Experiences with non-techies

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

Ooooh yes they have. Too long in fact lol!

I know the perfect gift for them

[Bitter]

[da na]

I overheard this in class. Someone who I can assume heard about the PS5 liquid metal issues said, 

"My PS5 broke because like, the magnesium melted and dripped into the hard drive or something, if I put it in the freezer it'll work again though"

 

I did not interject.

[soldier_ph]

Emergency Data Entry Device:

[CarlBar]

On 1/31/2023 at 6:55 PM, Bitter said:

 

I'm going to feel really dumb when i get an answer but: Um what?

[da na]

4 minutes ago, CarlBar said:

 

I'm going to feel really dumb when i get an answer but: Um what?

Key hidden under doormat you can see through.

Account with the same password as the name. 

Equally unsecure.

[CarlBar]

On 12/30/2022 at 9:45 AM, ne0rmatrix said:

Here is a crazy one for those of us that believe a device should last at least a few years. Currently I am typing on some random 120 dollar razer keyboard with RGB. It now has faded text on a bunch of keys. Yes I am a gamer and the keys are the ones you expect for Wow at least. Looking to my left I have a another very expensive logitech keyboard that is a paperweight. My current keyboard is going to be replaced by another none membrane keyboard soon. But if it fails I have a 15 year old 10 dollar keyboard I bought at bestbuy because it was literally the cheapest thing they sold. It still works great, it has no faded keys. It is my backup keyboard for when my expensive gamer keyboards break. Just think of it, a 10 dollar keyboard last 15+ years and still works perfectly. But pay 10 to 20 times that cost and it is lucky to last 2 or more years.

 

Yeah my Keyboard is even more ancient, been in use for 20 years now. Zero fading, (needs a good clean though), and rock solid reliable. Given the price of the system it came with, (my first home one), it's undoubtedly cheap as chips at the time. but rock solid 2 decades later.

 

3 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Key hidden under doormat you can see through.

Account with the same password as the name. 

Equally unsecure.

 

Thank you, i couldn;t understand what the picture was, i got the text but i didn't get how it related to the image. Thought i was looking at the membranes out of a membrane keyboard.

[da na]

I had finished my work in class today and was playing UT99 on my little Core 2 Duo laptop.

Someone came up to me and asked what I was playing.

"Unreal Tournament 1999"

"1999? Like, the year?"

"...yeah?"

long pause  ".....they had VIDEO GAMES back then?"

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, Mel0n. said:

I had finished my work in class today and was playing UT99 on my little Core 2 Duo laptop.

Someone came up to me and asked what I was playing.

"Unreal Tournament 1999"

"1999? Like, the year?"

"...yeah?"

long pause  ".....they had VIDEO GAMES back then?"

Wait until you whip out an Atari in class...or watch Tron.

[da na]

Got a call today, someone saying their macbook screen brightness wouldn't go up. Walked over to her dorm, where she demonstrated how pressing the keyboard backlight brightness key did, in fact, not increase the brightness of the screen. Showed her the right key and all was well.

[da na]

Had a "Press any key"; "where's the 'any' key?" situation today...

Friend of mine has a keyboard plugged into his Xbox since apparently some games can work that way. He showed me how the game screen said "Press A to continue", demonstrated how the A button on the keyboard did nothing. I took a wild guess it meant, I don't know, maybe the A button on the controller that came with the console that games are supposed to be played with? It was, indeed, that A.

[Bitter]

Just now, Mel0n. said:

Had a "Press any key"; "where's the 'any' key?" situation today...

Friend of mine has a keyboard plugged into his Xbox since apparently some games can work that way. He showed me how the game screen said "Press A to continue", demonstrated how the A button on the keyboard did nothing. I took a wild guess it meant, I don't know, maybe the A on the controller that came with the console that games are supposed to be played with? It was, indeed, that A.

I was playing the PC version of Stubbs the Zombie which was a terrible port from X-Box but mostly worked fine...until a part where your Zombie character had to dance and they just left the controls on the screen as the X-Box controls which didn't have PC counterparts for this part of the game. Trigger buttons and the letter keys on the X-Box controller WERE mapped to keyboard and mouse functions but those keyboard and mouse buttons did nothing in the dancing mini-game because the devs screwed something up. Thankfully you could fail the mini-game successfully and progress past it only missing out on an non consequential achievement. Very frustrating though!

[DERPmaster]

Friend: How do I open My Xbox 1 S to clean it.

Me: Why are you cleaning your Xbox?

Friend: It's too slow, the CPU is clogged.

 

[soldier_ph]

My Seatmate in my class in school has bought a MacBook and replaced his Surface Go 2 with it. We explicitly need a device which has Touch and Pen Support but apparently he has forgotten that. Reason why he got a Mac in the first place is that he would look cool with it and he just wanted it. Yeah no wonder he doesn't have an actual reason because he is extremely Tech illiterate and even forgot that the MacBook doesn't have a Touchscreen. Judging by the discusting and obvious Fingerprints on his Display and that he instinctively tried to move a Window around with his Fingers on the Display. Also he didn't really understand how to connect to the school WiFi Network. Because one has to login now using an SMS Code and for that to sign up with your phone Number you have to navigate to the school Website which the Web Browser would open for you after you would select the school WiFi in your Settings but he kept closing the new Tab everytime he opened Safari. I had to painstakingly navigate him through the process of connecting to a WiFi Network, it was really a difficult Task for him. He was asking me confused why the Microsoft Store wasn't on Mac OS since that's where he downloaded all his Software from on the Surface Go 2. On Tuesday it was his turn to present a Kahoot to the class as an opening to the lesson in the Morning. He and my Teacher had some Technical problems to say the least. My Teacher even went like: "Oh, those must be lightning ports on your Mac, right ?!?". Because he needed to connect the Mac to the Big presenting Display in front and needed a USB C to HDMI Dongle for it. That's where I died a little inside. The Teacher then just plugged in said Dongle and was surprised that it "fit" and "worked". I really am the only guy in my class who can present a Kahoot without any Technical difficulties.

 

Whenever non Techies ask me or I hear them ask other people if I or they have a Charging Cable for their Device they never mention the name of the Connector but just the brand or worse show me/them the port on their Device. And they are never in any way specific because why would you ?

 

Non Techies in my experience only know:

 

Apple USB C to Lightning Cable as the "Apple Cable"

 

USB C to C as the "Samsung Cable"

 

USB A to Micro B as the "old Samsung Cable" or probably would also just say "Samsung Cable" for extra confusion.

 

Microsoft Surface proprietary Charging/Data Cable as the "Laptop Charging Cable"

 

And they describe the shapes and sizes of the Connectors in the worst possible way sometimes, that's what is really annoying me when I have to hear it.

 

Yeah I don't often feel like helping out unless I'm specifically asked to. Because I just love to watch them struggle with such basic things.

[CT854]

2 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

My Seatmate in my class in school has bought a MacBook and replaced his Surface Go 2 with it. We explicitly need a device which has Touch and Pen Support but apparently he has forgotten that. Reason why he got a Mac in the first place is that he would look cool with it and he just wanted it. Yeah no wonder he doesn't have an actual reason because he is extremely Tech illiterate and even forgot that the MacBook doesn't have a Touchscreen. Judging by the discusting and obvious Fingerprints on his Display and that he instinctively tried to move a Window around with his Fingers on the Display. Also he didn't really understand how to connect to the school WiFi Network. Because one has to login now using an SMS Code and for that to sign up with your phone Number you have to navigate to the school Website which the Web Browser would open for you after you would select the school WiFi in your Settings but he kept closing the new Tab everytime he opened Safari. I had to painstakingly navigate him through the process of connecting to a WiFi Network, it was really a difficult Task for him. He was asking me confused why the Microsoft Store wasn't on Mac OS since that's where he downloaded all his Software from on the Surface Go 2. On Tuesday it was his turn to present a Kahoot to the class as an opening to the lesson in the Morning. He and my Teacher had some Technical problems to say the least. My Teacher even went like: "Oh, those must be lightning ports on your Mac, right ?!?". Because he needed to connect the Mac to the Big presenting Display in front and needed a USB C to HDMI Dongle for it. That's where I died a little inside. The Teacher then just plugged in said Dongle and was surprised that it "fit" and "worked". I really am the only guy in my class who can present a Kahoot without any Technical difficulties.

 

Whenever non Techies ask me or I hear them ask other people if I or they have a Charging Cable for their Device they never mention the name of the Connector but just the brand or worse show me/them the port on their Device. And they are never in any way specific because why would you ?

 

Non Techies in my experience only know:

 

Apple USB C to Lightning Cable as the "Apple Cable"

 

USB C to C as the "Samsung Cable"

 

USB A to Micro B as the "old Samsung Cable" or probably would also just say "Samsung Cable" for extra confusion.

 

Microsoft Surface proprietary Charging/Data Cable as the "Laptop Charging Cable"

 

And they describe the shapes and sizes of the Connectors in the worst possible way sometimes, that's what is really annoying me when I have to hear it.

 

Yeah I don't often feel like helping out unless I'm specifically asked to. Because I just love to watch them struggle with such basic things.

More money than sense irrationally pisses me off. They should just give me that money instead.

[Donut417]

Today I was a non techie.

 

To put things in context. We have 2 laser printers and 1 dot matrix printer at work. Most stuff prints on the laser printer, but anything dealing with receiving, returns and warehouse errors print out on the dot matrix. So my boss asked me to get paper work off the printer for a return and I couldn't figure out how to get the sheets out of the dot matrix printer because the last time I seen one was elementary school. Come to find out, we are the only warehouse in the company that still uses a dot matrix printer. Only because the receiving lead like it. 

[da na]

Just now, Donut417 said:

Today I was a non techie.

 

To put things in context. We have 2 laser printers and 1 dot matrix printer at work. Most stuff prints on the laser printer, but anything dealing with receiving, returns and warehouse errors print out on the dot matrix. So my boss asked me to get paper work off the printer for a return and I couldn't figure out how to get the sheets out of the dot matrix printer because the last time I seen one was elementary school. Come to find out, we are the only warehouse in the company that still uses a dot matrix printer. Only because the receiving lead like it. 

You still running a Pentium II Xeon in the server room? I'm more interested in what the hell is so old a dot matrix printer will plug into it, I've never seen one with anything other than parallel.

[Donut417]

2 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

You still running a Pentium II Xeon in the server room? I'm more interested in what the hell is so old a dot matrix printer will plug into it, I've never seen one with anything other than parallel.

I have no clue how it's wired up to be honest. It sits right next to a laser printer in the assistant manager office. 

 

As far as the Pentium II goes, some times I think that could be the case. From what I understand the software we use is server centric, if we loose internet we have no way to log in to inventory system. As the server is located in South Dakota and our warehouse is in Michigan. The server in question likes to have strokes, especially when we are busy. 

[da na]

Colleague plugged a handheld signal tester into a hot PoE switch. No explanation needed

[Quackers101]

that is some burned american cheese

[DERPmaster]

On 3/8/2023 at 6:50 PM, Donut417 said:

dot matrix printer

what the heck even is that?

Never heard of

[Ben17]

On 12/2/2022 at 12:35 AM, Donut417 said:

My dad is too old to be on a ladder and im not good with tools and shit, so Im not any help, plus Im not climbing 30+ feet in the air to install an antenna when I have not a clue what Im doing. 

haha that's why the aerial I installed sits behind the shed and somehow picks up everything still lmao 

[Godlygamer23]

On 3/8/2023 at 6:50 PM, Donut417 said:

Today I was a non techie.

 

To put things in context. We have 2 laser printers and 1 dot matrix printer at work. Most stuff prints on the laser printer, but anything dealing with receiving, returns and warehouse errors print out on the dot matrix. So my boss asked me to get paper work off the printer for a return and I couldn't figure out how to get the sheets out of the dot matrix printer because the last time I seen one was elementary school. Come to find out, we are the only warehouse in the company that still uses a dot matrix printer. Only because the receiving lead like it. 

The biggest setback for companies in my experience are people when changes occur, because a lot of people are so resistant to it. Now granted, sometimes doing it the same way is better because the new way has limitations and is genuinely inferior. However, I've seen scenarios where the new way would be best, but people that are involved want to keep doing it the old way.

[Donut417]

27 minutes ago, DERPmaster said:

what the heck even is that?

Never heard of

It’s printer from like the 80s/90s. Like I said, haven’t seen one since elementary school. 

[Donut417]

2 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

The biggest setback for companies in my experience are people when changes occur, because a lot of people are so resistant to it. Now granted, sometimes doing it the same way is better because the new way has limitations and is genuinely inferior. However, I've seen scenarios where the new way would be best, but people that are involved want to keep doing it the old way.

I think he likes the fact that the pages are all connected together. When we get product in it’s generally 30 pallets of mixed items. We don’t use scanners like Amazon, everything is pen and paper here. So he has to break down the pallets and count how much of each product. Then he makes sure the amounts match the sheets that printed.