Experiences with non-techies

[Drak3]

31 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

interesting... even industrial craft and other mods?

If there is a way to make the required blocks, yes.

[xKyric]

A friend of mine thought that thermal paste was a kind of acne medication.  
Needless to say, it could yield some interesting results on one's face. 

[BakugoHero]

9 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Alright, so that rich guy I told you about earlier who fried his PC. So I recommended another new build for him (reluctantly) after he nagged me on social media and at school for two days straight. It was an RTX 2080 Ti and a 9900K, the classic enthusiast setup. So he actually did some research, and found that the 9900K runs extremely hot, and I told him to get a beefy NH-D15. He thought the two fans included were trash due to their looks, and I told him to shaddap, since it was one hell of a cooler. On another IG live stream (which I forgot to record again because I don't know where the record button is  )The motherboard and graphics card go in "properly" (he missed a few mobo screws and forgot to connect the GPU power cables), but that was the end of luck. The RAM went in the wrong way. He saw the notch in the 32 GB sticks and saw the notch in the motherboard, and had a FRICKIN GENIUS idea: Use an excessive amount of force and they'll stick even in the wrong orientation!  So some motherboard abuse later, the sticks were in. Also, the CPU was rotated 90 degrees the wrong way and we could hear the pins bending when he locked it. So he uses the entire goddamn tube of Kryonaut on the CPU and slaps the cooler on. Then, he's like "Watch the comeback of the YEAR boiz!!" and turns the desktop onto its feet. 

 

However, he didn't screw the CPU cooler in and it fell on the GPU and bounced onto the motherboard. Knocked half the components off each. Facepalm.

I feel like this is too dumb to be a true story but I also live for the narrative either way 

[Ergroilnin]

15 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Alright, so that rich guy I told you about earlier who fried his PC. So I recommended another new build for him (reluctantly) after he nagged me on social media and at school for two days straight. It was an RTX 2080 Ti and a 9900K, the classic enthusiast setup. So he actually did some research, and found that the 9900K runs extremely hot, and I told him to get a beefy NH-D15. He thought the two fans included were trash due to their looks, and I told him to shaddap, since it was one hell of a cooler. On another IG live stream (which I forgot to record again because I don't know where the record button is  )The motherboard and graphics card go in "properly" (he missed a few mobo screws and forgot to connect the GPU power cables), but that was the end of luck. The RAM went in the wrong way. He saw the notch in the 32 GB sticks and saw the notch in the motherboard, and had a FRICKIN GENIUS idea: Use an excessive amount of force and they'll stick even in the wrong orientation!  So some motherboard abuse later, the sticks were in. Also, the CPU was rotated 90 degrees the wrong way and we could hear the pins bending when he locked it. So he uses the entire goddamn tube of Kryonaut on the CPU and slaps the cooler on. Then, he's like "Watch the comeback of the YEAR boiz!!" and turns the desktop onto its feet. 

 

However, he didn't screw the CPU cooler in and it fell on the GPU and bounced onto the motherboard. Knocked half the components off each. Facepalm.

 

Is one of the builders from Verge?

[soldier_ph]

19 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Alright, so that rich guy I told you about earlier who fried his PC. So I recommended another new build for him (reluctantly) after he nagged me on social media and at school for two days straight. It was an RTX 2080 Ti and a 9900K, the classic enthusiast setup. So he actually did some research, and found that the 9900K runs extremely hot, and I told him to get a beefy NH-D15. He thought the two fans included were trash due to their looks, and I told him to shaddap, since it was one hell of a cooler. On another IG live stream (which I forgot to record again because I don't know where the record button is  )The motherboard and graphics card go in "properly" (he missed a few mobo screws and forgot to connect the GPU power cables), but that was the end of luck. The RAM went in the wrong way. He saw the notch in the 32 GB sticks and saw the notch in the motherboard, and had a FRICKIN GENIUS idea: Use an excessive amount of force and they'll stick even in the wrong orientation!  So some motherboard abuse later, the sticks were in. Also, the CPU was rotated 90 degrees the wrong way and we could hear the pins bending when he locked it. So he uses the entire goddamn tube of Kryonaut on the CPU and slaps the cooler on. Then, he's like "Watch the comeback of the YEAR boiz!!" and turns the desktop onto its feet. 

 

However, he didn't screw the CPU cooler in and it fell on the GPU and bounced onto the motherboard. Knocked half the components off each. Facepalm.

Can we please just straight out ban these dumb-asses from tech ? I mean, the components also have feelings and they are much more important to me than from a stupid idiot. 
Sorry for the curse but that had to be said.

[Drak3]

13 minutes ago, Ergroilnin said:

 

Is one of the builders from Verge?

He's a fucking idiot but you don't need to insult him that much.

[Juniiii]

These 2 guys were talking during lunch and one of starting saying “ BRo remember when he hacked the WiFi and shut it down?” Other guy “ yea bro” and I proceeded to ask them what they did.... “we got on the terminal and we wrote a command and it showed us everything we can do, it had disconnect WiFi and t shut down the WiFi for everybody” other guy replies “we hacked the ip bro we shut everything down” I replied “ you do realize that only for your computer and not the whole school?” They reply “nahhhh bro we hacked the ip and shut it down I did something like /c c/ (?????¿¿) I don’t remember but it shut it down” this is the last time I ever bother listening to people about “hacking”

[Crunchy Dragon]

11 minutes ago, Juniiii said:

These 2 guys were talking during lunch and one of starting saying “ BRo remember when he hacked the WiFi and shut it down?” Other guy “ yea bro” and I proceeded to ask them what they did.... “we got on the terminal and we wrote a command and it showed us everything we can do, it had disconnect WiFi and t shut down the WiFi for everybody” other guy replies “we hacked the ip bro we shut everything down” I replied “ you do realize that only for your computer and not the whole school?” They reply “nahhhh bro we hacked the ip and shut it down I did something like /c c/ (?????¿¿) I don’t remember but it shut it down” this is the last time I ever bother listening to people about “hacking”

Kids thinking cmd is "hacking" is dumb but hilarious to watch.

 

I had one kid a while ago try to convince me that he was hacking his own computer as he used cmd to go through the various file directories....

As if I had no experience with cmd at all(let alone my experience with running things from Terminal on Linux), and couldn't clearly tell what he was really doing.

 

Also, why would you have to "hack" your own computer...?

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Kids thinking cmd is "hacking" is dumb but hilarious to watch.

 

I had one kid a while ago try to convince me that he was hacking his own computer as he used cmd to go through the various file directories....

As if I had no experience with cmd at all(let alone my experience with running things from Terminal on Linux), and couldn't clearly tell what he was really doing.

 

Also, why would you have to "hack" your own computer...?

those are the kids that also panic when you pull out powershell lol

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

those are the kids that also panic when you pull out powershell lol

I've never had to use powershell, usually cmd or terminal gets whatever I need to do done without a hitch(except that weird time I couldn't format a drive to MBR in cmd, but I got there via diskmgmt).

[Juniiii]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Kids thinking cmd is "hacking" is dumb but hilarious to watch.

 

I had one kid a while ago try to convince me that he was hacking his own computer as he used cmd to go through the various file directories....

As if I had no experience with cmd at all(let alone my experience with running things from Terminal on Linux), and couldn't clearly tell what he was really doing.

 

Also, why would you have to "hack" your own computer...?

Ohh yea I remember a time when I was using cmd to create my own access point so I could get WiFi on my phone, weird situation but anyways my teacher saw my screen and reported me to the school for “hacking” and said I was accessing p0rn and they asked my dad to pay a fine. We went to court against it and I literally showed them exactly what I was doing, we prove her wrong. All that because I was trynna get some WiFi and I had a very naïve teacher

 

[Juniiii]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've never had to use powershell, usually cmd or terminal gets whatever I need to do done without a hitch(except that weird time I couldn't format a drive to MBR in cmd, but I got there via diskmgmt).

That’s probably the only other time I’d use cmd to format my drives to MBR when I get the drives out of laptops.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I've never had to use powershell, usually cmd or terminal gets whatever I need to do done without a hitch(except that weird time I couldn't format a drive to MBR in cmd, but I got there via diskmgmt).

i use it for bragging rights  but honestly mostly just because i prefer the commands a litte. ls instead of dir and so on, soooo much nicer to me

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Juniiii said:

Ohh yea I remember a time when I was using cmd to create my own access point so I could get WiFi on my phone, weird situation but anyways my teacher saw my screen and reported me to the school for “hacking” and said I was accessing p0rn and they asked my dad to pay a fine. We went to court against it and I literally showed them exactly what I was doing, we prove her wrong. All that because I was trynna get some WiFi and I had a very naïve teacher

I think the most technical thing I did in school that made people flip out was go into the Intel Display Settings and enable Landscape(flipped)....

 

Most of those kids knew nothing about tech, so I never really had to try to make them flip out much.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Juniiii said:

That’s probably the only other time I’d use cmd to format my drives to MBR when I get the drives out of laptops.

I use it to check my Java installations because why not.

 

I've used Terminal a lot more than cmd, though. I remember when I had a hackerman moment while navigating through the directories to launch Minecraft....good times. I still prefer Windows, though.

[LukeSavenije]

10 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Also, why would you have to "hack" your own computer...?

can confirm I've done that before. with 3 cmd commands, but still

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

can confirm I've done that before. with 3 cmd commands, but still

There was no reason to "hack" this computer, too.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I think the most technical thing I did in school that made people flip out was go into the Intel Display Settings and enable Landscape(flipped)....

 

Most of those kids knew nothing about tech, so I never really had to try to make them flip out much.

you could do that with keyboard shortcuts on the school laptops we had in middleschool and if you spammed it enough the screen would keep spinning for a good 10 minutes

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

There was no reason to "hack" this computer, too.

i know... i just wanted to say that it is possible to "hack" with it. but tree isn't a way of hacking...

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

you could do that with keyboard shortcuts on the school laptops we had in middleschool and if you spammed it enough the screen would keep spinning for a good 10 minutes

I also screwed with the color settings a bit. The best part was, the computer I was using was hooked up to a TV and I was screwing with the TV, not the laptop's display.

 

So they just thought the TV was acting up.

[Gino Motyka]

So I work IT and a fairly large company +10,000 employes and this was one of my first tickets I had to respond to..... He was still using it

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Gino Motyka said:

So I work IT and a fairly large company +10,000 employes and this was one of my first tickets I had to respond to..... He was still using it

... what the hell

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, Gino Motyka said:

So I work IT and a fairly large company +10,000 employes and this was one of my first tickets I had to respond to..... He was still using it

Spoiler

 

[LukeSavenije]

4 minutes ago, Gino Motyka said:

So I work IT and a fairly large company +10,000 employes and this was one of my first tickets I had to respond to..... He was still using it

Spoiler

 

[Gino Motyka]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

... what the hell

for some reason we have a history of computers catching fire, A end user came down with a computer that wouldn't turn on and when i opened the bottom a small puff of smoke came out and my coworker locked eyes with me and was like WTF?