Experiences with non-techies

[Kawaii Besu]

Welp, to those people who download even >1MB/s, consider yourselves lucky. We only get about 250-300KB/s max download rates that don't get there 60% of the time, and, welp, disconnects like hell.

[themctipers]

8 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

1st world problems

 

 and I complain about my flagship phone. 

[Dargenfire]

So.

 

A friend of mine had spent a couple of months saving up 2 grand to buy a gaming pc. He approached me for help, and so I came up with a list of parts for him, and off he went to a PC store to get them. Silly old me had decided I'll just let him pick whatever case he likes, the guys at the store will make sure it's the right form factor. So when he got the parts, and I started walking him through it via video chat, we soon ran into a problem.

 

He had bought a Corsair H105 (240mm) for the PC, but this case that he had gotten (Aerocool Battlehawk) didn't have space to mount it anywhere. So I asked him, "Did the guy at the shop look through your list of parts and make sure the case was compatible?". He said "Yeah, he looked at the parts, and at the specs of the case on the side of the box and told me it was okay."

 

Crap.

 

After some Googling I came to the infuriating conclusion that the guy at the store had just seen the box say: "Fan support: Top (2x120mm) Front (2x120mm)" and assumed that it meant the radiator would fit. Now my poor, poor friend who isn't even the idiot in this story has to drive an hour back to the store, return it for another case, and drive an hour back home.

 

[Principis]

27 minutes ago, Fillypino Pride said:

Welp, to those people who download even >1MB/s, consider yourselves lucky. We only get about 250-300KB/s max download rates that don't get there 60% of the time, and, welp, disconnects like hell.

Well I live in an extremely small country (Belgium) so... almost everyone >90% maybe more can have 200/20 Mbps

[themctipers]

13 minutes ago, Principis said:

Well I live in an extremely small country (Belgium) so... almost everyone >90% maybe more can have 200/20 Mbps

@manikyath sorryhadto

[Thaldor]

As I'm looking for a new mobile carrier deal and the talk about connection speeds, I remembered one really funny topic that mostly concerns Finns.

 

In Finland we have always translated "byte" as "tavu" (literal translation of "tavu" is syllable) which makes us natively use kt, Mt, Gt and so on instead of kB, MB, GB and so on. All techies know about this but for non-techies it's really hard to understand that it's a Finnish thing to use "t" instead of "B". When ADSL connections started to get common ISPs marketed with using "Mb/s"-marking and while techies knew that they ment megabits the non-techies really didn't get their head around it and made the connection that generally letter B means bits and didn't differentiate lower and upper case b and B from each other. Luckly ISP now days use "Mbit/s"-marking and also some of the stores here have started to use the right markings when selling PCs, so it's not so common anymore for people get it wrong, but we are kind of hard skulled people.

 

So, while I was cleaning and upgrading my friends computer some time ago this led us to really huge "fight". He really doesn't know anything about PCs but he likes to game so I upgraded his GPU to GTX 960 4GB and as I didn't acctually come to think about it and I made the mistake to give his older GPU back to him in the box of the new GPU and he totally lost it. This was because he thought I had "upgraded" his "1Gt" GPU to "4Gb" GPU because the box had "4GB" instead of Finnish "4Gt". In the end he ended destroying his older GPU and the box and getting few good dents to his case and I laughted my ass off the whole time he raged, because the whole situation was simply too stupid.

[WkdPaul]

Wow ... Anger management issues much?

 

Also, the MB/Mb confusion is everywhere really... I have the same problem here (Canada) and even saw people here on the forum being confused about it.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

Wow ... Anger management issues much?

 

Also, the MB/Mb confusion is everywhere really... I have the same problem here (Canada) and even saw people here on the forum being confused about it.

Same. 

I have some issues but I manage to keep it and not flip the fuck out. 

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2 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

1st world problems

 

That may be, but they've got every right to complain  

Especially with the 2.5 down / 0.2 up I have right now...

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That may be, but they've got every right to complain  

Especially with the 2.5 down / 0.2 up I have right now...

How about 53KB/s internet for 3 days.

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2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

How about 53KB/s internet for 3 days.

Oh no...  

[themctipers]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Oh no...  

Imgur was blocked. So was Reddit..

[Thaldor]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

Wow ... Anger management issues much?

 

Also, the MB/Mb confusion is everywhere really... I have the same problem here (Canada) and even saw people here on the forum being confused about it.

Maybe a little bit, but luckly when he starts raging he just breaks his own stuff and have never been in anyway dangerous to others.

 

I know it's all alround and that's probably why in Finnish we are quite found for our Mb/Mt because it's more foolproof. Too bad it's just us who use it.

[WkdPaul]

16 minutes ago, Thaldor said:

Maybe a little bit, but luckly when he starts raging he just breaks his own stuff and have never been in anyway dangerous to others.

 

I know it's all alround and that's probably why in Finnish we are quite found for our Mb/Mt because it's more foolproof. Too bad it's just us who use it.

Same in French, it's Mb and MO, though we get all the US and RoC stuff so 90% of the time we still use Mb/MB

[GirlFromYonder]

10 hours ago, Principis said:

I was downloading the BF1 open beta at 20 MB/s and that was slow IMO

i got it at 400kbps

[ATouchOfKiwi]

3 hours ago, themctipers said:

How about 53KB/s internet for 3 days.

*sad music plays* Rip you.

[GirlFromYonder]

14 hours ago, themctipers said:

How about 53KB/s internet for 3 days.

for 3 days mate. 3 DAYS. I had to deal with that from 2007-2012

5 years. 

rule 101: there is always someone with slower internet

[themctipers]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

for 3 days mate. 3 DAYS. I had to deal with that from 2007-2012

5 years. 

well..

this is after when the internet decided to put a fuck ton of gifs and pictures everywhere.

ltt barely loads.  

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, themctipers said:

well..

this is after when the internet decided to put a fuck ton of gifs and pictures everywhere.

ltt barely loads.  

well then get a 400kbps connection. i can guarentee it will work

[themctipers]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

well then get a 400kbps connection. i can guarentee it will work

well.. 3 days on a trip.

to quebec. 

where i dont have cell service, and the only internet is the 52kbps internet.

:c i lost all the photos from there.

[Pancake2k]

Bought a eshop prepaid card, our phones went out the next day. Blamed my eshop card

[themctipers]

47 minutes ago, Lumen15 said:

Bought a eshop prepaid card, our phones went out the next day. Blamed my eshop card

?

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, themctipers said:

?

i have never seen a non techie story from u

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

i have never seen a non techie story from u

*grabs guitar and sings*

let me find

my fucking stories

from a few weeks ago

 

off we go! Page 900. /s

its really cringe. Trust me. 

[GirlFromYonder]

11 minutes ago, themctipers said:

*grabs guitar and sings*

let me find

my fucking stories

from a few weeks ago

 

off we go! Page 900. /s

its really cringe. Trust me. 

ok