Experiences with non-techies

[GirlFromYonder]

I found this while listening to the scooby doo theme song on youtube

 

[GirlFromYonder]

On 2/11/2018 at 6:16 AM, Aleksbgbg said:

I applied to a tech college a while ago. Went to the interview.

 

Finished the questionnaire. Had my chat with the administrator about the courses I want to study.

 

We had 10 minutes left before the interview was over, so we had some small talk about computers.

I said that I recently purchased a 144FPS monitor, and the motion is amazing in comparison to 60, however certain games don't benefit as much.

 

'I personally don't notice the difference after about 24FPS'

 

I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not, but I laughed irregardless. I believe he was not joking.

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[D13H4RD]

Sorry man. 

 

I kinda get where you're coming from but I just don't get how the notch on the iPhone X is beneficial. 

 

Also, "how on earth it reduces screen area"??? 

 

Dude, it cuts into the fucking display, as in the thing you're looking at. The notch reduces the actual viewable display area. 

 

Look, I like the iPhone X and while I don't like the notch personally, I didn't mind it too much while using it. But that's the difference. I don't like it but I also don't mind it that much. Maybe try to understand where others are coming from before doing a counter argument that can only be described as "pretty petty". 

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

Sorry man. 

 

I kinda get where you're coming from but I just don't get how the notch on the iPhone X is beneficial. 

 

Also, "how on earth it reduces screen area"??? 

 

Dude, it cuts into the fucking display, as in the thing you're looking at. The notch reduces the actual viewable display area. 

 

Look, I like the iPhone X and while I don't like the notch personally, I didn't mind it too much while using it. But that's the difference. I don't like it but I also don't mind it that much. Maybe try to understand where others are coming from before doing a counter argument that can only be described as "pretty petty". 

imo it's for an iconic design. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

sniiiiiipped

[grimreeper132]

I had a friend the other day have their trackpad "stop working" turns out that they had pressed the disable teackpad key on the keyboard, it two seconds to work this out after them struggling with the issue for over an hour

[Crunchy Dragon]

5 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

I had a friend the other day have their trackpad "stop working" turns out that they had pressed the disable teackpad key on the keyboard, it two seconds to work this out after them struggling with the issue for over an hour

I had a similar issue with my mom, except her laptop needed to be restarted.

 

Really funny for me, since her troubleshooting basically ends at "Did you turn it off and on again?" and she hadn't tried it.

[grimreeper132]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I had a similar issue with my mom, except her laptop needed to be restarted.

 

Really funny for me, since her troubleshooting basically ends at "Did you turn it off and on again?" and she hadn't tried it.

yea no they didn't try that either, as also would of fixed it

[themctipers]

1 hour ago, grimreeper132 said:

I had a friend the other day have their trackpad "stop working" turns out that they had pressed the disable teackpad key on the keyboard, it two seconds to work this out after them struggling with the issue for over an hour

My disable trackpad button doesn't works and so I have to put tape on it to prevent me from moving the mouse around while typing and it still doesn't work as well either because it moves EVEN WITH TAPE

[GilmourD]

On 1/16/2013 at 2:35 PM, ErwinS said:

Customer walks into the IT shop I worked at. She looks around (Computers and gadgets everywhere) . She walks to the counter and asks me if we sell clothes.

OMG, I had a similar thing happen to me, although it was not when I worked for CompUSA or PC Warehouse. I was working in a guitar shop and a woman came in asking if we sold gloves. I showed her some drummers gloves (for better grip on drumsticks) and she's like "No, gloves for when your hands are cold" and looked at me like I had brain damage in a room full of musical instruments.

[GilmourD]

21 hours ago, themctipers said:

My disable trackpad button doesn't works and so I have to put tape on it to prevent me from moving the mouse around while typing and it still doesn't work as well either because it moves EVEN WITH TAPE

Asus machine? Clean Win install? Go to the Asus site and install the ATK package. It's their stupid little software bit that handles all the function keys.

[GilmourD]

On 2/11/2018 at 9:16 AM, Aleksbgbg said:

I applied to a tech college a while ago. Went to the interview.

 

Finished the questionnaire. Had my chat with the administrator about the courses I want to study.

 

We had 10 minutes left before the interview was over, so we had some small talk about computers.

I said that I recently purchased a 144FPS monitor, and the motion is amazing in comparison to 60, however certain games don't benefit as much.

 

'I personally don't notice the difference after about 24FPS'

 

I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not, but I laughed irregardless. I believe he was not joking.

A lot of people actually don't see it. I really don't see much difference beyond 60 so 120Hz screens are a waste of money for me.

[themctipers]

3 minutes ago, GilmourD said:

Asus machine? Clean Win install? Go to the Asus site and install the ATK package. It's their stupid little software bit that handles all the function keys.

id much rather prefer the trackpad not being activated or allowed to when i am typing.

[Drak3]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

id much rather prefer the trackpad not being activated or allowed to when i am typing.

Windows should have an option to disable the trackpad when typing.

[GilmourD]

25 minutes ago, themctipers said:

id much rather prefer the trackpad not being activated or allowed to when i am typing.

Right. The ATK package allows the Fn+F9 key combo to turn off the trackpad. I found that out the hard way when my former idiot of a boss did a clean Win10 install on one of our Asus TP300LA machines instead of using the custom-prepped image we had and nothing worked.

[GilmourD]

21 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Windows should have an option to disable the trackpad when typing.

True. You could always disable the trackpad in Device Manager. 

 

[themctipers]

11 minutes ago, GilmourD said:

True. You could always disable the trackpad in Device Manager. 

 

but i use it to navigate

[Bananasplit_00]

49 minutes ago, Juvel said:

I used to work at a computer shop for IT support and service. Whenever something is wrong with the machine, they'll always ask if it's a virus or not. If the shortcut on the desktop is gone, they would think all of their data on the computer are gone.

My mum isn't non-techy but she just double clicks on EVERYTHING she wants to open. That includes links and buttons on the web browser. She would double click on the Google searches to open them too and I got really annoyed watching her using the computer at some point of my life.

I have another one but it's not really non-techies. My friend is a photographer but not much of a computer guy so he bought a netbook(yes, those 10-inches) and brought it to college. Apparently he actually used that netbook to edit photo and do his work. I remember him posting a comment which he thinks tiny computer are less powerful(true to some extent).

i really like netbooks, mine was both great and garbage. so sad that Atoms are dead

[Dude]

I had an argument with my mum a couple of weeks ago. She asked for a mouse for her iPad to match her keyboard. I mentioned that didn't make sense and mice weren't officially supported by iPads anyway. She had a go at me and spent two hours looking for iPad mice to no avail... It's worth mentioning that she also has a MacBook Air...

[Bananasplit_00]

29 minutes ago, Dude said:

I had an argument with my mum a couple of weeks ago. She asked for a mouse for her iPad to match her keyboard. I mentioned that didn't make sense and mice weren't officially supported by iPads anyway. She had a go at me and spent two hours looking for iPad mice to no avail... It's worth mentioning that she also has a MacBook Air...

cant you like get a mouse via OTG like on android?

[Dude]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

cant you like get a mouse via OTG like on android?

Nah, fam. 

[derr12]

To this day my co-worker swears that re-seating a coax cable on a modem “discharges static”. Explained if it was loose to begin with this would work, but coax is grounded so... 

[derr12]

Oh and when the accountant is in it’s non-stop fun. Last week she had printer issues. Walked over, closed the paper tray and hit the ready button to “fix” it. Also  she was using the magnifier instead of just going full screen on a terminal window. Showed her how, and then came back saying she couldn’t get out of it again. Taught her how to do that. She’s been using a computer for 20 years...

[D13H4RD]

When you're the only sane person in the comments 

[themctipers]

Just now, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

When you're the only sane person in the comments 

pleas stop

 

 

for your own sanity