Experiences with non-techies

[D13H4RD]

42 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

[Grandpa voice] Back in my day we didn't have automoblies (not a typo) and elevators. I had to walk through the Lost Woods, hike Death Mountain, and talk to a big tree all while being pestered by an anthropomorphic spirit thing inside my sword. You should count yourselves lucky with your speedy travel maguffins and instant lunch boxes. I can still remember walking the 400 stairs going up as I went to fight some pig-demon. [A single tear flows] Those were the good old days...

 

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Zelda for those who don't know.

 

[Elderly voice] Back in my day, we didn’t have elitists talking crap on what other people have just because they spent more on a top-end GPU...

[Drak3]

14 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

-Snip old fart #1, pyo-

Stop with your superhero bullshit, grandpa, pyo!

 

 

It makes being a family of benevolently evil villains hard, pyo!

 

13 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

-snip old fart #2, pyo

Y'all really shouldn't adopt things that come out of meteorite anymore, pyo.

 

 

@themctipers Where Mondo Media has failed, the Society of Virtue saves the day, pyo!

[PianoPlayer88Key]

[voice of someone older than Linus's grandpa] Back in my day, CPUs and video cards (they weren't called GPUs then) didn't even need or HAVE heatsinks!  The 5.25" bay (not the 3.5" bay, those came later) was where you put your hard drive, and sound, networking, etc. were added via expansion slots (and there were usually 8 of them, not limited to 7 like on most modern motherboards).  We didn't have SATA, IDE, PCI Express, PCI or USB yet.

[MysticLTT]

People having difficulties understanding that a phone has 2 volumes, one for a ringer and another one for the media including maps.

 

I work in an environment, where silence is a must or you get sent home without pay, yet I see people's phones making sounds from something like Google Maps or FB video, with them looking horrified, this continues for years, with the same people, even after I explain it to them.

[AncientNerd]

On 9/19/2017 at 5:04 PM, PianoPlayer88Key said:

[voice of someone older than Linus's grandpa] Back in my day, CPUs and video cards (they weren't called GPUs then) didn't even need or HAVE heatsinks!  The 5.25" bay (not the 3.5" bay, those came later) was where you put your hard drive, and sound, networking, etc. were added via expansion slots (and there were usually 8 of them, not limited to 7 like on most modern motherboards).  We didn't have SATA, IDE, PCI Express, PCI or USB yet.

My first floppy drives were 8" and the first hard-drive I worked with was 5MB - that's Mega-Bytes. Not GB or TB, MB, and was for work. 

 

The expansion slots were S100 bus and had a massive 8k of memory on each card...the network was a 9600kbit modem.

[Bananasplit_00]

frind bought and SD card for his 3DS

dosent work

i ask if he formated it correctly because they cant take most of the file formats

he said he hasent, and he cant format it

i ask "what about your phone, you might be able to format it from that?"

"the small one goes in there, but not the big one and the big one goes in the 3DS!"

thats when i just broke down in laughter for like 10min before explaining "the big one" was just an adapter and it worked flawlessly after that

[Donut417]

Here is one for you guys. 

 

A friend of the family's grandmother was having computer issues. From what they told me, when ever they turned the computer on it had colored lines going down the screen. My first though was a graphics issue, or iGPU issue specifically. When any way I guess the grandmother believes that if she has a computer issue, its because of Comcast. So I guess she called Comcast support and was on the phone with them for hours. They finally told her its her printer to get her off the phone. 

 

I ended up looking at the machine myself. Well it booted just fine for me and worked with my monitor. They said they tested it with another monitor but used the cable that was already connected to the computer. So my thoughts were a bad cable. I ended up cleaning the dust out of the machine, because Im a nice guy. Sweet baby Jesus, that heat sink was atrocious (I really like that word, thats the first sentence I could use it in). Well any way I ended up pulling off the heat sink, cleaning it, cleaning all the fans and put some Artic Silver 5 on the Intel Core2 Duo. The only positive of this story, is I was able to get the computer to boot faster. 

[GirlFromYonder]

10 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Here is one for you guys. 

 

A friend of the family's grandmother was having computer issues. From what they told me, when ever they turned the computer on it had colored lines going down the screen. My first though was a graphics issue, or iGPU issue specifically. When any way I guess the grandmother believes that if she has a computer issue, its because of Comcast. So I guess she called Comcast support and was on the phone with them for hours. They finally told her its her printer to get her off the phone. 

 

I ended up looking at the machine myself. Well it booted just fine for me and worked with my monitor. They said they tested it with another monitor but used the cable that was already connected to the computer. So my thoughts were a bad cable. I ended up cleaning the dust out of the machine, because Im a nice guy. Sweet baby Jesus, that heat sink was atrocious (I really like that word, thats the first sentence I could use it in). Well any way I ended up pulling off the heat sink, cleaning it, cleaning all the fans and put some Artic Silver 5 on the Intel Core2 Duo. The only positive of this story, is I was able to get the computer to boot faster. 

God damn thermal throttling from boot. I can't imagine.

[GirlFromYonder]

On 10/4/2017 at 8:20 AM, AncientNerd said:

My first floppy drives were 8" and the first hard-drive I worked with was 5MB - that's Mega-Bytes. Not GB or TB, MB, and was for work. 

 

The expansion slots were S100 bus and had a massive 8k of memory on each card...the network was a 9600kbit modem.

The first computer I used was a Pentium 2-3 or something. Don't remember. I was 3 then. Around 2001.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, DeezNoNos said:

The first computer I used was a Pentium 2-3 or something. Don't remember. I was 3 then. Around 2001.

probably a pentium 3 then

[thedabbler]

Ohh i am soo glad I found this thread.. 

 

I work the Help-desk at a Heath Center that employees right around 500 people.

 

I had someone call me and was legitly mad thinking that we had done something to her computer. She said that her screen said "no input"  Its hard to not sound like a jerk when you tell her she needs to turn her computer on .... 

[AMDPRO]

People call towers "Hard Drives" and think that dell xps with 960 and 4k display  are good for 60+ fps in games like GTA V and VR

[Jihakuz]

On 1/16/2013 at 9:16 AM, RobbieX27 said:

People thinking they can download RAM....

People thinking secondary memory and memory are the same thing. Ha!

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, Jihakuz said:

People thinking secondary memory and memory are the same thing. Ha!

And you just quoted a nearly 5 year old post. I love those ads that advertise a 32GB phone! Yes! Wait, that's just storage. 

[Donut417]

Here is another one. This is a less techy issue and more of a law issue. Im in a Management Union relations class. So some of the assignments in the class involve us watching movies at home about Unions. No joke, the professor has Youtube links posted in Canvas on where to find these movies. Watched Grapes of Wrath on Youtube. LOL. Because promoting piracy at the University Level seems to be ok. LOL. 

[NumLock21]

Actual Acer Home Page!

 

 

[mech]

I was telling my mom about Linux and she said she Had never heard of the Linux OS but she has heard of Linus OS

Linus OS...

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[dcgreen2k]

It's a really small thing, but my dad thought that clock speed was the factor that determined how fast a CPU was. He was having a bit of trouble finding a laptop with a CPU that ran at over 3.06GHz. His laptop has a Core 2 Duo, so...

[Linglanglong]

On 1/16/2013 at 9:14 PM, cxz said:

I don't really have an example except that when I go to the apple store with my gf, because her phone broke again, I would look around for the noobie and mess with him/her. I would also like to add that I do not think some of the employees should be called geniuses lol. Anyone else enjoy doing this?

To be honest, I'm not sure any of them should be called "geniuses" . They all do the same thing, performing the same troubleshooting you find on the first page of google. Some of them are more or less well trained monkeys.

[TheGleaner]

15 minutes ago, Linglanglong said:

To be honest, I'm not sure any of them should be called "geniuses" . They all do the same thing, performing the same troubleshooting you find on the first page of google. Some of them are more or less well trained monkeys.

But it sells so...

[AnalogCanavity]

So my PC wasn’t working and my grandma needed to send a ecard to my uncle in Germany, so I told her she could use my laptop. She said “where’s the mouse, because I’m not comfortable with the pad thing” so the whole time on 123greetings she was right clicking even though I showed her how to click the pad on the left side. I lol’ed so hard.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, Zic05 said:

So my PC wasn’t working and my grandma needed to send a ecard to my uncle in Germany, so I told her she could use my laptop. She said “where’s the mouse, because I’m not comfortable with the pad thing” so the whole time on 123greetings she was right clicking even though I showed her how to click the pad on the left side. I lol’ed so hard.

mom is the same with my HP laptop. she is using a MBP for her daily the last few years but still, even after i tell her she dosent seem to understand how the two buttons differ

[TheGhastModding]

"What does the processor do again?"

[ProjectBox153]

"It downloaded, but I don't see the little bar at the bottom!" - a Chrome user trying to use Firefox

[D13H4RD]

Um...

 

...what part of not being able to natively remap the squeeze gesture on the Pixel 2 is "not the same" as the inability to do the same for the Bixby key?

 

I don't get it.