Tech Mistakes You Hate

[VFXGuy]

I am curious if anyone else has any mistakes or things people do tech related that annoy them.

I'll start. When people put the protocol in front of web addresses in advertisements and alike. (https://example.com). I hate even more when people put http in front of it. There are little reasons to not have an SSL certificate.

[RockSolid1106]

Check this thread. Similar to what you are talking about.

[pythonmegapixel]

32 minutes ago, VFXGuy said:

When people put the protocol in front of web addresses in advertisements and alike.

There is a legitimate reason to do that. It makes it obvious that you are, in fact, looking at a web address and not something else (a social media name for example)

[Spindel]

People playing loose with power and energy in speech. 

 

The "h" in kWh (or Wh or mWh or MWh) matters and in some circumstances even the context can't help you to know what is being talked about. 

[Ashleyyyy]

people leaving laptops plugged in 24/7 bEcauSe ThEy OnLy UsE iT At ThEiR dEsK like no unplug it once in a while, leaving it plugged in 24/7 will oof the battery really fast. 

[NineEyeRon]

12 hours ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

people leaving laptops plugged in 24/7 bEcauSe ThEy OnLy UsE iT At ThEiR dEsK like no unplug it once in a while, leaving it plugged in 24/7 will oof the battery really fast. 

Mine is plugged in all the time because I only use it at my desk. It’s a lot of hassle to unplug it as it’s in a dock behind my monitors.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

12 hours ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

people leaving laptops plugged in 24/7 bEcauSe ThEy OnLy UsE iT At ThEiR dEsK like no unplug it once in a while, leaving it plugged in 24/7 will oof the battery really fast. 

That's not how batterys work.

Once it's full the power is pulled straight from the brick. 

[WhitetailAni]

Person: "How do you do this thing?"
Me: "Read the manual."
Person: "Oh."

 

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

[Murasaki]

GSync Compatible is not GSync

[Lurick]

6 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

That's not how batterys work.

Once it's full the power is pulled straight from the brick. 

And yet tests have shown that keeping it fully charged can take a normal laptop with 1000-2000 discharge cycles down to 300 to 500 so.....

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

And yet tests have shown that keeping it fully charged can take a normal laptop with 1000-2000 discharge cycles down to 300 to 500 so.....

Yeah, keeping charged means it discharges less, that how that works.

[Rex Hite]

I do five tech mistakes before breakfast!

 

I print out my passwords and keep them in a file folder labelled "passwords"; (really)

I refuse to update my operating systems; (screw it)

I will happily download an run "whatever" from "wherever"; (I'm exaggerating with that one, but not much and probably not more than many here)

I don't, and will not consider using a VPN; (to me that's like, "hey everybody look at me being all secret!")

I keep Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 10 machines all on the same network!  (As soon as I found out I could do that, I did it!)

 

Never let me anywhere near your systems!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VFXGuy]

8 minutes ago, Rex Hite said:

I do five tech mistakes before breakfast!

 

I print out my passwords and keep them in a file folder labelled "passwords"; (really)

I refuse to update my operating systems; (screw it)

I will happily download an run "whatever" from "wherever"; (I'm exaggerating with that one, but not much and probably not more than many here)

I don't, and will not consider using a VPN; (to me that's like, "hey everybody look at me being all secret!")

I keep Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 10 machines all on the same network!  (As soon as I found out I could do that, I did it!)

 

Never let me anywhere near your systems!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh gosh, haha. I once accidentally printed out a bunch of my passwords and couldn't be bothered to change them all so just shedded and burnt (in a controlled manor) them.

[Zando_]

I read this more as mistakes in the tech itself, so I'll answer as such. 

The Apple Magic Mouse's design. It's the best damn scroll/gesture experience you can get while keeping a mouse, but packaged in a form factor that provides basically negative support for your hand, forcing you to grab it like one of the claw machines, but then they put sharp edges on the damn thing so it cuts into your hand. And on the new rechargeable ones the charging port is on the bottom, so if it dies in the middle of a workday you can't just plug it in and keep going.

[FeIIex]

Not unlocking your computer's BIOS before selling it/trading/donating. So many perfectly good machines get junked at work due to these locks. (We unlock what we can, but most laptops and some desktops are unbreakable)

[whm1974]

6 minutes ago, FeIIex said:

Not unlocking your computer's BIOS before selling it/trading/donating. So many perfectly good machines get junked at work due to these locks. (We unlock what we can, but most laptops and some desktops are unbreakable)

Let me Guess, HP comes that way?

[starry]

Installing windows

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, starry said:

Installing windows

And you found a way to get 15 year old games to be plug and play on Linux?

[starry]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

And you found a way to get 15 year old games to be plug and play on Linux?

fair

[FeIIex]

Just now, whm1974 said:

Let me Guess, HP comes that way?

The most we get that are BIOS locked are Lenovo laptops (Though we have quite a few HP's as well) .

 

HP's desktops are super good to unlock (8300, 600 G1), its just a single jumper you take off. Why couldn't they do the same with laptops?

[Rex Hite]

I think the biggest mistake of the personal computer was that the Operating System doesn't reside in non destructive RAM and loads instantly at power up. I always thought a home computer should be like a Commodore Plus 4. But good. But an OS is a value-added product that needs to be managed, maintained and updated and that's a business opportunity that can't be passed up so it's something we have been saddled with.

[whm1974]

1 minute ago, Rex Hite said:

I think the biggest mistake of the personal computer was that the Operating System doesn't reside in non destructive RAM and loads instantly at power up. I always thought a home computer should be like a Commodore Plus 4. But good. But an OS is a value-added product that needs to be managed, maintained and updated and that's a business opportunity that can't be passed up so it's something we have been saddled with.

You NVRAM? Keep in mind the Plus/4 Boot ROM was just BASIC and few small applications. 8 bit applications only take up a few KB of ROM/RAM so that is why the 8 bit Home Computers of the 80's booted up so fast.

 

The M68K has more Instructions then the x86 CPUs including those that reduce RAM and ROM requirements. Which is why both the Amiga and Atari ST had Complete OSes /GUI built in.

[Rex Hite]

I think the case against an OS in non destructive memory gets less and less compelling with each advancement in capacity.

[danalog]

41 minutes ago, FeIIex said:

Not unlocking your computer's BIOS before selling it/trading/donating. So many perfectly good machines get junked at work due to these locks. (We unlock what we can, but most laptops and some desktops are unbreakable)

On some you can just yoink the BIOS battery for a few minutes, but I've encountered some machines that that doesn't work on.

[Ashleyyyy]

5 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

That's not how batterys work.

Once it's full the power is pulled straight from the brick. 

uh no that is how batteries work. if you leave them for weeks without putting a cycle on them they will deteriorate very very fast.