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I got one here. So my mom calls TCF bank because she couldn't login or change your login creds for online banking. In Chrome and Firefox the site would not load. So TCF says we have to call our Anti Virus Provider, because TCF made "changes" and a few AV's didnt work with the changes. Ok what ever. My mom gets off the phone and tells me to call Avast up and tell them to fix. I was like, they aint going to do shit. Then I proceeded to test the site in Chrome, Firefox and MS Edge. GUess what, it was a Firefox and Chrome Issue. It worked fine in Edge. Why the Tech on the phone didnt try a few web browsers. 

 

I had the same issue when loging in with to my Universities sites. Same thing, Chrome didnt work but Edge did. So I used Edge for a while until the problem went away. Morale of the story, if it dont work in one browser try several more before you give up. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

 

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I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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29 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

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My eyes they hurt 

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I might've forgotten my LTT password..

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138 is a good number.

 

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15 hours ago, Donut417 said:

I got one here. So my mom calls TCF bank because she couldn't login or change your login creds for online banking. In Chrome and Firefox the site would not load. So TCF says we have to call our Anti Virus Provider, because TCF made "changes" and a few AV's didnt work with the changes. Ok what ever. My mom gets off the phone and tells me to call Avast up and tell them to fix. I was like, they aint going to do shit. Then I proceeded to test the site in Chrome, Firefox and MS Edge. GUess what, it was a Firefox and Chrome Issue. It worked fine in Edge. Why the Tech on the phone didnt try a few web browsers. 

 

I had the same issue when loging in with to my Universities sites. Same thing, Chrome didnt work but Edge did. So I used Edge for a while until the problem went away. Morale of the story, if it dont work in one browser try several more before you give up. 

And try to remove cookies. Last week I couldn't log in to some website got poped an error.

removed the cookies all was fine again.

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15 hours ago, Darth Revan said:

To be fair, he does have a point. The User Account Control feature is annoying and useless.

Getting viruses is annoying and useless too you know...

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7 hours ago, themctipers said:

I might've forgotten my LTT password..

 

i just log in with Steam, that way i dont have to remember and its safe because dual factor auth lol

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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4 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Getting viruses is annoying and useless too you know...

User Account Control doesn't stop viruses.

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5 minutes ago, Darth Revan said:

User Account Control doesn't stop viruses.

It's actually what most nasty viruses use to disable everything that protects your PC and to annoy you

 

trust me, not fun. Not even malware bytes can remove all of that nasty shit

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138 is a good number.

 

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1 hour ago, Darth Revan said:

User Account Control doesn't stop viruses.

In some cases it does... For example, if the file is not signed

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7 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

In some cases it does... For example, if the file is not signed

ive only noticed that to happen when i install 'specsboss' @AluminiumTech

 

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138 is a good number.

 

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On 1/16/2013 at 0:12 AM, nillas12 said:

Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech.

Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them.

I'll go first:

So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago.

My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.

 

What is *insert technical term here*

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41 minutes ago, yathis said:

 

What is *insert technical term here*

What is the Ethernet ?

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138 is a good number.

 

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50 minutes ago, themctipers said:

What is the Ethernet ?

i keep calling it Ethernet infront of my parents when explaining shit and i have to add, the internet thing so they understand somewhat

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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One time (quite a long ago, when we still had CRT TV's) I noticed my grandma was watching TV but the image was almost grayscale, so I opened the front knob cover to turn up the color saturation but she stopped me by yelling: "No! Don't fiddle around with it! It will break!"

My other grandma got a widescreen TV some years ago. At that point most TV stations still broadcast 4:3 video and she had it stretched to 16:9. I said that I will fix it, but: "No! Then I have black bars on the sides!". Apparently a horribly stretched image was not a problem for her.

One time I had to drive to the other side of town because my aunt had accidentally dragged an icon off the quick launch bar onto the desktop and couldn't get it back in there so I had to come to "fix" it. No joke.

I'd noticed that when I plug in my netbook to one of the powerstrips at work, it (the netbook) would shock me upon touching after a while. I told my boss not to plug in her laptop to that strip and to do something about it. But because her philosophy is "if something is working now, it will work forever", she didn't, and consequently fried her laptop's motherboard last week while plugged in to that strip.

My Polish teacher in high school once asked me to come up to her desk because "the mouse isn't working" (the school had recently bought laptops for the teachers). Turns out that the mouse was, indeed, not working, because the laptop hadn't been turned on.

Another time, the same teacher was writing a website address on the blackboard. She had it written down on a piece of paper. She started writing "www." and then paused for a moment before going: "but there isn't an @ in this address..."



That's just a few examples. The worst thing isn't that these people do such things, I mean not everyone has to be tech savvy. The worst thing is that when I try to explain to them what they did wrong and what to do so that it doesn't happen again, they immediately stop me, saying: "Nah, it's all black magic to me". As a teacher I find this popular unwillingness to learn disturbing.

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People calling every form of internet connection "Wi-Fi"

qυoтe мe pleaѕe!

Me at the Apple store: "So how fast is this little macbook?"

Apple employee: "Cheetah Fast. Lightning Fast. It's Really, really, fast."

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Just found this on amazon... xD

 

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3 minutes ago, Xsinar said:

Just found this on amazon... xD

 

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I think the thing that frustrates me as a young techy, People ask for my help, Then when things start to look complicated for them (i open a CMD window) or the registry or something they always say something like "you're sure you know what you're doing right?" 

 

I mean, YOU are asking for MY help right? stop asking questions and let me do my thing. 

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16 minutes ago, themctipers said:

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When people say that they have more "knowledge" than you in the "topic" of Information technology...   ...every time I meet such people it comes out that they have no clue what so ever... #Rekt

 

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There was one time that my dad was in a college computer lab a few decades ago, and there was a student there that typed very slowly.  Basically, the conversation went like this:

 

Dad: "Why are you typing so slowly?"

Person: "Well, I'm worried I'll break the keyboard."

Dad: *repeatedly karate-chops keyboard*

Dad: "You're not gonna break it."

Person: "Ok! :D"

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