Experiences with non-techies

[Bitter]

19 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

My teacher calls the webcam a monitor/computer in online classes.

So if she wanted to ask the class to turn on their videos, she'd say, "Okay, everyone turn on your monitors".

 

I get it, people can confuse a cursor with a mouse, a computer with a monitor, but seriously, webcam with a monitor?

webcams make you appear on her monitor tho?

[da na]

2 hours ago, Schnoz said:

Or calling Command Prompt or Terminal "hacking".

Or using “Inspect” is hacking 

[CommanderAlex]

This just happened and I get really frustrated with my mother not listening.

 

So, my computer is hooked up in an outlet in the living room, that is also on the same circuit as the 2nd floor bathroom and some outlets in the master bedroom/ bathroom. When she gets cold (yes with the damn air conditioning on in the summer), will put on her 1500W "fireplace" heater-plugged into the master bathroom. I'm usually playing a game so my computer is under a load, her 1500W heater is on in her room, and then she decided to put on the 800W light bulbs in the 2nd floor bathroom. This trips the breaker (as it was designed to do) and I'm sitting in the middle of an online game, where the computer suddenly goes out. 

 

I yelled upstairs to my mom and said, "What did you do, have the space heater on and then turned on the lights in the bathroom?", she replied "Yes". This has been over at least 10 times on different occasions that this has happened and my dad and I have told her to not put those 800W lights on in the bathroom. 

 

She still doesn't seem to remember, but it'll be on her if something goes wrong with the computer...

[Mooshi]

4 hours ago, Bitter said:

Calling a computer a hard drive.

 

[Avocado Diaboli]

We have an 85" monitor in our conference room. It's basically a TV without a tuner. Hooked up to that is a document camera, a regular PC and a ClickShare (allows wireless screen sharing whenever someone wants to hook up their own laptop and can't be bothered to unplug the HDMI from the PC), each of which occupy one of the three available HDMI inputs. Every time the big boss or his second in command have to give a presentation, I get called up to set things up, because apparently, it's just too much effort to learn how to switch inputs on that monitor with a literal TV remote. Or to learn how the ClickShare works (You plug it in, it gets recognized as a USB drive, run the .exe on the drive to start the service and then click the button on the device to mirror your screen wirelessly to the monitor, you know, a really hard to follow procedure). And it's not like I was the guy who ordered that stupid ClickShare, it's something the bosses saw during a conference somewhere else and decided that we needed that too, but they can't be bothered to learn how it works. Never mind that it's incredibly slow. If you want to play a video file over it the connection stutters more than Scatman John. That's what happens when you just buy shit because you thought it was cool without thinking it through.

[cacoe]

13 hours ago, Bitter said:

Calling a computer a hard drive.

Calling the computer a CPU

[da na]

4 minutes ago, cacoe said:

Calling the computer a CPU

"CPU clipart" is mostly not CPUs

[Freakwise]

19 minutes ago, cacoe said:

Calling the computer a CPU

My teacher said a same thing, ironically he is more or less an IT teacher

[RockSolid1106]

28 minutes ago, Freakwise said:

My teacher said a same thing, ironically he is more or less an IT teacher

IT teachers are who I find are even dumber at tech

[cacoe]

Just now, RockSolid1106 said:

IT teachers are who I find are even dumber at tech

Problem is, it's like a lot of them really had a passion for it, then life happened, they lost interest and ended up behind the times. So some are technically qualified to teach, what they teach is outdated.

 

Or they never really liked tech in the first place and just wanted a job.

[da na]

oLe JOhNnY bOy (what does this even mean)

[da na]

"What have you been doing today?"

"Trying out Windows 11"

"that doesn't exist yet, you got scammed" 

OK, cool... (I explained after this, just thought it was funny)

[da na]

literally no one asked: game review edition

 

From the same game there are reviews, one star, of "the fire extinguisher doesn't work" "it's too hard" "it's too scary" 

Edit: here's an among us review that's just useless

 

and another: "the game updates too much" 

DANG CAPSHA

 

[WhitetailAni]

2 hours ago, Schnoz said:

To be fair, creepers are controlled by an AI and I don't think they'd be able to solve a captcha.

They also don't have arms.

[owwnoooo]

On 7/25/2021 at 7:40 PM, The Unknown Voice said:

Sounds like Japan

 

It's india btw

 

 

F

[cacoe]

People complaining on Amazon reviews that they only get 120MB speeds max on gigabit power line adapters.

[DoctorNick]

This...

[cacoe]

1 hour ago, DoctorNick said:

This...

Which supercomputer is this instance of Opera running on?

[Stahlmann]

On 7/25/2021 at 4:16 AM, ShrimpBrime said:

Dude, I just moved. Also in Chicago suburbs. Called them up (xfinity) and upgraded the Blast 400mb to the 1gb and with their modem, the bill is 98$ a month. 

 

Maybe you should call them. 

On 7/24/2021 at 11:08 PM, Bitter said:

My friend in Iowa (podunk country pig and corn farming state) has symmetrical gigabit fiber for $100 USD a month. I pay about the same for 400mbit down and 20mbit up AND I LIVE WITH IN 30 MILES OF A MAJOR CITY, CHICAGO!

 

Gotta love strange prices of internet connections.

 

First i had 100 mbit down / 50 mbit up for 30€ a month. (It was the best connection available for me)

After they upgraded the cable in my street they offered to upgrade my connection to 1000 down / 500 up for only 5€ more per month. Of course i said yes.

 

I also live in pretty a small town and yet i have better internet that any of my friends, some of which live in big cities with anywhere from 100K to 1Mil citizens. And that while also paying less than everyone else i know.

[Stahlmann]

The company i work for has a dedicated IT department, which got so big that it has been split up into a seperate company alltogether. But somehow in my branch i'm the first responder when it comes to IT questions because i've proven to be more helpful most of the times compared to some remote worker using team viewer. And my job position has nothing to do with IT. One of my older colleagues even calls me a "hacker". But not to be offensive in any way, more as some sort of a strange compliment because i know my way around computers. (Altough i never needed to pull out the command prompt in front of him )

 

That just shows again that you can have education, but that doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Just like most other things you need practice and experience above all else.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Stahlmann said:

 

Gotta love strange prices of internet connections.

 

First i had 100 mbit down / 50 mbit up for 30€ a month. (It was the best connection available for me)

After they upgraded the cable in my street they offered to upgrade my connection to 1000 down / 500 up for only 5€ more per month. Of course i said yes.

 

I also live in pretty a small town and yet i have better internet that any of my friends, some of which live in big cities with anywhere from 100K to 1Mil citizens. And that while also paying less than everyone else i know.

When we moved in June, I called the auto insurance company. 

 

Moved 1 town over and my auto insurance rate dropped 50 bucks a month for my vehicles.

 

I have no idea why pricing differs from onetown to another, but I feel it's BS. Everyone should pay the same price IMO.

[FakeNSA]

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

When we moved in June, I called the auto insurance company. 

 

Moved 1 town over and my auto insurance rate dropped 50 bucks a month for my vehicles.

 

I have no idea why pricing differs from onetown to another, but I feel it's BS. Everyone should pay the same price IMO.

That is BS, but also makes a certain amount of sense?

Insurance cost reflects risk factor, so you might have been in a town with a higher accident likelihood, or which was closer to an interstate (and thus inherited the interstate's risk factor).

Still odd that it changed by that much!

[RockSolid1106]

So I recently called the local ISP guy who had little to no knowledge about networking.

I called him because my I was experiencing frequent drops and that would cause a lot of hassle because most of my dad's work applications die if the internet is disconnected, even for a couple seconds.

 

I told him that all devices are experiencing drops(I had to explain what drops are too).

He asked "how many devices are connected"

"About 12 or so"

"Okay, this router doesn't support more than 5 devices. So this wouldn't work"

(There are literally only 3 or 4 active devices, while others are just idle)

So I somehow managed to explain him that idle devices won't cause any problems. Now he started to point at my dad's work computer. And, as soon as I said "That is a work computer", he just said "contact your company, this is not our problem." I disagreed, because the problem occurred on all devices.

 

After some time he started to explain me that the company would have to "install" a firewall and "install" an IP address as if they were some applications.

 

And at that point I understood that I was talking to someone who had very little knowledge and I was wasting my time explaining stuff to him.

 

Spoiler

Not all things were spoken by me, my dad too got involved a bit. Though, networking isn't something that he knows a lot about. Even I am not as knowledgeable when it comes to networking, but I know a lot more things than my dad does. So I was the one to talk to the ISP guy mostly.

 

Edited August 6, 2021 by RockSolid1106

[12345678]

social/groups of "techies" are usually a shithole; this usually happens in every groups but whatever

 

like you get nutjobs who think that have a clue of what they are talking about by agreeing each other, while they clearly don't

 

even if you put straight off in their face the source they won't listen

 

 

 

[12345678]

35 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

So I recently called the local ISP guy who had little to no knowledge about networking.

I called him because my I was experiencing frequent drops and that would cause a lot of hassle because most of my dad's work applications die if the internet is disconnected, even for a couple seconds.

 

I told him that all devices are experiencing drops(I had to explain what drops are too).

He asked "how many devices are connected"

"About 12 or so"

"Okay, this router doesn't support more than 5 devices. So this wouldn't work"

(There are literally only 3 or 4 active devices, while others are just idle)

So I somehow managed to explain him that idle devices won't cause any problems. Now he started to point at my dad's work computer. And, as soon as I said "That is a work computer", he just said "contact your company, this is not our problem." I disagreed, because the problem occurred on all devices.

 

After some time he started to explain me that the company would have to "install" a firewall and "install" an IP address as if they were some applications.

 

And at that point I understood that I was talking to someone who had very little knowledge and I was wasting my time explaining stuff to him.

 

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Not all things were spoken by me, my dad too got involved a bit. Though, networking isn't something that he knows a lot about. Even I am not as knowledgeable when it comes to networking, but I know a lot more things than my dad does. So I was the one to talk to the ISP guy mostly.

 

at least here

 

isps usually require them to open a vat number/company, by doing so they don't need to subdue to worker regulations/extra taxes, so those individuals do work for the isps, but without being considered employees

 

but in the other side they have less controll over them, so the "quality" can't often be guaranteed