Experiences with non-techies

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

No that's good, I understood that. I was just joking/being sarcastic

Unfortunately, sarcasm doesn't really translate across text.

Which sucks, because I use it a lot.

[da na]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

Unfortunately, sarcasm doesn't really translate across text.

Which sucks, because I use it a lot.

Oh, as you know I never use sarcasm, so that may have been a bit unclear

[da na]

ok I was playing skribbl.io with some classmates (sorta like charades, you draw something and people guess what it is). One of the options to draw was 'motherboard' and the rest of the options all sucked. So I draw a lil CPU fan, some heatsinks, pcie slots, and some ram sticks and no one guessed what it was.

Some guesses include:

-hacking (4 times) -bomb (3 times) -laptop (1 time) -printer (2 times)

[da na]

I have seen my parents unplug computers when ads come up so that "[insert whatever else is on that electrical circuit] doesn't get a virus from the computer" because "the computer has anti virus but the [insert appliance] does not"

[pythonmegapixel]

I've just remembered that one of our PCs at school used to have electrical safety test stickers stuck over the optical drive

 

The worst part of this is that it's not a one-off - there were multiple stickers from different years all stuck on top of each other.

 

Loads of blank space elsewhere on the case - so why did they consistently choose there to put the stickers?

[da na]

3 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I've just remembered that one of our PCs at school used to have electrical safety test stickers stuck over the optical drive

 

The worst part of this is that it's not a one-off - there were multiple stickers from different years all stuck on top of each other.

 

Loads of blank space elsewhere on the case - so why did they consistently choose there to put the stickers?

I’m envisioning something like this:

[Npiet1]

Work at a pub, which is mostly older people.

Covid sign in is digital. Boss redirects them all to me.

Boss is also a non-techie, Had to go in today (on my day off) because she couldn't switch the massive (4k x 4 panel TV, HDR, full local array dimming, all the bells and whistles.) video wall over to the UFC. (God I wish I was allowed to hook up my PC to it lol. they use it for 720p content) She was pushing the wrong area lol, even though over the phone I asked her if she was selecting "video wall".

[da na]

HDD=hard drive so SSD=soft drive, right?

nope.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

HDD=hard drive so SSD=soft drive, right?

nope.

Soft Drink Dispenser.

[sub68]

There is some classmate technicians in my school that loses screws like crazy so I am doing a MBP HDD swap and someone took out the top HDD plate screws off for some reason. Also I coudnt find the screws that mount it to the MBP chassie.

 

[Bitter]

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

There is some classmate technicians in my school that loses screws like crazy so I am doing a MBP HDD swap and someone took out the top HDD plate screws off for some reason. Also I coudnt find the screws that mount it to the MBP chassie.

 

Guess who's getting magnet trays for their birthday!?

[soldier_ph]

My Apprentice Trainer likes to assume that I code all the time in my free time. Like 30% of the resume which got me this Apprenticeship talks about all the languages I roughly know and where and how I learned them. I haven't opened a project for almost 2 years now lol. 

[sub68]

Just now, Bitter said:

Guess who's getting magnet trays for their birthday!?

I use the top cover of the IFIXIT kit.

But those things are super nice

[Bitter]

9 minutes ago, sub68 said:

I use the top cover of the IFIXIT kit.

But those things are super nice

Ditto. I also have a magnetic mat that I've used exactly once because I keep forgetting I have it.

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

I also have a magnetic mat that I've used exactly once because I keep forgetting I have it.

sometimes that happends

[sub68]

YOOO

[Red :)]

24 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

They have it all wrong; SSD stands for Selenium Dust Diner.

this joke would be good if the letters actually lined up

[da na]

SSD stands for Super fast Speedy Drive as we all know...

[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

SSD stands for Super fast Speedy Drive as we all know...

SSD = Super Sticky Donuts

[da na]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

YOOO

-snip-

Try me

[soldier_ph]

1 hour ago, FakeKGB said:

SSD = Super Sticky Donuts

SSD = Super Sandwhichmaker Deluxe

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, soldier_ph said:

SSD = Super Sandwhichmaker Deluxe

SSD = Solid State Demons.

[IkeaGnome]

A miner and I were talking about home networking yesterday. He comes around the corner in time to see the layout on the computer that I'm thinking of and hears me tell the miner that it's the long range AP, so it's good for 180 meters. 

Turns into a 20 minute conversation of why that wont work for him instead of his router.

[Bitter]

17 hours ago, Red said:

this joke would be good if the letters actually lined up

I've ran into more calling them a SDD (HDD) than SSD tho.

[CommanderAlex]

15 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I've ran into more calling them a SDD (HDD) than SSD tho.

Or just whenever you hear someone looking at a new smartphone and the person interested say, "How many gigabytes of memory does it have??" and the associate responses, "There are 128GB of memory on this model.". I cringe every time I hear that when memory is referencing RAM...not storage.