What's a tech term you hate?

[da na]

1 hour ago, Arika S said:

Rog Rig Reboot

 

Because it turns people into entitled brats

Oh my GTX 1080 TI and 9900k with my $2000 custom hardline is getting a bit slow for DOTA, I want dual RTX 3090s and a 64 core Threadripper Pro 

[Bombastinator]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

Oh my GTX 1080 TI and 9900k with my $2000 custom hardline is getting a bit slow for DOTA, I want dual RTX 3090s and a 64 core Threadripper Pro 

There will no doubt be a few of those.  If they made the money they paid for their first machine making amazing videos they might even have the chops to do it.

[da na]

16 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Naw.  It just makes their entitled brattiness more visible because it concentrates it some.  I myself saw the last video on such and thought “heyyy” I could really use something like that.  If I won. I wouldn’t even care if apple put out a decently powerful desktop machine for a price I could handle for the first time in coming on 20 years now (yeah, it’s not real likely as I see it.  Hope keeps seeming to spring for me on this one)  looking at the requirements though, I don’t think I could even make an interesting video of any length, much less one of less than a minute.  I don’t think it’s worth even applying. My current machine is old and starting to chug kinda bad, and I spent the money I had saved for a new one on a replacement phone (old one developed a motherboard issue) and an expensive desk chair (back developed a “why can’t I stand straight without intense pain issue) So a desktop Mac will hurt a lot if they come out with one that is worth buying, but there are worse machines than mine  out there, and kids that can make an interesting short video.

I would like a new PC but I don't need one. It's just a bit... unreliable. Lots of coil whine, everything mechanical is beginning to fail but realistically if I keep maintaining it it could last another 10 years. But too bad I have to clean it every 2 months or else it will either fail to POST, throw out QPI errors left and right, or randomly shut off and corrupt my files. 

[Bombastinator]

Just now, Mel0nMan said:

I would like a new PC but I don't need one. It's just a bit... unreliable. Lots of coil whine, everything mechanical is beginning to fail but realistically if I keep maintaining it it could last another 10 years. But too bad I have to clean it every 2 months or else it will either fail to POST, throw out QPI errors left and right, or randomly shut off and corrupt my files. 

Make a good video that might be a thing of the past.

[da na]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Make a good video that might be a thing of the past.

That's an idea. 

Right now my YouTube channel is more gaming focused (mainly becuase those are videos I made many months ago and just now have the chance to upload - not much time to edit during school) but I plan to go fully tech focused soon. Hopefully the revenue from that will eventually be enough to keep up with the repair cost of a temperamental 10 year old workstation. Right now my very small IT business has been paying for itself but I hope to be able to make a little extra, I'm still covering the investment cost of buying SSDs, r5 240s, and lots of Core 2 Quads and DDR2

[Bombastinator]

47 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

That's an idea. 

Right now my YouTube channel is more gaming focused (mainly becuase those are videos I made many months ago and just now have the chance to upload - not much time to edit during school) but I plan to go fully tech focused soon. Hopefully the revenue from that will eventually be enough to keep up with the repair cost of a temperamental 10 year old workstation. Right now my very small IT business has been paying for itself but I hope to be able to make a little extra, I'm still covering the investment cost of buying SSDs, r5 240s, and lots of Core 2 Quads and DDR2

Heh.  Old hardware porn might be a way to go. The score is by definition out of copywrite.  Few people on earth that might like it but a bunch of em work at LTT.  I don’t know if there is a Barry white style “yeah baby” that is off copywrite.  I dunno.  Might be a terrible idea.

[da na]

19 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Heh.  Old hardware porn might be a way to go. The score is by definition out of copywrite.  Few people on earth that might like it but a bunch of em work at LTT.  I don’t know if there is a Barry white style “yeah baby” that is off copywrite.  I dunno.  Might be a terrible idea.

I filmed the refurbishing of like 8 old PCs, most notably a 380mhz k6 laptop, an Athlon 64 machine and a few Pentium 4 generic office machines. Also done some Core 2 stuff but that's a bit less interesting. I may get into unreleased builds of Windows (Longhorn, Nashville ETC since Ive got the hardware to run it and it's free so why not) and cool old phone designs (like the LG vx9200 I carry around for some reason.) Only issue is finding a good hour or so where I can just sit down and patch the footage together. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

Rog Rig Reboot

 

Because it turns people into entitled brats

Agreed. 

I saw it as a fun project last year, entered, not expectign anything, didnt win, but making the vid was fun

But the forum is usually covered in new acounts for the month after it comes out asking if they can join and its anoying

[RoseLuck462]

One term I really love is modularity, it guarantees whatever it’s applied to will be well organized and efficient.

[mr moose]

32 minutes ago, RoseLuck462 said:

One term I really love is modularity, it guarantees whatever it’s applied to will be well organized and efficient.

https://www2.razer.com/christine

 

 

Anyway, after much time has passed I have realized that while I have some gripes with specific terms, most of my issue is how people use them not what they are. 

 

 

[thekingofmonks]

“Upgradable”

Like dude, any device is upgradable, regardless of whether the chips are socketed or not, or accessible from outside of the case. Just because your iMac has a tray specifically made for RAM interchangeability doesn’t mean ONLY its RAM is upgradable.

[thekingofmonks]

On 10/1/2021 at 10:20 PM, Finnegan1616 said:

Not really a term, but a misconception that bothers me is when people claim that 1440p and 4k look the same and aren't possible to tell apart, which isn't true until you go like 4 feet away

Also depends on pixel density (ppi)

[thekingofmonks]

On 9/17/2021 at 6:39 AM, ShrimpBrime said:

Silicon lottery. "Binned chips"

 

Is a tech term way openly used.

 

To bin chips....

Get at least one full tray of chips and start testing. Pick the 5 fastest chips, those are binned.

 

But just because the cores clock high, doesn't mean your memory controller is worth a shit.

 

No, you didn't win some silicon lottery with a cpu that boosted 50mhz higher than someone else's. It just doesn't work that way.

I hate the term “binning” because it sounds as if we’re putting them in the bin…

[wanderingfool2]

More in programming but, "big endian" and "little endian".  It's the way byte data is stored in memory, but it always makes me uncomfortable having to use those terms (because as it was taught in my school it was so not PC how they got us to memorize it)

[Bombastinator]

5 hours ago, thekingofmonks said:

“Upgradable”

Like dude, any device is upgradable, regardless of whether the chips are socketed or not, or accessible from outside of the case. Just because your iMac has a tray specifically made for RAM interchangeability doesn’t mean ONLY its RAM is upgradable.

There is a design element to this one I think.  Modularity and whatnot.  

 

5 hours ago, thekingofmonks said:

Also depends on pixel density (ppi)

And individual visual acuity. This also seems to be a factor with fps.  I can’t see a difference between 100 fps and 144 fps myself, but apparently there are some who can.

[thekingofmonks]

4 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

And individual visual acuity. This also seems to be a factor with fps.  I can’t see a difference between 100 fps and 144 fps myself, but apparently there are some who can.

Some people don’t believe that I can notice a difference between 120Hz and 158Hz… a 500Hz mouse and a dark background would suffice.

[Bombastinator]

On 10/10/2021 at 11:54 AM, thekingofmonks said:

Some people don’t believe that I can notice a difference between 120Hz and 158Hz… a 500Hz mouse and a dark background would suffice.

I understand it’s rare.  People often don’t believe what they can’t see.  Iirc a test done in a video where they set up one computer at 120hz and one at 144hz.  Many could not tell the difference, and the ones that could had to look close.  It happened though. There are people who see faster than others.  I understand you have to be one in order to hit a major league pitch. Move out of humanity and the differences get wild.  I recall something or other about squids not reacting to a video background until it reached a really high refresh rate at which point suddenly they did.  Didn’t even perceive video as a moving image at all at speeds humans do.

Edited October 13, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Stormlight]

On 5/7/2021 at 7:49 PM, Caroline said:

APP

yes.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 10/10/2021 at 1:47 AM, thekingofmonks said:

“Upgradable”

Like dude, any device is upgradable, regardless of whether the chips are socketed or not, or accessible from outside of the case. Just because your iMac has a tray specifically made for RAM interchangeability doesn’t mean ONLY its RAM is upgradable.

What?

I dont understand any of this.

No, not any device is unbreakable.

Try to upgrade anything on my 2013 nexus 7. Try.

On 10/10/2021 at 1:54 AM, thekingofmonks said:

I hate the term “binning” because it sounds as if we’re putting them in the bin…

This is an entirely reigonal thing. Some places binning makes no sense unless you know the tech usage, as you dont ahve a bin, you just have a trashcan (or just can)

[Uuzee]

Not sure if you'd call this a term by definition, but without a doubt it would have to be USB versioning:

 

1.1

2.0

3.0 (3.2 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 1, SuperSpeed)

USB 3.2 Gen 2

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2

USB 4

 

(And all of the other name variations to go with the different standards.

 

You get my drift

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, Uuzee said:

Not sure if you'd call this a term by definition, but without a doubt it would have to be USB versioning:

 

1.1

2.0

3.0 (3.2 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 1, SuperSpeed)

USB 3.2 Gen 2

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2

USB 4

 

(And all of the other name variations to go with the different standards.

 

You get my drift

USB versioning has been a standing joke for years.  I understand intel even left the group because there was too much argument with what could and could not be done with thunderbolt.

[IPD]

8 hours ago, Uuzee said:

Not sure if you'd call this a term by definition, but without a doubt it would have to be USB versioning:

 

1.1

2.0

3.0 (3.2 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 1, SuperSpeed)

USB 3.2 Gen 2

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2

USB 4

 

(And all of the other name variations to go with the different standards.

 

You get my drift

And on that note:

 

HDMI standards aren't much better.  Cabling included.

[thekingofmonks]

13 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

What?

I dont understand any of this.

No, not any device is unbreakable.

Try to upgrade anything on my 2013 nexus 7. Try.

*upgradable

Also, please don't pretend like you've never heard of soldering. You can swap out chips, capacitors and mosfets, etc, even the entire PCB, as long as the parts fit. It still counts as an upgrade after all.

 

I've also owned a Nexus 7, and all I can say is that it is just like any other mobile device, from which you can swap out the display, battery, speakers, solder new RAM... If it won't properly recognize it, just mod the firmware if you're skilled enough.

 

“Upgradable” his being used way too broadly by big companies as a marketing term for overpriced laptops that have a simple drive bay or a swappable USB hub. The fact that they call such common things "upgradable" is just pathetic.

[Stahlmann]

I hate that every nice PC setup is called "clean".

 

I also hate that every build on PCPP is a "first build", even if the creator already did 5 builds before that.

[Unhelpful]

Rig in reference to a PC / setup. Idk why it bothers me, it just does.