what are the greatest hoaxes in tech?

>>58767810
linux as a gaming platform

>>58767810
linux as an operating system

the turk

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bsd as a desktop os.

>>58767810
Theranos

>>58767810

Hey there, Ahmed, Cool clock. Want to bring it to The White House?

>>58767810
Linux

>>58767875

he lost one of his cases today

has to pay shapiro legal fees

>>58767831
/thread

>>58767831
>>58767824
These.

The many distributions of the operating system most often referred to as "Linux" are in fact distributions of GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux. There is no Linux operating system. Linux is a kernel.

>>58767887

good.
didn't he lose another one few months back too?

>>58767810
Facebook.

>>58767810
The Bogdanoff and Daft Punk being different people.

Everything Elon Musk's ever done.

>>58767909

yes he has lost all of them now

the school suit is down to 150k and still pending, which wont be enough to cover the legal fees

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Networked computers

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>>58767810
google

theyre actually a social engineering agency of the government, not a tech company

>>58767831
This.

>>58768184
>Gayglers
My ducking sides

Nvidia woodscrews

>>58768113
I don't know what's up with all those kids hating linux lately but this is the real answer.

>>58767810
HP's The Machine. It was supposed to have special everything and it turned out just being a big PC.

What a fucking shitshow HP has become. They managed to actually release the Sprout, which is a fucking joke and its software has been abandoned already (no updates to bring up core function to what was advertised) and also the HP Prime calculator is completely worthless, has a very short battery life thanks to the GAY ASS BACKLIT COLOR SCREEN and it uses a Pascal-like language for development instead of comfy old RPL like we've had since the 80s.

I'm offended because HP was the original Silicon Valley company, had the first black engineers, was a true meritocracy, employees could work on their own projects on the company gear and even check out gear to have at home, it was the company Apple tried to be. And a fucking woman ruined it.

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Here's HP's The Machine, a fucking lie.

>>58768184
How google climbed to the top of search engines still eludes me. Their results were never as accurate as competitors back when.

>>58767875
>Hey there, Ahmed, Cool clock. Want to bring it to The White House?
what would donald say?

>>58769799
Were you alive in the late 90s?

Yes, other engines were better at searching for shit. AltaVista, even ask fucking jeeves. Yahoo was still viable.

Back then, people barely knew how to turn a computer on, much less use the internet. Nearly any how-to guide written to help people use the internet had the phrase: "Use a search engine"

How the fuck is anyone signing onto the internet for the first time going to know what the hell a search engine is, what looks like, how to find it?

Google, in a move a sheer brilliance, had one of the least cluttered homepages on the entire fucking internet, where the search bar was RIGHT FUCKING THERE It's no fucking wonder "Google it" took off, when Yahoo became shit, everyone forgot about AltaVista, and someone fired Jeeves.

In essence, Google was smart, and everyone else was clearly going out of their way to fail.

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"Removing files makes your phone go faster"

>>58769959

he would explain reality, which is the entire thing is a desperate attention seeking hoax. While it does prove yes in fact anyone from anywhere is capable of learning tech, they used it as a political crutch. It was dirty.

>>58770002
"Unused RAM is good."

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>>58770039
>While it does prove yes in fact anyone from anywhere is capable of learning tech,
check out this tech I learned

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>>58769959

>>58767810
Did he pirate his windows?

kek

>>58767901
Nobody gives a shit you autist. "Linux" is just shorthand for GNU/Linux and the only people that care when someone leaves out the GNU part are hardcore spergs.

>>58767810

Apple.

>>58767810
Anti-virus

>>58769981
Google had Google News and some kind of Google Desktop for RSS feeds and weather you can attach, that was integrated before Google said "fuck it, make it a single search bar and strip out all the rest", it looked like what Yahoo has now
>I forget what it was called, iGoogle or something

>>58770039
>he would explain reality

Haha, the guy who has constantly been talking crap? Fucking alternative facts, man

>>58767875
Keep building.

>>58768184
shit, this can't be real

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>>58770942
>Says the faggot that probably unironically believes Russia hacked the US election

>>58770203
No, he wrote it himself, from scratch, in just 4 hours.

Computers

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>>58770096
fucking kek

Windows 10 is free

>>58770979
So he hasn't been lying constantly, then? I mean, you bring up a completely different issue without addressing the first one.

>>58771146
BREAKING NEWS: Trump goes down in history as first politician to ever lie.

>>58767887
La salsa mi amigo?

>>58767810
"Open Source" software

linux

>>58771163
Yes, he lies, a lot. That's my point. I don't know how he compares to other presidents, I'd be interested to see such a comparison, but my point was that the idea of Trump "explaining reality" to someone when he's already infamous for twisting it is hilarious.

>>58771198
>Obama lies abot keeping your doctor with the ACA, premiums not going up,etc. the Iran ransom deal,...
>Trump lies about crowd size during his inauguration
>Obama isn't more of a liar than Trump

Dihydrogen monoxide can destroy your tech.

>>58771293
I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but I was saying Trump is a liar. So saying he would explain reality was pretty hilarious to read. I didn't compare him to other presidents or politicians.

>>58771198
>obama lies about not punishing whistleblowers

>>58771368
> I don't know how he compares to other presidents, I'd be interested to see such a comparison
Can you explain what he lied about exactly? You're just stating a claim over and over again and not supporting it with any evidence.

>>58767810
That kid has roblox on his desktop

>>58771169
http://www.dailywire.com/news/13100/implosion-clock-boy-lawsuit-against-shapiro-ben-shapiro

>>58767810
>GOOD MORNING YOUTUBE! TODAY WE ARE GOING TO GO OVER THE TOP 10 GREATEST TECH HOAXES!
fuck off OP find ideas elsewhere

>>58767901
Well I run busybox+musl fuck gnu

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>>58768184
>>58768311
>>58769799
>>58770956
That's nothing! Google actually has a WHOLE TEAM of SJWs whose sole purpose is to find ways to eliminate free speech and destroy sites like 4chan and destroy people who don't agree with "progressive" SJW, pro-LGBT, pro-feminism, anti-male, anti-white, anti-family agendas. Anyone who doesn't agree with them is labeled as a "troll".

Just read this shit:

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justice-league-ai-powered-war-trolls/

Seriously, fuck those google jews! This is Orwellian-tier shit.

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>>58772342
Official tweet about them...

>>58768184
>>58769799
>>58770956
>>58772342
Eric Schmidt attended multiple Bilderberg Group meetings. But Google's agenda is clear enough by itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants#United_States_4

>>58770753
/g/ is a board for hardcore spergs. Get used to it or get out.

>>58771535
You never asked for any evidence.

>>58771535
>my inauguration crowd was the largest in history, even though there are several pictures proving otherwise
>I don't have small hands
>Cardboard cake
>Alternative facts

>>58771535
I was never asked to provide evidence. I was staring the same thing over and over again because there was some sort of misunderstanding, the other person was constantly talking about other politicians even when that wasn't my point at all.

The first piece of news I found when I searched "Trump lie" told that Trump apparently lied about what drugs he's taking. Politifact also lists a lot of things he's said that turn out to be false. You can check that out here: http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

He's constantly in some kind of mess over lying and making false claims. That's why saying he'd "explain reality" was funny to me. I hope that I made it clear what my point was, even if we don't agree on it.

>>58767887

using money he received from the state of texas

Apple

Get good hardware that costs $400 for $800 good goy.

It's a very clever meme. The average human is too stupid to get it. They see good hardware and think that's all the proof they required.

>>58769799

>said the imbecile who never did science research

>>58767810
daikatana

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>>58770096

that's brilliant, for a 50 year old man child

>>58767810

This recent update craze fad that has taken over the smartphone market. I see tech illiterate people talking all the time about updates as if they were crucial to the experience when they don't even know what changed, IF anything has actually changed aside from UI shit. It's mostly applefags, which is hilarious since apple updates are notorious for taking a dump on slightly older devices (experienced it first hand with my original ipad, which ios 5 utterly demolished to the point of it being reduced to an ebook reader). Same with windows updates. People talk about them as if they are suddenly gonna be kept free of some kind of virus or whatever. Bitch, if you're in the point that you may actually come in contact with anything infected, you're beyond the point of salvation and an update isn't gonna do jack fucking shit for you. It's your brain you should update with common sense.

>>58769981
I remember using Metacrawler because it was less cluttered, and then someone told me about Google.
holy shit it was amazing.

>>58767810
I just realized he looks like a sandnigger Mr Rogers

>>58773338

google used to be "unconstrained" and if you typed in the proper sequence of search terms it would delve into corporate intranets that had a bit of web access

all sorts of shit that was never meant to be exposed populated to goooooooooooooooooooooooooo

>>58770039
>While it does prove yes in fact anyone from anywhere is capable of learning tech
Except it didn't. Ahmed proved many times that he didn't know jack shit about jack shit.

He didn't know how to even hold a soldering iron in his first photos and he spoke about soldering CPUs (which is possible, a simple four stage CPU is not that hard to build... for someone with a brain). Any time he spoke about tech it was clear that he didn't actually know anything. He probably didn't even have the skills to put together the color-coded, lego playsets we call modern custom PC building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

>>58767875
I went to the same school as Ahmed. I wish I could have been there while he was there so I could have bullied the fuck out of him.

>>58767831

I get my daily fill by watching /g/ jump through hoops and hurdles trying to justify Linux.

>>58772705
>using default wheels in gmod
>not making a suspension with advanced precision

he's not even trying. this is making me mad.

>>58767810
linux being free software