Experiences with non-techies

[BrightCandle]

I feel this way everyday talking to people on this forum. You can look at 100 of my last exchanges and find how frustrating it is to speak to non technical people about stuff they don't know anything about, and watch as the hive mind continues on saying things that aren't true. Its quite depressing really.

[OmarM89]

i heard this story from a friend.

 

a popular computer store called ramses "the name belongs to ancient egyption king" a guy entered and bought a laptop

 

the next day he came back to the same store asking for a refund because " the king and the guy are on different relegions"

[OmarM89]

i heard this story from a friend.

 

a popular computer store called ramses "the name belongs to ancient egyption king" and bought a laptop

 

the next day he came back to the same store asking for a refund because " the king and the guy are on different relegions"

[GalacticRuler]

I'm building a PC for my brother and the motherboard failed to ship (low stock) so we decided to see if there was anything at the local computer shop. I went in and the following exchange happened:

Me: Do you have any Z97 motherboards?

Employee: Why do you want Z97?

Me: I'm using a K series chip

Employee: No, but we might have one in another location

Employee: *checks computer* yes, [REDACTED] location has several, there's an Asus for $189

Me: *leans in to see screen* There's a Gigabyte for only $120

Employee: Gigabyte is durable but not very fast, if you want speed you should buy the Asus.

Me: What? Motherboards don't affect performance anymore.

Employee: Yes they do.

Me: No, they used to but not anymore.

Employee: *gives me a look that screams "You are an idiot" then proceeds to speak in a similar tone* Yes, they do.

The most ironic part of all that is Gigabyte boards tend to give the best overclocks for Haswell.

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http://www.anandtech.com/show/9819/the-gigabyte-z170x-gaming-g1-review-quad-sli-on-skylake-and-now-with-thunderbolt-3/6

 

Wow, that's actually a pretty significant margin on that low res handbrake test

 

The most ironic part of all that is Gigabyte boards tend to give the best overclocks for Haswell.

 

lol I know right!  So they guy is trying to get him to pay $70 more for the asus board when according to that test the gigabyte is actually 6% faster!

 

(I know that is just one test and most are not that significant and different models from those companies will probably not show the same results, but it still reenforced the point that he shouldn't have just blindly claimed one is faster than the other across the board like that)

[cleb]

Being at my Grandpa's for Xmas it reminds me off a few things

>Grandpa buys only dell tablets because he doesn't want compatability issues

>uncle buys a new laptop every year because he doesn't want his tech to fall behind, buys them used from Craigslist

>uncle keeps arguing that WiFi is more efficient than Ethernet

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>uncle buys a new laptop every year because he doesn't want his tech to fall behind, buys them used from Craigslist

lol that's not even "non-tech-savvy" - that's just a general logic fail.  Who thinks they should keep up by buying old, used stuff?  :huh:

[Dargenfire]

1000 pages people. What an achievement!

 

Like I said in a previous post, I reckon that the LMG staff need to make a video for this thread.

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1000 pages people. What an achievement!

 

Like I said in a previous post, I reckon that the LMG staff need to make a video for this thread.

I don't know if they'd do that... what would it be, just reenacting situations?  Seems like it might be seen by some as being smug or insulting on their part; people might think them and all the viewers all feel high and mighty for being so tech smart and look down on all the "stupid people" who aren't

 

I just want to see if the forum crashes if we exceed 32767 posts in a single thread

[Wojethebest]

Hopefully this is the 20000th post

there is a person in my class(studding certificate IV I.T. Networking) who just double clicks everything

[DigitalHermit]

I don't know if they'd do that... what would it be, just reenacting situations?  Seems like it might be seen by some as being smug or insulting on their part; people might think them and all the viewers all feel high and mighty for being so tech smart and look down on all the "stupid people" who aren't

 

I just want to see if the forum crashes if we exceed 32767 posts in a single thread

The anime page is at 84030 at the time of posting this... so I'm guessing that they're using unsigned int or unsigned bigint or something bigger...

They should do a CarThrottle-style vid on non-techies...

[matjojo]

The anime page is at 84030 at the time of posting this... so I'm guessing that they're using unsigned int or unsigned bigint or something bigger...

They should do a CarThrottle-style vid on non-techies...

 

 

sounds good

[nillas12]

Off-topic, but merry christmas you glorious dudes.

[Guest]

Off-topic, but merry christmas you glorious dudes.

And the same to you. Have you been on here the whole tie, reading everything?

[Jambls]

Off-topic, but merry christmas you glorious dudes.

Look at you, basking in your self made glory.

[dev893]

I don't know if they'd do that... what would it be, just reenacting situations? Seems like it might be seen by some as being smug or insulting on their part; people might think them and all the viewers all feel high and mighty for being so tech smart and look down on all the "stupid people" who aren't [emoji14]

I just want to see if the forum crashes if we exceed 32767 posts in a single thread

This forum will crash before then, lol. Last year (when I was more active) it crashed like 3 times in 2 months

[nillas12]

And the same to you. Have you been on here the whole tie, reading everything?

Unfortunately not, been rather busy with school and what not.

[flibberdipper]

My dad was trying to convince me last night that the AGP video card in his old computer would shred my 480 or at least give it a run for its money. Like... No, dad, just no. My 3450 would offer that thing a brutal duel when OC'd. Just stahp.

[TheWildLamb]

I used to work at a computer shop for IT support and service. Whenever something is wrong with the machine, they'll always ask if it's a virus or not. If the shortcut on the desktop is gone, they would think all of their data on the computer are gone. My mum isn't non-techy but she just double clicks on EVERYTHING she wants to open. That includes links and buttons on the web browser. She would double click on the Google searches to open them too and I got really annoyed watching her using the computer at some point of my life. I have another one but it's not really non-techies. My friend is a photographer but not much of a computer guy so he bought a netbook(yes, those 10-inches) and brought it to college. Apparently he actually used that netbook to edit photo and do his work. I remember him posting a comment which he thinks tiny computer are less powerful(true to some extent).

LOL my mum does the same thing double clicking on evrything and it all opens twice.

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The anime page is at 84030 at the time of posting this... so I'm guessing that they're using unsigned int or unsigned bigint or something bigger...

 

nah, couldn't be just unsigned 16 bit that would max out at 65535.  I assume it's a normal (signed 32 bit) integer so we're good until around 2.1 billion

[lucky74dog]

Are we at a thousand yet?

No

[pochie45566]

I had a friend that bought a Dell computer to try and game on. <- A fail in it's self... And after installing Battlefield he realized it wasn't ever going to play with acceptable frame rates. So he rang me up asking 'what's wrong with my computer? it wont run the game'. I just suggested to buy a new graphics card, common practice right?, a couple days passed by before he rang again and asked 'WTF, you don't know what you're talking about... it still will not play'. I went over to investigate. He had bought a GTX 670! (Still using the garbage retail computer, dual core, 2 gigs of ram) Not making any remark to the bottlenecked computer I looked at the IO shield, he was still using the integrated graphics... /facepalm He is still using VGA cables on a 1080p monitor too.

My ex did the EXACT same thing

[KB_TheDireWolf]

Nobody else is a teckie in my family. When I stay at my fathers I have to get used to 0.5 gb/s or less upload speed lol....

[W3dge]

All of this is exaggerated.

Not saying Alienware desktops are a good value. But at least don't exaggerate to make your point better.

Thats my point.... He was bragging.

By proprietary I meant they make their own motherboards.

All of the other information is what I was told by him. Thats what makes it funny.... He gave me what he thought the specs were and still thought it was awesome.

[deWaardt]

My sister kept getting viruses on her laptop (running Windows 7)

After reinstalling Windows for the so-manyest (<- new word) time I just installer Linux Mint and told her it's the new Windows.

Day fourtysomething: she still hasn't noticed.