Experiences with non-techies

[RedOwen1177]

Are there enough of them to make "mustang" one of the 25 most popular passwords ?

Would have thought Gandalf or Pikachu or... would be more popular

Maybe lots of people like horses?

[Ceatra]

IIRC there was a member on here who cut a PCIe x16 card to fit a PCIe x1 slot... and it worked...

it was DE_Cobra

[ATowYearOld]

Ok so the other day i went to order my custom gaming rig while i was waiting for the guy to print some paper work i overheard this conversation 

 

Woman "Hi i would like to cash out the warranty on my hard drive"

Service guy "ok whats is the problem"

W "I knocked over my hard drive and it stopped working"

SG "Ok do you have the warranty here?"

W "yes here you go"

SG "Ok so you have a blah blah SSD right?"

W "yes that is the model of my hard drive"

SG "mam this is an ssd not a hard drive"

W "their the same thing right?"

SG "not they are very different"

 

They kept on talking but 1 she thought an ssd was a hhd and also HOW THE %^!$ did she break a ssd by "knocking it over" srsly did she knock it over... the top of a freaking cliff 

[Dargenfire]

Ok so the other day i went to order my custom gaming rig while i was waiting for the guy to print some paper work i overheard this conversation 

 

Woman "Hi i would like to cash out the warranty on my hard drive"

Service guy "ok whats is the problem"

W "I knocked over my hard drive and it stopped working"

SG "Ok do you have the warranty here?"

W "yes here you go"

SG "Ok so you have a blah blah SSD right?"

W "yes that is the model of my hard drive"

SG "mam this is an ssd not a hard drive"

W "their the same thing right?"

SG "not they are very different"

 

They kept on talking but 1 she thought an ssd was a hhd and also HOW THE %^!$ did she break a ssd by "knocking it over" srsly did she knock it over... the top of a freaking cliff 

Why does that woman have an ssd, and how did she manage to break it? She's so ignorant SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO HAVE IT!

 

THINK OF ALL THE POOR GEEKS THAT COULD USE THAT SSD FOR THE GREATER GOOD!   </rant>

 

But seriously... How on EARTH do you break an ssd by bumping it?

And where does that ssd reside if you can bump it during normal operation of a computer?

[Speedbird]

Why does that woman have an ssd, and how did she manage to break it? She's so ignorant SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO HAVE IT!

 

THINK OF ALL THE POOR GEEKS THAT COULD USE THAT SSD FOR THE GREATER GOOD!   </rant>

 

But seriously... How on EARTH do you break an ssd by bumping it?

And where does that ssd reside if you can bump it during normal operation of a computer?

Everybody deserves an SSD, everybpdy deserves fast boot and loading times, nobody should be able to start their computer, grab a snack from the kitchen, and come back with the computer still booting!

 

SSDs FOR EVERYONE!

[Dargenfire]

Everybody deserves an SSD, everybpdy deserves fast boot and loading times, nobody should be able to start their computer, grab a snack from the kitchen, and come back with the computer still booting!

 

SSDs FOR EVERYONE!

Sounds good to me, but only if you're buying. 

[RedOwen1177]

Sounds good to me, but only if you're buying. 

I bought a cheap, 32GB SSD for my main OS. Never again.

[Dargenfire]

I bought a cheap, 32GB SSD for my main OS. Never again.

Why never again?

[NeatSquidYT]

Why never again?

seeing as 64GB will fill up in 5 secs, 32 will do worse.

[Jambls]

32 gigs if enough for a laptop for web browsing and the occasional game. Not a desktop install of an OS and all the programs that some with it.

[Guest]

Everybody deserves an SSD, everybpdy deserves fast boot and loading times, nobody should be able to start their computer, grab a snack from the kitchen, and come back with the computer still booting!

 

SSDs FOR EVERYONE!

will you get me a new mobo while you're at it? I only have sata 1 ports and I have used my only pci-e slot for a GPU. for a board with more pci-e slots or faster SATA you will need to get me new CPUs and some DDR3 or DDR4.

[DoubleUx2]

So I started with a College course in Business & IT Management.
Everyone in the class knows how computers work and what you should not do, but our teacher had a strange habit.

 

She double clicked everything ... ... EVERYTHING!!!

Even the frigging startm enu, and she was wondering why it didn't show up.

Every time  she double clicked something you are not supposed to click twice on the whole class clenched there but cheeks together and a vacuum was created in the room.

It was horrifying.

[EricH]

I had a client call me after servicing there computer, she wanted to know where her backup disk was, I told her that it was inside her computer. she then replies " How do I get it out", I informed her that she had to hit the eject button on the computer, it looks gray. She then tells me that she hit it multiple times and says "Nothing is happening, does the computer need to be turned on?".......

[WkdPaul]

seeing as 64GB will fill up in 5 secs, 32 will do worse.

I have a 60GB SSD in my desktop for my OS drive and still have 40GB left ... While not optimal, if you REALLY know what you're doing, a 32GB SSD is perfectly doable.

[Guest]

I have a 60GB SSD in my desktop for my OS drive and still have 40GB left ... While not optimal, if you REALLY know what you're doing, a 32GB SSD is perfectly doable.

for a web browsing machine or just as a boot drive you could even get away with 16gbs. well, until MS hides the 4gb file of windows 10 on your PC. (GRR)

 

On the brightside, my PC isn't compatible with windows 10 so it's all good for me.

[rainbrodash666]

Ehhhhh that's halarious... But why'd she buy an HDD instead of an SDD #3rdWorldProblems.

an ssd when a 2tb hdd was still $200? are you crazy. I didn't even buy an ssd until it was under a dollar per gb.

[DarkBlade2117]

Everybody deserves an SSD, everybpdy deserves fast boot and loading times, nobody should be able to start their computer, grab a snack from the kitchen, and come back with the computer still booting!

 

SSDs FOR EVERYONE!

My PC boots up in around 30 seconds with a Seagate Barracude. Windows 10

My laptop boots up in around 20 seconds with the HDD. Windows 8.1

[Dautin]

My PC boots up in around 30 seconds with a Seagate Barracude. Windows 10

My laptop boots up in around 20 seconds with the HDD. Windows 8.1

 

Boot times aren't the only reason to get an SSD.

[DarkBlade2117]

Boot times aren't the only reason to get an SSD.

So far I have no reason. My PC is already pretty snappy and games boot up good enough. If I want I could just throwmthe two HDDs I have no in Raid since they are the exact same HDD.

[Speedbird]

My PC boots up in around 30 seconds with a Seagate Barracude. Windows 10

My laptop boots up in around 20 seconds with the HDD. Windows 8.1

Hybrid Shutdown.... I bet both take a minute to boot after a reboot.

[Rafferz]

Ok so every thursday we have a school assembly where they talk about the theme of the week, and they always show two cheesy videos, one at teh start and one at the end, and they always leave youtube autoplay on, so when they go back to the presentation the next video also plays. Also in these assemblies teh always copy and paste the link from powerpoint into teh browser istead of making it into a hyper link, is it so hard? Another time there was a windows update and the teacher pressed update in 5 mins, this was at the start of the assembly...

[Fgtfv567]

Let me guess - her password was 1234567?

Nah, it's gotta be "pumpkinspicelatte"

[DimasRMDO]

My friend bought new laptop, it was so nice...

 

"Can you set everything for me? Antivirus, Microsoft Office, bla bla bla."

"Sure, why not? You need it."
I brought his laptop home and set everything for him, next day.

"Here you go, my advice, don't download sh*t"

"Okay, piece of cake."

Next day.

"Hey! I need help, my laptop has been behaving strangely."
"What? What did you do yesterday?"
"I don't know...."

 

His laptop got infected with malwares, I just left him for 1 day and this happened....

Hard to forget this <_<

[RockmanZero]

Fixing a problem on the pc, then the user spots something they have seen a million times and pretend it is a new issue and say that I have done that.......

I mean like why can't they be honest and just say it was always there and they want it gone, is it that hard?

[Fgtfv567]

Fixing a problem on the pc, then the user spots something they have seen a million times and pretend it is a new issue and say that I have done that.......

I mean like why can't they be honest and just say it was always there and they want it gone, is it that hard?

It's not easy for everyone to admit he/she watches hentai