Experiences with non-techies

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, Hyper_X said:

Correct, now u have to download my shitty app

lol no space in my phone

[themctipers]

33 minutes ago, Hyper_X said:

Correct, now u have to download my shitty app

It's not on iOS. 

Learn obj and make a IPA and host it using Cydia.  

[DocSwag]

47 minutes ago, Hyper_X said:

Correct, now u have to download my shitty app

I also checked out your website.

 

Basically the only thing on there is a fat duck turning around.

[themctipers]

4 minutes ago, Hyper_X said:

I'll do that after I get myself a new ram.

or we can Sideload the ipa if you just find an ipa and send me it. 

 

Aka, hackentosh/OS X -> Xcode -> code -> compile to ipa -> send to me!

[Marauder]

I had a coworker recently who wanted me to look at her computer. She said it was giving her odd messages. This was recently. When I arrived I saw it was a windows XP machine. I tried to explain to her that she really needed a new computer. She said that the one she has works fine and that all she does with it is check her bank account and pay some bills online. Which I told her to stop doing.

 

Fast forward a couple weeks and I came into possession of a used desktop running windows 7. I told her it would only cost her 20 bucks and she could have it. She told me that she liked her computer and was not willing to get rid of it. I even offered her the computer for free and she still did not want it. At that point I gave up. She is a very sweet lady, but some people just cant be helped.

[Donut417]

41 minutes ago, Marauder said:

I had a coworker recently who wanted me to look at her computer. She said it was giving her odd messages. This was recently. When I arrived I saw it was a windows XP machine. I tried to explain to her that she really needed a new computer. She said that the one she has works fine and that all she does with it is check her bank account and pay some bills online. Which I told her to stop doing.

 

Fast forward a couple weeks and I came into possession of a used desktop running windows 7. I told her it would only cost her 20 bucks and she could have it. She told me that she liked her computer and was not willing to get rid of it. I even offered her the computer for free and she still did not want it. At that point I gave up. She is a very sweet lady, but some people just cant be helped.

Well when her bank account gets drained, you can give her the "I told you so" speech. 

[Grimreaper084]

hey guys. im completely new to this forums and forums in general so i thought i check out this thread. gotta say all these are hilarious. people can be stupid sometimes.

anyways, 

people at my school seem to firmly believe that the graphics on the Xbox one far supersedes  anything on PC and that it is the pinnacle of photo-realistic game-play, needless to say such stupidity is not easily corrected, therefore i usually just grit my teeth and keep my mouth shut. i swear this education system does not work. 

 

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1 hour ago, Grimreaper084 said:

hey guys. im completely new to this forums and forums in general so i thought i check out this thread. gotta say all these are hilarious. people can be stupid sometimes.

anyways, 

people at my school seem to firmly believe that the graphics on the Xbox one far supersedes  anything on PC and that it is the pinnacle of photo-realistic game-play, needless to say such stupidity is not easily corrected, therefore i usually just grit my teeth and keep my mouth shut. i swear this education system does not work. 

 

Well, to be fair, I don't remember the education system going into computer hardware at all.  Like, not even slightly.  So you can't blame them for that...

 

...or can you?  Maybe they should have a dedicated mandatory computer class where they go over the basics of hardware and software usage.  That actually makes a lot of sense - think how important computers are in today's society, and yet most people don't have a clue about it.  They really should be educating people on it in school.

[themctipers]

4 hours ago, Hyper_X said:

I don't think it's worth it

well, i hackentoshed.. just to sideload an app.  

thats how badly i missed my jailbreak pre 9.3.3 jb

45 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, to be fair, I don't remember the education system going into computer hardware at all.  Like, not even slightly.  So you can't blame them for that...

 

...or can you?  Maybe they should have a dedicated mandatory computer class where they go over the basics of hardware and software usage.  That actually makes a lot of sense - think how important computers are in today's society, and yet most people don't have a clue about it.  They really should be educating people on it in school.

my english teacher rambled today on how words change over time, then that turned into gps, then that turned into the government spying on you, then that turned to dont use windows 10, oh class is over. 

[Space Reptile]

5 hours ago, Hyper_X said:

My friend is buying new ram because old one got slow. I didn't even wanted to say anything...

 tell him not to tilt his pc , all the bits/electrons are gonna fall out 

[MoonlightSylv]

58 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well, to be fair, I don't remember the education system going into computer hardware at all.  Like, not even slightly.  So you can't blame them for that...

 

...or can you?  Maybe they should have a dedicated mandatory computer class where they go over the basics of hardware and software usage.  That actually makes a lot of sense - think how important computers are in today's society, and yet most people don't have a clue about it.  They really should be educating people on it in school.

I took a computer class in 7th grade, they actually had some parts, I also donated broken parts from a Dell prebuilt for display  

[themctipers]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

I took a computer class in 7th grade, they actually had some parts, I also donated broken parts from a Dell prebuilt for display  

i did too..

they were disassembling a prebuilt pentium d.. 

and thats how i got my pentium d.

when i was there, they already fucked up all the capacitors and the pins.  

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the hdd died in the machine. that was all..

[64bitfkg]

A thread for non techies ? Cool ...Just a question , my cousin asked me to check a phone under $120 (8000 INR)  So my question is ,  Should i go for specification or should i go for the brand at this price point ?

(New to the website too ) 

[themctipers]

Just now, Obito Kakkoi-Kun said:

A thread for non techies ? Cool ...Just a question , my cousin asked me to check a phone under $120 (8000 INR)  So my question is ,  Should i go for specification or should i go for the brand at this price point ?

(New to the website too ) 

its for non techie failures

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specs > branding. 

[Adam1984]

When my grandparents asked me to hook up their dvd player with their sattelite box, they had trouble accessing the dvd player screen using the remote. I set it all up and said, ok to quickly go to dvd just switch off the sattalite box with the remote control and away you go. They said that sounded tricky........

[MoonlightSylv]

29 minutes ago, themctipers said:

i did too..

they were disassembling a prebuilt pentium d.. 

and thats how i got my pentium d.

when i was there, they already fucked up all the capacitors and the pins.  

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the hdd died in the machine. that was all..

So you stole it?  

[Thaldor]

7 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

I took a computer class in 7th grade, they actually had some parts, I also donated broken parts from a Dell prebuilt for display  

I'm quite shocked how far I could go without any computer classes about HW. 7th or 8th grade I had one computer class which was mostly how to use computer and some Basic-coding, then in upper secondary school I had Python coding and tried to get through CCNA1 (which failed then because no labs) where was the first time where someone teached something about HW, how ever only what is router and modem and how they work without going under the hood at all. Even in University of Applied Sciences where I tried to become IT-engineer (media technology, all that I miss from degree is thesis) not a single course about HW (except server HW in CCNA1 and 2 and a course about Linux-servers and probably some Arduino stuff in embedded systems) and there was a lot of courses about databases, coding and very hard calsses about math behind computers (we made mathlab codes for jpg and video compression and stuff), physics engines and cryptography, but only one time teacher talked about HW and that was at general media technology course and all that was like: "Go and buy iPhone and MacBook Pro, with those you can do everything and they work".

 

That's generally 15-16 years of school with coding and stuff without single course talking about CPUs, GPUs and stuff behind them. And now some great wise apes that call themselfs politicans are pushing mandatory coding classes even to the first years of elementary schools and probably even then no one is going to keep a class or course about HW where students would learn about processor cycles and all the other HW related stuff that is acctually really important when optimizing code. That's F:ing genius! Lets get so everybody can code at least something, but nobody needs to know how the computer works and what it has inside!

[Grimreaper084]

My old Graphics teacher said Macs are more stable and don't crash like windows deos when using photoshop.

Resisting the urge to strangle her with a mouse cord was difficult....

[themctipers]

22 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

So you stole it?  

yes

poor thing, now i play with it durring class.  

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

now i play with it durring class.  

Why?  

[vanished]

Just now, themctipers said:

yes

poor thing, now i play with it durring class.  

Oh, I don't remember the story of how you ever got one  

[themctipers]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

Why?  

because i never knew how class could be more boring

i've already semi mastered pen flipping.

[themctipers]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Oh, I don't remember the story of how you ever got one  

one i fucked around with, until the motherboard's caps exploded.

then, i turned it on and poured water over it

steam anyone? 

few hours later, turned it off..

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other pd was from school.  

[kirksmithms]

HAHAHAH.... I could read these things all day!!

 

I've had a few clients "shocked" when they dropped or hit their laptop and I informed them that their HDD has quit. My granny doesn't know what the internet is(to be fair, we live in the mountains of WV). Also, I've received multiple requests to build a laptop(ya know, like a custom PC). Without them, though, most of us wouldn't have jobs. Cheers to all.

[Gonio]

My dad (used to be a mechanic before retirement) is really at a loss with the pc, just because he is stuborn an refuses to think regarding using the PC. To make it easier I set their mail login page as standard, but every now and then he comes like: It doesn't work. So I say: have you filled out the login/website you want to visit correctly? Yeah. Well let's take a look then... Show me what you did. He types it in.

 

Whats the problem, he doens't press ENTER!!!