Experiences with non-techies

[themctipers]

Just now, N1ghtshade said:

Are you leeching off someone else's?

no

 

stop reading my profile..

[AntonChigurh]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

no

 

stop reading my profile..

wat

[DocSwag]

3 hours ago, themctipers said:

Step 3: Get used to the idea that this is something you're going to have to keep investing time and money in as long as you want to stay at the cutting edge or recommended specifications range for new PC games.

stay at the cutting edge.. when is that cheap? when was that ever cheap?

also recommended specs are laughable.. wow, you need a very expensive cpu from 2011 to pass the recommended hardware config, not even the minimal.. that would be a quad core from 2007 (q6600).. even at that, I'm pretty sure the GTX 480 is supported in almost every modern game.. yes, a gpu from 2010.

That's not to mention you don't have to stay on the cutting edge. It's fine to be using an older computer today. Also not even to mention that staying with an Xbox and not upgrading it isn't "staying on the cutting edge" either.

 

People complain that pcs are way more expensive than consoles, and that you need to keep investing in them, but fail to realize that a) you're paying for a machine that's multiple times more powerful and multiple times more capable not only in games but other tasks as well, sicne you can use a pc for more than gaming and b) that you don't have to keep upgrading. Comparing getting a pc and upgrading it every few years to getting an Xbox and keeping it for 6 years isn't comparable! You should be comparing it to switching an Xbox every 2 years.

[JuNex03]

I was raised by very non tech savvy parents, me as some one who had a hobby of playing computer games wanted to be a programmer (a high level one) as it fascinated me on how these game devs could create worlds inside a game (yeah childish dream, but still a dream). Upon growing up I noticed that most of the jobs are either being replaced by computers or is becoming reliant to computers. Seeing this, I concluded that taking an BSIT course would be more profitable for me in the future.

 

My parents wanted me to become a seaman, I said no as I wanted take an IT course. They treathened to not support me financially or atleast I would need to find a job just to take the course, where I live however there's next to 0 chance on finding a job as a 15 yr old. So I tried to make a compromise, if I pass an entrance with very high marks, they'd support me.

 

I had four choices, one of which is my mom's alma matter, another one is a public college which is cheap but no IT courses, and the last 2 are some of the best colleges for an iT course around. I passed all four, got an 80% tuition fee discount on one of the 2 good college schools and half tuition fee on the other. Seeing that I also passed my exam at my mom's alma matter, and that it also offered IT courses, annnd that it was cheaper than the 2 good college schools, they forced me to study there and instead of an IT course I was forced to take a Computer tech course with a choice to continue as an IT for an additional year after graduating.

 

When I entered, the school only recently hosted these courses, like they started just 2 years ago from the time I entered. Their curriculum was bad, most of the teachers dont really know much of what they're doing (only when I reached 3rd year was the time they hired competent instructors), most of the time they'll just give you an assignment/project and leave you be, heck they were teaching us woodworking during my second year. I even got into a confrontation with a professor who tought I wasn't listening to him discussing the parts of a voltmeter, he made me stand up, ask me questions for about 15 minutes, I answered them all, apparently this hurt his pride, I made a mistake on the last question, he saved himself of the embarrasment and made me stand up for 3 and a half hours til lunch. We forced that guy to leave later that year when we found out that he was soliciting one of the students for good grades in exchange of secretly being in a relationship with him

 

Fast forward to today, I'm now a programmer with 7 years of exp. I'm not as good as those ones who graduated on schools that specialized on IT however, but I'm still trying to learn on my own. I was forced to not take the extra year to finish my IT course since Dad died. If I did I'd be risking losing my job. I'm not an IT graduate, I'm a Computer techinician who knows programming. I'm forced to be a breadwinner, now my mom is seeing how much money people who graduated on IT courses make, and asks me from time to time, "Why don't you earn x amount of money like, x person, didn't you graduated on the same course?" apparently she could not discern the difference between IT and Computer techinician.

 

Remembering this make me rage a little. Sorry for the wall of text.

[DocSwag]

4 minutes ago, JuNex03 said:

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I came here to laugh at dumb people doing non-techie things, not read about someone's life story/hobby and get some feels  

[mcraftax]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I came here to laugh at dumb people doing non-techie things, not read about someone's life story/hobby and get some feels  

well it was his non-techy parents which pushed him down that path.

[DocSwag]

Just now, mcraftax said:

well it was his non-techy parents which pushed him down that path.

But it's not like dumb short term non-techie parents.

 

It's semi non-techie parents semi non-forward-looking parents that potentially changed his life, in a bad way, forever  

[NunoLava1998]

10 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

This whole article:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pc-gaming-is-still-way-too-hard

 

Okay, actually some valid poin-

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This is why people buy from Apple.

GOD FCKN DAMNIT

[matrix07012]

Correlation does indeed equal causation /s

[DocSwag]

5 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

Correlation does indeed equal causation /s

See? This just proves my point!

 

Spoiler

We need to lower murder rates so less people use I.E.!!!

 

[Saurfang]

I'm a junior sys admin. Today at work we got a call because one of our end users had been talking to another end user and they had become convinced that the cell service was down in a part of the building, and asked us if we needed to reset the cell tower.

 

I facepalmed very hard.

[JuNex03]

13 minutes ago, Saurfang said:

I'm a junior sys admin. Today at work we got a call because one of our end users had been talking to another end user and they had become convinced that the cell service was down in a part of the building, and asked us if we needed to reset the cell tower.

 

I facepalmed very hard.

Make sure turn it off and on again fam.

[themctipers]

someone on apple discord just dismissed devastator 2 for being 'gamer'

 

 

and the apple keyboards as good value. 

[themctipers]

if all goes well

 

im getting a 7th gen laptop 

 

trading it with some idiot in my class for a i3 530 system lmfao

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, themctipers said:

if all goes well

 

im getting a 7th gen laptop 

 

trading it with some idiot in my class for a i3 530 system lmfao

how?

[themctipers]

14 minutes ago, bear-in-the-air said:

how?

i d i o t 

 

 

idiot

 

 

jk his system is borked and he wants a new faster computer, he just happens to be an idiot so..

[matrix07012]

On 4/7/2017 at 3:35 AM, Saurfang said:

I'm a junior sys admin. Today at work we got a call because one of our end users had been talking to another end user and they had become convinced that the cell service was down in a part of the building, and asked us if we needed to reset the cell tower.

 

I facepalmed very hard.

[Brbm gaming]

18 hours ago, themctipers said:

i d i o t 

 

 

idiot

 

 

jk his system is borked and he wants a new faster computer, he just happens to be an idiot so..

i have a friend who wants a new computer and is looking at an hp pavilion and i tried to show him what he could get if i made him one. he is probably getting touch screen the computer probably either has a trash gpu or none at all.

[DocSwag]

4 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

 

On 1/17/2013 at 5:47 AM, rainbrodash666 said:

so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.

 

 

 

EDIT: feel free to quote this comment, I like seeing peoples reactions even though the comment is 2+ years old.

This is so retarded.

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

ios 6  a e s t h e t i c s

[DocSwag]

17 minutes ago, themctipers said:

ios 6  a e s t h e t i c s

Assthetics?

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[NunoLava1998]

Found this on http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_stupsales.shtml:

• Salesman: "Relax. The BIOS on the sound card was conflicting with the AOL drivers. This caused a problem with your memory, making the machine reboot."

[DocSwag]

Just now, NunoLava1998 said:

Found this on http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_stupsales.shtml:

• Salesman: "Relax. The BIOS on the sound card was conflicting with the AOL drivers. This caused a problem with your memory, making the machine reboot."

AOL drivers?

 

AOL DRIVERS?!?

[NunoLava1998]

Just now, DocSwag said:

AOL drivers?

 

AOL DRIVERS?!?

 

 

We gotta get to the children's section to get computer memory before fixing the important AOL drivers! (reference from story earlier in the link)