Experiences with non-techies

[themctipers]

8 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

https://wolfylava.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/websites-evolution/ i just have to

Stop reposting for karma  

[NunoLava1998]

3 hours ago, themctipers said:

Stop reposting for karma  

what's kar-

seriously tho, i actually made that crap in 2014 and i feel like everyone has to see that

[themctipers]

Just now, NunoLava1998 said:

what's kar-

seriously tho, i actually made that crap in 2014 and i feel like everyone has to see that

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) wait nooooo

[Ryujin2003]

So this lady calls my shop yesterday trying to set up her All-in-One. She figure out where to plug in the mouse and keyboard. We tell her there should be a bunch of USB points on the back. She cannot find them... And she is upset because when she does turn it in, Windows doesn't come up. She just gets a black screen.

 

So we ask what model her AIO is so we can pull up the user manual for her, and she says (and I'm not making this up), "Um... It's an A S U S 1 1 4 H Z."

She spells out each thing individually. We look at the model we just wrote on paper... "Ma'am, that's a monitor."

She replies, "I know it's got a monitor."

 

I wonder if Jitterbug ever thought about making PCs for the elderly.

[JoeCoke]

On 3/13/2017 at 0:10 AM, rainbrodash666 said:

today I had another amazing interaction with someone from Comcast, we were having trouble getting only snow and the guide menu with no information on the tv, we call in after checking the connections and power cycling everything and after a while of troubleshooting questions they ask how we have the cable box hooked to the tv, I reply HDMI, and the lady on the phone says, "oh well there is the problem you don't have HD tv service so you can't connect the cable box with HDMI" she wanted me to hook the cable box to my tv with coaxial cable because I don't get HD tv service... the cable came back on 15 minutes later because we just hung up and hoped to get a more qualified technician, did and got our cable fixed and a month of hbo.

Okay completely off topic but you profile pic is amazing.

[AnalogCanavity]

On 1/23/2013 at 4:25 PM, brav3st said:

I also made the mistake to start doing computer stuff for my friends and family. Everyone i've ever helped now thinks that i'm their personal support guy for everything. My top 5:

5)

Friend bought a SSD and installed it (he's not that of a noob). Still asked me why it wasn't reading with 450MB/s as promised, so i asked him if he used the fast sata-port on his board (labeled blue). He told me that he used the blue one, so i drove over to him, just to see that be had his HDD in the fast port and his SSD in the slow one.

4)

My mother told me that she wants a new computer, so i asked her if i should build her one. She said no and went to "Saturn" (like best-buy but in germany) and got a complete system there. She payed about 800$ for a system with an i3, a gtx 540, 4 gigs of ram and 500 gigs of harddrive space....

3)

A friend of mine made a steam account with a fake e-mail-adress. After buying 3 games with his pay-pal-account for ~120$ he restarted his computer, just to realize that he couldn't play the games because his mail was fake and he couldn't get into his steam-account anymore.

2)

After i built a computer for a friend of mine, he started complaining about the system bluescreening all the time. While checking his rig, i realized that he had removed the cpu-cooler (out of curiousity) and cleaned off the thermal paste because he thought it was dirty. So obviously his cpu got too hot and made his pc crash every time he booted up. Because he tried to boot up his system uncountable times, his 300$ i7 was broken too. Good job on that.

1)

My ex-girlfriend got a macbook pro. She turned it on for the first time and played around a while, after about 10 minutes she asked me where the Internet Explorer is because she wanted to surf the interwebz. I lol'd.

I can't believe he took of the CPU cooler I mean even if you weren't a techie I wouldn't take things off a PC

[Bananasplit_00]

rememberd something pretty funny from when i knew way less about tech but i was one of those that thought i knew atleast most of it(spoilers: i did not).

 

so me and my friend got invited to dig through and take whatever we wanted from what the IT department at my dads work were throwing out, obviously we were really happy and it is to date one of the most fun things i have done but i knew jack shit of hardware compared to what i know now. anyway on with the story, my friend tears of the panel of another one of the old dells and pulls out a GPU, it says "video card" on it(yes, on the card.) and then this goes down:

 

friend: dude whats a video card?

me: the thing that makes the pictures move

friend: but how is it different from a graphics card then?

me(confident like a boss): video cards are for makeing videos and graphics cards are for games, videocards have surperior quality in video while graphics cards can play games.

friend: huh neat, is this thing any good then?

me: no, we play games right, dont bother with it(im pretty sure it was a quadro of some sort  )

 

he then went on to belive that there was such a thing as a dedicated video card and that videos didnt look as good on graphics cards becuase i told him so... also we picked up a computer with an LGA 771 Xeon in it and he threw it out right as i was about to come pick it up from his place. we barely talked after that and he has since moved away.

 

there are a lot of other things regarding that massive pile we dug through but i just rememberd this conversation again so i thought i should post it  

[themctipers]

3 hours ago, Zic05 said:

I can't believe he took of the CPU cooler I mean even if you weren't a techie I wouldn't take things off a PC

Duct tape...

[themctipers]

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[Preston builds]

In December of 2016 when i bought my first gaming PC, my nan came over for some lunch, she walked into my room to checked out my computer and when she came in she starting taking a look, she lifted up my keyboard and said "well its a bit small". I had to explain to her that the big machine next to the keyboard was the computer. Really funny. Also once my brother bought a game called SpinTyres for PC and when i told him i don't have a disk drive he put the disc into his Xbox One.

[Bananasplit_00]

 

just saw that banner add... good job ASUS

[ProjectBox153]

Someone yesterday said that a USB has batteries. He said you have to take the batteries out for it to work. I did a facepalm. First off, what is a USB? USB is the bus (Universal Serial Bus) that devices like storage drives, etc use to communicate with the computer. Then someone asked me if a desktop computer used batteries to run. 

[themctipers]

8 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

 

just saw that banner add... good job ASUS

ad

 

 

ffs

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

 

just saw that banner add... good job ASUS

I couldn't find it

[Fetzie]

8 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Then someone asked me if a desktop computer used batteries to run. 

Technically without a battery CMOS settings will not persist and the system clock gets buggered So not totally off the mark there.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Fetzie said:

Technically without a battery CMOS settings will not persist and the system clock gets buggered So not totally off the mark there.

system clock and bios settings here  

[Bananasplit_00]

13 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I couldn't find it

might have been Sweden exclusive or something.

[ProjectBox153]

18 hours ago, Fetzie said:

Technically without a battery CMOS settings will not persist and the system clock gets buggered So not totally off the mark there.

But it will work. This is coming from someone who doesn't care if the settings are wrong, the time is off, or anything like that.

[NunoLava1998]

back from page 485 and page 200, but kek

[themctipers]

50 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

back from page 485 and page 200, but kek

When you're basic enough to have a Mac and can't afford a actual mouse

[Automobili3XF]

1 hour ago, NunoLava1998 said:

back from page 485 and page 200, but kek

Omg, i don't know how anybody can defend the Apple Smart Mouse, that thing is terrible! 

I much prefer something from Logitech, like the Mx Master, Performance MX or the M570...

[Automobili3XF]

Somebody is playing a prank on some of the older users here at the hall, they use the mundane ctrl+alt+ arrow keys to make the screen rotate, every half and hour or so somebody calls me to say that their screen has flipped...

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

59 minutes ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

Omg, i don't know how anybody can defend the Apple Smart Mouse, that thing is terrible! 

I much prefer something from Logitech, like the Mx Master, Performance MX or the M570...

i much prefer NO mouse tbh

[Automobili3XF]

6 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

i much prefer NO mouse tbh

Mind control, trackball, trackpad?

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

Mind control, trackball, trackpad?

keyboard