Experiences with non-techies

[IPD]

14 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

I personally blame the internet. Because when we didnt have the internet it seemed like people were more extroverted and liked to be around others. We now have a generation of people who didnt know life without the internet. Now days its not uncommon for kids to be throw a phone or tablet and told to go fuck off in the next room with it. This has caused other issues as well in society. Also I noticed that people now days have less patients. 

Could be.  I grew up in the days when you had to go knock on doors to see if your friends were home, and when you could tell where the shit was going down because that's where everyone's bikes were laying in the front yard.

[da na]

First day of school, already have a good one...

"All the desks have desktops [computers] because they run on phone lines and don't need power like laptops" 

 

[Brennan Price]

On 9/10/2019 at 12:08 AM, Drak3 said:

Death is a preferable alternative to cloud storage.

Not if you've created your own cloud storage mwahahaha!

[Pickles von Brine]

One of my most frustrating experiences was from working with my current boss. I tried to explain to her the issues that came up when I had to redo her machine, why things were different and that I needed time with her to get things sorted... she literally waved me off and said I don't wanna hear about it. I blew my lid on that one. I have 13 years as a professional (17 years total if you count all my time since I was 13) in the computer repair business (hundreds of hours with on-site experience and in-home networking easily as well), 4 in professional data recovery. being disregarded like that really really upset me. 

Second time she couldn't figure out why her PDFs were not printing right. I had asked her what program she uses and she had no idea. She didn't know what a program was... I even showered her various programs that did PDFs and she just looked at me with this dumb look of bewilderment. Then, proceeded to just ignore me after I asked her some more questions...
 

Told her no more computer help. She will have to call someone. 
 

Side note. I left the professional computer repair world because I wasn't making enough money and the stress got to me. Until I left I had no idea how much it weighed on my mind. Now, I got a wonderful separation of work and home life, do some consulting on the side and work with dogs all day making a lot more money and a lot less stress. Though my boss can be rather infuriating. 

 

[Kilrah]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

I think a lot more people are introverted today than in the past. Im one of them. I prefer to sit in my room alone. Of course there are a few people I dont mind hanging out with. But a vast majority of my time is in the peace and quiet of my space. 

I don't think there are necessarily more than in the past, just that in the past being one pretty much wasn't an option, there was basically nothing you could do without directly interacting with people so they were forced to "play ball". Tech has just enabled people who already were to live their way...

I'm definitely one too but right at the age where the first 20-25 years of my life had to just deal with it, and could do so. Once it became possible things just "naturally" evolved to what was apparently more appropriate for me.

[da na]

A teacher today in one of my smaller classes wrote everyone's school Google account email and password on her whiteboard (to make login for a school website quicker). Which led to a headache for IT, contacting those 23 people and telling them to change passwords immediately.

[MonkeyBomb]

7 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

A teacher today in one of my smaller classes wrote everyone's school Google account email and password on her whiteboard (to make login for a school website quicker). Which led to a headache for IT, contacting those 23 people and telling them to change passwords immediately.

That doesn't really surprise me.  I still see a lot of people with post its under their keyboard with their passwords.  Seen company lawyers, presidents and CFO's do this.

[Rauten]

16 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

A teacher today in one of my smaller classes wrote everyone's school Google account email and password on her whiteboard (to make login for a school website quicker). Which led to a headache for IT, contacting those 23 people and telling them to change passwords immediately.

Posts like this make me long for a "facepalm" reaction.

Or, alternatively, a "punch that teacher in the face" reaction.

[soldier_ph]

On 8/16/2022 at 4:43 PM, Mel0n. said:

A teacher today in one of my smaller classes wrote everyone's school Google account email and password on her whiteboard (to make login for a school website quicker). Which led to a headache for IT, contacting those 23 people and telling them to change passwords immediately.

Wait how did she also know the Passwords of those Google accounts ? 

[da na]

58 minutes ago, soldier_ph said:

Wait how did she also know the Passwords of those Google accounts ? 

IT department manages them

[Kilrah]

13 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

Wait how did she also know the Passwords of those Google accounts ? 

 

Seems to be "start of the year, give everyone their initial creds for their brand new accounts"

[da na]

Someone came to me today asking me to fix their touchpad that wasn't working. It was an HP Elitebook, with a trackpad you could double click the top left corner of to disable. Guess they hadn't noticed the big yellow light up there to indicate it was off...

[rikitikitavi]

5 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Guess they hadn't noticed the big yellow light up there to indicate it was off...

Who would have known that?!

Green or red… no one knows what to do on yellow duh

[da na]

This guy wrong on so many levels

[da na]

I have a motherboard where CMOS is spelled wrong, now I have a video card where "Los Angeles" is spelled wrong

[AndyW99]

My main non-techy experience is with most of the older people of my family. And that's not even trying themselves to fix things or look into things!

 

Now I am not talking about serious issues or complex issues but things such as "what does this mean on my phone" or "why does my computer do this" when a quick Google search of the same issue shows a very simple explanation or fix.

 

I get it maybe difficult for them but I always tell them to search the issue first and you will always find you are likely the last person to find this issue

[rikitikitavi]

11 minutes ago, AndyW99 said:

a quick Google search of the same issue shows a very simple explanation or fix

That is not just 'old folks', that's every other person, young or old. Many (such) people can't explain what a problem is in the first place... or don't care to elaborate, because lazy or don't give a damn (as in 'here's a problem, I'm out'). They rarely google or go beyond the first link

[AndyW99]

9 minutes ago, rikitikitavi said:

That is not just 'old folks', that's every other person, young or old. Many (such) people can't explain what a problem is in the first place... or don't care to elaborate, because lazy or don't give a damn (as in 'here's a problem, I'm out'). They rarely google or go beyond the first link

You're right. It very much seems like most people think it's easier to ask for someone to fix it than learn themselves. I learnt most of what I know not from any classes but from googling the issue and finding a solution....usually from breaking it in the first place if I am honest!

[Drama Lama]

I've seen people open the Google app search for Google, then Google for a website (example.domain) and then open that.

[Ryuikko]

On 8/27/2022 at 8:25 AM, Mel0n. said:

I have a motherboard where CMOS is spelled wrong, now I have a video card where "Los Angeles" is spelled wrong

Maybe they were just admiring angles in Spanish 

[da na]

"WHY ISN'T THE GODDAMN PRINTER WORKING"

*laptop on top of a Brother printer, repeatedly clicking print to one with HP in the name*

[pythonmegapixel]

7 hours ago, Drama Lama said:

I've seen people open the Google app search for Google, then Google for a website (example.domain) and then open that.

I have a relative who, when they want to visit a different website, closes the browser, reopens it to the homepage, then types the URL in the Bing Search bar.

 

Doing this does have one massive advantage though - Bing applies some kind of spellcheck, which avoids those scam popups that you can get to by mistyping common websites.

[da na]

Wired Wi-Fi

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Mel0n. said:

Wired Wi-Fi

WiFi means internet now. The dumbening is well underway.

[IPD]

3 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

Wired Wi-Fi

Well there's a guy on here not that long ago who was asking about his "Wireless WiFi"