Experiences with non-techies

[Fgtfv567]

My best friend said that windows sucks because it does not delete your files. He just pressed the delete and sent them to recycle bin. *facepalm*

Year ago my dsi xl broke and i went back to the store. When i said that my dsi broke the lady pushed rubber pads/dots under the dsi and said: did you press these buttons?

Sorry for my bad english im from estonia (pointless country who invented skype ) and i am 14 and i learned my english from youtube

Your English is actually quite good

[Fgtfv567]

Yes, because Dell is a well known OS obviously...

I heard it's better than. Linux or windows

[Dragoneye3769]

I told my friend that downloadmoreram.com is a joke but he didn't believe me. He said that he had already downloaded 16GB of RAM and his computer is so fast now! What an idiot!

[Dragoneye3769]

Your English is actually quite good

Thank You, kind Sir!

[Ruostunut kokis]

Yea dude I have watched all of linus' build guides and a few on newegg's channel and my first build booted up properly and it works! So thanks linus and newegg!

 

Your English is actually quite good

 

I heard it's better than. Linux or windows

 

Did you know, you can quote all of the posts you want to quote in one post of yours. No need for triple posting. Just for you to know.

[frostin1990]

I told my friend that downloadmoreram.com is a joke but he didn't believe me. He said that he had already downloaded 16GB of RAM and his computer is so fast now! What an idiot!

Must be one of those special kinds of fools just like some console gamers who think with each update their exbawkz is getting faster and faster. "woohoo downloaded a gtx780 love my exbawks"

[Guest andyysplash]

I don't think I need to say much about this picture except that DocM built his own rig and is now saying this.

[Guest andyysplash]

That said sponsorship in the YT industry is important

[Fate]

My mom thinks everything on a computer is a hard drive. Whenever I used to say my games were lagging she told me to get a new hard drive

[CtW]

I don't think I need to say much about this picture except that DocM built his own rig and is now saying this.

-snip-

They would probably give him a laptop or an x51 for living room use. if I were to be offered a sponsorship by Alienware, I'd take it.

[Guest andyysplash]

They would probably give him a laptop or an x51 for living room use. if I were to be offered a sponsorship by Alienware, I'd take it.

 

I'm not denying that if it's a good deal that doesn't require constant "oh I use Alienware this and Alienware that and it's the best and I love it because it makes me a better gamer" every video then I would take it as Youtube's a risky career, but it's still buying into overpriced stuff with flashy lights.

[FullNuclearBreakfast]

• When my mum resets the router because the internet is being slow (I'll be honest, that did fix it, if only because it meant my sister gave up on watching endless makeup videos and went to sleep)
• When my step-dad buys things, such as our internet, his computer, his Powerline adaptors, etc. etc. because they're "the cheapest one"
• When my mum is confused as to why her document isn't printing - "You haven't plugged the printer into your laptop, Mum" "Oh. I thought it was Bluetooth" (wtf Bluetooth printers aren't even a thing). Considering we've had this printer for several years, and it's never been Bluetooth, I'm not entirely sure what she was thinking. I think she's losing her mind.
• When my Mum buys a Mac because she "is old and knows how to use Macs" (that's actually what she said)
• When the guy in PC World, when told we don't want MS Office and can just use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, claims they aren't compatible with Windows 8.
• When all of my family use Apple products religiously
• When my dad thinks "Macs never go wrong"
• When my dad tries to justify not being able to upgrade or repair Macs - "it means Apple can control what hardware people use; it just works"
• When my mum gets angry at me for not knowing why our internet is down
• When my mum gets angry at me for the internet going slowly, even though I only have a few Chrome tabs open
• When my parents claim my games break the computer (actually they just run like shit because they still haven't bothered to upgrade this 7 year old piece of junk)
• When my dad claims "Steam is badly optimised" because his old MacBook is so terrible Steam crashes when you close it - I'm pretty sure Valve know what they're doing, Dad
• When my sister thinks a standard size mousepad is "huge"
• When my family think I'm weird for wanting to put my new computer (should be building Aug-Sep) on my desk instead of on the floor
• When my friend (JS) thinks overclocking has absolutely no performance benefits and will cause his computer to melt.
• When JS thinks that making a USB boot drive is "moronic"
• When JS thinks iOS is better than Android but thinks Ubuntu is the best OS
• When people at school try to claim consoles are somehow better than PC

MY LIFE IS TERRIBLE

NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS ME

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Oh oh oh I got it! My neighbor up the street was in middle school and was on the computer. He accidentally opened up Windows Media Player which shows the 3 songs that come stock with W7 (Sleep Away, Kalimba, some othe classical song). His teacher comes along and accuses him of pirating songs in school. He went to the principal's office and his mother told the principal that those were the songs that came with Windows 7.

 

*I forget whether I posted this earlier*

[colonel_mortis]

 

• When my mum resets the router because the internet is being slow (I'll be honest, that did fix it, if only because it meant my sister gave up on watching endless makeup videos and went to sleep) This works surprisingly often, although obviously you should try to see whether the problem is somewhere else before doing that
• When my step-dad buys things, such as our internet, his computer, his Powerline adaptors, etc. etc. because they're "the cheapest one"
• When my mum is confused as to why her document isn't printing - "You haven't plugged the printer into your laptop, Mum" "Oh. I thought it was Bluetooth" (wtf Bluetooth printers aren't even a thing). Considering we've had this printer for several years, and it's never been Bluetooth, I'm not entirely sure what she was thinking. I think she's losing her mind.
• When my Mum buys a Mac because she "is old and knows how to use Macs" (that's actually what she said) Good for her - if she can use a mac then she has every right to use it
• When the guy in PC World, when told we don't want MS Office and can just use OpenOffice or LibreOffice, claims they aren't compatible with Windows 8.
• When all of my family use Apple products religiously
• When my dad thinks "Macs never go wrong"
• When my dad tries to justify not being able to upgrade or repair Macs - "it means Apple can control what hardware people use; it just works" Good point. More relevant to iOS, but still a valid point on OSX.
• When my mum gets angry at me for not knowing why our internet is down
• When my mum gets angry at me for the internet going slowly, even though I only have a few Chrome tabs open
• When my parents claim my games break the computer (actually they just run like shit because they still haven't bothered to upgrade this 7 year old piece of junk)
• When my dad claims "Steam is badly optimised" because his old MacBook is so terrible Steam crashes when you close it - I'm pretty sure Valve know what they're doing, Dad Steam really isn't the best written program ever, and could really use some work. But a lot of people love Valve too much to recognise their shortcomings
• When my sister thinks a standard size mousepad is "huge"
• When my family think I'm weird for wanting to put my new computer (should be building Aug-Sep) on my desk instead of on the floor
• When my friend (JS) thinks overclocking has absolutely no performance benefits and will cause his computer to melt.
• When JS thinks that making a USB boot drive is "moronic"
• When JS thinks iOS is better than Android but thinks Ubuntu is the best OS And he is entitled to that opinion. There's nothing particularly wrong with iOS, and many people prefer it. If he likes Linux, let him. Sure, it's an unusual combination, but good for him.
• When people at school try to claim consoles are somehow better than PC

MY LIFE IS TERRIBLE

NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS ME

 

[Darkman]

 

• When my mum gets angry at me for not knowing why our internet is down
• When my mum gets angry at me for the internet going slowly, even though I only have a few Chrome tabs open

MY LIFE IS TERRIBLE

NO-ONE UNDERSTANDS ME

The first one, we went from about .5Mb/s down to 3 Mb/s down with it at about 1.00Mb/s with four computers on. My dad thinks the old internet - slower one of course - is much faster and could handle 10 computers watching 1080p videos... It has issues buffering music over Spotify, and I don't want to go back to that. Especially with downloads at a peak of 55Mb/s. We're probably going to end up back to the crappy 3x more expensive internet until he realizes how much slower it actually is.

And the second one, idle tabs in Web Browsers don't use any internet as long as they're completely loaded.

[ruitti99]

The guy doesn't even know what he wants, that was awful, and boring.

Mini ITX MOBO in a ATX case...

[FullNuclearBreakfast]

And the second one, idle tabs in Web Browsers don't use any internet as long as they're completely loaded.

Exactly! I wasn't watching a video or livestream, and I wasn't downloading a file. Just a handful of static tabs, and somehow it's my fault

 

 

 

• When my mum resets the router because the internet is being slow (I'll be honest, that did fix it, if only because it meant my sister gave up on watching endless makeup videos and went to sleep) This works surprisingly often, although obviously you should try to see whether the problem is somewhere else before doing that. I didn't know that. With our last router the Wi-Fi would cut out several times a day, and you'd have to reset it to fix it - I guess this is pretty valid then.
• When my Mum buys a Mac because she "is old and knows how to use Macs" (that's actually what she said) Good for her - if she can use a mac then she has every right to use it. It's not a bad thing, I just thought her reasoning was amusing
• When my dad tries to justify not being able to upgrade or repair Macs - "it means Apple can control what hardware people use; it just works" Good point. More relevant to iOS, but still a valid point on OSX. It's a legit point, but it still annoys me somewhat, especially when I look at iFixIt videos, and replacing the hard drive in our iMac is the most convoluted thing in the world.
• When my dad claims "Steam is badly optimised" because his old MacBook is so terrible Steam crashes when you close it - I'm pretty sure Valve know what they're doing, Dad Steam really isn't the best written program ever, and could really use some work. But a lot of people love Valve too much to recognise their shortcomings. But GabeN! I must admit I've never used Steam on anything else, so for all I know it might be exactly like this. But hey, I guess I'm wrong about a lot of things...
• When JS thinks iOS is better than Android but thinks Ubuntu is the best OS And he is entitled to that opinion. There's nothing particularly wrong with iOS, and many people prefer it. If he likes Linux, let him. Sure, it's an unusual combination, but good for him. I was joking about iOS vs Android - I'm just a bit of an Android fanboi (for my sins). And I just thought it was slightly ironic that he prefers the controlled, locked-down mobile OS, but then likes the open-source, moddable nature of Linux

 

[A Bubble]

So today we were joking to someone about them not knowing anything about tech. And so they used the argument that we don't know anything about football, but we were trying to say that football doesn't matter, you use technology every single day of your life yet you don't know anything about it. Anyway, later on in the conversation I bring up a picture of a motherboard and I mention a processor, and this is the golden bit, he goes "I just don't get it, like; how does a processor know all of the internet?".

[Guest andyysplash]

So today we were joking to someone about them not knowing anything about tech. And so they used the argument that we don't know anything about football, but we were trying to say that football doesn't matter, you use technology every single day of your life yet you don't know anything about it. Anyway, later on in the conversation I bring up a picture of a motherboard and I mention a processor, and this is the golden bit, he goes "I just don't get it, like; how does a processor know all of the internet?".

 

That is beautiful. That said, most people I know (me included partly because it's funny and partly because it's easier to explain) personify computers. You know, the sort of "oh it's being a dick" or "it won't load because it doesn't like you" etc. Oh, and for some people football is in their everyday life This is where you need to be well-versed in a few sports along with technology and being a mechanic. Then they've got nothing to hold you on!

[Zombater]

Another conversation with Mr Racist Bigot Idiot.
 

 
Idiot: Hi.
 
Me: I'm getting really tired of you talking to me when I'm trying to do work. What?
 
Idiot: I need help, [word I can't say here].
 
Me: Since you called me that, no. Please stop.
 
Idiot: Just help me! What is RAM?
 
Me: Random Access Memory.
 
Idiot: No it isn't. You're messing with me.
 
Me: No I'm not. It's short-term storage. Just write RAM.
 
Idiot: [word I can't say here] you. Tell me the real answer, [another word I can't say here].
 
Me: 

 
Idiot: [word I can't say here] off, [another word I can't say here].
 
Me: Okay. If RAM doesn't stand for Random Access Memory, what does it stand for?
 
Idiot: It can't.
 
Me: wut
 
Idiot: It has "Random" in it. That doesn't sound "techie" enough.
 
I kid you not, no exaggeration, that is precisely what he said.
 

 
Another one:
 

 
Idiot #2: Hi.
 
Me: Well, hi.
 
Idiot #2: I want a Mac.
 
Me: Okay. For what?
 
Idiot #2: Video editing, Photo editing and games.
 
Me: (surprised somebody has bought a Mac for it's intended purpose, except games but still) Cool! In what?
 
Idiot #2: Windows movie maker and Paint.
 
Me: "..."
 
Idiot #2: Oh, and can the MacBook air run Crysis?
 
Me: "..."
 
Me: "..."
 
Me: "..."
 

 

All in all, I have a confession to make: I'm not really that "techie". I just hang out on this forum because you guys are pretty cool unlike the football fanboys in my grades that cry over Flappy bird.

[soup]

 

 

• (wtf Bluetooth printers aren't even a thing).

 

'Course they are.

http://all-in-one-printers.findthebest.com/d/c/Bluetooth  I have nothing to do with this site I merely 'Googled' "printer bluetooth"

or am I missing something (not unheard of).

[soup]

Is the site 'being a dick' for everybody?

[Sauron]

Is the site 'being a dick' for everybody?

 

It's probably because a lot of people are online at the moment, should fix itself soon

[Mao_Zedong]

I heard it's better than. Linux or windows

dell os is so great! It is often shortened to DOS

[FullNuclearBreakfast]

'Course they are.

http://all-in-one-printers.findthebest.com/d/c/Bluetooth  I have nothing to do with this site I merely 'Googled' "printer bluetooth"

or am I missing something (not unheard of).

Great. I'm wrong again. It's not a great day for me, is it? Still, we've never owned a wireless printer (I assumed these always connect over your network btw), so I'm still not sure why she thought it was Bluetooth.

 

Is the site 'being a dick' for everybody?

No, that's just me. Being a dick.