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2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

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Insanity is not the absence of sanity, but the willingness to ignore it for a purpose. Chaos is the result of this choice. I relish in both.

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No Joke, I just explained to a customer the following:

Consumer (Cx): Hey I see you have the nike run club app but no walking app, how am i supposed to do my walking?

Me: Sir you can use the Nike run club to walk or run, either is fine.

Cx: Ok but when I do my walks with this it gives me a mile number. Is that my miles or is it the distance if I were in a car or what is it?

...........

Me: Well a mile would be the same distance in a car just faster, that number shows the number of miles you have travelled

 

Insanity is not the absence of sanity, but the willingness to ignore it for a purpose. Chaos is the result of this choice. I relish in both.

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I hate it when the first solution people try to fix hardware or software not working properly is to reinstall Windows instead of some smaller task. What makes it worse is the rare case of resetting Windows again after the first time doesn't work...

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7 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

I hate it when the first solution people try to fix hardware or software not working properly is to reinstall Windows instead of some smaller task. What makes it worse is the rare case of resetting Windows again after the first time doesn't work...

I usually only recommend reinstalling the OS if absolutely nothing else worked and I can't think of any other solution.

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18 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I usually only recommend reinstalling the OS if absolutely nothing else worked and I can't think of any other solution.

I never recommend anyone do that, unless I can drive out and do it myself, plus I can typically see something better in person to fix the problem without that

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59 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

I never recommend anyone do that, unless I can drive out and do it myself, plus I can typically see something better in person to fix the problem without that

Usually I can't drive to the places of fellow forum users, but I agree.

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1 hour ago, Jtalk4456 said:

I never recommend anyone do that, unless I can drive out and do it myself, plus I can typically see something better in person to fix the problem without that

Worse comes to worse I'll guide them through a one-time use of TeamViewer so that way I can get in there and muck about.

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Worse comes to worse, I reinstall Windows. Easy way to 'clean out' cluttered program files that aren't needed, and I do it (roughly) yearly anyways.

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13 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Worse comes to worse, I reinstall Windows. Easy way to 'clean out' cluttered program files that aren't needed, and I do it (roughly) yearly anyways.

Personally speaking I haven't needed to reinstall windows in my systems in forever as I have come to keep them quite clean but whenever someone insists on you solving their OS issues I don't even bother troubleshooting on these systems... "sorry mate, gonna need a reinstall of windows only way around".

 

Certain OS makes my heart hurt from how poorly taken care they are with tons of bloatware running, registry errors and what not.

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You know what annoys me most? 

 

When tech-illiterate people try to sound smart but make themselves look stupid in saying stuff that doesn't make sense. 

 

Like how they say our eyes can't see more than 30 frames as proven by science (but refuse to share reliable info), how more frames lead to a faster game (even though it doesn't directly affect game speed) and here's my favorite; more RAM slows down your PC. HOW?! 

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I was at a meeting with an academic advisor for a university I'll potentially attend (for a cybersecurity degree) and she was talking about the active tech scene in the location and as she put it how "they all get together on the blockchain"...Meanwhile I'm just sitting there like

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53 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

You know what annoys me most? 

 

When tech-illiterate people try to sound smart but make themselves look stupid in saying stuff that doesn't make sense. 

 

Like how they say our eyes can't see more than 30 frames as proven by science (but refuse to share reliable info), how more frames lead to a faster game (even though it doesn't directly affect game speed) and here's my favorite; more RAM slows down your PC. HOW?! 

I think startup can be slowed down by a few seconds with lots of RAM due to how superfetch works. My understanding is Windows will attempt to load more programs into memory upon booting as your memory capacity increases which takes longer to read from your drive. Of course this makes little difference in practice and only affect startup. Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.

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34 minutes ago, ThatFlashCat said:

I think startup can be slowed down by a few seconds with lots of RAM due to how superfetch works. My understanding is Windows will attempt to load more programs into memory upon booting as your memory capacity increases which takes longer to read from your drive. Of course this makes little difference in practice and only affect startup. Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.

I've never heard of this being a problem, and I know quite a few people that have a pretty high RAM capacity(talking upwards of 32Gb).

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5 hours ago, ThatFlashCat said:

I think startup can be slowed down by a few seconds with lots of RAM due to how superfetch works. My understanding is Windows will attempt to load more programs into memory upon booting as your memory capacity increases which takes longer to read from your drive. Of course this makes little difference in practice and only affect startup. Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.

I did find my 2GB netbook to be one of my faster booting devices even though it had a HDD but that was also because the BIOS load time was pretty much 0

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7 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Personally speaking I haven't needed to reinstall windows in my systems in forever as I have come to keep them quite clean but whenever someone insists on you solving their OS issues I don't even bother troubleshooting on these systems... "sorry mate, gonna need a reinstall of windows only way around".

 

Certain OS makes my heart hurt from how poorly taken care they are with tons of bloatware running, registry errors and what not.

I don't know why but i always manage to get my pc ruined multiple times a year. Usually i get a stupidly odd bug that nobody on the planet ever had and reinstalling solves it.

 

Last time for example, i have a USB 3.0 hub, external, and an external USB 3.0 drive. For some reason the drive didn't work with the hub.

Other drives worked fine in the hub so the ports were fine, connecting the drive to another usb port (not the hub) also worked so the drive was fine as well.

Only the hub + usb drive combination didn't work anymore. Nothing got installed (no updates, no programs) since it last worked. 

 

Tried reinstalling the driver, all USB ports stopped working, at that point i wasn't left with many options. You can't do much without a keyboard or mouse.

 

Reinstalled windows, problem solved.

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Wow

 

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1 hour ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

Wow

 

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And what platform is used to develop console games...? PC. Checkmate lol

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

"Can't aim with KBM" 

"Too easy to kill people with KBM"

 

30 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

And what platform is used to develop console games...? PC. Checkmate lol

The sheer hypocrisy is laughable, alongside his tone. 

 

 

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On 11/21/2017 at 7:24 AM, Bananasplit_00 said:

make sure you just dont insert the file where she got her education...

she went from special ed teacher to librarian to tech teacher

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7 hours ago, Beer_Nontitju said:

So I was finishing a build for someone's kid and he thought the display was the windowed side panel of the PC case.

Did someone say... iBUYPower Snowblind?

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