Experiences with non-techies

[Tsuki]

 maybe like 6inches (12-15cm) that I can swallow.

thats pretty impressive

 

_{totally not out of context}

[AstrophysicalComputing]

You can't simply plug a plug that runs from the PSU to a plug that also comes from the PSU . I just enjoy shocking myself trying

[SansVarnic]

thats pretty impressive

 

_{totally not out of context}

Oh wow I did not see that when I typed it up, just umm mehhhh . . . . . . .    :rolleyes:

[soup]

 just buy new products..

 

Just?  New products usually require money.

[LukeTim]

Somebody once told me about a colleague of theirs who became very anxious when they accidentally deleted their desktop Internet Explorer shortcut. They believed they had "deleted the internet".

[Tmt97]

Here's a little story, that I was just reliving in another thread. So about 4 years ago, someone buys me a MacBook pro. It served me well at the time, and about a year ago I was starting to feel the need for an upgrade. Not a video card because I didn't do as much gaming, but just a bit more ram because I only had 4 gigs and I like to leave a lot of tabs and applications open and I needed the multitasking. So I casually mention to the person who bought it for me that I'm thinking of taking the back off to take a look inside and see if it's easily upgradeable.

Me: -

Her: *

*No! You will break it! Then how are you going to replace it?

-I'm just taking the back off...

*If you want to upgrade, you need to call a professional like the geek squad.

-They charge $100 to install ram, that's almost as much as it costs to buy the ram itself. It just pops in like a Lego, I can do it.

*No... Because reasons...

-Okay, im at least going to try to dual boot Lubutnu on it to make it run a bit faster.

*Whats Lubutnu? Is that the Linux thing? I hear hackers use that, your gonna go to jail!

-Linux is just an open source OS.

*Whats an OS?

-Fuck it, I give up.

[DigitalHermit]

-snip-

-Fuck it, I give up.

Probably the best course of action to avoid any unnecessary headaches...

[Ivelin__]

If I were you, I would just open it infront of her.

(to Tmt97)

[Guest]

If I were you, I would just open it infront of her.

(to Tmt97)

if you do @[username] it will tag a user - like this - @Tmt97

[DigitalHermit]

If I were you, I would just open it infront of her.

(to Tmt97)

@[member=""]

[Ivelin__]

Sorry, didn't know about that.

[Ivelin__]

My friend thinks his gt 630(2gb gddr3) is better than my gt 640(1gb gddr5), or atleast the difference is very small.

Yea, because mine has 70 fps in war thunder and his-40.

[TopWargamer]

I guess this would go here. My mom thought that Final Fantasy was a sports game series.

[TheRandomness]

My favorite part is the one single review which is either really good satire, or just someone who is really misinformed that thinks this cable is legitimately better than the competition.

That link.

Q: Is it true that plugging this into my TV creates a portal to another dimension? A: Not only it is true, but I am also answering from 350 years in the future. I cannot reveal anything for fear of interfering with the space-time continuum.

[13CA350]

Today at school, my instructor had all 100 (yes, 100) students hit the school's NAS at once. We essentially ddosed our selves and took it down lol

 

She was so annoyed and wouldn't believe anyone she just goes "nah we couldn't have overloaded it"

[Fgtfv567]

My friend thinks his gt 630(2gb gddr3) is better than my gt 640(1gb gddr5), or atleast the difference is very small.

Yea, because mine has 70 fps in war thunder and his-40.

Again, one GB of GDDR5 is much preferable to 4 GB of DDR3 on GPUs

 

Today at school, my instructor had all 100 (yes, 100) students hit the school's NAS at once. We essentially ddosed our selves and took it down lol

 

She was so annoyed and wouldn't believe anyone she just goes "nah we couldn't have overloaded it"

Oh I see the problem. Yep, all 100 students accessing the NAS overpowered the little hamster inside and it had a heart attack...

Do some research kids, don't kill the hamster powering your computers by overworking it. 

[Tmt97]

Again, one GB of GDDR5 is much preferable to 4 GB of DDR3 on GPUs

 

Oh I see the problem. Yep, all 100 students accessing the NAS overpowered the little hamster inside and it had a heart attack...

Do some research kids, don't kill the hamster powering your computers by overworking it. 

I wonder if someone could actually make a hamster powering a computer. It could be like a case mod where there's a hamster wheel mounted somewhere(5.25" bay? nothing else to put there...), and it could generate supplemental power for the PSU. Obviously you would still need wall power, as one hamster isn't enough on its own, but is this theoretically possible?

[Fgtfv567]

I wonder if someone could actually make a hamster powering a computer. It could be like a case mod where there's a hamster wheel mounted somewhere(5.25" bay? nothing else to put there...), and it could generate supplemental power for the PSU. Obviously you would still need wall power, as one hamster isn't enough on its own, but is this theoretically possible?

Hmm, what if the hamster goes to sleep or dies?

Oh! Idea! You take little alligator clamps, and you strap them to the ears, and then when you need the hamster to wake up, you give it a little jolt of electricity by pressing a power button at the front of your case. Not a lot, just enough to wake it up. Then it gets up, runs and provides extra power. If your hamster dies, you kick the clamps into overdrive and you bring it back from the dead! (It's more fun to dress up as a paramedic and yell "Clear!" every time you try to revive it)

 

Imagine! An constantly born-again hamster powering your computer that never dies! This is the future kids!

[Frankie]

I wonder if someone could actually make a hamster powering a computer. It could be like a case mod where there's a hamster wheel mounted somewhere(5.25" bay? nothing else to put there...), and it could generate supplemental power for the PSU. Obviously you would still need wall power, as one hamster isn't enough on its own, but is this theoretically possible?

 

Aaaaand you're on some PETA blacklist.

[Tmt97]

Hmm, what if the hamster goes to sleep or dies?

Oh! Idea! You take little alligator clamps, and you strap them to the ears, and then when you need the hamster to wake up, you give it a little jolt of electricity by pressing a power button at the front of your case. Not a lot, just enough to wake it up. Then it gets up, runs and provides extra power. If your hamster dies, you kick the clamps into overdrive and you bring it back from the dead! (It's more fun to dress up as a paramedic and yell "Clear!" every time you try to revive it)

 

Imagine! An constantly born-again hamster powering your computer that never dies! This is the future kids!

Or what if we had a whole breeding population of hamsters to power the computer? We can artificially inseminate the females to produce more hamsters when needed, and when one dies its corpse can be vacuumed into a tube where its broken down into nutrients and fed to the newborn hamsters thus completing the cycle of life! As for motivation? Connect their brains to electrodes and create a virtual reality hamster wonder land for them! As far as they know, they will be prancing through fields of grass, but in reality they just keep running on the wheel. We can call it: The Matrix...

[Fgtfv567]

Or what if we had a whole breeding population of hamsters to power the computer? We can artificially inseminate the females to produce more hamsters when needed, and when one dies its corpse can be vacuumed into a tube where its broken down into nutrients and fed to the newborn hamsters thus completing the cycle of life! As for motivation? Connect their brains to electrodes and create a virtual reality hamster wonder land for them! As far as they know, they will be prancing through fields of grass, but in reality they just keep running on the wheel. We can call it: The Matrix...

Excellent idea! Only problem is that we can't have any corrupt middle-aged overseers pretending to be little girl hamsters though. Or he'll try to kill everyone by hiring a pint-sized slasher...

[DevTechStudios]

I go through this everyday. I am surrounded with people that are non-techies. No one expect for my friends are techies. Nobody. Trying to dumb down android is something I do. I once had to dumb down iOS. I've had many a headache in my day. Pretty annoying. 

[StackUnderflow]

Or what if we had a whole breeding population of hamsters to power the computer? We can artificially inseminate the females to produce more hamsters when needed, and when one dies its corpse can be vacuumed into a tube where its broken down into nutrients and fed to the newborn hamsters thus completing the cycle of life! As for motivation? Connect their brains to electrodes and create a virtual reality hamster wonder land for them! As far as they know, they will be prancing through fields of grass, but in reality they just keep running on the wheel. We can call it: The Matrix...

 

You don't need electrodes or VR, you can stick an LED in their (genetically modified) brains to hijack their neural signaling to stimulate behavior. We have the technology:

 

To learn more, google optogenetics.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

You had to dumb down IOS

That's just sad

Well, if you have any car guys as friends, they have to do the same for you. Nobody's a genius in every field. Tell me the ideal compression ratio of a consumer 4 stroke gasoline engine on 81 octane without googling it. What's the ideal fuel to air ratio of a gasoline engine? (You don't have to, I'm making a point) these two things every car guy should know, yet is not required to drive a car. Having a better understanding of how something works helps you use it, but is not required to use it.

[matjojo]

I get that, but like people asking you how to do shit without even trying, when the buttons for things literally say what they do gets sickening after like 5 seconds.