Experiences with non-techies

[akela]

My friends Grandma thought cpu's were like golf...The lower the number the better. She paid double the worth of the I3 as a present for him last year

[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well you did make me realize that   But I'm not trying to imply anything about you, it was just a realization  

Riiiiiight.   ?

[Bleedingyamato]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

What am I looking at (besides a USB port) and why is it funny?

[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, mutedcurmudgeon said:

I actually had an experience about a year ago at micro center. There was a father and his two kids, one about 6, and the other 12. As I milled around the PC parts section I overheard that the father wanted to buy a new desktop so that his kids could play games. All the while, the 12-year old would not stop pulling out the most expensive, gaudy, unnecessary PC parts, like the ASUS Sabertooth Z97 mobo, and yelling something to the effect of, "it will stop that lag in Mincraft!" or something like that. I felt terrible for the dad and the sales guy was trying to over sell him on stuff. In the end I helped the guy buy a cheap mobo, a pentium, and 64gb of ram.

Why so much RAM?  That's overkill for just gaming.

[mutedcurmudgeon]

34 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Why so much RAM?  That's overkill for just gaming.

exaggeration, joke about how people who play minecraft think you need a gtx 1080 with watercooling. If I remember right he got 16 1600mhz timing hyperx.

[RollinLower]

44 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

What am I looking at (besides a USB port) and why is it funny?

Because it is labeled as an 'fatality mouse port' while in reality it is just another USB port.

[Djole123]

6 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Ok..  What's that?  Sorry.  I'm clueless.  ?

Too lazy to type so here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=major+league+gaming

[Bleedingyamato]

34 minutes ago, mutedcurmudgeon said:

exaggeration, joke about how people who play minecraft think you need a gtx 1080 with watercooling. If I remember right he got 16 1600mhz timing hyperx.

I see.  lol

[Bleedingyamato]

25 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

Because it is labeled as an 'fatality mouse port' while in reality it is just another USB port.

Ah.      That seems rather pointless to label it like that.  lol

[Space Reptile]

4 hours ago, mutedcurmudgeon said:

and 64gb of ram

does the Pentium even Support that amount o__O?

 

quick Google says yes , up to 64gb of DDR3 1333/1600 or DDR4 1866/2166 on a G4400

 

Jesus i have 16gb and its Overkill

[Space Reptile]

3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

To be fair, it probably does.......

i ran w7 w/ steam installed on a 1.7ghz Pentium m , 256mb ram and a MX440 Laptop , was an acer travelmate i believe

 

ran fine

[SCHISCHKA]

On 10/28/2016 at 9:13 PM, Principis said:

How dare you

Only Linus has the right

in my country socks and sandals are a part of the traditional national dress, along with a black singlet and rugby shorts

[mutedcurmudgeon]

11 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

does the Pentium even Support that amount o__O?

 

quick Google says yes , up to 64gb of DDR3 1333/1600 or DDR4 1866/2166 on a G4400

 

Jesus i have 16gb and ist Overkill

Yeah man, those pentium anniversaries are beasts. If I remember right he only got 16gb though, kind of a joke about the Minecraft RAM usage.

[SCHISCHKA]

When I was a kid we use to mess with teachers computers by re-writing autoexec.bat. Make it print out 1000 lines on the printer or ascii art on every boot. that was good how DOS had poor access controls

[themctipers]

 

1gb of ram macbook! 

coming soon, because ssd =

[Space Reptile]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

1gb of ram macbook! 

coming soon, because ssd =

up to 20gb/s readspeed? PFF i only need 600ish mb/s 

[WkdPaul]

I see that from time to time and I've seen it yesterday but can't understand it;

 

Friend: Hey let me show you that funny YouTube video

Friend opens Edge

Types "Google" in the Bing search bar

Clic on "Google" from the search results

Then types "YouTube" in Google search bar

Then clic on YouTube from the search results

Then search for the video on YouTube ...

 

*SMH*

[NumLock21]

The fatality mouse port sadly is.....

Spoiler

legit

 

*Jumps off Earth*

[BingoFishy]

16 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

The fatality mouse port sadly is.....

  Hide contents

legit

 

*Jumps off Earth*

*lands on sun*

[Scitesh]

52 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

I see that from time to time and I've seen it yesterday but can't understand it;

 

Friend: Hey let me show you that funny YouTube video

Friend opens Edge

Types "Google" in the Bing search bar

Clic on "Google" from the search results

Then types "YouTube" in Google search bar

Then clic on YouTube from the search results

Then search for the video on YouTube ...

 

*SMH*

the funniest part is using IE 

[NumLock21]

17 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

*lands on sun*

more like *free falling for all eternity*

 

[BingoFishy]

21 minutes ago, Scitesh said:

the funniest part is using IE 

Edge != IE

 

Seriously Edge is a good browser.

[Mooshi]

Oh  my gosh, I remember trying to help this one lady who migrated from an iPhone 6 to a Motorolla Maxx 2 and was complaining how much it sucked ect in performance next to her older iPhone. 

 

She couldn't grasp the concept there were multiple Android phones at different price points and performance. She literally thought Samsung phones for example were completely different all together! So here she was ranting about a more budget oriented Android device to an iPhone and even got the OS wrong. At the end of our discussion she literally said "I dunno who this Andrew is, but I'm gonna sue the Andrew!!"  (Andrew = Android) ?

[themctipers]

2 hours ago, Mooshi said:

Oh  my gosh, I remember trying to help this one lady who migrated from an iPhone 6 to a Motorolla Maxx 2 and was complaining how much it sucked ect in performance next to her older iPhone. 

 

She couldn't grasp the concept there were multiple Android phones at different price points and performance. She literally thought Samsung phones for example were completely different all together! So here she was ranting about a more budget oriented Android device to an iPhone and even got the OS wrong. At the end of our discussion she literally said "I dunno who this Andrew is, but I'm gonna sue the Andrew!!"  (Andrew = Android)

lmao

 

 

[kaiju_wars]

So a problem child called in today.

Yaaaay, another one of kaiju_wars work stories!

 

So, now, what happened?  A customer, who's a problem child, who my coworker spent 45 minutes on the phone with earlier, called back.  

He can't get on the internet on anything.  I check sync and session, everything looks perfect.  I see he has a routerboard, based on the MAC I got from the session.  I have him power cycle it, nothing.  I send the agreement number and the I.P. address to NOC, ask if they can see anything that maybe I can't.  
No, everything is looking fucking perfect.  Okay then.  I ask him to try plugging in via Ethernet, still nothing.  I ask him if he has anything else plugged into the back of the routerboard.  He tells me no.  I know he's lying because lo and behold, I see his shit is bridged with a fucking modem.  Anyways, I see that all his fucking devices, all of them, are valid and connected to his modem.

He's about as close to a perfect example of a perfect connection that you can get.  You can obviously tell when listening to him, he's not doing anything I am asking him to do.  He's just trying to be a problem child, like he usually does.  

I contact NOC, there's nothing wrong.  Nothing that can be done.  He's good, he just either doesn't know how to work his shit, or he's trying to be a pain in the ass.  (Or possibly both).

 

He asks for a tech, I ask NOC.  NOC's like, "yeah, we'll send a tech, but he's most likely going to pay for it."

I quote potential charges, he okays it.  Send it up for a tech.

 

Enjoy the fucking bill you asshole.