Experiences with non-techies

[Karakofire]

My roommate literally just said "computers are a thing of the past. Just get a Roku and it will do anything you need it to do" facepalm

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Karakofire said:

My roommate literally just said "computers are a thing of the past. Just get a Roku and it will do anything you need it to do" facepalm

If I need something to be a piece of malfunctional shit, I'll consider getting another one.

[Karakofire]

15 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

If I need something to be a piece of malfunctional shit, I'll consider getting another one.

We've had good luck it ours so far. Better than android tv sicks/boxes

[D13H4RD]

I don’t get the idea of people saying that putting a cellphone in 1080p will drastically improve its performance.

 

In games and other apps where it renders stuff, yes it will. But in terms of general UX? Not really. You’d actually notice a difference if you’d improve the storage I/O and CPU and even then, we’re at the levels where improvements aren’t as obvious.

 

 

[datamonger]

When I was still a teenager, I lived with my grandparents.  This is when I really started getting into computers and other tech-related things.  I also enjoyed playing video games.  As such, my grandfather got the idea that all I do is play games.  Now, nearly 13 years after moving out, I've gotten a job doing tech stuff for the army and have actually made a career out of my love for tech.  Even knowing this, my grandfather still equates being into tech with playing video games all the time.

[PeterT]

My mum doesn't know how to print pictures from Facebook or any other site. She always bookmark every picture and after a week or so, ask me to print it for her. She has a penrium laptop with 2gb ram, i hate opening a lot of bookmark and saving every one. So I teach her at least how to save pictures, so i just need to paste it to a word doc.

The next week i saw her downloads folder full of .html files. When i asked her why she won't right click on the picture and not on the site's other stuff,she said oh, i taught it will know what i want save. Facepalm.

[Bananasplit_00]

48 minutes ago, PeterT said:

My mum doesn't know how to print pictures from Facebook or any other site. She always bookmark every picture and after a week or so, ask me to print it for her. She has a penrium laptop with 2gb ram, i hate opening a lot of bookmark and saving every one. So I teach her at least how to save pictures, so i just need to paste it to a word doc.

The next week i saw her downloads folder full of .html files. When i asked her why she won't right click on the picture and not on the site other stuff,she said oh, i taught it will know what i want. Facepalm.

why go through pasting it into a word file? you can just print pictures directly

[TheGleaner]

14 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

why go through pasting it into a word file? you can just print pictures directly

fit more on a page?

[DocSwag]

15 hours ago, PeterT said:

My mum doesn't know how to print pictures from Facebook or any other site. She always bookmark every picture and after a week or so, ask me to print it for her. She has a penrium laptop with 2gb ram, i hate opening a lot of bookmark and saving every one. So I teach her at least how to save pictures, so i just need to paste it to a word doc.

The next week i saw her downloads folder full of .html files. When i asked her why she won't right click on the picture and not on the site other stuff,she said oh, i taught it will know what i want. Facepalm.

Random question... I see it says you're an LMG Pilot in blue... does that mean you're a floatplane dev?

[Herman Mcpootis]

Had a friend taking a course on IT, he had to uninstall overwatch on his laptop as his 120gb ssd was running out of space. Turns out he had a 1TB HDD in his laptop the entire time, and he didn't think to put anything on the HDD and just crammed everything onto the tiny boot ssd

[Cyracus]

I remember back in the day at the ripe young age of 8 my older brother told me to check out a website, newgrounds, that's all he said, just newgrounds, so I typed in newgrounds and hit enter and was met with a whole lot of nothing... he wouldn't show me how to do it until the next week and treated me like I was stupid.... I had never used the internet before and this was before google was a thing (also I just googled google )

 

About 2 years ago a friend said they wanted a gaming laptop on a budget, I found them a hella nice new laptop within their budget... a few days later they told me about their new laptop... it was worse than the one I suggested and cost them 30% more, a few months later they were complaining about how much they hated it and they couldn't play anything on it... They asked my advice, I told them to go back in time and get the one I told them too  

[ProjectBox153]

7 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Random question... I see it says you're an LMG Pilot in blue... does that mean you're a floatplane dev?

Mine has that too. I think they've just changed what it says (no longer Floatplane Pilot). 

[Rodinski]

For some reason, people tell me the color of their computer as if it makes it faster or something. 

 

"Ya, I have the HP red one, really fast." 

 

"k." 

[D13H4RD]

I'm not sure who's right here...

[themctipers]

3 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

I'm not sure who's right here...

 

youtube comments are low hanging fruit 

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

I'm not sure who's right here...

You are. Except for the 1070, the Pascal lineup is highly binned, desktop silicon underclocked and undervolted.

The 1070 trades clocks for CUDA cores between the desktop and mobile variant. Don't remember which is which though, but it shares roughly the same performance delta.

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, themctipers said:

youtube comments are low hanging fruit 

Indeed.

 

The funny part is that whatever I said isn’t rocket science. It’s information that’s already all over the internet. One Google search reveals all.

[PanteaDropper]

Mom: the tvs not working again

Me: what do you mean?

Mom: all the channels are static

Me: *hits input on the remote*

Tv: "im fixed"

Mom: *Amazement*

Me: *disappointment*

Mom: I tried that though, It didn't work.

Me: I'd show you how to fix it but I don't think a 20th time will change things.... love you though mom?

[D13H4RD]

 

Look, I'm not the world's biggest fan of FaceID and the iPhone X, but I think you're overreacting quite a bit here.

 

FaceID, like many biometric means of authenticating on smartphones, require the use of a passcode as a means of access if biometric scanning fails or when the phone is rebooted or hasn't been used for a long while. 

 

Furthermore, can't you already make an emergency call without unlocking the phone? I thought that's a standard feature on every smartphone out there.

[themctipers]

16 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

 

Look, I'm not the world's biggest fan of FaceID and the iPhone X, but I think you're overreacting quite a bit here.

 

FaceID, like many biometric means of authenticating on smartphones, require the use of a passcode as a means of access if biometric scanning fails or when the phone is rebooted or hasn't been used for a long while. 

 

Furthermore, can't you already make an emergency call without unlocking the phone? I thought that's a standard feature on every smartphone out there.

If you’re trying to unlock your phone to do anything else other than an emergency call during an emergency, you’re the problem..

 

 

am I a non techie for downgrading my phone (in features I use) from iOS 9 to iOS 11?

[TheGleaner]

30 minutes ago, kk027 said:

No one seems to even notice that Android has had Facial Recognition for years.

Because it has to go to apple first then its "revolutionary" THEN everyone knows about it. Then people say "Samsung phones" copied apple.

[TheGleaner]

Just now, kk027 said:

Exactly. I once heard someone say that "Android phones don't have front facing cameras".

don't forget that the note was "bulky" but the bigger iphone+(or whatever) was "easy to handle"

[LienusLateTips]

ikr

[D13H4RD]

This entire thread.

 

At least the last guy that replied to me understands.

[Drak3]

5 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

This entire thread.

Maybe stop being a shill douche who:

Uses reason and logic

Has tried both sides of the fence

Tries to help other people with their choices in devices

Spreads the glory of Nepsy, Gearsy, and company.