Experiences with non-techies

[Drak3]

19 minutes ago, Bhav said:

Then why aren't the bundled games also offered with coffee lake CPUs?

Retailers lose money if inventory space is being wasted by the older models due to increased deliveries to retailer to meet demand.

[Bhav]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

Retailers lose money if inventory space is being wasted by the older models due to increased deliveries to retailer to meet demand.

Oh right, its so the retailers can sell current stock. Intel can just rebrand the CPUs they haven't shipped out yet.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Bhav said:

Oh right, its so the retailers can sell current stock. Intel can just rebrand the CPUs they haven't shipped out yet.

Basically, yes. The unlocked i3 SKU is just a mix of 14nm++ production chips and 7600K's with tweaked microcode.

[Bhav]

8 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Basically, yes. The unlocked i3 SKU is just a mix of 14nm++ production chips and 7600K's with tweaked microcode.

I just googled the offer and I see how it works now:

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=intel+enthusiast+bundle&oq=intel+enth&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.3434j0j7&client=tablet-android-nvidia&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

Intel give the codes to retailers, who have the choice to bundle it with whichever Intel products they want, in most cases its with full PCs or previous gen CPUs.

 

So obviously they're not gonna bundle it with coffee lakes as those are selling fine without it.

[D13H4RD]

This fucking guy (the OP)

 

 

Full thread for context and if you want your daily dose of stupid.

 

[Ace McPlane]

I don't judge, because we're all going to be there someday.

We'll all get older and get behind the times.

 

My dad for example is the reason I got into tech. Was a huge tech guy since way back in the day. Was even programming games on the Apple II for fun back then.

 

Now, I have to explain to him every single time he buys a game that games don't come in physical copies often anymore and you just download them. That and he always thinks he can't uninstall the games without losing them. I keep having to explain that you can just redownload them once you own them

[AlTech]

10 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

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That's sad.

[Mattson]

I'll post some of m y stories.  Here's a recent one.

 

I recently got a job this past October where I work from home.  It is essentially a call center support gig where they send you the equipment and this 30+ page 'tech guide' in a duotang.  It is just a step by step instruction guide complete with pictures on how to set up everything.

 

The only reason I used the guide was for the software setup and logins.

 

Before the job begins we are told 'the first day is tech day to make sure everyone has everything set up correctly.'  I log in about 15 minutes before my shift starts and I get into the adobe connect room.  I'm the first one there aside from the two trainers and I make my introductions.  I get all the programs that I need up and running and I'm ready to go before the shift even starts.  They tell me that today is tech day and we can't get started until everyone is where I'm at.  The instruction I'm given is to just sit tight.

 

Thankfully my work computer is right next to my home rig that IT can't track.

 

5 minutes after 8am only 3 of the 11 trainees are in the adobe connect conference room.

 

Long story short... I 'sat tight' for the full 8.5h shift and two hours into tomorrow's shift.  It took that long for these chain smoking scratch ticket buying spinsters to get set up.

 

I also trolled the IT team... the computers they sent have built in microphones that they can tap into to listen to you.  I went into the BIOS and disabled the soundcard.  IT pulled me aside to try to fix it.  They told me to right click the volume icon and click Playback Devices.  I told them nothing was there.  They didn't believe me so they went into my PC via remote assistance and spent an hour troubleshooting the issue.  They came to the conclusion that I must have a buggy Thin Client... they told me they'll send me a new one but it has been about 4 months now and I think they've just forgotten about it.

 

Another story I have is from 2009.  I read this troll post about switching the M and the N key to troll computer illiterate people.  I worked at a call center with no assigned seating and every new station I sat at I popped out the M and the N key with my keys and switched them around.  I only did it to about 4 or 5 PC's before I just got bored and stopped doing it.  About a week goes by and it pays of spectacularly.

 

There was this, coincidentally, chain smoking scratch ticket buying spinster named Donna who took a meltdown over her keyboard not working.  My supervisor comes over and disconnects the keyboard and switches it out with one of the keyboards I happened to switch the keys on.  So she tries using it and triumphantly proclaims: "It's the computer, this keyboard isn't working either."  So the supervisor tells her to just go to another station.

 

She goes to another station which just so happens to be another keyboard where I switched the keys on.  She then goes into a panic saying her profile has a virus on it that is following her from PC to PC.  I decide enough is enough and while my supervisor and Donna are working out the problem I just go "I know how to fix this."  And I popped out the M and the N and switched them around.  My supervisor goes into a laughing fit and Donna, still dead set on the virus theory, goes: "You didn't fix it you just hid the issue."  This causes my supervisor to just laugh even more and Donna is just looking at me like I just farted.

 

I had to pull out my Blackberry and tell her to look at the position of the M and the N keys and compare it to the keyboard on the desk.  She still thought her profile was infected with a virus and wouldn't work until IT got her a new network profile.

 

Another story I have is from 2007 or 2008.  I got my mom a laptop and I tried to get her to use Firefox over Internet Explorer.  I showed her how to use it but she kept using Internet Explorer and it was triggering me really hard.  She said her reasoning was she doesn't like Firefox and doesn't know how to use it.  So I ended up downloading an Internet Explorer skin for Firefox and I changed the name of the Firefox Icon to internet explorer and I replaced the icon with the IE icon.

 

She still has no idea she's using Firefox.

 

And finally, back in my Senior year of highschool in 2004 to 2005 a friend and I would prank call Best Buy's by calling them up and asking them how much their 'Wireless Power Supplies' cost.  I wish we would have recorded those phone calls because they were some of the funniest conversations I ever had.

[ProjectBox153]

14 minutes ago, Mattson said:

 

I must say, that is one well thought out post.

[Ace McPlane]

Oh, I've got one we're all probably experiencing right now:

 

Having to explain to everyone why they need to update windows and their drivers because of meltdown and spectre.

They ask you what they are, you try to explain speculative processing to them, and they just gloss over.

 

I'm having to do that with people at work and now I have to do it all over again since they've pushed back the date for when the patches will release till the end of January.

 

It's one of those situations where you wish people would just trust you and not ask.

It gets tiring explaining that over and over again for no reason since they won't understand it anyways

[themctipers]

4 minutes ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Oh, I've got one we're all probably experiencing right now:

 

Having to explain to everyone why they need to update windows and their drivers because of meltdown and spectre.

They ask you what they are, you try to explain speculative processing to them, and they just gloss over.

 

I'm having to do that with people at work and now I have to do it all over again since they've pushed back the date for when the patches will release till the end of January.

 

It's one of those situations where you wish people would just trust you and not ask.

It gets tiring explaining that over and over again for no reason since they won't understand it anyways

uh

 

Windows update is forced lmao

[Ace McPlane]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

uh

 

Windows update is forced lmao

Not when people go out of their way to stop the updates from happening. You have no idea what I'm dealing with here  Some of these guys are still on Windows XP for god sakes. Gotta do the mobo driver updates for the chipset manually too.

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Not when people go out of their way to stop the updates from happening. You have no idea what I'm dealing with here  Some of these guys are still on Windows XP for god sakes. Gotta do the mobo driver updates for the chipset manually too.

Well when they go out of their I ay to stop the updates then they just be smart because there's a lot of holes to jump through..

[Ace McPlane]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Well when they go out of their I ay to stop the updates then they just be smart because there's a lot of holes to jump through..

Updates are always a pain but these are work computers that need to be secure so the boys are going to have to suck it up and do it.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, stateofpsychosis said:

Updates are always a pain but these are work computers that need to be secure so the boys are going to have to suck it up and do it.

is it rare that I haven't had a windows update break something?

[Ace McPlane]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

is it rare that I haven't had a windows update break something?

I have an Oculus Rift at home so I feel that pain. Every single windows or nvidia update breaks something. Especially since I'm beta testing the new Oculus home.

[ProjectBox153]

3 minutes ago, themctipers said:

is it rare that I haven't had a windows update break something?

I don't even use Windows Update. Viruses are fun!

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, stateofpsychosis said:

I have an Oculus Rift at home so I feel that pain. Every single windows or nvidia update breaks something. Especially since I'm beta testing the new Oculus home.

Nvidia automatically installs nvidia drivers so I don't need novideo GeForce experience. 

 

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I don't even use Windows Update. Viruses are fun!

I would roll back the update because the perf impact is huge in gaming (60fps high/very high to 45-60 on medium/high, very high textures, GTA V..)

[ProjectBox153]

44 minutes ago, themctipers said:

I would roll back the update because the perf impact is huge in gaming (60fps high/very high to 45-60 on medium/high, very high textures, GTA V..)

I didn't even install it yet. Does that mean Minecraft would go from 1FPS to .5FPS for me on the lowest settings? Just kidding, but I have a really low end machine when it comes to gaming.

[themctipers]

11 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I didn't even install it yet. Does that mean Minecraft would go from 1FPS to .5FPS for me on the lowest settings? Just kidding, but I have a really low end machine when it comes to gaming.

My i5 2410m is quite dank

 

my i7 8550u was DOA; 290CB. 

my i5 gets 240 with 2 cores. Hmm

[Mattson]

Well this is rich and it comes from someone I wouldn't expect.

 

I work from home and my employer sends out two crappy 4:3 monitors with the computer they send out.  They also send out a VGA to Display Port adapter... which means they hooked me up with dual monitors as my video card doesn't have any VGA ports.

 

I got my friend employed here and yesterday he received his hardware.  He is rocking a single monitor set up like me and has no VGA port.  I told him to set up the second monitor so he can have dual display as the job is easily doable with only one monitor.

 

He says:

 

"No, they told me they can track everything I do and if they see me using it for non work purposes I'll get fired."

 

To which I respond: "Okay well your training doesn't start until February 5th so you can at least rock a dual monitor set up for the next two weeks."

 

"I don't want to risk it.", he says.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, Mattson said:

Well this is rich and it comes from someone I wouldn't expect.

 

I work from home and my employer sends out two crappy 4:3 monitors with the computer they send out.  They also send out a VGA to Display Port adapter... which means they hooked me up with dual monitors as my video card doesn't have any VGA ports.

 

I got my friend employed here and yesterday he received his hardware.  He is rocking a single monitor set up like me and has no VGA port.  I told him to set up the second monitor so he can have dual display as the job is easily doable with only one monitor.

 

He says:

 

"No, they told me they can track everything I do and if they see me using it for non work purposes I'll get fired."

 

To which I respond: "Okay well your training doesn't start until February 5th so you can at least rock a dual monitor set up for the next two weeks."

 

"I don't want to risk it.", he says.

no i can side with the guy not wanting to take the risk here to be honest, thats not being a non techy but rather wanting to keep his job desperately. not wanting the dual monitors is stupid because work can be done on two screens probably more effectively than on the one but not wanting to use it for stuff he isnt suposed to i can get

[D13H4RD]

So apparently, if I own an Android phone, I MUST use everything Google has to offer. 

 

So in that case, if I have an iOS or macOS device, I must use EVERYTHING Apple has to offer and if I use a Windows PC, I need to use EVERYTHING Microsoft has to offer. 

 

Kid, how we use our devices is none of your business... 

[Xander Cousins]

8 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

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That actually hurt my head to read.....

[D13H4RD]

4 hours ago, Alex Colson said:

That actually hurt my head to read.....

I lost my sanity after reading that