Experiences with non-techies

[Ddave]

Well one of my father's cousins visited us and learned that I graduated I.T.

Then he gave me his IPhone and said, "Find out what's wrong with this and fix it."

Surprised, I simply smiled and asked if there's something wrong with the phone.

Then he said, "Well, you're an IT right ? See if there's something wrong and fix it." (At this point I almost did a double facepalm.)

I just said that if there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to fix. Then I went into my room and never went out until he's gone.

[Bhav]

Maybe looks are more important TO HER than having a faster for cheaper system, and custom cases aside (how many offices use custom cased PCs) macs/Apple do generally win out on looks .  Everyone has different needs/wants/desires from their computer

Yes, but it was an experience with a non techie.

[Belgarathian]

I still regularly come around people telling me that they have a 12ghz CPU.

If I ask how so, they say "yea it's a quad core, so 4*3ghz = 12ghz CPU"

...

I've given up to tell them they're wrong.

 

Shops and people selling computers used to do this all the time when the first dual core CPUs were introduced with the likes of the AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Fgtfv567]

Well one of my father's cousins visited us and learned that I graduated I.T.

Then he gave me his IPhone and said, "Find out what's wrong with this and fix it."

Surprised, I simply smiled and asked if there's something wrong with the phone.

Then he said, "Well, you're an IT right ? See if there's something wrong and fix it." (At this point I almost did a double facepalm.)

I just said that if there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to fix. Then I went into my room and never went out until he's gone.

Wait if there was nothing wrong with his phone, then why did he give it to you and demand you "fix" it?

[Ddave]

Wait if there was nothing wrong with his phone, then why did he give it to you and demand you "fix" it?

 

Because I'm an "IT Person".

[Fgtfv567]

Because I'm an "IT Person".

Well if the screen wasn't cracked, and if the phone was PERFECTLY FINE, just shove it back to him and tell him that you LITERALLY CANNOT FIX SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BROKEN.

[Donut417]

My sister on Google Hangouts "Im getting irritated" "I cant pick up any over the air channels" Me: "Through you Fire Stick" (They have a Fire Stick with Kodi, which can get over the air channels over the internet) Her: No. So I call her, how the hell are your trying to get over the air TV. She told me through her tuner.????? You have an antenna I said. She was like No.   . WTF, I was like you need an antenna. She was like to pick up channels, cant you just do with out. 

 

She basically thought you didn't need an antenna to get over the air channels. WTF is she smoking. How the hell is your TV going to pick up the stations that are 38 Miles away.  <_<

[21RNGS]

Mom: Hey, Coop, can you take a look at my computer for me?

Me: Sure, what's the problem?

Mom: It's slow.

Me: .....Okay, when is it slow, and do you think you know what caused it?

Mom: I don't know, it's just slow...

Me: :[

 

Come to find that the reason her computer is slow is because she has about 500 files sitting on her desktop, and every time she downloads something she feels the urge to click the link 7 times... as a result downloading files 6 or 7 times over.....facepalm....

[Belgarathian]

Mom: Hey, Coop, can you take a look at my computer for me?

Me: Sure, what's the problem?

Mom: It's slow.

Me: .....Okay, when is it slow, and do you think you know what caused it?

Mom: I don't know, it's just slow...

Me: :[

 

Come to find that the reason her computer is slow is because she has about 500 files sitting on her desktop, and every time she downloads something she feels the urge to click the link 7 times... as a result downloading files 6 or 7 times over.....facepalm....

 

My mother is guilty of this. She double clicks everything, including download links.

[Fgtfv567]

My mother is guilty of this. She double clicks everything, including download links.

Personally, I feel like double clicking stuff isn't too bad. I need to double-click on my programs especially with the games that are on my desktop.

[Godlygamer23]

Personally, I feel like double clicking stuff isn't too bad. I need to double-click on my programs especially with the games that are on my desktop.

I just right-click and click Open or use my keyboard to highlight it and hit Enter.

[21RNGS]

My mother is guilty of this. She double clicks everything, including download links.

 

I remember the librarian at my elementary school used to believe that double clicking was the solution to everything. The book search program would crash for like the eighteenth time in one sitting and I'd ask her what was wrong and her response would be, "Did you double-click?".

[DigitalHermit]

Well if the screen wasn't cracked, and if the phone was PERFECTLY FINE, just shove it back to him and tell him that you LITERALLY CANNOT FIX SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BROKEN.

He should've said:

"You need to replace the owner of the phone."

[vanished]

Come to find that the reason her computer is slow is because she has about 500 files sitting on her desktop, and every time she downloads something she feels the urge to click the link 7 times... as a result downloading files 6 or 7 times over.....facepalm....

How was having files on the desktop making it slow?

[paos]

I work with non techy people and they use equipment vital to their job, that has a tendency to to have issues since they are used 24/7 and by multiple people a day. they'll call saying its giving them an error, and when i ask what error they normally say: "Iunno."

 

... i need to know this error, so i can fix it. c'mon people lol

[brolaugh_]

I asked one of my friends what pc parts he had and he answered

"Intel and Nvidia"

and left me hanging.

And when my other tech-savvy friend (who actually knew something.) told us he built a new 1000$$ computer

my other friend went like: "16 GBS OF RAM... WOW!" meanwhile I facepalmed when nobody cared for his GTX 970

[ApexVasii]

My friend recommended me an Alienware because they're good. I cringed.

[21RNGS]

How was having files on the desktop making it slow?

She has an OLD hp laptop. Dates back to 2006. I'm not entirely sure why it was slowing it down, but me organizing her desktop and deleting extra copies of files seemed to help. So I'm diagnosing that as the problem.

[LukeTim]

[LukeTim]

If you have a low amount of ram, it can hurt performance

How does that work?

[Haswell_rasperry_pi]

No, avg joes and secretaries need the highest end 16 cores Apple workstation for web browsing.

I mean, think about it ... 16 x 3 ... No no, over clock that shit, 16 x 4 = SIXTY FOUR FREAKIMG GIGAWIGGLES FOR WATCHING PORN, I MEAN, FACEBOOK.

"GIGAWIGGLES"

[rentaspoon]

Talking to my wife who's friend had brought a £20,000 water cooled pc off eBay and has never turned it on.

1. £20,000! How?

2. £20,000! On eBay!

Asked me to check it but I'm to scared to go over and see it has an i3 in it

[Fgtfv567]

Talking to my wife who's friend had brought a £20,000 water cooled pc off eBay and has never turned it on.

1. £20,000! How?

2. £20,000! On eBay!

Asked me to check it but I'm to scared to go over and see it has an i3 in it

20,000 pounds? Fuck, could've probably bought a car with that much money! It'd be safer to buy one from Digital Storm or a prebuilt manufacturer

[vanished]

How does that work?

There's a reason RAM is super low latency, 10+ Gbytes/sec and HDDs are the exact opposite.

[soup]

Talking to my wife who's friend had brought a £20,000 water cooled pc off eBay and has never turned it on.

 

 

Without being one of those stupid four monitor builds 12 year olds seem fond of on PCpartpicker how could you possibly get to £20,000 for a system (and to pay that much for it second hand is mind  boggling).