What's a tech term you hate?

[SavageNeo]

people specifying theirs psus as "Corsair 600w" or "EVGA 80+gold" or "EVGA 600W 80+gold" Like cmon. how many different and meh EVGA 80+gold psus are out there? or how many Corsair psus with wattage of 600?

Or people recommending Psus by only the effiency. Because everyone knows effiency = quality right? The whole Psu subforum is full of this. Luckily I am almost always late so I do not have to explain why effiency is not quality, since there are other people to do that before me. It just triggers me everytime I see this BS.

 

 

[Bombastinator]

7 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

people specifying theirs psus as "Corsair 600w" or "EVGA 80+gold" or "EVGA 600W 80+gold" Like cmon. how many different and meh EVGA 80+gold psus are out there? or how many Corsair psus with wattage of 600?

Or people recommending Psus by only the effiency. Because everyone knows effiency = quality right? The whole Psu subforum is full of this. Luckily I am almost always late so I do not have to explain why effiency is not quality, since there are other people to do that before me. It just triggers me everytime I see this BS.

 

 

It is a bit like saying Ford 6 cylinder.  Ford made a LOT of different kinds of 6 cylinders.  There’s straight 6 slant 6 and v6 just to name a few and we haven’t even gotten into things like carburetor and valves.  Needs more specificity 

[SavageNeo]

Also in general when people are having problems they do not give any relevant info just "help plz" like what are we supposed to do? teleport to his house and start fixing stuff?

And when they give theirs specs they are like " i5, 8gb, 500g hdd, 500w psu" Well that helped a lot!

 

And when they do not like the answers we gave they say "Thanks for no help". Well I personally put as much effort to my answer as the guy to his question.

[pythonmegapixel]

2 minutes ago, Cvet76 said:

This. But not exactly. WhatsApp was founded by a guy who values privacy above all else (still to this day). After he sold WA to facebook he was in constant strife with them about privacy issues and and data collection. After a couple of years of fighting battles he couldn't win he left the company.

You have to be a bit thick to sell anything you create to Facebook if you value privacy...

[Spindel]

Anything that comes out from the mouth of an audiophile regarding Hi-Fi equipment. 

[Video Beagle]

"cloud"

[da na]

8 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Yep.

theres 69gb (nice)of ram and a gt420

actually that’s a video I bet they would do

“The most meme of a pc”

pay for all of it in doge coin

Etc...

GTX 690 and GT 420 in SLI

[Helpful Tech Witch]

5 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

But there isn’t.  There 64 and 92. 69 is 3x23 and 23 is prime.  A video card that was called a 420 might have happened.  It wouldn’t be gaming class though.  Old AND low end. 

but...

1x1gb

1x4gb

4x16gb

just need a ddr3 server platform

 

 

 

as for the gpu,. it def. did exist

https://www.google.com/search?q=gt420

[Lord Szechenyi]

On 5/8/2021 at 3:32 AM, Jurrunio said:

Calling 1440p "2K"

i've never heard anyone or anything call 1440p "2k"

where was this?

On 5/8/2021 at 4:10 AM, Middcore said:

My elderly aunt doesn't understand that app is just short for application and thinks there is something magical about smartphone apps. "Can I install an app on a computer?

This is what happened with the Normie invasion in the late 90s.

We really shouldn't give technology to people like this.

[Lord Szechenyi]

12 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

but...

1x1gb

1x4gb

4x16gb

just need a ddr3 server platform

Impossible because DDR3's maximum amount of memory is 64.

And in any case, the compatibility would be fucked.

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

i've never heard anyone or anything call 1440p "2k"

where was this?

This is what happened with the Normie invasion in the late 90s.

We really shouldn't give technology to people like this.

Search "2K display" in the forums, you will be disappointed.

 

And this gets worse in places with more normies like FB and Reddit

[FRD]

When people refer to Xbox GPU. No, they're not talking about graphics card. Coincidentally Xbox's GPU stands for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

I digress reading it as a PC guy who thinks they're referring to GPU's instead.

[WkdPaul]

10 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Search "2K display" in the forums, you will be disappointed.

 

And this gets worse in places with more normies like FB and Reddit

It's not just normies ;

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/2k-definition,37641.html

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, FRD said:

When people refer to Xbox GPU. No, they're not talking about graphics card. Coincidentally Xbox's GPU stands for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

I digress reading it as a PC guy who thinks they're referring to GPU's instead.

Lol!  This is why acronyms suck.

[da na]

 

9 minutes ago, FRD said:

When people refer to Xbox GPU. No, they're not talking about graphics card. Coincidentally Xbox's GPU stands for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

I digress reading it as a PC guy who thinks they're referring to GPU's instead.

Xbox GPU.

[Sir Asvald]

I don't hate the term but the how people use it. For example, people will use WiFi to describe it as the internet. 

[TVwazhere]

I did not go through all 13 pages because screw that

 

"Good Airflow" in reference to PC cases and case fans. "The recommended case must have good airflow" yet makes no mention of what their system build is, and wants a glass fronted case because "mesh looks bad"

 

"Vr Ready" because GPU's as low as a GTX1060 have been classified as "VR Ready" for five years now, even though most will tell you that you need way more power to drive it well

 

USB "3.2 Gen #".... Just keep them 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2

[_princess_]

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

It's not just normies ;

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/2k-definition,37641.html

So 2K is 2560 x 1440 and 2048 x 1080, but 4K is 3840 x 2160, and 1920x1080 is not 2K.

 

Reminds me of the whole Xbox one naming convention. Person walks into store, asks for an xbox one, are they talking about original xbox, or the new xbox one.

 

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Caroline said:

 

If you think about it most smartphones aren't made for privacy so if you get one you can go ahead and use whatsapp and it wouldn't make it a worse experience for you tbh.

 

Privacy or remaining as a noname anon on the net requires way more than a device or avoiding X or Y social network. 

 

Let's say I own a safe phone, talk through signal connected to a VPN and a Tor relay to tell a friend: "I'm pregnant", he then talks to someone else over the same platform until the message hits someone else and decides to use whatsapp to contact his mom and tell her, his mom then tells my aunt Patricia using wechat and Patricia decides to post the news on instagram and facebook. Now not only all of China knows I'm pregnant, but also a couple hundred more people.

 

I'm not pregnant and don't have an aunt named Patricia, 'tis a mere demonstration on how one's privacy isn't always one's responsibility.

Myself I wouldn’t take a cookie from Putin. Man has a rep for poisoning people. Or having the shot, or strangled, or whatever.  All of the above really.  

Edited May 18, 2021 by Bombastinator

[MigasTigas]

On 5/17/2021 at 2:42 PM, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Yeah I don't use it for much anymore, it's my backup drive (ironically).

Ah you love to live in danger i see

[sub68]

Calling flash drives vapes.

I started caring a flash drive since 2016 and people made fun of me by saying it was a vape.

[Rex Hite]

"Bokeh"- monetising blur. I think years ago some photographic magazine editor wanted to attach a word to a lens characteristic and this eventually  got turned into a marketable characteristic.

[Bombastinator]

Here’s one that may not have gotten mentioned yet (unless it has) “turbo”.  Only ICE  engines (yes I know that’s redundant.  It’s the term that is used though.  Same as with SSD drive.  Acronyms suck) have actual turbos.  It seems to be used as a word that means rather generically “go faster”.  It rarely comes up anymore.  Something justifiably dying.

Edited May 18, 2021 by Bombastinator

[sub68]

Just now, Rex Hite said:

"Bokeh"- monetising blur. I think years ago some photographic magazine editor wanted to attach a word to a lens characteristic and this eventually  got turned into a marketable characteristic.

Out of focus is a great way of saying it

[LTT_fanboy]

Dvi-"Digital Visual Interface" i hate it , it makes me feel like a boomer when i use it , because i cant come across a dvi-d monitor. (it just rlly makes me feel weird when i say it lol)