Experiences with non-techies

[RZeroX]

Just now, Str_Mape said:

indeedio, if they open a store down here I'll jump on that super quickly.

I live there as-well, but that would cost quite a lot to get a store here.

[Fgtfv567]

1 hour ago, Str_Mape said:

*points at 980 ti*

"My laptop has 16GB, can I put one of these in it and make it gaming"

Actually if the laptop can connect to an eGPU enclosure like the razer core, then yes it is possible

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1 hour ago, Fgtfv567 said:

Actually if the laptop can connect to an eGPU enclosure like the razer core, then yes it is possible

well, that's coming, but that wouldn't be "in" it now would it

Besides, we all know what was really going on: they thought they could install a 980ti in their laptop.  Just no.

[DirtyDane]

its 2:06 am im tired and still trying to have this poor woman who is having trouble with her first ever computer (she really screwed it up in the one month shes had it) i dont even want to read the posts before this i cant pay attention to it im that tired. it wont allow me to do a fresh install of windows. a boil down of some of the issue i had that lead me to my sleep deprived state im in now is over here >>>> 

and i mean its just... i dont know anymore it scares me how much damage people can do yet i go to challange myself to see how much shit malware etc i can get on a vm in 10 minutes and i cant even get 20........... 

its all fun and games to talk about non techies till your actually fixing their stuff..... 

but i swear there was like the strangest stuff on that thing at first, she must have hit an ad telling her to install this program and then go forward from there or something. 

as long as i have my blade and soul, subnautica, and youtube. i should be able to keep my sanity through this night of whatching progress bars for installations that are bound to fail and repeat

[DirtyDane]

i think im suffering from that late night troubleshooting depression or low. that feeling where you wish you had just gotten into knitting or something but no your stuck with 4 laptops a desktop and harvest moon on your ds trying to fix someones pc by a deadline you said you could meet but didnt realize you where no where near being able to accomplish

[DirtyDane]

IM FINNALY DONE!!!!! its 8:37 am and i have had the One Punch Man theme on repeat the entire time. i think that was the one thing keeping me from loosing my sanity through this endevor but it is done... i can now collapse on the ground and soak in the glory as i have Liberated this machine from its owner and am now basking in the IT mans (or womans whichever floats yer boat) high that you get after a long night of tourbleshooting and finding success! i have made it through 2 years in harvest moon and managed to pull 19 dungeons in blade and soul. i have managed to break subnautica and even start setting up my secondary laptop.

 

the only thing i havent accomplished is my homework...

*dies 

[cferns1]

I mentioned to my friend the other day that just got an i7-4790k / 970 / 8gb ram build that I had 12Gb of RAM in my new laptop because I was getting really annoyed at my school's desktops only having 1gb of ddr2 memory, that can barely run anything, and he turns to me and goes:

 

"WOW! 12Gb of RAM!! you could run GTA V on that!"

 

*facepalm*

 

BTW my laptop is nowhere near capable of running GTA V, with a i5-5500U and integrated graphics.. 

[DirtyDane]

Just now, cferns1 said:

I mentioned to my friend the other day that just got an i7-4790k / 970 / 8gb ram build that I had 12Gb of RAM in my new laptop because I was getting really annoyed at my school's desktops only having 1gb of ddr2 memory, that can barely run anything, and he turns to me and goes:

 

"WOW! 12Gb of RAM!! you could run GTA V on that!"

 

*facepalm*

 

BTW my laptop is nowhere near capable of running GTA V, with a i5-5500U and integrated graphics.. 

NAH MAN THAT THERES A BITCOIN MINING RIG ITS JUST AMAZING I MEAN LOOK AT THOSE GRAPHICS you and i both know the strongest graphics cards in the world cant compete with built in integrated genuine graphics i mean just WOW you know i play crisis on a pentium at 320000 fps DUDE i mean theres nothing stronger.

 

lol in all seriousness those are one of the things i would just kindly try to correct them on then move on. 

i still have that homework to do and im still looping the One Punch Man theme .... is that sad

[WkdPaul]

15 minutes ago, cferns1 said:

I mentioned to my friend the other day that just got an i7-4790k / 970 / 8gb ram build that I had 12Gb of RAM in my new laptop because I was getting really annoyed at my school's desktops only having 1gb of ddr2 memory, that can barely run anything, and he turns to me and goes:

 

"WOW! 12Gb of RAM!! you could run GTA V on that!"

 

*facepalm*

 

BTW my laptop is nowhere near capable of running GTA V, with a i5-5500U and integrated graphics.. 

Reminds me of my friend that thinks his GT610 is as good as my HD7870 because his 610 and my 7870 both have 2GB of VRAM! lol

[DirtyDane]

52 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Reminds me of my friend that thinks his GT610 is as good as my HD7870 because his 610 and my 7870 both have 2GB of VRAM! lol

noice

but seriously though i dont know what it is about this song but i can just play it in the background on loop and never get bored of it hell i dont even notice it looping 

 

[Arty]

All the god damn fuck tards that keep trying to say 1 GB = 1024MB

 

when 1GB = 1000MB

and 1GIB = 1024MIB

[daniellearmouth]

4 minutes ago, Arty said:

All the god damn fuck tards that keep trying to say 1 GB = 1024MB

 

when 1GB = 1000MB

and 1GIB = 1024MIB

JEDEC standards dictate 1GB as 1024MiB, though. Notice how a 4GB stick of RAM isn't 4 billion bytes, but rather 4,294,967,296 bytes.

[Arty]

Just now, daniellearmouth said:

JEDEC standards dictate 1GB as 1024MiB, though. Notice how a 4GB stick of RAM isn't 4 billion bytes, but rather 4,294,967,296 bytes.

Look at the units you used

you right 100%

Just need more people to learn the units. 

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24 minutes ago, Arty said:

Just need more people to learn the units. 

And for the all too prevalent (mis)use of "MB" (for example) to mean 1024^2 bytes to come to an end

[DirtyDane]

im super confused whats this whole thing about

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1 hour ago, DirtyDane said:

im super confused whats this whole thing about

Which, the thread in general or the recent debates?  The thread is just supposed to be people sharing funny/ridiculous things they've experienced with people who don't know much about technology

[DirtyDane]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Which, the thread in general or the recent debates?  The thread is just supposed to be people sharing funny/ridiculous things they've experienced with people who don't know much about technology

no the GB vs GIB thing please explain it for me i want to make sure im using things the right way lol

[Samsonsuperco]

10 hours ago, cferns1 said:

BTW my laptop is nowhere near capable of running GTA V, with a i5-5500U and integrated graphics.. 

Actually my friend has a Dell Inspiron 15-7558, which has an i5 5200u, and he can play GTA V at 800x600, lowest settings, with shadows disabled, at 30fps. I guess if you wanted to you probably could.

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, DirtyDane said:

no the GB vs GIB thing please explain it for me i want to make sure im using things the right way lol

MB & GB is decimal (base 10)

MiB & GiB is binary (base 2)

 

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

[z123killer]

I used inspect element and made a price of a TV go from $1,000 to $1.

 

Friend: Do you hack the pricing system???

[Bhav]

I figured out that my aforementioned TP link fail is due to Windows 10 not detecting my Ethernet port. I still havnt been bothered to find out how to fix it yet though.

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1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

MB & GB is decimal (base 10)

MiB & GiB is binary (base 2)

 

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

True.  It doesn't help though that Windows uses 1024 but uses the MB, GB, etc labels.  In fact, I think that might be the cause of all the confusion people have had (and continue to have) over the years.

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3 hours ago, Samsonsuperco said:

Actually my friend has a Dell Inspiron 15-7558, which has an i5 5200u, and he can play GTA V at 800x600, lowest settings, with shadows disabled, at 30fps. I guess if you wanted to you probably could.

Well, I wouldn't call that "playing" so much as executing the code successfully, but to each their own

[HyperHertz]

My friend bought a BlackWidow Chroma for a ridiculous $300 at JB HI FI when you can get the keyboard and the Deathadder Chroma for $294 at mwave. 

 

Epic fail.

[Godlygamer23]

9 minutes ago, HyperHertz said:

My friend bought a BlackWidow Chroma for a ridiculous $300 at JB HI FI when you can get the keyboard and the Deathadder Chroma for $294 at mwave. 

 

Epic fail.

$6 isn't that big of a deal.