Experiences with non-techies

[Gamerpraj]

when i gave my external harddrive to my friend she wanted some movies next day she said that your pendrive vibrates so didn't use it.

[Bananasplit_00]

2 hours ago, Gamerpraj said:

when i gave my external harddrive to my friend she wanted some movies next day she said that your pendrive vibrates so didn't use it.

well i think most people dont understand how a harddrive works, nor how you can have one thats portable lol

[DnFx91]

Got a new one

 

A workmate's iphone screen and digitizer died so he wanted me to try and unlock it by entering his passcode with a USB keyboard, i knew of course that the iphone does not support OTG in any way shape or form but gave it a try, of course it didnt work. Upon learning that this plan had not worked he started to suggest his own ideas, which were some of the funniest things i have heard from the mouth of someone who should be at least slightly techie, working in an AV warehouse and all....

 

"What if we plug the iphone into your touchscreen AIO ? we can use the pc screen to enter the iphone password"  this made me laugh but this was just the start of it, upon explaining that this would not work for what should have been really obvious reasons, i then used an apple AV adapter to check if i could actually get any video out of it, which did work, and displayed the lock screen on the little (non-touchscreen) TFT test monitor that i plugged it into. I then was stunned into a disbelieving silence as he reached out and started to try entering his code by touching the external display. Best thing is that this guy has a serious independence complex so when i tried to explain to him why his frankly ludicrous plan wasn't working, he got super angry and defensive  needless to say i lost interest and went home, his phone is still broken lol

[Tiz]

I remember when I was 9, my friend used Daemon tools to mount an ISO and I thought he was actually creating new storage. He tried to explain it to me, but I couldn't get it, for me it was obvious: along the HDD there was that new magical thing with 4 new gigabytes!

[DnFx91]

Just now, Tiz said:

I remember when I was 9, my friend used Daemon tools to mount an ISO and I thought he was actually creating new storage. He tried to explain it to me, but I couldn't get it, for me it was obvious: along the HDD there was that new magical thing with 4 new gigabytes!

lols, when i was about 16 i bought my first laptop with my first job wages and some help from parents, Dell inspiron 17", it came shipped from dell with a drive letter assigned to the recovery partition, which was labelled "D: Data" and got annoyed because it told me there was like 5 gigs of space used in that magical D drive. Being the curious kid i was, i obviously went into that "drive" and deleted everything thinking i could have 5 more gigs of porn and games, result !! oh, no i just deleted the recovery partition, and now it won't boot.

 

The fact that i could not bring myself to tell my parents what i had done, is pretty much why i am in the career i am in now, i had to figure out on the spot how to not only install windows, but also how to steal and crack it

[Nuluvius]

10 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

...but also how to steal and crack it

Or you know... you could maybe have just used the license that it came with 

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

Or you know... you could maybe have just used the license that it came with 

yeah, but being the destructive OCD kid that i was, i removed all the labels not knowing the importance of the product key label  and this was way before i understood how to pull the key from the OS

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, DnFx91 said:

Got a new one

 

A workmate's iphone screen and digitizer died so he wanted me to try and unlock it by entering his passcode with a USB keyboard, i knew of course that the iphone does not support OTG in any way shape or form but gave it a try, of course it didnt work. Upon learning that this plan had not worked he started to suggest his own ideas, which were some of the funniest things i have heard from the mouth of someone who should be at least slightly techie, working in an AV warehouse and all....

 

"What if we plug the iphone into your touchscreen AIO ? we can use the pc screen to enter the iphone password"  this made me laugh but this was just the start of it, upon explaining that this would not work for what should have been really obvious reasons, i then used an apple AV adapter to check if i could actually get any video out of it, which did work, and displayed the lock screen on the little (non-touchscreen) TFT test monitor that i plugged it into. I then was stunned into a disbelieving silence as he reached out and started to try entering his code by touching the external display. Best thing is that this guy has a serious independence complex so when i tried to explain to him why his frankly ludicrous plan wasn't working, he got super angry and defensive  needless to say i lost interest and went home, his phone is still broken lol

for me when my phone does a fuck up like that, i have multiple options

1. plug it into lightning to vga, touch using that

2. enable wifi, use VNC on my computer so that i can click using my computer and see what's going on 

3. enable wifi, ssh and take everything off 

4. use my hackintosh, and use the quickplay trick thing so that it mirrors my phone's screen onto my mac

 

1 hour ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah, but being the destructive OCD kid that i was, i removed all the labels not knowing the importance of the product key label  and this was way before i understood how to pull the key from the OS

i dont like removing the labels on anything.

[DnFx91]

1 hour ago, themctipers said:

i dont like removing the labels on anything.

haha labels on computers is one of my biggest cringes, when my 7510's showed up they all had windows pro, intel i7, Nvidia, and thunderbolt stickers on them, i spent like 6 hours with label remover taking them all off one laptop after another, all 40 of them   

[themctipers]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

haha labels on computers is one of my biggest cringes, when my 7510's showed up they all had windows pro, intel i7, Nvidia, and thunderbolt stickers on them, i spent like 6 hours with label remover taking them all off one laptop after another, all 40 of them   

i dont like removing the i7/novideo/windows 10 logos

i try to keep them intact because, i like to keep getting reminded that i am running a i7 laptop or some shit

[DnFx91]

Just now, themctipers said:

i dont like removing the i7/novideo/windows 10 logos

i try to keep them intact because, i like to keep getting reminded that i am running a i7 laptop or some shit

ah fair enough, that makes sense on some chinesium piece of shite laptop, but when holding a dell precision you know damn well you got some horses there

[themctipers]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

ah fair enough, that makes sense on some chinesium piece of shite laptop, but when holding a dell precision you know damn well you got some horses there

joke lol

 

my current laptop is a core duo one  

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

haha labels on computers is one of my biggest cringes, when my 7510's showed up they all had windows pro, intel i7, Nvidia, and thunderbolt stickers on them, i spent like 6 hours with label remover taking them all off one laptop after another, all 40 of them   

i keep them so that when i sell the laptop or whatever it looks like its newer and hasent been tampered with(which it probably has)

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

joke lol

 

my current laptop is a core duo one  

haha the core duo can still just about hold on, i have a couple of 2011 MBP 17" on the fleet too that are running early gen Core 2 Duo's, still making money lol, starting to fall over on high bitrate video though so gonna bug my boss for some more A1398's

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

haha the core duo can still just about hold on, i have a couple of 2011 MBP 17" on the fleet too that are running early gen Core 2 Duo's, still making money lol, starting to fall over on high bitrate video though so gonna bug my boss for some more A1398's

2006 core duo

 

not core 2 duo

 

 

1.86ghz 

it lags while playing back LOCAL 720p mp4 video. yeah. it cant do 144p youtube without dropping every frame and hogging up 100% CPU (firefox, running bunsenlabs on a SSD)

 

 

 

i don't use that laptop anymore, as i now have a desktop set up where I would use the laptop, which has an i3 530 and a GTX 760

it can do 720p 60fps or 1080p 30fps in chromium! yay! 

[DnFx91]

Just now, themctipers said:

2006 core duo

 

not core 2 duo

 

 

1.86ghz 

it lags while playing back LOCAL 720p mp4 video. yeah. it cant do 144p youtube without dropping every frame and hogging up 100% CPU (firefox, running bunsenlabs on a SSD)

 

 

 

i don't use that laptop anymore, as i now have a desktop set up where I would use the laptop, which has an i3 530 and a GTX 760

it can do 720p 60fps or 1080p 30fps in chromium! yay! 

oh jeez fair enough lol, not too familiar with older intel stuff, only been in the game about 4 years

 

[themctipers]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

oh jeez fair enough lol, not too familiar with older intel stuff, only been in the game about 4 years

 

have only been in the game for 3 years, two years where i actually learned shit

the first year i was into tech, it was mostly knowing OH SHIT I KNOW WHAT AN I7 IS

[DnFx91]

Just now, themctipers said:

have only been in the game for 3 years, two years where i actually learned shit

the first year i was into tech, it was mostly knowing OH SHIT I KNOW WHAT AN I7 IS

haha yeah i mean ive been interested in computers since i was like 10, pretty much since my dad let me play age of empires on his fuckin IBM thinkpad in the late 90's

 

just only in the last few years been really inspired to pursue a career in technology, mostly because of Linus in fairness, built my first PC and got my first Comp Engineer job all within a year of first subscribing to LTT haha

[themctipers]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

haha yeah i mean ive been interested in computers since i was like 10, pretty much since my dad let me play age of empires on his fuckin IBM thinkpad in the late 90's

 

just only in the last few years been really inspired to pursue a career in technology, mostly because of Linus in fairness, built my first PC and got my first Comp Engineer job all within a year of first subscribing to LTT haha

10 too!

started to use PCs when i was 8

dad built me a pc with a sempron 2500+ 

 

it was shit, he upgraded from p4e (478) to q6600, i used the p4e machine

then afterwards i got upgraded to a pd because, idk

then a year later i got upgraded to an i5 760

 

 

 

resident evil 5 is scary and annoyingly hard when you're gaming on a GS 8400 

[DnFx91]

Just now, themctipers said:

10 too!

started to use PCs when i was 8

dad built me a pc with a sempron 2500+ 

 

it was shit, he upgraded from p4e (478) to q6600, i used the p4e machine

then afterwards i got upgraded to a pd because, idk

then a year later i got upgraded to an i5 760

 

 

 

resident evil 5 is scary and annoyingly hard when you're gaming on a GS 8400 

thats funny man, thing is tho i knew absolutely zilch about computer hardware until like 4 or 5 years ago, grew up knowing windows inside out, but never knew how anything inside the PC worked, Linus got me into that stuff and now im obsessed

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

thats funny man, thing is tho i knew absolutely zilch about computer hardware until like 4 or 5 years ago, grew up knowing windows inside out, but never knew how anything inside the PC worked, Linus got me into that stuff and now im obsessed

i know what a 4770/4790/680/770 was BEFORE i knew how to alt tab 

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

My dad the other day, "I need a flash drive to watch Netflix on my tv."  He meant like an Amazon Firestick or similar Rokus.  <.< 

When you don't even have netflix

 

its ok, Canadian Netflix is shit 

[WkdPaul]

So my dumb friend did something again ... sigh

 

He called me this weekend asking me if I could help him with one of his HDD, it failed and he didn't have a backup.

 

After a few questions, I told him I could't help ;

 

1. The files he's trying to get on the HDD are torrented TV shows and movies,
2. It's an old IDE HDD (I have an IDE to USB but I didn't tell him that),
3. He's using Ubuntu and he was getting a message that the HDD was failing ... that message started appearing over a year ago ...

 

So yeah, if he needs his torrents, he can just start downloading them again, not going to waste time and energy for torrents, especially when his HDD started failing over a year ago and he didn't even made a backup.

[Teddy07]

On 4.8.2017 at 7:17 PM, themctipers said:

When you don't even have netflix

 

its ok, Canadian Netflix is shit 

So true. German Netflix sucks too. I don't have it because you know learning computer science is hard. So no time

[Nuluvius]

4 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Don't even get me started.  Sadly, in the US at least, a lot of teachers act like SW engineering business apps in Java = CS.

Don't... just don't... or you'll get me started too...