What's a tech term you hate?

[sub68]

Just now, LTT_fanboy said:

i hate it , it makes me feel like a boomer when i use it , because i cant come across a dvi-d monitor.

I have been using one for 10 years

[LTT_fanboy]

Just now, sub68 said:

I have been using one for 10 years

sorry lol (10 years , what a heck of a time , still kinda outdated tbh)

[Bombastinator]

6 minutes ago, LTT_fanboy said:

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)

You want one cheap? I’ve got a terrific one. 30” it’s huge and very high res for its time.  It’s even supposed to do 144hz though I’ve never tried.  I can’t make it work with win10 anymore.  ‘S a white elephant to me. It’s actually bigger than 1440p. 

[sub68]

Just now, LTT_fanboy said:

sorry lol

it still works and color looks great on it

Just now, LTT_fanboy said:

10 years , what a heck of a time , still kinda outdated tbh

Does 1080p.

but at 60HZ so yeah it kinda sucks, yet I can still play osu.

[Murasaki]

10 minutes ago, sub68 said:

Calling flash drives vapes.

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

What on earth..

[LTT_fanboy]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

 I can’t make it work with win10 anymore

not if it doesnt work with win10

 

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

it still works and color looks great on it

Does 1080p.

but at 60HZ so yeah it kinda sucks, yet I can still play osu.

i like osu.

[sub68]

Just now, Murasaki said:

What on earth..

Yeah that was in middle school.

worst years and made me into kinda introvert.

[sub68]

Just now, LTT_fanboy said:

i like osu.

oh

https://osu.ppy.sh/users/16204198

[LTT_fanboy]

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

oh

https://osu.ppy.sh/users/16204198

i got punished , so no more pc , maybe in a month or so , my ign is krunker120 check sometime this next month or so.

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, LTT_fanboy said:

i got punished , so no more pc , maybe in a month or so , my ign is krunker120 check sometime this next month or so.

oh, ok

 

[Bombastinator]

6 hours ago, LTT_fanboy said:

not if it doesnt work with win10

 

i like osu.

It might. It not working and me not being able to make it work are not necessarily the same thing.  My best guess is that it’s a driver issue.  The generic win8.1 “LG” driver worked with it but apparently the win10 driver doesn’t and when I updated the old driver got erased.  If I could make the thing go I’d still be using it.

 

p.s for those looking for solutions to making a  Korean grey market monitor work, I ran into one scary sounding one.  A lot of them came across during the era of bad lead free solder and more than a few have a tin whisker problems.  That one is a somewhat evil nightmare to fix. I know that’s not the problem with mine because I can actually get it to display, just only in “generic” mode, which is worse than useless.

Edited May 19, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Lord Szechenyi]

10 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

It's not just normies ;

 

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

no you misinterpreted his message because the quoting system is kinda shit.

This is how it looks like when he's quoting me

Here's what it looks like in my original post

(also, excuse the colors but LTT website and HDR don't go together well).

The 8 Bit Guy precisely said that until windows 95 (what became the real revolution of Personal Computers, and massive adoption of computers by "average" people) the only people who called Tech Support were people who already knew (mostly) everything with Computers and had a very serious issue (like a Virus) would call, and they already knew most of the terminology, also DOS being massively popular, terminals/commands were something even normal PC users (from before 95) with no real tech knowledge, knew how to use.

And then after 95, you had people say:

Tech Support: Is your mouse plugged in?

Customer AKA Granny: My mouse?

Tech Support: The rectangular plastic piece that has 2 buttons on it

Customer: Oh i thought that was (something like) a sewing machine pedal.

 

[Bombastinator]

6 minutes ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

no you misinterpreted his message because the quoting system is kinda shit.

This is how it looks like when he's quoting me

Here's what it looks like in my original post

(also, excuse the colors but LTT website and HDR don't go together well).

The 8 Bit Guy precisely said that until windows 95 (what became the real revolution of Personal Computers, and massive adoption of computers by "average" people) the only people who called Tech Support were people who already knew (mostly) everything with Computers and had a very serious issue (like a Virus) would call, and they already knew most of the terminology, also DOS being massively popular, terminals/commands were something even normal PC users (from before 95) with no real tech knowledge, knew how to use.

And then after 95, you had people say:

Tech Support: Is your mouse plugged in?

Customer AKA Granny: My mouse?

Tech Support: The rectangular plastic piece that has 2 buttons on it

Customer: Oh i thought that was (something like) a sewing machine pedal.

 

So PC tech support became Mac tech support. 

[Rex Hite]

"Gamer"- it should be a neutral word but now denotes a commodity that is mined for value with...

"micro-transactions"- which is a word we use because scraping for pennies used to be a sign of debased circumstances but now is considered good business. So we need a smart sounding polysyllabic word for the financial equivalent of  flipping over couch cushions while using so much energy to do it.

[Triggeravus]

Not really a term, but I hate the way Asus is pronounced a SOOS.  In my head it'll always be A sus.  

[WkdPaul]

19 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

no you misinterpreted his message because the quoting system is kinda shit.

 

This is how it looks like when he's quoting me

Here's what it looks like in my original post

Good to know ! Didn't think to check the original post !

 

19 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

*snip*

Yeah, tech support is annoying af sometimes, misused terms and assumptions on how things works (instead of actually knowing how it works) makes things so freaking hard !

 

Corp side of things is when you get a normie in charge of the IT department ... it's often why IT gets understaffed and underfunded, because the people in charge don't know how it works and they have skewed expectations.

[HeroRareheart]

On 5/7/2021 at 9:46 PM, crazzp said:

Male/Female connector. I understand it perfectly describes the type of connector but I believe there are more elegant ways to describe it instead of making me imagine certain human organs whenever I deal with connectors. 

I'll bet it was a dude who came up with that.

[dilpickle]

On 5/7/2021 at 8:46 PM, crazzp said:

Male/Female connector. I understand it perfectly describes the type of connector but I believe there are more elegant ways to describe it instead of making me imagine certain human organs whenever I deal with connectors. 

It's unmistakable terminology which is why it was used.

 

I know we are now supposed to "officially" use pin and socket but those can still lead to confusion.

[da na]

1 minute ago, dilpickle said:

pin and socket 

Had no idea that was a thing...

[Rex Hite]

"BBROYGBVGW"- If male/female connectors winds people up, the the mnemonic I was taught for resistor colour codes would send them into apoplectic fits.

[The_russian]

3 hours ago, Rex Hite said:

"BBROYGBVGW"- If male/female connectors winds people up, the the mnemonic I was taught for resistor colour codes would send them into apoplectic fits.

Well then… I was curious what the mnemonic was and looked it up, they all seemed fairly normal until I came across one that ends in “but Violet gives willingly”, I have a feeling thats the one you are talking about. Not sure what I was expecting, but it sure wasn’t that… damn…

[Rex Hite]

1 hour ago, The_russian said:

Well then… I was curious what the mnemonic was and looked it up, they all seemed fairly normal until I came across one that ends in “but Violet gives willingly”, I have a feeling thats the one you are talking about. Not sure what I was expecting, but it sure wasn’t that… damn…

The 'B' stands for 'because, and the 'V" doesn't stand for Violet.

 

[Bombastinator]

6 hours ago, herorareheart said:

I'll bet it was a dude who came up with that.

It’s a hundred years or more old, so probably.  Language can change very slowly. I used to quote as example “taint” which is a sports term leftover from jousting.  There are apparently words left over from Roman gladiatorial stuff though.  So a solid couple thousand years.  A better term set would be needed though, and it would have to be easier to use to wind up in vernacular.

[HumdrumPenguin]

Gamer. Sounds very childish. 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, HumdrumPenguin said:

Gamer. Sounds very childish. 

I don’t disagree, but o have yet to see something better.  There may be an opportunity there though.