Experiences with non-techies

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

How the hell does anyone manage to let their phones look like that? Do they not realise that they are hugely expensive pieces of equipment which they really should avoid breaking?

 

It would drive me utterly insane to have to use a phone that broken, day in, day out.

There's one thing in common there; Apple iPhones. Back in high school and middle school, all the people I knew that used iPhones never used a phone case on them, and seeing very badly damaged screens. 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

4 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

The only time my mom's ever been confused by something is when I got really technical (explaining why my P3 system wasn't booting), but other than that she can understand most things I explain to her easily.

 

I've never been able to stump my dad. Ever.

I had to explain to my mother that if she deletes purchases off of her iPad, she doesn't have to buy them a second time.

Now, there are issues with 'ownership' and such with digital purchases, sure, but you can def download it again so long as it's on their service.

[Drama Lama]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

It angers me too--those are the same people who get new phones each year because they intentionally break their current phone when a new one comes out so their parents can buy them another one. And it's not even like the parents can always even afford a new flagship phone each year! 

Help my father wants to buy me a new phone

[pythonmegapixel]

On a related note, there's a few reasonably big youtube channels out there from companies that do deep cleans of cars.

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly horrible people will let their vehicle interior become before they consider getting in cleaned

[GDRRiley]

On 4/24/2021 at 1:41 PM, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

 

Not sure if this classifies as non techie, but Jesus that's a lot of tabs.

kinda normal. I've likely got 50+ tabs open right now

[TheCoder2019]

26 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

kinda normal. I've likely got 50+ tabs open right now

Does anyone else have a taskbar that spans over to more than halfway to the second monitor?

[sub68]

1 minute ago, TheCoder2019 said:

Does anyone else have a taskbar that spans over to more than halfway to the second monitor?

no

[CommanderAlex]

2 minutes ago, TheCoder2019 said:

Does anyone else have a taskbar that spans over to more than halfway to the second monitor?

 

No I don't. 

[sub68]

42 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

kinda normal. I've likely got 50+ tabs open right now

me:

[da na]

Few years back my mom used my USB A to A cable to plug her laptop into another laptop to transfer files, thinking it would work as a USB drive. She ended up frying the MOBO of one and killing the USB port on the other.

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Few years back my mom used my USB A to A cable to plug her laptop into another laptop to transfer files, thinking it would work as a USB drive. She ended up frying the MOBO of one and killing the USB port on the other.

You know, I always wanted to do that. Thanks for letting me know the outcome. 

[Bitter]

That is why USB A to A cables are non standard, like extension cords with 2 male ends.

[da na]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

That is why USB A to A cables are non standard, like extension cords with 2 male ends.

Yup, there's a very good reason for that.

[sub68]

my school gets werid cases and this is one.

what happens when soldered SSD start corrupting.

[da na]

4 minutes ago, sub68 said:

my school gets werid cases and this is one.

 

what happens when soldered SSD start corrupting.

Ouch.

[sub68]

Just now, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Ouch.

well not mine.

These are the schools last generation of chromebooks so this was about to be scarped anyway.

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, sub68 said:

my school gets werid cases and this is one.

what happens when soldered SSD start corrupting.

Time to bust out the hot air station and do your best impression of Lou Rossman!

[da na]

Just now, sub68 said:

well not mine.

These are the schools last generation of chromebooks so this was about to be scarped anyway.

Ah... that makes me suffer slightly less

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Time to bust out the hot air station and do your best impression of Lou Rossman!

or scrap it for parts and ewaste the MOBO.

1 minute ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Ah... that makes me suffer slightly less

yeah, Client machines for schools make it fun.

[Bitter]

It's the perfect uhhhh victim to try your skills at though!

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

It's the perfect uhhhh victim to try your skills at though!

yes but I don't have a hot air station (so does the school)

[soldier_ph]

TFW when you have to explain to your Mom how you activate 4G on the iPhone. She's been using a iPhone for at least 5 years now and still doesn't know the difference between WiFI and 4G nor how to swtich between them in Control Center. That's one of the UI Designs I really hate about iOS is the fact that Control Center and Notification Center are two separate swipe downs and not combined like on any Android Distro since 10 years.

[VixAAT]

One of my friends is planning to get a new gpu (wish him luck with that) but the thing is he doesn't even know what graphics card he has. All he knows he has a Nvidia Geforce, btw he said nvidia completely which really annoyed me. He is also considering building a computer (he needs even more luck now) but doesn't know how to build one in any way shape or form and said he was relying on his dad to do it who he also doesn't know much about computers but thinks he will still do a good job because I quote 'he is quite good at that stuff'. 

[CommanderAlex]

2 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

TFW when you have to explain to your Mom how you activate 4G on the iPhone. She's been using a iPhone for at least 5 years now and still doesn't know the difference between WiFI and 4G nor how to swtich between them in Control Center. That's one of the UI Designs I really hate about iOS is the fact that Control Center and Notification Center are two separate swipe downs and not combined like on any Android Distro since 10 years.

And watch, when Apple were to redesign and introduce in the next iOS that Control Center and Notification Center are now in one swipe down, iPhone users are going to go crazy saying it's new!!!

[Cozar465]

On 3/13/2017 at 3:10 PM, rainbrodash666 said:

today I had another amazing interaction with someone from Comcast, we were having trouble getting only snow and the guide menu with no information on the tv, we call in after checking the connections and power cycling everything and after a while of troubleshooting questions they ask how we have the cable box hooked to the tv, I reply HDMI, and the lady on the phone says, "oh well there is the problem you don't have HD tv service so you can't connect the cable box with HDMI" she wanted me to hook the cable box to my tv with coaxial cable because I don't get HD tv service... the cable came back on 15 minutes later because we just hung up and hoped to get a more qualified technician, did and got our cable fixed and a month of hbo.

boyi