Experiences with non-techies

[Belgarathian]

Probably will tbh.

 

A life without a computer is no life at all.

 

 

Oh crap 1000+ pages

 

 

Did.... Did you just reply to a post from 2013? 

[matjojo]

Did.... Did you just reply to a post from 2013? 

someone read it all from start to end I guess. I must admid, I did that too

[DarkBlade2117]

SO I go to Highschool and College, The College is far more tech-savvy compared to the HighSchool, At the Highschool Our teacher was bragging about her new projector and  I just though "Wow 720p looks real nice with that HDMI > DVI > VGA adapter " lol

[WkdPaul]

I'm guilty of this. Stood there for a full 10 minutes until the janitor that had been watching me the whole time walked over and pressed the button. 

that's not bad, at my previous workplace, LOTS of people that wanted to go up would press the up AND down button to go up and get in the elevator even when it was going down, when I asked why to a few of coworkers that I saw were doing it, their reply was that it was faster ... that's pretty much when I lost whatever faith in humanity I had left!

[Alir]

Did.... Did you just reply to a post from 2013? 

 

I can't think of a funny response  

 

Just enjoy this

 

[Alir]

that's not bad, at my previous workplace, LOTS of people that wanted to go up would press the up AND down button to go up and get in the elevator even when it was going down, when I asked why to a few of coworkers that I saw were doing it, their reply was that it was faster ... that's pretty much when I lost whatever faith in humanity I had left!

 

tbh I lost all faith when that woman threw a 2TB HDD in the bin

[Mitko_DSV]

My mum managed to plug a floppy cable in an IDE DVD drive. When me and my dad saw it we wondered 'How did she manage to do it???' then when we told her, she replied 'Oh, I wondered why it didn't work.'

It's a bit ironical but our IT teacher, who is 60+ years, asks us to help her with her computer. One time she called me over, because her language bar disappeared. At first, I thought that I did some thing wrong and she called me over for that, but when I went there she told me 'My language disappeared. What to do to fix it?' Well I helped her fix it. Another time she asked a friend of mine to help her connect a laptop to WiFi. She said it couldn't connect. He pressed Connect, it connected and she told him 'You're my Internet expert!'. She doesn't know English, so she reads English words in a strange way, e.g. 'screensaver' -> 'screenserver' or 'spacing' -> 'shpacing' (it's not even possible to write what she says).

[WkdPaul]

My mum managed to plug a floppy cable in an IDE DVD drive. When me and my dad saw it we wondered 'How did she manage to do it???' then when we told her, she replied 'Oh, I wondered why it didn't work.'

It's a bit ironical but our IT teacher, who is 60+ years, asks us to help her with her computer. One time she called me over, because her language bar disappeared. At first, I thought that I did some thing wrong and she called me over for that, but when I went there she told me 'My language disappeared. What to do to fix it?' Well I helped her fix it. Another time she asked a friend of mine to help her connect a laptop to WiFi. She said it couldn't connect. He pressed Connect, it connected and she told him 'You're my Internet expert!'. She doesn't know English, so she reads English words in a strange way, e.g. 'screensaver' -> 'screenserver' or 'spacing' -> 'shpacing' (it's not even possible to write what she says).

just don't ... it's not because you're fluent in a language that you can make fun of those that aren't. Things have changed since her "times" and ours, and in all seriousness, to make a comparison, I don't expect my grand-parents to be good in English or have no accents. Even for someone in their 30's it's hard to learn a new language without some sort of an accent.

 

That doesn't excuse her being an IT teacher and not knowing much about computers, that's just sad!

[deWaardt]

tbh I lost all faith when that woman threw a 2TB HDD in the bin

Why the... what?

Was the drive dead, or was it a fine drive?

If it was a fine drive..... WHY???

[Alir]

Why the... what?

Was the drive dead, or was it a fine drive?

If it was a fine drive..... WHY???

 

She had already installed the drive by taking a picture of it and setting it as her desktop wallpaper init

[deWaardt]

She had already installed the drive by taking a picture of it and setting it as her desktop wallpaper init

What

uuhmm

 

I know there are less-tech-savvy people out there, but this completely kicks it.

What's next, we plug in a usb stick by taking a picture of it?

We insert a sim card by taking a picture of it.

 

 

 

Wow, that's just..... wow....

*applauds* 

[Alir]

Look back at the first and second page.

 

The HDD incident is described there

[Godlygamer23]

I'm guilty of this. Stood there for a full 10 minutes until the janitor that had been watching me the whole time walked over and pressed the button. 

That must've been embarrassing.

[flibberdipper]

My mum managed to plug a floppy cable in an IDE DVD drive. When me and my dad saw it we wondered 'How did she manage to do it???' then when we told her, she replied 'Oh, I wondered why it didn't work.'

It's a bit ironical but our IT teacher, who is 60+ years, asks us to help her with her computer. One time she called me over, because her language bar disappeared. At first, I thought that I did some thing wrong and she called me over for that, but when I went there she told me 'My language disappeared. What to do to fix it?' Well I helped her fix it. Another time she asked a friend of mine to help her connect a laptop to WiFi. She said it couldn't connect. He pressed Connect, it connected and she told him 'You're my Internet expert!'. She doesn't know English, so she reads English words in a strange way, e.g. 'screensaver' -> 'screenserver' or 'spacing' -> 'shpacing' (it's not even possible to write what she says).

ohmygosh whyyyyyy

[Fgtfv567]

Did.... Did you just reply to a post from 2013? 

This happens much too often

[Belgarathian]

That must've been embarrassing.

 

You honestly have no idea. I will never live down that shame. 

 

I kind of pressed the button, but must not have pressed it hard enough and then got engrossed in replying to e-mails and Facebook on my phone. 

[mikat]

How many people do you wanna bet bought it just because how cheap it is and saw SSD next to it?

solid slow drive

[mikat]

She had already installed the drive by taking a picture of it and setting it as her desktop wallpaper init

"you need to make an image of your old drive" is what someone probably said to her

[Maximoose]

Help my grandmother with all of her passwords and every time i go to her house. " what's my Amazon Prime password, honey?" "what's my itunes password?" what's my icloud password? THEY ARE THE SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

One year I literally had to reset my grandma's apple id password 15 times

[Maximoose]

 

Found this installed on my computer just now. Pretty much sums up dealing with my entire family.

 

Windows 10?

[vanished]

Windows 10?

lol I think he was referring to the AMD dual core optimizer on a maching with an Intel quad core

[Belgarathian]

Windows 10?

 

AMD Dual-core optimizer on a Intel system. 

[MDPS]

I can't think of a funny response

 

Just enjoy this

 

I see that Imgur is leaking again...better go call the Web Plumber to plug up those tubes.

[thedigitaldoctor]

I had this happen to me today:

Told user to click "No", they clicked "Yes", things broke. Eventually got it sorted. I confirmed that they didn't click the wrong button by mistake; it was fully intentional. Oh well, as long as I get paid [emoji41]

[Oberon.Smite]

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I still don't get why people do EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what you say sometimes.