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My mom refuses to allow me to install AdBlock even though I constantly tell her that the site she watches her Asian dramas is riddled with ads and viruses, her laptop has an Ivy Bridge i7 for watching videos on an ad-riddled site, and email. While I try to edit videos on a Celeron. Fuck my life.

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I got the idea off of Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' books with all the VFD stuff (Verbal Fridge Dialogue, Very Fancy Doilies, Volunteer Fire Department etc).

 

And never ever forget the Vinegar Flavored Donuts.

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And never ever forget the Vinegar Flavored Donuts.

u w0t m8

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It Pains me when i see my friends cringing for Clash of Clans hack and other facebook games hack. Ive told them many times that theyre mostly server-sided, explained to the through Non-Techie language but still... Recently my tech savvy friend #2, has some CoC hacks, i told them not to believe it but they insisted. well i tried everything to stop them from giving their phones away. yes, they did gave their phone to Tech Savvy Friend #2... Till now it has not been returned, reason? "The Hack is hard to get it downloading and it only works with certain phones". Believe it or not Tech Savvy Friend #2 dont have any Android or iOS. Oh and the indonesian government curriculum implemented that we go to school in saturday and removed English and IT lessons.

 

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My brother just tried to say you can get this adapter from Kmart or Walmart... http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Internal-Adapter-G11303050-RT/dp/B0098FSJ92

What kind of Grocery store sells computer parts?

 

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My brother just tried to say you can get this adapter from Kmart or Walmart... http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Internal-Adapter-G11303050-RT/dp/B0098FSJ92

What kind of Grocery store sells computer parts?

I've seen some on Walmart's website.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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I've seen some on Walmart's website.

He meant actually going to the store and checking... Our Walmart has like nothing..

 

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He meant actually going to the store and checking... Our Walmart has like nothing..

Oh. In that case, -_-

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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My brother just tried to say you can get this adapter from Kmart or Walmart... http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Tek-Internal-Adapter-G11303050-RT/dp/B0098FSJ92

What kind of Grocery store sells computer parts?

 

Lots of them. (depending on what you mean)

Small(ish) supermarket (mom and pop store, kwikEmart et all type for our leftpondian cousins) near where my mum lived was mainly a bread/milk type store with couple of shelfs of tins of soup/veg etc also had various cables (USB to miniUSB etc) on sale. and LOTS (strangely) of mobile phone cases.

 

Didn't have MBs, processors, graphics cards etc if that is what you meant by "computer parts".

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Lots of them. (depending on what you mean)

Small(ish) supermarket (mom and pop store, kwikEmart et all type for our leftpondian cousins) near where my mum lived was mainly a bread/milk type store with couple of shelfs of tins of soup/veg etc also had various cables (USB to miniUSB etc) on sale. and LOTS (strangely) of mobile phone cases.

 

Didn't have MBs, processors, graphics cards etc if that is what you meant by "computer parts".

I meant GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, and/or adapters (Molex adapter for an example)

 

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Another one. Has probably been posted before, but here we go.

 

Insert Disk 1.

Ok *inserts disk 1*

Insert Disk 2.

Ok *inserts disk 2*

Insert Disk 3*

"I can't fit the third one in here!" 

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Another one. Has probably been posted before, but here we go.

 

Insert Disk 1.

Ok *inserts disk 1*

Insert Disk 2.

Ok *inserts disk 2*

Insert Disk 3*

"I can't fit the third one in here!" 

I don't understand.... Did you by any chance mean insert disk 1 at the end? Since otherwise it doesn't make sense.

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A guy in chat claimed to be "very skilled with PC's" After he claimed this, this is what he said: 

 

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one of our work pcs had a noisy 120mm fan that needed to be replaced.

I gave the fan to the tech to go get a new one and he came back with 1 x 140mm fan and 1x 92mm fan :blink: I mean come on I gave you the fan to match it up.

then my bosses reply was must be an old fan type might just buy a whole new pc.

 

they never listen to me its like talking to brick walls

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I don't understand.... Did you by any chance mean insert disk 1 at the end? Since otherwise it doesn't make sense.

The non-techie would mash multiple floppy disks into the drive. He/she would fit one below the first one, but the third one wouldn't fit.

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The non-techie would mash multiple floppy disks into the drive. He/she would fit one below the first one, but the third one wouldn't fit.

Oh! I get it. That makes sense. Yet again it's my fault for misreading the post :D

 

 

 

one of our work pcs had a noisy 120mm fan that needed to be replaced.

I gave the fan to the tech to go get a new one and he came back with 1 x 140mm fan and 1x 92mm fan :blink: I mean come on I gave you the fan to match it up.

then my bosses reply was must be an old fan type might just buy a whole new pc.

 

they never listen to me its like talking to brick walls

Then they won't get hurt when they get punched :P

Seriously though how do you manage to survive being around someone that is meant to be a techie yet is such an idiot...

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one of our work pcs had a noisy 120mm fan that needed to be replaced.

I gave the fan to the tech to go get a new one and he came back with 1 x 140mm fan and 1x 92mm fan :blink: I mean come on I gave you the fan to match it up.

then my bosses reply was must be an old fan type might just buy a whole new pc.

 

they never listen to me its like talking to brick walls

 

"Must be an old fan type"

 

120mm fans are /the/ most common fans in existence for chassis fans and cpu coolers. Wow..I fail to grasp how a complete idiot can be in charge of anything to earn the title of "boss" without having some sort of grasp of anything...I guess the same goes for the "tech". Come on, even a kindergarten student could tell the basic differences between sizes and would be able to do a simple match game.

 

 

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"Must be an old fan type"

120mm fans are /the/ most common fans in existence for chassis fans and cpu coolers. Wow..I fail to grasp how a complete idiot can be in charge of anything to earn the title of "boss" without having some sort of grasp of anything...I guess the same goes for the "tech". Come on, even a kindergarten student could tell the basic differences between sizes and would be able to do a simple match game.

Im fairly sure he is actually retarded and not just saying that ive asked people if he is mentally retarded and I get the answer "im not sure"

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In a recent movie (not sure which one) a guy says he pulled the hard drive from the computer and he's standing there holding an optical disc drive.

 

Hard drives have been around as long as VCR's. Shouldn't people understand wtf a hard drive is and what it does by now?! :angry:

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Im fairly sure he is actually retarded and not just saying that ive asked people if he is mentally retarded and I get the answer "im not sure"

THEN HOW THE FRACK IS HE THE BOSS??

 

A guy in chat claimed to be "very skilled with PC's" After he claimed this, this is what he said: 

Wasting his money playing Minecraft, eh?

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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Wasting his money playing Minecraft, eh?

Yup haha, And, He said he got over 2000 FPS in a server with his 760. How about that. 

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Yup haha, And, He said he got over 2000 FPS in a server with his 760. How about that. 

What a fag.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.

Haha legit lol'd

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