266Mhz
AMD Radeon RX6900XT
Lian Li O11D Mini
2TB of combined NVMe storage
Coolermaster SFX V850 
Full hardline EKWB waercooling.

33.6K modem.
It's a butt to find drivers for Windows 2000.
Still haven't found any.

Thank you so much! I truly appreciate it and it really means a lot to me.

Thank you so much! I truly appreciate it and it really means a lot to me.

Easily @Schnoz, @Den-Fi, @PlayStation 2& @captain_to_fire

Thank you so much!   I really appreciate it!
 
There are a lot of amazing people on this forum. It's hard to choose just one.

Thank you so much!   I really appreciate it!
 
There are a lot of amazing people on this forum. It's hard to choose just one.

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself. You're definitely on my list. Other nomination goes to @Schnoz

I found this one on the internets. It's not exactly actual computer gore, but I think it still fits the tone of this thread.
 
"I know someone who uses rent a center. I can’t believe it’s legal. He’s paying like $50 a month for the last 3 years for a PS4 and another $100 a month (same time frame) for a tv that’s no more than $800 if he bought it. But he keeps paying for it, he could have bought multiple TVs and PS4s in this time frame - he recently posted on social media wanted peoples opinions on if its “worth it”"

I found this one on the internets. It's not exactly actual computer gore, but I think it still fits the tone of this thread.
 
"I know someone who uses rent a center. I can’t believe it’s legal. He’s paying like $50 a month for the last 3 years for a PS4 and another $100 a month (same time frame) for a tv that’s no more than $800 if he bought it. But he keeps paying for it, he could have bought multiple TVs and PS4s in this time frame - he recently posted on social media wanted peoples opinions on if its “worth it”"

You might be surprised, with my local rate of 8 cents per kw/h my P106-100 (1060 6GB) will make around $80 a month at the current bitcoin prices. It would need to fall to under $20,000 to stop making money after the cost of electricity.

I found this one on the internets. It's not exactly actual computer gore, but I think it still fits the tone of this thread.
 
"I know someone who uses rent a center. I can’t believe it’s legal. He’s paying like $50 a month for the last 3 years for a PS4 and another $100 a month (same time frame) for a tv that’s no more than $800 if he bought it. But he keeps paying for it, he could have bought multiple TVs and PS4s in this time frame - he recently posted on social media wanted peoples opinions on if its “worth it”"

this is my mom 100% and I can't help her
 
A dvd she thinks that video stopped halfway though is region locked.
Since 2006 she has thought that.
I took the video into VLC media player and it worked.
 
she also thinks bing is the best than, I open up task mang *sees pc go brrrrrr*
yep I need her to change to fireefox or chrome

what the frick heck his OEM HDD will die with 3-4 years good luck

Waaaay too many people I know  do this:
 

 

 

 
It even has keyboard shortcuts right next to the entry in the right-click menu!
 
 

One of my customers wanted me to repair their 2012 Macbook Pro with a failed hard drive. Thing is, they explicitly refused a speedier, cheaper SSD replacement and specifically asked for an identical 5400 RPM HDD. Why? "Because it's officially certified by Apple." No amount of persuading would convince him to let me install an SSD.