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26 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

yeah, usually followed by "i have seen it on youtube".

What i really hate about it, it usually leads to nothing , you can explain a million times "not every system is the same" ... "no ive seen it on youtube,exactly the same" (and usually it isnt exactly the same of course lol)

so mainly its just the misuse of the term?
i have seen some people with cpus that are like half perf though, which is definitly under preforming

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Personally i hate the term "rig". I have no idea why.

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5 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

But in Calibri... :old-sad:

has the red box though.  close enough for people that won’t go anywhere near supreme anyway.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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55 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Personally i hate the term "rig". I have no idea why.

This sort of thing came to mind as one possible as to why.  there’s probably even more awful stuff.  There was some very very bad 70’s country from the CB era that may not even be on YouTube any more.  This is pretty bad though.

 

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On 5/10/2021 at 5:15 PM, FakeKGB said:

No.

Good. And yes, I also find "gamer" often means that. 

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On 5/10/2021 at 11:43 PM, HelpfulTechWizard said:

especially when these textbooks were written like 8 years ago....

i never actually saw something like that in my textbooks, hebrew books stuff.

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On 5/9/2021 at 5:48 PM, duncannah said:

Not sure if it counts, but it's people calling any kind of internet access "Wi-Fi" for me. It's much more widespread than I thought...

I work at an ISP and literally all of my customers refer to all internet as Wi-Fi. It drives me insane every single day of my life. They all come in saying they want to buy Wi-fi...

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Obsolete.  If it can still be used, do the work, or be used as a learning tool, then it's not obsolete.  If it's still useful, then it's not obsolete by definition.

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55 minutes ago, Jay427 said:

Obsolete.  If it can still be used, do the work, or be used as a learning tool, then it's not obsolete.  If it's still useful, then it's not obsolete by definition.

Indeed. This is something that personally bothers me a lot.

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On 5/7/2021 at 8:05 PM, Liam danu said:

I hate when someone saying "router" when in fact it was a switch or access point...

 

idk about you but, majority of people i know and some local YouTubers always saying it 

People in my family use the word "router" to mean home Wi-Fi and use "Wi-Fi" to refer to internet (of any kind) elsewhere. It super annoying and makes no sense.

What is actually supposed to go here? Some people put their specs, others put random comments or remarks about themselves or others, and there are a few who put cryptic statements.

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All of them.

Who the heck thought modem was a good name?!

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As a systems consultant, I hate it when laymen immediately leap to the "back end" like it's a magical bag that holds all the answers:

 

Ex: "This user cannot access the remittance package, can you check on the back end?"

No no no, it has nothing to do with the magical "back end," it's because this user needs a password reset. 

 

I hate the term in general, especially when my team uses it in lieu of naming the specific stakeholders. 

 

Ex: "When the customer downloads their general ledger reports, it's missing the Tax ID numbers. Why is this not populating?" 
"Back end teams are working with card vendors to identify root cause and implement a fix."

It's not "back end teams" it's the app dev team. Stop perpetuating this annoying term. 

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On 5/11/2021 at 8:50 PM, Nathanpete said:

I get that it can be confusing when you also speak finnish, but SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. Serial ATA is a followup to Parallel ATA which is also known as IDE. 

Yeah, I know
Still hate it 
You hit the point pretty well, because of the finnish language.
But at least for me, it is not really a big inconvenience. 
 

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On 5/8/2021 at 5:32 AM, imreloadin said:

Dongle...

Even hearing that word
Luckily, I don´t need em, apart from logitechs wireless USB-dongles
Althought I would say that it is a sad reality. 

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3 minutes ago, FinOxy said:

Yeah, I know
Still hate it 
You hit the point pretty well, because of the finnish language.
But at least for me, it is not really a big inconvenience. 
 

Wow.  I remember ide being referred to as PATA. Lot of years ago.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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On 5/8/2021 at 12:13 PM, OCNewbee said:

armored beast <-- gaming computer...

For god sakes, its a freaking computer...you are not Conan the barbarian.

 

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Q: what kind of computer do you have?

A: i7

Q: OMG, that is so fast~

Replies
Q: Which type of computer you have?
A: It has a i7 ...
Q: "stops you in mid sentence"

I mean, I am still using a haswell i7,so it counts. I used to run a OC 3370, but for some reason, the NVme boot did not work
Branding truly says very little
 

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3 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Wow.  I remember ide being referred to as PATA. Lot of years ago.

Oh
That must have been a lot of years ago indeed. 
I think I have never really had a PC, that would even have a IDE device.
Tech really ages fast, at least connectors in some cases

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1 hour ago, Den-Fi said:

All of them.

Who the heck thought modem was a good name?!

would you rather be saying Modulator - Demodulator regularly?  

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2 minutes ago, FinOxy said:

Replies
Q: Which type of computer you have?
A: It has a i7 ...
Q: "stops you in mid sentence"

I mean, I am still using a haswell i7,so it counts. I used to run a OC 3370, but for some reason, the NVme boot did not work
Branding truly says very little
 

Might be doing it not because they think they have the information but because they think they’re not going to get the information even if you finish the description.  Gaming computer, math computer, or casual computer.  You seem to be saying”I’m not going to tell you”. I’ll describe the hardware bits and let you decide” which they may not be equipped to do.  i7 bespeaks a minimum though which takes “casual” out of the equation even if it’s an old i7. It still hits a minimum which is above casual.  You’ve got at least 4 cores and at least 3.5 ghz.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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7 minutes ago, FinOxy said:

Oh
That must have been a lot of years ago indeed. 
I think I have never really had a PC, that would even have a IDE device.
Tech really ages fast, at least connectors in some cases

*still runs a machine with ide ports on it though it also has an m.2 slot*

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2 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

All of them.

Who the heck thought modem was a good name?!

That could probably be found out.  Goes way way back though.  It would be what is now a historical figure. There used to be 300 baud modems the size of a suitcase. 

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

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11 minutes ago, tkitch said:

would you rather be saying Modulator - Demodulator regularly?  

Sigh. Guess the /s was needed after all.

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Just now, Den-Fi said:

Sigh. Guess the /s was needed after all.

Yes, it was indeed needed for those beings whom of which are of slower mindset than others. 

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1990 M3s are the best looking things ever made.    

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2020/2021 BMW S1000RRs/Ninja H2s are the best looking things ever made. 

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"Future proof" has to be up there, together with "gaming" (or "gamer", same concept).

On 5/8/2021 at 4:20 AM, LloydLynx said:

GNU/Linux just being called "Linux". Like boi, Linux is just a kernel. The full OS that most people use uses the GNU core utils on top of Linux.

If I use GNU/Linux and I say I use Linux I am 100% correct... and the full OS most people use when they say that includes a lot more than the coreutils, yet I don't see anybody adding those to the shorthand term.

 

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2 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

Who the heck thought modem was a good name?!

The person who thought of the name wanted it to be a palindrome, but they couldn't spell and were too embarrassed to change it after the fact.

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