What is the most tech illiterate thing you have ever witnessed?

>>55228514
Four_orange_rectangles.jpg

>>55228514
>lady thinking the library's website was Google
http://www.jeffcolibrary.org/ it looks nothing like google
I guess all search bars are google search bars to her?

>same lady taking photos of her gmail on her smartphone and then writing all the messages down in a notebook
Not gonna even try to explain this.
She was early 30s at most too.

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My sisters converts her mp3s to FLAC because "the quality is better"

A friend bought a Mac... To play

>>55228584
At least the songs will last longer :^)

>>55228547
NIGGA

>>55228579
That's a pretty decent website for a public library.

>>55228514
I can't turn a computer on. Halp plz :√)

>>55228707
Pee on it. That provides a temporary coat of solder which will automatically repair any faulty electrical connections.

>Do you know who your internet provider is?
>"Uhh it says mozilla"

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>>55228547
They are pink

I was using a Linux USB in my local library and I opened firefox via terminal. Guy at table behind me asked if I was hacking.

>people call the computer the "CPU"
>people think the computer is the monitor and don't know what that "ugly box" is for

>>55228766

Had to check her Twitter to see if this was real. I fucking raged.

>>55228835
>her

>>55228766
>>55228835
Who is that? Are we supposed to know her?

>>55228737
#F1BEAC
#F0E0D3
#FFFFFF
#9D7F7C

>>55228766
Who is this person? I've never heard of her. Is she famous?

>>55228814
I blame video games for the "CPU" problem. A lot of games used to call AI players CPUs.

>>55228640
it is a rather mediocre bibliocommons install

>>55228881
She's the woman/tranny that the gamergaters were pissed off at, because she/it made fun of them for being losers who were obsessed about feminist influence in videogames.

>>55228930
fugg

My mom thinking I was choking to death when I pocket dialed her yesterday. She called my sister in a true panic, who then called me also panicking.

Why the fuck would I call you 1500 miles away if I was choking?

>>55228514
>Why are you typing google into google?
>Omg I like to do it my way!!! People have different ways of doing stuff and I like to do it this way!!!

>>55228881
>her
>>55228935
>her
>>55228961
>woman

>>55228766
maybe theres a space between the 4pin connector on the 1080

>>55228963
why would you call your mother when giving your BF a blowie joey?

>>55228948
Computer player unit.

>I thought internet was a device
She's pushing 75 though. But what would possibly put that idea in her lovely head?

>>55229149
obviously she thought the whole internet was contained in that little box you call a modem

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>>55228961
Gamergate isn't about feminism. It's about corruption. The corrupt journalists just made it look like it's about feminism and everyone went with it.

>>55229196
>expecting "gaming journalism" to be independent and serious

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Watched someone who "knows computers, stop questions me and leave me the fuck alone" pull on a tower CPU cooler as hard as he could to take it off. Didn't undo the retention lever (AMD) or anything. Just pulled and pulled until the lever that keeps the CPU in the socket let go and he broke the mounting hardware clean off the board. The CPU was stuck to the bottom of the cooler.

>what? Whats the problem? I always take it off like this.

He had the audacity to complain that the fins of the cooler always cut his hands and the parts companies should "design the release mechanism better"

Pic unrelated. Just gives me a giggle.

>>55228600
I bought a Mac to play vidya. Put a gtx 960 in it and installed Windows 10 on an and popped it in.. with a 1080p monitor totaled to around $800. No complaints here.

>>55229408
You're retarded, kill yourself.

>>55229412
I failed once, now I have to use a wheelchair :(

>>55229412
>>55229426
Second faggot isn't me.
Is there a legitimate issue with what I've done? I even have 2 CPUs in it. Everything but Bluetooth works without an issue.

My mom navigating to a website

>anon, check out this dog I found on the animal shelter's site
>clicks in IE Google toolbar
>searches "google.com"
>clicks link from Google search page to google.com
>searches animalsheltersite.com
>clicks link to animalsheltersite.com

>>55229459
>Is there a legitimate issue with what I've done?
You spent god knows how much on a Mac Pro to put Windows on it and play video games.

>>55228584
At my high school, the cool thing for girls to do was have iTunes make a single 256AAC copy of all their CDs and then break them.

>>55229501
>animalsheltersite.com
hey that site doesn't exist, I'm starting to believe your story is bullshit

>>55229507
I spent almost exactly $300

>>55229536
Post specs.

>>55228514
Googling google

>>55229196
>it's about ethics in toy reviews
AAA games are designed with children in mind, and you may be developmentally disability if they don't bore you to treats.

>>55229554
this
if you want the real lowdown on someone you use lullar or pipl, though pipl has kinda gone to shit lately

>>55229540
I'm on lunch at work right now. 2x 2.8ghz CPU gtx 960 4gb, 500GB SSD is the gist of it. Which brings the actual total to 600. SSD is a new upgrade. If this thread is alive in 4 hours when I get off, I'll post specs with timestamp.

>>55228737
It doesn't feel right without some blue from the megaman reaction image.

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>>55229606

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>>55229570
>lullar

>>55229628
perfect

>>55228579
Tfw my company actually manages their IT

>>55229598
>2x 2.8ghz CPU
Oh god that thing is fucking ancient. FB-DIMMS LMAO

>>55229628
DELET DIS :(

>>55229653
8 cores total. Shits worked just fine.

>>55229598
Quite nice machine, too bad apple are trying to get rid of old mac pros now

>>55229674
Those are Xeon 5300/5400s, lmao.

>>55229598

My fucking phone is clocked at 2.65 GHz, anon.

>>55229672
>tfw there's gotta be someone in this thread who has no idea what we're talking about

>>55229653
It's either a 2008 or a 2010, that's not too old

>>55229699
>falling for the megahertz myth

>>55229711
It's not a 2010, it's not even a 2009. It's a 2006-2008.

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>>55228547
>>55228737

FUCK YOU

sort of dumb from me too but

The girl that lived next door to me brang her laptop over because it wasn't connecting to her net. I spent like 45 minutes trying to find out what the hell was wrong with it and why my phone could connect but her laptop couldn't pick up anything, before realising she turned off the wifi on it accidentally through that function shortcut on the keyboard.

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>>55229672
>>55229738

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>>55229726
Based on the CPU clock it's either a 2008 or 2010, no other year had 2.8GHz CPUs so if it's definitely not a 2010 then it's a 2008 model, which again is not that old.

>>55229692
E5462, yes.
>>55229711
2008. So far it's served me very well. Specially coming from a 2.5GHz quad core laptop with a nvidia 610m 1gb.. I can now not only actually run games, but run most shit I own at high/ultra 1080p.
Really it just proves how elitist this place is. It's not a bad setup by any means, gets the job done with ease.

Alas, break is over. Stay classy anons.

>usb keyboard doesn't work
>welp i think its time to reformat

>>55229710
what up senpai

but really though I figure it's about the kid and his laptop shit.

>>55229971
yeah, my favorite/most hellish part of the story is when it gets thrown in the puddle

>>55228514
Removing the non-removable battery of a smartphone to reboot it.

>>55228514
>Elementary
>Everyone googles google in the google side bar ON THE FUCKING GOOGLE WEBSITE
>I was the only one who didn't do it

>Same year
>Typing courses
>solid 80 WPM with my 2 indexes and pinky for tab/shift
>Teacher yells at me for not adopting """""""""""""""""""""""""""""correct"""""""""""""""""""""""" position
>None of the other students can reach 40 WPM

>>55228514
/g/ on a daily basis

>>55230013
you are bestest babbeh and type how you want :-)

>>55229568
>bore you to treats
nice touch.

>>55228766
I don't get it dubanon.

>>55229276
>The CPU was stuck to the bottom of the cooler.

How? How did it come off if it was in the CPU socket?

And if she broke the mobo like that, how does she even replace a cooler without buying a new one?

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>>55228547
For anyone who hasn't read it yet...

>>55230134
Wow, sexist much? The post even indicates HE did it.

>>55230073
What if I can't type dogshit in the correct position and now reach 110 WPM with my method?

>>55230161
My bad anon, I shall check my privilege and pray to Sarkeesian and Quinn.

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>>55230155

>>55230134
It was common for AMD's PGA packages to stick to heatsinks and be lifted out with the lever still down. Thermal interface material does its job of displacing air, and no air means much stick.

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>>55230155

>>55230155
Fuck you

>>55230170
YOU ARE BESTEST BABBEH AND TYPE HOW YOU WANT

>>55230155
there it is
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>>55229527
It's bad pasta.

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>>55230190
No,I mean this CPU socket. Wouldn't the CPU be held down by it and not slip away?

>>55230203
>He doesn't type like me, yet types as fast
>Must be a bad method.

>>55230013
>people that judge your typing skills

it always pisses me off

>>55229276

god i hate tinder

>>55230226
YOU. ARE. BESTEST. BABBEH. AND. TYPE. HOW. YOU. WANT.

>>55228766
No way. No FUCKING way. And she's meant to be one of the foremost 'feminist games journalists omg look at me i'm so nerdy lolrandumb xd'?

>>55230226
Of course, but we are talking about AMD here

>>55230095
>>55228766
Don't worry, who cares about gamerkiddy shit that burns energy for muh 32x AA

>>55230134
He pulled so hard he broke the lever that locks the socket so it "unlocked" the cpu from its socket. Thermal paste made a make shift glue and the cpu stuck.

As for motherboard replacement, it turns out this was his first tims doing this for THIS pc. He performed the same steps on his last 2 PCs and broke them the same way. It's "the manufacturers fault for not making stuff that lasts".

Which is why he buys a new PC every 6 months.

>>55228835

Man oh man...How does anyone anywhere in anyplace in any fucking setting give this hack any bit of credibility?

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>>55230226
Not all sockets secure the CPU like that

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>>55230226
AMD CPUs are held in differently.

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>>55230276
I'm nostalgic for this socket.

Not most tech illiterate but this was my greatest WTF

>teacher searches for a file manually in multiple folders on desktop
>double clicks, opens a folder (A)
>not here
>double click on child folder (B)
>not here, no more folders either
>closes folder with X button
>reopens A
>this time opens folder C
>I am like WTF at this point
>closes folder again X again
>this time goes A -> D
>when A is all finished, she goes to another folder on desktop

well, she didn't know how to move up folder/previous folder. she repeated this maybe 10 times until she finally finds it.

and the best part is? she is a CS teacher

>>55230346
I also should mention very big pauses between opening folders to search the file.

>>55230346
drugs

>>55228835
>>55228881
>>55228935
>>55230255
>those fingers
>those nails
>her

>>55230346
You'll understand when you've specialized more.

>>55230410

yeah, she specialized so much, she was only be able to eat and read power point slides. like those sea cucumbers (?) that loses its brain once it is matured.

it was sad seriously

>>55230410
>specializing means you can no longer do the basics

what?

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>>55228514
Does the dev team behind WinME count? That OS fried my motherboard and bricked two HDDs during defrag.

It was my first OS on a "real proper" computer, previously having an Atari ST for $15 and a Win 3.1 amalgamation I got for $50. I thought all computers were going to be shit after WinME, almost stopped using them, but then I installed WinXP and all my problems vanished. It was such an amazing breath of fresh air.

>>55228983
I'm triggered by this

>>55230540
This happens to me all the time.
co-worker goes to google from the default homepage every time.

>Why don't you just use the google search bar in your Google Chrome™ browser?

>This is how I've always done it, just because you use computers more doesn't mean you're right.

>>55230632
>tell them you're just trying to help save them time
>they act like you're being a condescending asshole or something

People are so thin skinned these days. It's pathetic.

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Myself trying to use a computer on 1000mg of dxm.
When typing even the most basic commands takes forever and seems hopeless.
Last time I ended up flattening the partition with grub installed somehow.

>mfw the next day I remember what I've done.
Every time I use that shit I fuck my computer up somehow.

>>55229761
2010 was a single package 2.8GHz CPU. 2 x 2.8 was only 2008.

>>55230523
If the mobo heated so much that something burned out then dust it off once every few months.

And if your hard drives (plural) died from a defrag, ditch those 90's 40gig drives next time.

You don't leave yours 70's vette in the garage with the same gas in the tank for the last 15 years it has sat and drive it down the road like you went to the strip...

Buying a new PC or laptop when all that was needed was a SSD.

I've seen it too often, they just don't believe.

>>55229769
Usually reformating fixes the problem.

>>55230775
>i need to buy a new PC because I messed up the OS

>This old PC needs to stay here forever because I have some photos on it I like to look at sometimes

>>55230761
What are you even talking about? The mobo was brand new. The first HDD came with the computer, the second was a replacement for the first.

You are lucky you never had to deal with WinME.

>>55228514
>What is the most tech illiterate thing you have ever witnessed?
/g/

>>55230865
Never been to /v/, eh? Try asking them about free/g-sync. Thread turns into a train wreck three posts in.

>>55230155
>>55228514
I'll bite.

Can anyone tell me what this is referencing?

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>>55230815
>This old PC needs to stay here forever because I have some photos on it I like to look at sometimes

literally my fucking parents
offered to even transfer the old shit onto their new shit but they wouldn't listen

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>>55230913
This

>>55230910
>Thread turns into a train wreck three posts in.

That's any thread on /v/ that isn't about porn or internet-famous autists.

A grandmother bought her 9 year old granddaughter a Macbook Pro so she could play Star Stable.

>>55230910
>Never been to /v/, eh?
I was told I wondered in there once by accident. Was drunk and bored. Must have been blackout drunk, because I don't remember it.

>>55229527
Are you really that retarded? Not even op of that post but it is obvious he used
>genericwebsitehere.com

Because he didn't fucking remember what the site was you huge cum sucking retard

>>55231054
its b8 you asspie

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>>55230927

>>55230222
>true stories are now bad copypasta
Since when?

>>55231076
Mods killed the fun sadly
Only lasted about 2 threads

>>55230927
Urine often isn't sterile, even in the bladder.

>>55231130
Yeah it is a urophile meme, the thread was pretty great though

>>55231095
What fun? No man should have to think about that sort of shit until he has to

>>55231061
Hard to tell when people are legitimately stupid or just b8ing me

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>>55230632
Just because you're right doesn't mean you're correct

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>>55228766

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>>55231313
Literally what is the problem?

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>>55230913

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>>55231330

>>55230188
>>55230193
>being this new

my sister didn't know what right clicking was.

>>55230913
A Rothko painting.

>>55231406
Macbooks can't right click

>>55231406
4/10

>>55230632
wow what an asshole

>>55231448
The fuck are you on about? It's a two finger click.

>working at a web hosting company in the late 90s as a sysadmin
>they start expanding and needing new windows admins
>they go out and hire a few based on them having Microsoft certs
>they hire this stereotypical sassy black woman
>she needs to fix something on a server
>"how do i do that"
>"what's a file browser"
>"how do i fix this"
That was the day I discovered all certifications are worthless, proved time and again with all sorts of hires of tech illiterates in everything from tech support (A+) to networking (Cisco) because testing is not about actual knowledge, it's just memorizing shit and forgetting about it like everyone did in school.

>>55231330
The 1080s come with a 2x6pin to 1x8pin converter cable.

>>55231468
Are you two clicking right?

>>55231448
0/10

>>55231616
What?

I ran

sudo pacman -Syu

And a friend asked me if that was legal :|

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>>55231631
Do you perform your two-finger clicks like this?

>>55231695
Anywhere on the trackpad

>>55228766
I really don't get the issue - either I'm really dumb or "she" is really dumb.

Just plug it in? Has Brianna never bought a power supply before?

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some guy I work with said his dad worked for a security company and he told him they had a secret project that they were working on
He said they were going to give each file on computers it's own firewall
>mfw

>>55231670
>no, it isn't legal, and the cops will be here any minute because there's secret microphones that listen for people asking "Is this legal?" and by saying that you getting us arrested asshole.

then continue bullshitting him until he is visibly shaking, only to tell him you were joking, and to never question your authority again

>>55231722
Then it's not a right click now, is it?

It's an alt-click.

>>55231725
any "women" with hair dyed any shade of purple or red is automatically tech illiterate

>>55231758
Holy fucking semantics. If it really tickles your autism you can configure it so that the bottom left of the trackpad is primary click and bottom right is secondary. Or configure it so whatever the fuck is whatever click you want.

>>55231330
Using an Nvidia Card

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>>55231784
just being a smug bastard, anon. I got your point.

>>55228584
Rotational Velocidensity

>>55231341

Is that it? I've read that story many times before and I didn't even think that was what you're al talking about. You faggots chose a mediocre story to meme it into a "funny" meme.

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>>55230155
>mfw I got tricked twice

>>55231937
no one said it was funny anon, it's a meme because it tugs at the heartstrings of neckbears

>>55231758
It brings up context menus, who the fuck cares?

>>55229501
So much this.

>>55228766
This *has* to have been a joke. I refuse to believe otherwise.

>>55231742
Oh no I messed with her quite a bit

She's pretty easy to fool

>>55232092
I dunno anon, I've learned to never under estimate the stupidity of other people

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>>55228514

>working in tech support for iOS/Android app
>ask customer to take a screenshot and send it to me
>receive email with black and white pdf of scanned iPad

>>55232136
delete this

it's triggering

>>55228766
>4 to 4 power supply
>4 to 3x1 cable
Wut

>>55228547
Is this the new Loss?

>>55228983
Even my dad does this, and he successfully ran multiple businesses until he got bored, selling his current company and starting up a new one. He would literally build companies out of boredom and sell them once they got successful and he made a good amount of profit. I fucking admired him until I saw him using a computer. Now I'm thinking of calling the cops on his ass because someone that is so computer-illiterate couldn't possibly be such a successful entrepreneur and he might've been laundering money for some mafia all this time.

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>>55232136
>american

>>55230346
Tbqh my cs teacher didn't unplug the Ethernet cables during tests and the whole class would send their answers over the school mail server and she wouldn't notice a thing.

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>>55231341
Still hurts as much to read as the first time I read it nearly 4 years ago.

>>55231296
What did he mean by this?

>>55229756
..it took you 45 minutes to check something you should have checked first?

Your supposed to be telling us about tech illiterate people, not showing us how tech illiterate you are.

In 9th grade my teacher called the entire computer a hard drive

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>>55228514
>2011
>squad leader is using his $2k rMBP at lunch
>google image search "funny memes"
>takes a few pictures of memes with his current gen iphone
>disgusted, don't eat, smoke cigarettes insteaf

>>55230715
You must have one hell of a tolerance, or be a big guy, 750 would pretty much put me out. I remember being so drunk my eyes were to blurry to see the screen So I close one eye and squint really hard and eventually the screen focuses in my vision, but 350mg of DXM and the internet is somewhat interesting as long is you don't become to delusional.

>>55230013
whats wrong with using the google sidebar? even if you do happen to be on google.com, there is nothing wrong with using the sidebar

dude you were in a keyboarding class, of course you would get scolded for doing it wrong. you're an idiot if you think typing with 2 index fingers and a pinky is just as good as the orthodox way, just because its how you've always done it

Whenever I see people pecking at the keyboard, especially if its somebody I work with, I always like to say something like

"You never learned how to type? isn't that sort of like not being able to read or write?"


I always get a kick out of it, it makes normies feel like total retards, like hooked on phonics tier, and it just sounds so goddamned condescending

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>>55232477
>"just because your argument is logically sound, does not imply your actions are ethically justifiable"

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>>55232630

>>55232315

It's not, it's funny. Belongs in YLYL.

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>>55232177

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>>55229540
Just got off work, sorry I'm an hour late. Here's specs in the laziest way I can think of making it.

>>55232630
>This logic

They are learning to type you dumb fuck. Everyone starts off retarded then gets better over time. You're like some idiot who sees fat people going to the gym then asks them if they've tried losing weight

Like nigga u retarded

>>55232630
My fucking god you'd fit in with the edgiest of twelve year olds.

>>55233151
nah dude these people are not learning to type. they're adults who have had decades to learn to type.They've consciously chosen to ignore the proper way, and instead hunt and peck the slow way with two fingers. they will hunt and peck for keys a 5-10% normal speed for the rest of their lives without ever having any intention of improving. They will ignore the fact that they're actually being paid to work and if their job involves typing all day long than they are literally performing at 10% what is expected of them

I enjoy saying that to them because its condescending, but its also quite true. not being able to type, in a workplace where everybody does their work on a computer, is like not being able to read or write. Anybody who can touch type would cringe while watching these fucking try to input even the most simple things

>>55233194
I work in a call center, so typed out notation is a huge part of my job, second only to the knowledge of what I actually need to help the individual with. I understand where you are coming from when it comes to looking at someone peck typing when they've been working on a computer for several years and have obviously not improved at all. That being said, you're still a dick.
Instead of being condescending (or at least only condescending) have you considered actually helping them at all? Showing them the proper home keys, helping with what fingers should go for what keys, anything?

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witnessed a lot of stupid shit but the worst was at a shitty business I regrettably worked at, it's worse because this guy was a "lead technology expert" and had been doing this for 15+ years

tl;dr:
>client's "ROUTERBOARD" router dies, he won't take replacement router
>he spends over 7 hours trying to connect a modem to a switch
>show up with replacement and it works instantly
>ask what he's been doing
>just been hooking up modem to different port in switch for over 7 hours then going to look which PC randomly gets the public IP then repeating "I've never seen an IP address like this before" (doesn't know what a public IP is)
>ask why there is one different port away from the others that is colored differently
>"it's just for aesthetics"
>lel (just kidding I nearly killed myself on the spot)
>keeps repeating "managed switch" and won't say the word "router"
>turns off DHCP when I wasn't looking because "it is messing up their network"
dude was a macfag and legit thought that the shinier a router (managed switch? kek) was that meant the better it was, he "recommended" cisco meraki "gear" to residences with less than 3 PCs

>>55233194
The worst is when they've gotten pretty good at hunting and pecking, maybe they get up to 25 wpm, not bad for two fingers.
like this guy
>>55230013
They get all smug and will tell you that they're faster with two fingers than they are with all ten so they're going to keep doing it that way forever. How a person can reasonably come to that conclusion is fucking amazing to me. I mean fuck, running may be faster than walking but I'm still going to drive to work.

These guys will actually think they're getting better, and will eventually think they're pretty good. When in reality all they've done is practiced being handicapped

>>55228766
>it's real
https://twitter.com/Spacekatgal/status/745982638360498176

>>55233194
>>55233243
The real problem you're going to have is when they are using the PC or internet access "failure" as a psuedo-excuse to get out of work that day. Easily done if they are working at a branch where their boss is 100+ miles away. Had a lady one time that decided she didn't want to do any work that day and would not, under any circumstances, power cycle her modem.

>super happy tone: We can't get online today
>okay you need to power cycle your modem before we call the ISP
>what's a modem? I'm not looking for that
>It's a black box with the word ARRIS on it
>Well I don't see it
>it's going to be in a closet
>I don't see it in the closet, wait now I do
>Okay you need to take the power cord out
>I don't see the modem now
So you could see the modem before, but now you can't.

>there's three cords! this is too complicated, I'm not doing this.
>So now you CAN see the modem? it's the only cord with two prongs
>TOO COMPLICATED
>Fine! Take them all out it's fine as long as you put them back in
>really, really long pause
>"I can't find the modem"
Look I don't give a flying fuck about you or your shitty business, worst fear is a week later the business owner will freak out at the retarded bill they're gonna get since this fuck wasted our time and we have to call the ISP to come out just to power cycle it and they'll charge too. Call up the owner in advance to report this and it's
>HOW DARE U I HAVE HAD THAT EMPLOYEE FOR 30 YEARS HOW DARE U

These people I work with that I act like a dick to are in their 40's and 50's, and have been working on computers for 20 years at least.

Half of them tell me they can't type because they're older, that younger generations like mine are all good typists because we're "born into it". as if thats a legitimate excuse. Its like "bitch you were using a keyboard to type at work when I was still struggling to hold my head up, you had a huge fucking head start". They were typing before I even knew any words, yet somehow they never managed to figure it out.

Shit it only takes like 6 weeks to learn to type properly anyways.

>>55233315
These are only associated who are on the same level as me, scrubs on the phone for 8 hours a day. If they're shit doesn't work, they simply go to another workstation. If their log information doesn't work, they just fuck around until someone fixes it, or they're randomly able to log in.

My job is not important, I am easily replaceable. My position could easily be thought of as queue management. I take ~64 calls/day (inbound only) and then I go home.
The only real requirement is to be smarter than the people who call in, and 75% of the people who call in are fucking retarded.

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>mfw i don't hunt and peck
>mfw i just peck
>i am like chopin on the keyboard dancing my hands all over the place and pecking keys with whichever finger is the closest to the key at that moment in time
>mfw i do it purely by touch and never look at the kb
>mfw i still get 100 wpm
>mfw touch typist fags look in disgust at my ultimate form and then rage at how i'm faster and stylin on them

Lol I work with a guy that types like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5irndpzO8I

we sit right next to each other and type out long reports all day long, my keyboard churns out a healthy 90-100wpm on average while this guy just punches one key at a time with one hand and a pencil eraser. All day I watch his other hand, quivering as if its about to reach for a key to help his first hand out, but he never actually does.

The worst part is the guys pencil eraser rubs all the letter off the keys and he swaps (blatent office theft) his scrubbed off keyboard with some other unsuspecting employee like every week. Every month they're replacing these "heavily worn out keyboards" when they are in fact in near mint condition, they just have no letters showing anymore.

I turn in about 15-20 times the amount of work he does everyday but for some reason all the bosses like him and point out how great his other qualities are, like picking up litter in the parking lot or refilling the coffee machine water supply

its honestly quite irritating

>>55232976
>he has a Mac Pro 3,1
>He's running botnet 10 on it
LMAO KEK

>>55233249
>he "recommended" cisco meraki "gear" to residences with less than 3 PCs
That shit is pretty, though.

>>55233475
I used El Capitain for 5 months, decided I didn't like it, put Windows 10 back on it. I would rather go back to Arch Linux and having to recompile bumblebee every single time there was a kernel update before I would go back to using OSX.

>>55233500
Then why the fuck did you buy a Mac Pro, you retard?

>>55233510
I had no reason to think osX would be as shit as it was, I can (did) install Windows on it, it was slightly cheaper than building my own rig (as I was coming from a laptop, hence the bumblebee issue), and literally why not? The autistic responses are great and bring light to my day.

>>55233546
>I had no reason to think osX would be as shit as it was
What's shit about it?
>literally why not
Because it's retarded? You could have built an X5400 Xeon PC for nothing.

>>55228811
Were you hacking?

>>55233552
The entire idea of "fullscreen apps" taking up their own workstation is great. But not being able to leave that workstation without an animation that shows that I am, in fact, leaving this full screen application to go to another workspace is stupid. The response time for switching workstations was very low. If I were to click a link in workstation A, and my browser is in workstation C, it moves it to B. Because fuck you. The entire filesystem felt like the bastard child of Windows and Linux. Pick one. I autohide my dock, because I don't need that shit in my way all the time. It was very finicky when it decided to pop up or not. Screenshots decided they would go to the desktop by default.
TL;DR the only thing I liked about it was it looked nice. I went into Linux thinking "yes, I'm going to configure this" as such, I spent hours getting Conky/XFCE set up in the exact config I liked it. I went into OSX thinking it should just work in a logical way, and it failed me. With Windows, I add my 2 extra workspaces, autohide my dock, and I'm good.
I'm sure I could complain more about it, but those are the easiest to describe issues that caused me to go back to Windows.

If you want to point me to a motherboard and two 5462 xeon processors then please, be my guest. But I already own this fucker and don't care to look further into it. Again, I went in thinking I'd still be runing OSX. I believe that is important.

>>55228811
Were you hacking?

>>55233637
Everything you mentioned can be configured.
I recommend uBar, btw.

>>55228811
Wear you hacking?

>>55233637
So basically you used an OS for five months without ever bothering to configure it to your liking and now hate it because you don't like the changeable defaults?

>>55228514
>she opens chrome, no homepage, internet is broken,help

>>55233660
I spent a good bit of time trying to get OSx to be something I really enjoyed using, but the effort it took vs the reward I felt I was getting was too low. I much prefer starting from 0 and making something I enjoy, rather than starting from about 75% and trying to fix what's broken.

>>55233691
I changed a good number of things, one of the major things I had to change was how the mouse handled acceleration. I don't remember how it was fucked up, but I very quickly installed something to remedy that issue.
I very much changeable defaults, but the way OSX allowed me to change it was not enough, nor to my liking. It requires a ton of 3rd party software to become something that feels proper. That feels wrong.

On Linux, I was able to get everything I wanted with XFCE and Conky as far as looks. It was minimalist, it was responsive, and it was nice. Windows10 I just changed a default. Mac I had to install software to change how the window manager dealt with "maximizing" windows, add support for window snapping, fix the way mouse acceleration was handled, and I likely could have replaced/removed/altered a good number of other things. That feels wrong, and is obviously not a product I wished to continue using.

>>55230346
Welcome to CS, where people actually tend to know shit in regards to computers.

>>55233745
Half of your complaints I've never even experienced, the others can be fixed without third party software. Anon, your only real issue was that you had no fucking clue what you were doing.

>>55233762
In either case, fuck it. I'm using Windows. Can't install Overwatch on a Mac anyway.

>>55233776
>Can't install Overwatch on a Mac anyway.
Point taken. Apple deserves it, the OpenGL performance was extremely bad over the course of the last decade.
Now, when vulkan is nearly there, they come up with metal bullshit that nobody needs.
>implying game producers will make a version for OpenGL/vulkan (Linux/steamOS), OpenGL ES (mobile) and DirectX (wangblows)

>>55228514
gamergate

>>55233803
>implying OpenGL doesn't support Windows

>>55233826
What OpenGL games are there? Dota 2 had OpenGL support on Windows, but the checkbox is a lie. It's still running in DX when you install that mod, it's an abstract kind of OpenGL.

What else is there?

>>55233864
>>55233826
And don't say Super Tux Kart

>>55233874
>implying

>>55233864
Where the fuck did I say there were a ton of OpenGL games? Dumbass.

>>55228514
most of the threads on /g/

>>55233395
Ok

>>55231144

Urophiles are ridiculous.

>claiming you can feel a difference between haematuria and proteinuria in your rectum

>Can you share that file?
>Sure

>Here's the link
>Post file path on Facebook

>>55228514
A guy hitting the monitor because his PCs not working properly.
Was back in the days where everyone had those huge CRTs.

>>55228811
Were you hacking?

>rooting my phone's illegal, and it will break it

>refreshing my desktop 50 times will make my pc run 5x faster

>shutting down my pc by pressing the power button, or holding it will break the pc

>what's that you were saying? Linux, mint, cinnamon? Are you going to a strip club, 'cause those sound like stripper names.

>deleting a shortcut automatically uninstalls the program

Anything from neo/newfag PCucks that came to this site around 2008/2009 from other places like tumblr and reddit.
>Dark Souls 1
>no pcuck can fucking read the README.txt to see to turn off AA to fix the resolution
>All the specs threads with shitty builds asking if they could play a certain game, almost always mobas
>asking for gaming laptops
>doing stupid shit like having 20 Chrome tabs open, steam with like 30 gay roleplaying chat windows open, torrenting and a relatively high power game all running at the same time, then surprised when the computer crashes/BSOD
>the whole fucking Steambox shit

>>55235393
>not opening your laptop and disconnecting camera and mic.
Fucking pleb

>>55228514
I once saw someone use windows.

>>55231272
its not bait if the guy thinks nobody will be retarded enough to take him seriously, like you

>>55230013
>tfw 107wpm peak 90 average with my own 5 finger method

>Install Automatic Industrial sewage pumps on a house with a septic tank.
>It has 3 triple state switches (Automatic, Off, Manual) in case the flotation actuators fail to activate the pumps.
>Labelled them
>ACTIVATE PUMP 1 (with the stickers saying what each switch position would do)
>ACTIVATE PUMP 2
>ALARM
>The next day get a call
Help none of the pumps are working it's the septic tank is flooding my backyard.webm.
>Rush to the clients home
>Ask him what he did first
All I did was test the manual mode.gif
>Switches are set to neutral and the alarm is set to On
>Set back both pump switches and write up a bill charging 200€ and got the fuck out of there.

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>Built a decent rig for my GF for 250€
>Had an old GTX660 lying around
>used it to keep the budget even lower
>her dad said its a shit PC because it doesnt have VGA port
>mfw

>>55235542
I'm so sorry you had to see that

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>>55232136
>children being forced

>work as sysadmin for small company
>get new boss
>boss doesn't know anything about computers
>boss tells me a drive died in the SAN, Nimble already shipped a replacement which will be here tomorrow
>Next morning boss is on the phone with Nimble trying to figure out why his hdd swap failed.
>I know boss fucked up i just dont know how
>look at the drive he pulled - 1tb hdd
>reread the alert email: DRIVE FAILURE - 320GB SSD


he took out a healty drive from a live array and replaced it with ssd cache, and left the dead ssd cache in. there are huge stickers on the drives that say what they are.

my boss makes 3x my salary.

he doesnt know anything about computers.

save me.

>>55235497
Taping over your webcam is fine. Worst case, you use shitty tape and they can tell how bright/dark your room is.
Taping over your mic is utterly pointless, at best it makes things sound a little more silent and muffled.

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>>55228514
My parents bought me a fucking apple trash can pro for my 18th birthday because the people at scam buy told them it was the absolute best thing in their shop.

Keep in mind we were poor for most of my life because my ma is very sick, and they only bought it as a way to "make up" for all the birthdays and holidays were I didn't get much. It never bothered me.

I let them down very gently and we went back to scam buy and returned it. I had never opened it.

Wound up "only" spending $1,600 to build my own actual gaming rig. They were pretty happy with the results since they saved nearly $2,000 and I was still joyful about the gift.

>>55233249
>turns off DHCP when I wasn't looking because "it is messing up their network"
I remember you. That was some suffering.

>>55236626
Why are you whining that they got you a Mac Pro? Take it back if they're poor, but they didn't get scammed. Fucking gamer trash.

>>55228579
My mom recently got her first smartphone and she has one of those wallet cases for it. She writes down notes on paper and then keeps the notes in the wallet case's card slots. I think its kinda funny, but I whatever works for her.

>>55236895
>Take it back if they're poor

He did.
Are you illiterate or do you just have the attention span of an eight year old?

>>55237060
Holy shit, are you retarded?

>>55232630
I'll bet you can't even write in cursive

>>55237179
Nice rebuttal

>>55228547
DELETE THIS

>>55232136
Oh Jesus.

But now consider this from the view of a normie on the left side of the IQ Gauss curve. How many bound/verbs in the dev tools can actually be understood? 5?>>55232118

>>55237298
There's nothing to rebut, you just can't understand figures of speech.

>>55229518
This is so stupid on so many levels, it makes me extremely angry.

My dad uses an ancient Dell shitbook laptop still running XP to store critical business documents. The hard drives gonna give out any day now. I try to tell him his data is in danger and requires urgent backup, but he doesn't listen.

>>55229501
I'm actually fucking angry about this.

>>55228514
My boss tried to get some of the office workers to trademark a hashtag

>>55237573
Say goodbye to your dad's business

>>55237606
That you created? So?

>>55235440
>shutting down my pc by pressing the power button, or holding it will break the pc

Isn't there a chance of corrupting some important system files when you cut the power off the PC?
This might count as "breaking the PC" if you're a normie, because it will stop working correctly and will need to be brought to a technician to be fixed.

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>>55233864
>its an abstract kind of OpenGL

>>55237573
you should secretly backup for him then wait till his hard drive dies

>>55238051
>Isn't there a chance of corrupting some important system files when you cut the power off the PC?
Yes, hard shut downs are not good.

Most OPs on this board desu senpai

>>55228514
>What is the most tech illiterate thing you have ever witnessed?

WITNESS MEEEEEE!!!

>>55228766
Am I crazy or is 6+2 pin fucking designed for PCI-E...???

My dad tried to call my mum on the TV remote.

>>55235440
>shutting down my pc by pressing the power button, or holding it will break the pc
It probably won't break your PC (unless you do it in the middle of Windows updating). It can cause problems in the long run if you keep doing day after day.

>>55228514
I have never had any formal training or education for computers and have landed multiple jobs as 'the computer guy' so the thought of being 'that guy' scares me to death, mainly because I've gotten so used to being able to just google things that sometimes I forget even the most basic shit that should be ingrained in my head.

Being the IT bitch I am I don't remember a lot of specific examples but I do have a lot of moments where I have to play detective because the people know nothing about computers and can't even describe what is happening - it just doesn't work.Lots of things like me asking them what version of windows they have and they say 'excel', or people not realizing that all your files and programs don't just magically transfer over to a new machine. People saying their internet on their laptop doesn't work when in actuality they just can't get into their email because something deleted their saved passwords. Having an old lady accidentally rotate her screen display 90 degrees and then trying to talk her through how to get it back. Shit like that. Lots of minor tech illiteracy that leads to big annoying problems later down the road.

>>55236626
>the people at scam buy told them it was the absolute best thing in their shop.
Isn't the trash can Mac Pro still pretty goddamn powerful for rendering, number crunching etc.?

>>55231313
>RETURN_THE_SLAB.gif

Thank you anon. Best laugh in a while.

>>55229276
which font is that?

>>55233345
I wish we had one of the good elderly generations instead of the "buhh lurnings for smart people" boomer trash heap that's going to stick around for a couple more decades.

>>55228766
So.. she learned something we all learned at some point as well.

What the fuck is the issue? Are you all that fuckin vulnerable that some random ass internet person can rustle your jimmies so?

>>55231313
LMAO

I used to work at a small computer repair shop. My town is full of a lot of not-too-bright and tech illiterate people (which consist mostly of meth-heads and senior citizens), and the following would always trigger me:

>People calling desktop wallpaper a "screen saver"
>People calling their computer "My CPU"
>People referring to a hard drive as "memory" or "the gigabytes"
>People refusing to use anti-virus because they were told it would give them more viruses, and trying to argue with me about it

I've also encountered numerous customers mispronouncing "HP Pavilion" as "HP Pavalon".

>>55239428
Anti viruses are memes.
>tfw dumb people are smarter than you

>>55228514

its mostly to do with circuits in series:

"Hey anon, this computer won't power on. It keeps saying "Power Save" and then turning off".

>turning on the monitor will activate the cpu

>>55238051
It can harm the OS or programs if you hold the power button while the PC is doing something important, but pressing the power button to shut it down doesn't do any harm. It's easy to fix if something goes wrong with programs/OS but it won't "break the PC"

>person needs to download thing from internal site, requires password
>sent url, link, password via email
>she opens url, ask for password via windows authentication which doesn't allow to switch window
>instead of writing down the piece of paper she calls our 24/7 office, which should answer ANY call at any moment just for me to spell down the complicated password

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>>55233249
In terms of design and looks
Cisco Meraki is the Apple laptop of routers
I mean.... look
>twf that guy just wanted this router because he legit is a macfag and liked the iRouter

>>55229990
Nah, the Best Buy trip is the worst

>>55238252
This. Don't be an idiot by not helping an idiot.

>>55229759
my post will end in 5

>>55232395
Expecting CS people to know anything about a computer is laughable

>>55236626
you're a good person, anon

>>55238758
it is a powerful machine, no doubt, it's just;
- it sacrifices cooling for size, so it runs really hot under load, which probably limits its life when used heavily, not a good trait for a workstation
- it's not very good value for money

>>55238450
yea, for some reason he can't wrap his mind around the fact that those together will fit into a 2x4 (8-pin) slot
presumably he's only handled 4-pin (2x2) PCI-E power connectors before

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>>55228983
>open browser
>type "google" into google homepage
>google reloads
>type www dot facebook dot com into the google searchbar
press search
>click the link
>mfw it's saved in her bookmarks bar
>I LIKE DOING IT THIS WAY DON'T TRY TO CHANGE ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL THESE NEW THINGS WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THINGS

Mother-in-law thinks a regular phone data cable is an Ethernet cable and plugs it into the router. She thinks I'm disconnecting her from the internet whenever she sees it unplugged even though her smart TV is wireless.

>>55240007
at my job we hire CS graduates to do shit work like carry equipment and NOTHING skilled

most dont know the difference between DVI and VGA even after 3 years of working for us and essentially all they do is lug around crates of peripherals and cables and install them under heavy supervision.

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>>55228547
cunts

I saw a senior level network tech for a top-20 tech company in the world go to an executive's house and set up a comcast xfinity box with an additional 4 port switch then he pulled ethernet up to the upstairs and then plugged the other end into a comcast box. He had 2 or 3 DHCP servers serving up addresses to the printer and I had to go and figure out his fuckup like why does this printer keep saying its IP is different???

Needless to say I put the xfinity box into bridge mode, unplugged the upstairs box, and added some wireless APs because fucknut was relying on the wifi in the xfinity box in this HUGE mansion

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>>55228547
You dirty triggerhappy cunt!

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>>55240134
I get this a lot but its people who insist they MUST go to the corporate home page, open the links section, go to quick links, scroll to important links, and click email...

...Instead of using a bookmark or typing mail.corporatedomain.com

And the email page links to the calendar but no they go back to the corporate homepage and start all over... fucking boomers.

>>55229756
that's literally the first thing to check

>>55228514
Using Cheeta Clean Master
Seriously wtf

>>55230254
GET SORRY TYPIES FOR INCORRECT FORM

>>55240547

Who are you?

>>55240578
The Internet

>>55230013
you missed out on an important life lesson about being able to accept criticism and not just bluster and scream FOUL FOUL FOUL!!!! every time someone suggests you might do something a little different.

>>55231430
10/10

>>55233637
>too dumb for OSX
you won the thread!!! your an all star!!!

>>55240777
That's most of /g/
>makes fun of OS X constantly, loves calling it a toddler OS
>can't figure out how to use it
It's funny how they insult themselves.

>>55233395
Is that bread or some kind of candy?

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>>55240914
they bake bread in cubic like pans for home made bread in japan. not sure why exactly probably because Portuguese did it in the 1600s when they introduced bread to ching chong island.

>>55231001
wow so you drink? that's really dope xd

>>55241008
>can't relevantly discuss consuming alcoholic beverages because little shits act like you're bragging
Just stop.

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>>55228766
Just saw this on their Twitter too.

>>55241040
Holy fuck they have to be trolling people, it's too stupid.

>>55241040
>>55241122
>their
>they
don't act like you're not sure it's a man, you're only enabling him

>>55239518
What if it's doing something important in the background?
It's not like that kind of normie will know anyway.

>>55230927
Catheters give me the willies

>>55241181
My they was legitimate because I was referring to multiple people, not just brian who.