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One time someone asked me to take a look at her laptop because she thought there was a virus on it. So I booted it up and watched as dozens of anti virus programs open up in the task bar. So I click on one, and it's window pops up on screen, and she exclaims, "Don't touch that! That's a virus!" *The biggest facepalm I've ever had* Then with the straghtest face I could muster, (which was almost crying with laughter) I said, "That's not a virus, thats your virus protection software..." Then she gets all mad at me and tells me that I don't know anything about computers, or what I'm talking about, or her laptop and all the "viruses" on it.... I was just like "wooooow" and walked away, then heard he go "Ooooh... it is anti virus program..." LOL was the funniest computer situation I've ever been in.

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One time someone asked me to take a look at her laptop because she thought there was a virus on it. So I booted it up and watched as dozens of anti virus programs open up in the task bar. So I click on one, and it's window pops up on screen, and she exclaims, "Don't touch that! That's a virus!" *The biggest facepalm I've ever had* Then with the straghtest face I could muster, (which was almost crying with laughter) I said, "That's not a virus, thats your virus protection software..." Then she gets all mad at me and tells me that I don't know anything about computers, or what I'm talking about, or her laptop and all the "viruses" on it.... I was just like "wooooow" and walked away, then heard he go "Ooooh... it is anti virus program..." LOL was the funniest computer situation I've ever been in.

 

I hate people who have their own truth with passion. :D

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My parents said that my 19" 1280x1024 Philips would still cost the same price as it did 7 years ago and would still he as good as a 21.5" IPS monitor. wtf

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My parents said that a prebuilt PC is better than one on parts, because a G3258 on a Z97 @ 4.8 ghz + 270 will not work and will not be better than an i5 650 + 750 Ti that fails the drivers twice a day. Also, they said a Full HD Intel is better than a BenQ, because it's a noname.

I used to run a i5 650 daily... I miss that little dualcore so much. Yeah... I abused the absolute shit out of it hammered at 100% load, but I kind of miss it. :(

 

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Not really a "non-techie" story, but still worth sharing:

 

I play on a TF2 comp team.  We were all in Mumble during a scrimmage, and I heard rather loud keystrokes from one person, and sounded familiar...

 

Me:  "Hey, I'm hearing your keyboard when you talk, are those Cherry MX Blues?"

Him:  "Yup."

Third person:  "How do you know what type of keyboard he's using?  That's creepy!"

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And then there's the person who thought this was a good idea...

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Where can I get a pair?

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Update on that Asus Jeans thing... They have a website: www.asusjeans.com/en I am now officially confused...

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Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Oh that must be the holding tray for AMD's FX-10550!! It's supposed to be as fast as an i7!!

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So I was just casually reading on Android version history and one of my freinds walks up and says "What the fuck is a kernel?"and Googles it. No he doesn't typer "kernel" into Google. He types "what the fuck is a kernel".

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Me:  Mom don't buy a new mac, you can save so much money with a Hackintosh, or just a PC.

Mom:  But I LIKE macs, they're so much more powerful.

Me:  Mom you can build such a better PC for the same price as a mac, you can even put mac OS on it.

Mom:  But mac os isn't meant to be on a PC, the apple geniuses won't cover it if something happens to it!

Me:  They don't know crap at the genius booth.  I can fix anything you come across

Mom:  No, you'll break it!

Me:  -__- I would've build this computer.  I would know it inside and out, do you really think I could break it so easily?

My life is consumed by CS:GO, even though I'm not exceptionally good at it.

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Mom:  Andrew get off that computer, you've been on it all day!

Me:  No, I've shoveled snow, done my homework, practiced piano, and walked the dog.  We have the day off school, what else do you want me to do?!

Mom:  I said GET OFF, or I'll rip that computer apart!

Me:  Fine, but you don't even know how to.

Mom:  Oh yes I do, I can get Dad to do it too (my dad still thinks the monitor is the computer).

Me:  Go ahead then.

Mom:  *Proceeds to unplug headphones*

Me:  -__-

My life is consumed by CS:GO, even though I'm not exceptionally good at it.

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In order of priority: GTX 970 Strix, 2 good 1080p monitors, i5 4690k, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 LGA 1150, a job
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Mom:  Andrew get off that computer, you've been on it all day!

Me:  No, I've shoveled snow, done my homework, practiced piano, and walked the dog.  We have the day off school, what else do you want me to do?!

Mom:  I said GET OFF, or I'll rip that computer apart!

Me:  Fine, but you don't even know how to.

Mom:  Oh yes I do, I can get Dad to do it too (my dad still thinks the monitor is the computer).

Me:  Go ahead then.

Mom:  *Proceeds to unplug headphones*

Me:  -__-

 

Wow. 6 min delay between that double post! Your connection must have went all to shit.

 

Edit: Whoops. Format looked that same! Thought it was a re post lol

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So I was in the computer lab at school today during science.  The computers were off, so we turned them on.  The girl next to me was mashing her mouse.  I told her that doing that does nothing, and she is just wasting energy.  She responded saying that mashing the buttons on the mouse will make it boot faster.  She refused to accept the fact that doing that does nothing  -_-

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Wow. 6 min delay between that double post! Your connection must have went all to shit.

 

Edit: Whoops. Format looked that same! Thought it was a re post lol

Yeah, sorry about that.  I was writing a story and thought of another one halfway through.

My life is consumed by CS:GO, even though I'm not exceptionally good at it.

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In order of priority: GTX 970 Strix, 2 good 1080p monitors, i5 4690k, MSI Z97 Gaming 5 LGA 1150, a job
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So I was in the computer lab at school today during science.  The computers were off, so we turned them on.  The girl next to me was mashing her mouse.  I told her that doing that does nothing, and she is just wasting energy.  She responded saying that mashing the buttons on the mouse will make it boot faster.  She refused to accept the fact that doing that does nothing  -_-

 

I used to do that when I was still a kid...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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