Experiences with non-techies

[Julian5]

When you friend calls you and is like, This does not work can you please make it work for me

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uUXRcDZBw

[Flowey]

Hum is this thread dying?

[BingoFishy]

11 minutes ago, Flowey said:

Hum is this thread dying?

Quite possibly. But it's so big it'll take a while I'd think. We've lost @STRMfrmXMN as well as @WinNut and @tmcclelland455 who were all major contributors. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

1 minute ago, BingoFishy said:

Quite possibly. But it's so big it'll take a while I'd think. We've lost @STRMfrmXMN as well as @WinNut and @tmcclelland455 who were all major contributors. 

Oh lol, it's been like a year since I've hung around here fam

[STRMfrmXMN]

I think I'm the non-techie here today: yesterday I went to use my mom's amazing Technics receiver as a headphone amp and noticed that the volume coming from the thing was super, super low. Like, it barely could power my extra-sensitive, 32 ohm Grados to listenable volumes. I decided to check the back of the receiver (which was a bad idea because it was tucked a bit into a cabinet) and accidentally yanked the left-channel speaker copper-wired into the receiver out of there... needless to say it still isn't fixed.

 

Wrong place perhaps, but why would it be unable to pump out as much volume as it did a few days ago? It struggles either through speakers or headphones on the 6.3mm jack on the front.

[BingoFishy]

Just saw this review on Newegg for an acer aspire v5 nitro. Beware,  long picture. 

Spoiler

I really didn't need to post the whole review but whatever. 

[Flowey]

7 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

Just saw this review on Newegg for an acer aspire v5 nitro. Beware,  long picture. 

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I really didn't need to post the whole review but whatever. 

And he sells computer for a living? WUT?

[Belgarathian]

On 5/6/2016 at 1:39 AM, wkdpaul said:

questions seen on this forum this morning ... *sigh*

 

1. "what do you mean by server motherboard?"

 

2. "how can I overclock my Celeron J*** CPU to 4.7Ghz like a i5-4***k ???"

 

 

... common sense, NOT all that common after all!

Not really common sense, just lack education & understanding. 

[Beeeyeee]

So I was talking to a co-worker, who also plays games on PC. I was, and still am trying to sell my 980ti (which is freaking impossible right now by the way) when he mentioned he just bought a new computer. I was like, oh really? what do you have in it? He says, oh man its a $4500 PC I built myself, Its got an intel PCU (yes he said PCU not CPU) a Nvidia (not an Nvidia, a Nvivia) and some RAM... he then proceeds to walk away while I realise he totally just bought one from a store that was way overpriced for what he needed.... poor unfortunate soul. I would have loved to build that thing,

[BuckGup]

Just now, Beeeyeee said:

So I was talking to a co-worker, who also plays games on PC. I was, and still am trying to sell my 980ti (which is freaking impossible right now by the way) when he mentioned he just bought a new computer. I was like, oh really? what do you have in it? He says, oh man its a $4500 PC I built myself, Its got an intel PCU (yes he said PCU not CPU) a Nvidia (not an Nvidia, a Nvivia) and some RAM... he then proceeds to walk away while I realise he totally just bought one from a store that was way overpriced for what he needed.... poor unfortunate soul. I would have loved to build that thing,

Why are you trying to sell your 980ti?

[Trey222]

3 hours ago, Beeeyeee said:

So I was talking to a co-worker, who also plays games on PC. I was, and still am trying to sell my 980ti (which is freaking impossible right now by the way) when he mentioned he just bought a new computer. I was like, oh really? what do you have in it? He says, oh man its a $4500 PC I built myself, Its got an intel PCU (yes he said PCU not CPU) a Nvidia (not an Nvidia, a Nvivia) and some RAM... he then proceeds to walk away while I realise he totally just bought one from a store that was way overpriced for what he needed.... poor unfortunate soul. I would have loved to build that thing,

Yeah everyone is trying to get rid of their Maxwell cards right now. It is chaos. 

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Belgarathian said:

Not really common sense, just lack education & understanding. 

Well, I would say the "server motherboard" one is common sense, it's self explanatory, like the famous question "what colour is Napoleon's white horse?" ... self explanatory! 

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

Quite possibly. But it's so big it'll take a while I'd think. We've lost @STRMfrmXMN as well as @WinNut and @tmcclelland455 who were all major contributors. 

I got tired of the notification rape.

[Belgarathian]

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Well, I would say the "server motherboard" one is common sense, it's self explanatory, like the famous question "what colour is Napoleon's white horse?" ... self explanatory! 

Not common sense. I wouldn't know what what the technical terms are for all the stuff that makes up my house. 

[BingoFishy]

A couple things, not really non-techie but whatever.

1) At a judged recital for piano, I (super obviously) skipped almost half of the piece because I got stuck. But I got a perfect score for memorization

2) On a math test, I got one or two questions wrong on the first page and (accidentally) completely skipped the third page which was a single question worth 5 points. My teacher somehow gave me a 100%. (Though I told my teacher afterwards about it, and after first telling her about the first page, she was like "yeah it's fine don't worry about it" but after telling her I skipped that 5 point question she took all 6 or 7 points off. Logic.)

[Fgtfv567]

2 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

A couple things, not really non-techie but whatever.

1) At a judged recital for piano, I (super obviously) skipped almost half of the piece because I got stuck. But I got a perfect score for memorization

2) On a math test, I got one or two questions wrong on the first page and (accidentally) completely skipped the third page which was a single question worth 5 points. My teacher somehow gave me a 100%. (Though I told my teacher afterwards about it, and after first telling her about the first page, she was like "yeah it's fine don't worry about it" but after telling her I skipped that 5 point question she took all 6 or 7 points off. Logic.)

Mate this is super irrelevant to the thread.... 

If you wanted to get that off your chest, it would have been better to make a status update

[Lehti]

6 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Well, I would say the "server motherboard" one is common sense, it's self explanatory, like the famous question "what colour is Napoleon's white horse?" ... self explanatory! 

Agreed. Everyone knows it was purple!

[vanished]

5 minutes ago, Fgtfv567 said:

Mate this is super irrelevant to the thread.... 

If you wanted to get that off your chest, it would have been better to make a status update

Nah, I think we're branching out to "tales of general illogic" just to keep this thread alive  

[WkdPaul]

2 hours ago, Belgarathian said:

Not common sense. I wouldn't know what what the technical terms are for all the stuff that makes up my house. 

calling a motherboard a "server motherboard" is hardly technical if at all, it's simply describing the purpose of a motherboard, like a "gaming motherboard".

 

Technical terms for motherboards used in servers could be stuff like;

E-ATX motherboard for rackmount unit (or similar)

 

If that kid would've asked what "that" was I would've probably answered and not mentioned it in this thread, but asking what a server motherboard is? (though there are more than just extended ATX used in servers and technically you could make a server out of any PC but that's not what it's about).

[Belgarathian]

12 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

calling a motherboard a "server motherboard" is hardly technical if at all, it's simply describing the purpose of a motherboard, like a "gaming motherboard".

 

Technical terms for motherboards used in servers could be stuff like;

E-ATX motherboard for rackmount unit (or similar)

 

If that kid would've asked what "that" was I would've probably answered and not mentioned it in this thread, but asking what a server motherboard is? (though there are more than just extended ATX used in servers and technically you could make a server out of any PC but that's not what it's about).

Still not common sense.... I know that there is timber in the wall, but I have no idea what a top plate, bottom plate, batten, grout, and MDF are. 

 

You realise that common sense is the innate ability to understand not jump off a bridge because it will hurt, not that E=MC^2

[Fgtfv567]

2 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Nah, I think we're branching out to "tales of general illogic" just to keep this thread alive  

Wow we're really getting desperate then..

[deWaardt]

On 5-5-2016 at 5:01 PM, Abdul201588 said:

My friend got a FX 9730 with a £60 motherboard.

 

My reaction was like this

 

R.I.P. vrm's.

Does his PC still work or has he burned his vrm's already?

On 5-5-2016 at 5:03 PM, GoZone said:

I am the only technical one in my family and I am really criticized by it when I am gaming or checking inside PCs. 

Fortunately my parents don't do that. Over here it's the other way around.

 

"Dominique, PC is broken. Fix it."

On 5-5-2016 at 9:09 PM, BingoFishy said:

Teach your family what you're doing, so they understand and won't criticize. 

Any idea how many non-tech/gamer people simply don't want to listen? They think they know exactly what you're doing because they heard something about it.

(Like anti-gamer moms that are anti-gamer because Fox News told them games are the cause of all serial killers and rapists.)

[Sir Asvald]

16 minutes ago, deWaardt said:

R.I.P. vrm's.

Does his PC still work or has he burned his vrm's already?

After starting up the PC, *POOOF* smoke and fire.

[deWaardt]

30 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

After starting up the PC, *POOOF* smoke and fire.

Hehehe yeah that's what you get.

Who buys an FX-9XXX in the first place?

I mean...

[WkdPaul]

5 hours ago, Belgarathian said:

Still not common sense.... I know that there is timber in the wall, but I have no idea what a top plate, bottom plate, batten, grout, and MDF are. 

 

You realise that common sense is the innate ability to understand not jump off a bridge because it will hurt, not that E=MC^2

*Sigh*

 

I'm ,talking about self-explanatory names, not physics equation, also, if you don't understand the basics of what is a "top plate" or bottom plate" then you need help.