Experiences with non-techies

[HanZie82]

When my ISP sales department called me asking if i wanted to renew my subscription.

The girl on the line was adamant i did not have fiber optic internet.
I told her i could show her the optical cables going into my modem.

[CptnReflex]

On 11/10/2021 at 8:22 AM, CT854 said:

It was a Hanns.G monitor that came bundled with a prebuilt PC I got for Christmas in... 2009, if I recall right.

 

Wow, I used the same 768p monitor for 10 years...

dang lol 2009 I didn't even know they still sold computer screens with a CRT screen D:

 

hopefully your new screen is baller!
 

if not, facebook marketplace is your friend, and I'd reccomend searching for a PLS 27 inch 1440p screen for like a hundred bucks. IPS can be better but PLS is so new that it's hard to get one that's really bad compared to a lot of LCD tech imo

[CT854]

8 hours ago, afwasboi said:

today i had a man that after 20 mins of explanation on how his laptop was turning off after a couple hours of use because heat increases with long use and if it get too hot it shuts down to protect itself, he hits me with the argument that if that was the case computers wouldn't run in africa..... why do ppl always think they know better then the expert they sought out for help?? it dazzles me tbh

... how hot do they think Africa is?

 

It's certainly true that elevated temperatures give the hardware less headway to run, but like... Africa is a giant continent with diverse climates.

 

6 hours ago, CptnReflex said:

hopefully your new screen is baller!
 

if not, facebook marketplace is your friend, and I'd reccomend searching for a PLS 27 inch 1440p screen for like a hundred bucks. IPS can be better but PLS is so new that it's hard to get one that's really bad compared to a lot of LCD tech imo

My 2019 upgrade was a 1080p TN panel I got as another present. A few weeks ago I took the plunge to get the fabled PG279QM IPS 1440p 240Hz panel and am using the TN panel is a secondary monitor.

[rikitikitavi]

How common is this?

When you do smth trivial like checking some settings on someone’s device for whatever reason, and then get blamed for something unrelated because “you definitely did something, and [something] stoped working afterwards”…

[da na]

Last night I had a friend call me into his room because "HELP BENJAMIN BROKE MY MONITOR" so I expect a broken screen but no the power cord is literally just unplugged

[RockSolid1106]

TLDR: Elder brother wanted to install W10 on his laptop, just copied over the iso file to the usb and tried to boot to it, complained of a black screen, instead of using the media creation tool.

 

Went to my native place a few weeks back, and my brother(elder) was trying to install W10 on his old laptop. He told me that he had selected the boot device correctly but it won't get past the black screen. Spent a few minutes trying to figure out the problem when I remembered I had seen the file copy dialogue on his (second)laptop when I was passing by, and so I asked him whether he just copied the iso file over to the drive. "Yes."
Me: -_-

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by RockSolid1106

[adarw]

13 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

TLDR: Elder brother wanted to install W10 on his laptop, just copied over the iso file to the usb and tried to boot to it, complained of a black screen, instead of using the media creation tool.

 

Went to my native place a few weeks back, and my brother(elder) was trying to install W10 on his old laptop. He told me that he had selected the boot device properly but it won't get past the black screen when he did that. Spent a few minutes trying to figure out the problem when I remembered that I had seen the file copy dialogue on his laptop when I was passing by, and so I asked him whether he just copied the iso file over to the drive. "Yes."
Me: -_-

 

noob question lol, does windows give a iso file automatically even with a usb or did you use a cd?

[RockSolid1106]

24 minutes ago, adarw said:

noob question lol, does windows give a iso file automatically even with a usb or did you use a cd?

I don't know tbh, seems he managed to get the iso file from the website directly which I think is possible instead of using the media creation tool.

[da na]

Review from person who was probably using a HDMI to DP cable as DP to HDMI which it wasn't designed to do. Entirely user error

[InstantNewt]

10 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Review from person who was probably using a HDMI to DP cable as DP to HDMI which it wasn't designed to do. Entirely user error

1 Star Amazon reviews are my absolute favorite thing. It's like looking through the glass into an idiot convention. I've seen reviews of double sided tape where people are complaining about how the tape didn't hold, but when it failed to hold it ripped a chunk out of their wall.

 

 

[da na]

6 hours ago, InstantNewt said:

1 Star Amazon reviews are my absolute favorite thing. It's like looking through the glass into an idiot convention. I've seen reviews of double sided tape where people are complaining about how the tape didn't hold, but when it failed to hold it ripped a chunk out of their wall.

 

 

I’ve seen reviews for things that literally have product images that say “I didn’t like how it looked thought it would look better” 1 star but like bruh there’s literally an image 

[IPD]

On 11/10/2021 at 3:44 AM, CptnReflex said:

VGA is the VHS of display connectors 

Coax would like a word with you.

[IPD]

On 11/11/2021 at 8:16 AM, afwasboi said:

today i had a man that after 20 mins of explanation on how his laptop was turning off after a couple hours of use because heat increases with long use and if it get too hot it shuts down to protect itself, he hits me with the argument that if that was the case computers wouldn't run in africa..... why do ppl always think they know better then the expert they sought out for help?? it dazzles me tbh

So then I thought to myself, you know it's odd.  With all the vampires everywhere, you'd think someone would have come up with a better way of dealing with all of them.  Like holy water will overpower them, so why not just sanctify every thunderstorm and call it a day?  It's always dark when it rains, and vampires avoid sunlight--so that seems like a good idea.  And then it hit me.  There's vampires in America, Asia and Europe.  But there are no vampires in Africa.  Because someone already blessed the rains down in Africa.

[IPD]

22 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Review from person who was probably using a HDMI to DP cable as DP to HDMI which it wasn't designed to do. Entirely user error

Like using a Crossover cable as a Patch cable....

[GeorgeMKane]

My coworker thought a SSD was just a stick you could connect to "that thing in the front."

 

I had to tell her what a boot drive was, and why our computers were really slow. She laughed at how simple of a fix it would be still.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, IPD said:

So then I thought to myself, you know it's odd.  With all the vampires everywhere, you'd think someone would have come up with a better way of dealing with all of them.  Like holy water will overpower them, so why not just sanctify every thunderstorm and call it a day?  It's always dark when it rains, and vampires avoid sunlight--so that seems like a good idea.  And then it hit me.  There's vampires in America, Asia and Europe.  But there are no vampires in Africa.  Because someone already blessed the rains down in Africa.

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.

[Kilrah]

7 hours ago, IPD said:

Like using a Crossover cable as a Patch cable....

That works just fine on anything made in the past ~15 years...

[da na]

My uncle bought a USB 3.0 hub for his USB 2.0 laptop thinking it'd make his USB faster

[da na]

Friend kept asking me if I had various USB-C accessories he could borrow and I kept gesturing around the room at my various 8-30 year old PCs

[IPD]

On 11/13/2021 at 3:31 AM, Kilrah said:

That works just fine on anything made in the past ~15 years...

I have not tried using a crossover cable to connect to ethernet, but if you say so......

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, IPD said:

I have not tried using a crossover cable to connect to ethernet, but if you say so......

Yup, works just fine. Auto-MDIX was already a thing in later/better 100M Ethernet adapters, but was made into the standard for gigabit. So anything with a gigabit port won't care what cable you use for what purpose.

[da na]

My friend is installing Windows on his MacBook, he says something about usb being slow, I ask him if he installed the drivers. He said yeah I did what you said, installed everything under Windows Update. I asked if he restarted and he was like "oh I needed to do that" 

[da na]

3 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Could have been a Linux user.

Depending on the distro/kernel you might never need to restart it. 

 

Btw. Any Windows server users? Do those have the same issues like Windows desktop (e.g. bad/broken updates and requiring restarts)?

He was a Mac user. Only ever used Macs.

 

And I know that a lot of the things in normal Windows that break it are disabled in Server so it's a lot more stable. 

[Bitter]

8 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Yup, works just fine. Auto-MDIX was already a thing in later/better 100M Ethernet adapters, but was made into the standard for gigabit. So anything with a gigabit port won't care what cable you use for what purpose.

White-green Green, White-orange Blue, White-blue Orange, White-brown Brown.

[rrats]

3rd hand experience - people unable to change record speed on Taylor Swift's new LP, then giving negative reviews stating that "a deep voice is singing on the 'Red' album"