Experiences with non-techies

[NumLock21]

just a post for all of us

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Yes help them, but the less they know the better for them, and the better for you.

[mrswagbhinav]

Yes help them, but the less they know the better for them, and the better for you.

See my parents are both in IT but don't know shit about hardware. So half the time I'm manipulating them for my personal gain

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Actually, any laptop that isn't classified as ultraportable, subnotebook or netbook has upgradeable components. And believe it or not, the most hated laptop manufacturer on this forum (Apple HP) is makes easily upgradeable business-grade laptops. And, if you're brave enough and are sure that the CPU isn't soldered in, you can swap the CPU of a laptop.

Are school laptops are HP's. they have 2012 (They have AWFUL NAMING SCHEMES) "probooks". They have ATI HD 4250M. WTF. AND IT HAS A DUAL CORE ATHLON. WTF

[Darkman]

See my parents are both in IT but don't know shit about hardware. So half the time I'm manipulating them for my personal gain

You would be surprised how many people in software for IT don't know anything about hardware... As long as they can write code and develop stuff without an hiccups or issues, they don't really mind.. People like me who know hardware know programs for coding, but don't really know how to.

[FuzzyYellow]

@Yummy_Rifle_107 @Darkman @jayctech

 

So we all do that huh ?

i did it too, but i ended up panicking, realizing it was the switch, flicking the switch, trying the power button again, and the system power's on and off. ended up having to RMA the PSU...

[Vivilacqua1]

not quiet the funniest story, but here I go:

I was building a rig for one of my friends in a nzxt h440, after finishing everything up, it posts perfectly fine and everythings works properly.

The next day he calls me that the h440 logo led was not working. He even asked if he should rma the case.

I told him that before he does it, I would take a look at it. Here comes the embarrassing part: i saw it didn't work (worked the day before) and opened up the case. I followed the cable leading away from the led, only to see that some part of this cable managment seems strange, after some more looking at the cable, i realize that there is a button on the back of the case to turn the led on or off.

I was baffled that i didn't recognize it on the spot. After my discovery, i informed my friend about the button. His excat answer: "oh, that button, that doesn't do anything, yesterday i was curious what it would do if i'd pusch it". Well turns out his computer wasn't even on when he pushed it, and upon starting the rig up, the leds wouldn't work.

I just had to facepalm, at him, not realizing what the button he pushed was for, and at me for taking so long to "fix" the problem, only to find out that there is a button.

one day when I first got my H-440 I accidentally pushed the button all the way through, and when i came back the next time i forgot and was like "wasn't there supposed to be a light button there?"

[nekomata]

My friend's playing GTA at my place, and it seems rather slow. I wasn't paying attention cause I was doing something else. I checked the settings and they were already on the lowest. It should run well, considering that it's fine when I play it. When I checked task manager, there were 6 GTA Vs running. I was like WTF!?! turns out he double clicked the shortcut multiple times cause it wasn't loading within the first 1 nanosecond. I feel scared to leave him on his own.

 

 

It seems like I'm posting here multiple times. You can say that I'm faking things, but it's also possible that there are idiots around me that can't survive without me helping them all the time.

 

Also, my friend tried to run Autocad 2016 on a laptop with 2 GB of RAM and was complaining about how slow it is. When I asked why she bought it, she said that it was the cheapest laptop around and didn't bother with the specs. Also, my department gave out laptops to those that can't afford it. When I looked at the specs, it was horrendous. I'm in an engineering college, they should know better! Wait, the bureaucracy is being held by old hags that can't know better. 

[tomison25]

Was in my final IT class in high school when my teacher was asking for topics to revise. The guy sat next to me said 'Computer Hardware'.

 

Fair Enough.

 

My teacher asks what item on our desks is the computer. Everyone points at the monitor.

He asks where the CPU is, people were pointing everywhere apart from the PC.

 

Why is it when we get more technologically advanced, people get more stupid about it?

[Ceatra]

Was in my final IT class in high school when my teacher was asking for topics to revise. The guy sat next to me said 'Computer Hardware'.

 

Fair Enough.

 

My teacher asks what item on our desks is the computer. Everyone points at the monitor.

He ask where the CPU is, people were pointing everywhere apart from the PC.

 

Why is it when we get more technologically advanced, people get more stupid about it.

 

[RedOwen1177]

Was in my final IT class in high school when my teacher was asking for topics to revise. The guy sat next to me said 'Computer Hardware'.

 

Fair Enough.

 

My teacher asks what item on our desks is the computer. Everyone points at the monitor.

He asks where the CPU is, people were pointing everywhere apart from the PC.

 

Why is it when we get more technologically advanced, people get more stupid about it?

Because as we become more dependent on it, we don't care about it as much. It just works, and when it doesn't work, there is someone who can make it work. Case in point, computers. The members of this forum can name every part of a computer, while people on /r/jokes might not be able to. They just rely on them to post their horrible jokes.

[Cactu]

Me: *on this very thread*

Friend: ohh, Linus tech tips eh?

Me: yeah what about it

Friend: so is that linus like the guy who invented Linux?

Me: palmface

[TheMcSame]

Remember that guy I posted about yesterday? Well, he says that Apple owns the world.

[Darkman]

Was in my final IT class in high school when my teacher was asking for topics to revise. The guy sat next to me said 'Computer Hardware'.

 

Fair Enough.

 

My teacher asks what item on our desks is the computer. Everyone points at the monitor.

He asks where the CPU is, people were pointing everywhere apart from the PC.

 

Why is it when we get more technologically advanced, people get more stupid about it?

Still don't understand why people once tech became more known quit fixing shit and started throwing it out... Now they complain about waste... Gee I wonder why.

[waggythegeek]

Me: *on this very thread*

Friend: ohh, Linus tech tips eh?

Me: yeah what about it

Friend: so is that linus like the guy who invented Linux?

Me: palmface

My dad said the same.

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Was in my final IT class in high school when my teacher was asking for topics to revise. The guy sat next to me said 'Computer Hardware'.

 

Fair Enough.

 

My teacher asks what item on our desks is the computer. Everyone points at the monitor.

He asks where the CPU is, people were pointing everywhere apart from the PC.

 

Why is it when we get more technologically advanced, people get more stupid about it?

The more advanced, the more idiot proofing that has to be done. My mom calls my PC hard drive, and then calls my monitor, display thing. And my Nexus 7 2013, iPad. IT has been a good, well paying career. If your just an ass that think he/she knows everything, be prepared to get fired and sued when your boss asks you to make a private NAS cloud.

[jayctech]

Don't know if this technically counts, but I went to the optician a couple of weeks ago... Their computers are still running XP..

[RedOwen1177]

Don't know if this technically counts, but I went to the optician a couple of weeks ago... Their computers are still running XP..

Went to a laser tag place yesterday... The computers had XP, and the animation was very choppy.

[jayctech]

I may have posted this already but it popped into my mind just now and felt like sharing.

 

My boss told one of our clients that the reason (at that moment) the internet was slow because someone was using most of the bandwidth.

 

Client then said "but we should be able to use as much internet as we want".

 

Sometimes I wonder where people get these ideas from.

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

I'm just going to leave this here...

 

 

and then the best one of all (this guy wasn't being sarcastic, he was in an argument with someone else when he brought this up)

 

I'd love to spend 10 minutes as those guys, it must be so wonderful being so dumb.

[Sauron]

So my friend complained about how stupid his friend (not me) is for buying a 13" rMBP. Then he says that all Apple products are crap. I ask him why he think so. He says because they just are. I ask him why has no such hate agains Google or Microsoft. He says because he hasn't had any such problems with them, and that his problem with Apple is because it exists. I ask him why isn't that a problem with Google or MS. He says because it just isn't.

 

people like this are even worse than those who just buy apple because they don't know any better... they just convince people that apple bashing is always pointless and attention seeking.

[BURNINGJUNK]

People talking about connecting to "Wi-Fi" but mean cellular data. FACE-KEYBOARD wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww oops I landed on the w key.

[waggythegeek]

People talking about connecting to "Wi-Fi" but mean cellular data. FACE-KEYBOARD wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww oops I landed on the w key.

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT oops landed on the shit key...

[nekomata]

This is what I get for becoming the "IT guy" in my department

 

 

AND another one for the "why the fuck are this people even allowed to get their hands on a computer"

 

I might become a regular here

 

My friend has a laptop for me to fix. She wanted me to reinstal windows cause she thought there was some urgent problems. When I first turned it on, I am greeted by the sound of those thermal printers that prints on papers with perforated sides. I'm not even exaggerating. I'm thinking of how badly this girl must've treated her laptop or maybe how poor she was that she can't afford a new one...........wait, isn't that an ipad and an iphone that she has?

 

And so, after painfully booting into the desktop, I see nothing wrong with it. The laptop boots relatively quickly, it was rather responsive, and there wasn't too much clutter. When I asked her what the problem was, she said that I should see it on the bottom right corner of the screen. If you guess "Windows activation", get yourself a cookie. Turns out she wanted me to reinstal her windows just for that little bitty thing. I told her that it doesn't require a reinstal and that everything is fine and could be solved in other ways, but she insisted. And so here I am typing away while windows is "Expanding Windows files (4%)" thinking, "Maybe I should move and start anew, keeping my savvyness to myself

[BSpendlove]

Colleague beside me put the customer on mute and started laughing.

 

Customer is filling out security questions and as my colleague has RC'ed on her computer, she asks:

 

"Can you see my security questions?" and he replies no, because he had RC minimized. 

 

He opens it back up...

 

Question 1: My favorite position

Answer 1: Doggy

 

LOL, what a great security question

[RedOwen1177]

Colleague beside me put the customer on mute and started laughing.

Customer is filling out security questions and as my colleague has RC'ed on her computer, she asks:

"Can you see my security questions?" and he replies no, because he had RC minimized.

He opens it back up...

Question 1: My favorite position

Answer 1: Doggy

LOL, what a great security question

FTFY, and what a question. Mine are what's your cat's name and stuff like that.