Experiences with non-techies

[Beskamir]

One of my somewhat tech competent friends is going to kill his cpu today. He plans on overclocking it to 4.7 or something like that on a stock cooler. (It's probably a 3rd gen i5 cpu which he has at 4.2 overclock but read somewhere that someone managed to get it up to 4.7 on stock cooling)

[Darkman]

One of my somewhat tech competent friends is going to kill his cpu today. He plans on overclocking it to 4.7 or something like that on a stock cooler. (It's probably a 3rd gen i5 cpu which he has at 4.2 overclock but read somewhere that someone managed to get it up to 4.7 on stock cooling)

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give me that CPU before it is killed! Or you could just rescue it and keep it.

[elecxonica]

My uncle once has an issue that his phone'scharge was dieing to fast. We tested it, and it turned out he didn't realise that the charge icon animated when cahrging and wasn't showing how much charge was left.

[ColourShift]

You can though

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/

 

That program is fake. You can't simply "download more RAM".

 

It's refereed to as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

[CtW]

That program is fake. You can't simply "download more RAM".

 

It's refereed to as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

You're a bit late on that... Everybody here knows that it is fake and that it was mentioned as a joke...

[cacra]

That program is fake. You can't simply "download more RAM".

 

It's refereed to as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

Downloading it doesn't do anything. A loading bar just comes up and then the 'download completes.' No files are transferred to your system, it isn't anything sinister.

[n0ah1897]

This kid in my film class was very adamant about anything over single core processors are unnecessary. He kept trying to tell me that games can only use one core, and that my 8320 was pointless *facepalm*

[steffen_anywhere]

This kid in my film class was very adamant about anything over single core processors are unnecessary. He kept trying to tell me that games can only use one core, and that my 8320 was pointless *facepalm*

 

Well either outdated knowledge, or (what I think) someone not understanding threads and processes...

[flibberdipper]

That program is fake. You can't simply "download more RAM".

 

It's refereed to as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

It's a joke, silly.

[xnamkcor]

One time I saw someone take downloadmoreram.com seriously and felt the need to point out that it might be malware, even though it's not even software, it's a site with a graphic.

[jas57]

My parents are terrible with even the basic tasks. My mum could send an email with one attachment just fine but two at a time, it was too much to handle. Also, when she exits out of an app on her phone she always presses the back button instead of just pressing home. Although she is bad, my dad is much worse. Since his computer is riddled unwanted software (he never unchecked the box in the installers) his computer won't even boot into windows so he just uses safety mode with networking turnes on... But thats not all, every time, and this is no joke, he has to copy and paste something he always needs my help.

 

Can any one top this?

[NARAKU_KAT]

That program is fake. You can't simply "download more RAM".

 

It's refereed to as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)

 

 

[jas57]

A really old man (worst example EVER), was comming to our pc store because he bought a pc that didn't work. he plugged it in, and nothing worked. ... he didn't push the power button... that said, he came back. the screen is still black. same freaking reason. he did not turn the darn thing on, we had to draw out the symbol of a on/off switch, i walked to the back and laughed reeeaaally hard i allmost cried, 3 times in a row (first for the not working pc, second for the not working monitor and third for the actual drawing) this has really happened but the guy was old (75?) and probably has never used an electrical device in his whole life (country side). that was the least tech savvy person i have ever encountered.

Sure most old people are bad with tech but i know a 70 year old guy who still builds his PC's. Didn't expect that

[jas57]

The best one I've experienced is when people call any form of internet "wifi"

That annoys me so much, especially since wifi is just a certain frequency of light... I don't think an ethernet cable transfers light...

[xnamkcor]

My parents are terrible with even the basic tasks. My mum could send an email with one attachment just fine but two at a time, it was too much to handle. Also, when she exits out of an app on her phone she always presses the back button instead of just pressing home. Although she is bad, my dad is much worse. Since his computer is riddled unwanted software (he never unchecked the box in the installers) his computer won't even boot into windows so he just uses safety mode with networking turnes on... But thats not all, every time, and this is no joke, he has to copy and paste something he always needs my help.

 

Can any one top this?

"Home" is a global command to return to the "desktop". "Back" tell the program to go back a menu until it exits. One leaves the application running in the background unless the application is specifically programmed to terminate when it loses focus, the other commands the application to back out and has a higher chance of resulting in the application ceasing to run.

 

 

That annoys me so much, especially since wifi is just a certain frequency of light... I don't think an ethernet cable transfers light...

Dude, I would love to have a home network that ran on Optical.

[brownninja97]

so my brother stole the hdmi cable that my mother uses to connect her pc to the monitor, the cable came with the monitor so we use that, anyways he took it and she panicked as the display isnt working, take in mind all of this happened within a few hours in which i was not at home, she then throws the pc away, buys a new one(which has not been cancelled thankfully). I then had to explain for a while about displays and that under every circumstance ask me before you do anything rash.

 

Well i then recovered the pc from the bin and used a vga cable, just another day.

 

rant

 

Oh and i nearly forgot, a few months ago i made my aunty a pc,two weeks ago it broke and she didnt tell me about it, well it didnt break, she set up a password by accident. So she sends it to pcworld, they somehow pushed her into spending £200, they gave her new ram(because the tracer ballistics were "broken", i tested them and they worked. they then changed her power supply from the 400w xfx psu to some non 80+ brand called powercool or something like that. Lastly and what is the biggest mindfuck, they deleted malwarebytes pro because it was a "virus" and installed mcafee, fuck. So she called me because naturally the performance of her system got shit on big time and it would randomly shut down when she was making music or something of that nature. She calls me thank god because i charge less(none for family unless they abuse me) and she starts ranting about all the shit they have done to the system, luckily i have a few dell psus lying around (300w 80+ gold, cant go wrong) install that, reinstall the faster ram, which made a difference because pcworld doesnt understand that apus use ram speed a lot and that fucking 1600mhz is faster then 1333mhz,  jesus how can they be so stupid. To top that off she told me that the pcworld rep said that she shouldnt trust me because the system is more likely to break if i make it.

 

/rant

[xnamkcor]

when she was making music or something of that nature.

Dude, TMI.

[brownninja97]

Dude, TMI.

no she literally makes music, bollywood bullshit, i dont understand it but she seems to be fine, i understand the amount of shit which ends up in my posts by accident, please calm your imagination

[cacra]

. So she sends it to pcworld, they somehow pushed her into spending £200, 

 

 

I had a bad experience with PC world a few days ago. I was pretty sure my motherboard was broken so I sent it in there, telling them that was what I thought. I went and looked around the shop and 2 minutes later they said it was definitely the motherboard and charged me £25 - fair enough. I then RMAed the motherboard and had the exact same issue, I managed to borrow a PSU from a friend and that fixed the issue perfectly. One strongly worded email was sent that day, mark my words!

[nokturrduk84]

I hate when someone calls me "hacker" or "programmer" only because I'm not bad in PCs in general.

[JuztBe]

I hate when someone calls me "hacker" or "programmer" only because I'm not bad in PCs in general.

I hate when they(FPS guys) are calling cheaters a hackers.

[CtW]

I hate when they(FPS guys) are calling cheaters a hackers.

Also when being better than a certain loud player automatically makes you a cheater with an aim-bot or something along the lines of that. That really pisses me off.

[jas57]

"Home" is a global command to return to the "desktop". "Back" tell the program to go back a menu until it exits. One leaves the application running in the background unless the application is specifically programmed to terminate when it loses focus, the other commands the application to back out and has a higher chance of resulting in the application ceasing to run.

 

 

Dude, I would love to have a home network that ran on Optical.

What I meant was she always presses the back button multiple times when she wants to get home and then she goes back into the app and navigates back to where she was, its just a waste of time.

 

Also I meant that WiFi is used to transmit the signal but it is not the internet because the internet is the internet! It's like you wouldn't call the internet Ethernet because Ethernet is just a means to get access to the internet.

[soup]

Are they stupid?  They are working at PC World to make PC World money, this they did by getting your aunt to spend £200.  Reads like you facillitated them by sorting their mess.

To be honest I wouldn't expect someone who spends their day selling warranties on washing machimes and fridges to be very computer savvy.

Oh and i nearly forgot, a few months ago i made my aunty a pc,two weeks ago it broke and she didnt tell me about it, well it didnt break, she set up a password by accident. So she sends it to pcworld, they somehow pushed her into spending £200, they gave her new ram(because the tracer ballistics were "broken", i tested them and they worked. they then changed her power supply from the 400w xfx psu to some non 80+ brand called powercool or something like that. Lastly and what is the biggest mindfuck, they deleted malwarebytes pro because it was a "virus" and installed mcafee, fuck. So she called me because naturally the performance of her system got shit on big time and it would randomly shut down when she was making music or something of that nature. She calls me thank god because i charge less(none for family unless they abuse me) and she starts ranting about all the shit they have done to the system, luckily i have a few dell psus lying around (300w 80+ gold, cant go wrong) install that, reinstall the faster ram, which made a difference because pcworld doesnt understand that apus use ram speed a lot and that fucking 1600mhz is faster then 1333mhz,  jesus how can they be so stupid. To top that off she told me that the pcworld rep said that she shouldnt trust me because the system is more likely to break if i make it.

 

 

 

 

EDIT:- Wow!  What the .... happened to the formating?

[brownninja97]

I hate when someone calls me "hacker" or "programmer" only because I'm not bad in PCs in general.

a triple pin power cable feel out of a monitor once, half the class call me a hacker when i plug it back in.