You know you're a techie when. . .

[ruitti99]

Some items:

Samsung Chromebook 11.6

AlphaSmart Dana

 

Lots of books

Some water

 

NO! I don't want to double-post!

the size of my bag (35 liters) is the biggest reason it's so heavy (I can easily carry all of my books, my jacket and a laptop inside of it)

[Pugs501]

Moment when friends never get around to showing the insides of their pc's. 

People think they can be my friend by saying they have a monster computer, but no.  What makes someone be a great friend is the ability to talk about new computer parts and know about LTT.

[Photonic]

when you open up every broken hard drive

 

when you open up old computers/and hardrives

 

when you get annoyed when some asks me for help to fix there computer multiple times

 

when you have a monitor with no finger prints

 

when you always do homework on a computer and never on paper

[Horrorfull]

When you have a box full of VGA, DVI, HDMI, power calbes, sata cables, molex adapters, and other assorted cables.

 

When you have a closet full of cardboard boxes from past purchases.

 

When you own multiple cans of compressed air.

 

When you have a bag full of zip-ties and screws for multiple parts of your PC.

 

When you're on the LinusTechTips forum instead of working like you should.

[CloudySky]

When you start making sexual jokes with a non-tech savy female like.....

 

You're like my homework. Something that I take home from school, slam on the desk, and do at night. :wub:

 

Your port barely fit my u...s....b..

 

I should just stop here LOL

[ammarez]

when you have more than 20 Philips screwdrivers 

[STRMfrmXMN]

When you cry whenever you see a PC running Vista...

[-TesseracT-]

When you think about extreme custom PCs all the time.

[TheSSVids]

When EVERY SINGLE TEACHER AND STUDENT in the school comes to you for help

[Fgtfv567]

 

 

When you're on the LinusTechTips forum instead of working like you should.

I should be doing research on north korea right now..

[FuzzyYellow]

when you never delete the installers after installing "just in case."

 

When you have a dedicated room just for the tech stuff you've gathered over the years.

 

When you have to make every computer you use faster than before you used it.

 

When you have a stack of install discs for various linux distros.

 

When you have broken computer parts from 1998 still saved "for later."

 

when you can't find another person to talk with who's "on your tech level."

 

When you don't have antivirus installed and still have never gotten a virus.

 

When you overclock a pc from 2003 just for fun

 

When it drives you crazy to see people throw away a 3 year old pc because "its slow."

 

That's all i can think of right now.

[JoaoPRSousa]

When you spend your school breaks to visit the forums

[nick99n]

when you have to know the specs of what you are using no matter what (pc,laptop,phone,anything)

when you have a massive box from a tv  filled with cables and hardware

when you expalin something to someone ,they are amazed about what you know,and what they can do with this knowledge,they want to remember but they can't

when you want to stress test everything and undervolt or overclock them 

[Zukaro]

When your Linux server doubles as your alarmclock.  :v  And not only does it play music at a different time each day (depending on which class you have to wake up for ), it also talks afterwards, telling you the date, time, and year.  As well as reminds you 40 minutes before your first class starts, telling you which class you have and which room it's in. 

 

(I run multiple virtual servers on my server, and the host OS (Ubuntu Server 14.04) runs my alarm clock)

 

As well as when you have an entire shed filled with computer parts you found on the side of the road or in electronics recycling drop offs (found a plasma screen TV there once, only had to replace two capacitors and it works just like new other than the little bit of burn-in it has ).

 

And when you have a computer lab with 6 computers in that same shed to play the game "Artimis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator".  And you only have to turn one computer on which then sends a WoL packet to all the other computers and turns everything on (that computer can also be turned on from my phone ).  And upon shutting down that computer it SSH's into all the other computers to shut them down as well.  And they all have "wireless" Internet via a Linksys router with DD-WRT (that's been wirelessly bridged with the other router in my house).

[asim1999]

You check the specs of every computer that you go on, no matter where or what it is.

LOL IKR. been doing this every day when in computing class ( even though these are GCSE coursework lessons). i found out that the PCs run IvyBridge i3s and have 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD

[evinta]

someone asks you a simple question and you go into a complicated answer that goes beyond what that person can understand. 

[Calavera]

When you have that one drawer with cables, adapters and handy tech.

[Rettiekadettie]

When a friend,who is in the market for a new ''gaming laptop'' asks you : how about this one,is it any good?

And you start rambling on for about 15 minutes about its specs,in what you think is easy to understand language and they look at you like this.

 

[eelnico09]

Someone asks you about buying a new destkop pc and you show up 30 minutes later with 5 builds and you just start telling why they are good and bad and comparing em.

 

You go and tell your dad about new tech even though he probably doesn't understand what you're saying, because you are too exited and you need to share your exitement.

 

When a friend comes and tells you something cool they read about hardware, and you know it months ago.

 

When normal guys think about girls before sleep, and i think about graphics cards and good looking cases AND girls.

 

When you do benchmarks and play with overclock when you're bored.

 

When your youtube history is about tech reviews of all kinds.

 

When you'd rather upgrade your pc in any possible way than buying new pants, no matter the condition of em (My current situation, not kidding lol).

[Its_Ghost]

When you spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to set up a whole home network with literally the worst and slowest junkyard PC's for your parents house.....for fun.

[-ism]

When I was able to by pass my schools Firewall without the use of a proxy.

 

This, essentially

[Pugs501]

This, essentially

I love honey, don't you?

[evinta]

You go and tell your dad about new tech even though he probably doesn't understand what you're saying, because you are too exited and you need to share your exitement.

 

That doesn't work for me.... 

 

Me: Dad, im getting a asus strix gtx 970 next year.

Dad: No. 

Me: Why?

Dad: because the rule is you can't buy something better than me without buying me something better first. 

Me: ....

 

(he has two 660's in SLI.. he wants two 970s) 

[ruitti99]

When you spend biology classes setting up your linux laptop (or even your pc)

[ManWithBeard1990]

You can't find a USB stick and resort to an old harddrive and a USB to IDE adapter.