Came home today to find my sister freaking out because she "lost everything" on her laptop

>Came home today to find my sister freaking out because she "lost everything" on her laptop
>Ask her what happens
>She tells me it's because she accidentally closed chrome
>It turns out she keeps literally 10 tabs open at all times to save her webpages because she doesn't know what bookmarks are
>On a machine with 4gb of ram
>And she wanted to get a new computer because this one was "too slow"
>She hadn't closed Chrome or turned off her laptop in months

How do people do things like that?

Also tech illiterate story thread

I had the same thing happen to me. Place I work for offers free tech support one night a week and a lady came in asking why her youtube wont work. She opened her firefox for me and 50 tabs opened up. I got her youtubes fixed and then had to close firefox and she started yelling at me because all of her tabs were gone and that it took months of work to find those sites. I restored recently closed tabs but she swears that didn't bring back all of them. I think this is more common than we think.

>10 tabs
>a lot
Sitting here with 150+ tabs on firefox with 2.5GiB usage out of 16GiB

Age of sister? Pics?

>10 tabs is a lot

>this
I usually have 10 Sup Forums threads open at all times along with whatever other shit I'm doing at the moment.

>10 tabs plus however many my sister is using at that time

>Sitting here with 150+ tabs on firefox

people actually do that? I get anxious just from having more than like 5 open at once.

Would not surprise me. I used to run a business doing in-home tech support.

I would always get asked to help set up those cancerous little android set top boxes. Old people get tricked into thinking it will get them all "the sports" and it never does.

Long story short I didn't switch his TV back from HDMI to TV and he sent me a long email the next day telling me I had left him "stranded" and he felt betrayed and robbed. Fuck sake mate just call my phone if you could not figure it.

I have tab groups so I don't see more than 20 while general browsing, rest is sorted into neat groups like: porn, articles for later, separate groups for reading source code/documentation, music for later and so on.

Is there any reason why you don't use bookmarks?

It's the modern equivalent of having a zillion icons on your desktop.

>implying people don't have a zillion of icons
I've given up on this and I use Far to look through my desktop.

i have 724 tabs open right now. mind you many of them aren't actually loaded but they are all still in my tab bar.

>Far
Really? What OS are you running?

Windows NT 6.1

Too much work. With tab groups I just ctrl-shift-e and drag tabs to their group. I don' need to name any group and creading them is just dragging a box on a canvas. Compare that to bookmark where I have to ctrl-b choose right folder, maybe create new one, type some descriptive name, then close that and repeat for every tab. Also switching tab groups is just a keybind and a mouse press and I'm in ready environment to eg. work on some project.

This a new meme I'm out of the loop for? Using NT versions instead of the commercial names?

>~4 years ago
>cousin asks me why his laptop is so slow, takes his sweet time to explain everything wrong with it
>no idea breh just bring it to me and I'll wipe everything, you got anything important there?
>"just a few photos"
>save them on your phone and do what I told you
>"OK thanks, its not gonna be expensive right?"
>we'll see
>2 weeks later, he brings his laptop
>its still on
>maybe he was using it in the car
>old VAIO, 2 GB ram, i3, vista

>250 GB HDD, 9 GB free
>a fuckload of useless programs installed, he had like 200 different ones
>shit like popularsong.mp3.exe and facebook.exe on downloads
>cluttered desktop
>150 GB worth of movies, pictures and music in recycle bin
>mcaffee, norton, avg
>ares, limewire, frostwire
>itunes even though he has a galaxy s4 and almost no one in our family has a smartphone, let alone anything from applel
>5 different browsers pinned to taskbar
>open all of them, only firefox has been used
>I shit you not, he had like 5 years worth of data
>check what he jerks it to before getting to work, hoping I can blackmail him, sadly all boring stuff from pornhub
>nuke everything, put W7 Pro in it, install basic apps, teach him how to use them and for what, tell him how to turn the laptop off and that he doesnt need to rip or download DVDs to watch them on his laptop since he has a fucking DVD tray and it works exactly like a DVD player, set ccleaner to do cleaning (hurr) every 3 days, install malwarebytes and a good adblocker
>cousin and his parents are amazed I "fixed" his computer and taught him how to use it
>"thank you so much user, the guys at walmart were asking for $600 to fix it, $300 for a 4gb ram stick and $400 for a new HDD because the old one was fucked (not true)"
>"so how much is it?"
>its nothing
>"really? take this anyway and buy something nice, you earned it"
>450 dollars
>450 fucking dollars
>for something I did in an hour tops with no effort at all

Feels fucking good to be surrounded by tech illiterate idiots.

>insulting people who pay you for your help with something that they acknowledge they know nothing about

woah, i can see your like a pro computer man xD

>come into thread about tech illiterates
>get triggered someonene calling others tech illiterate

Fucking retard

*triggered by someone

Not him, but falling for songname.mp3.exe tier malware makes you an idiot regardless of experience. I figured that shit out when I was like 12.

...

who dat bih

semen demon?

open window

ctrl shift t

get bj from sister

sister blowjobs are the best

I was wondering the same — Google image search immediately takes you to the DeviantArt of the photographer. I'll tell you now that you'll be incredibly disappointed with how she actually looks. The rest of the Asuka pictures are decent, but none are this good and her own ones are way worse.

Massive let down after such a great start.

For reference:
Photographer is "GrummanCat" and model is "ChibiEricka."

>Holy shit, dude. The USB drives aren't working with the new TV's
>"Let me see that shit"
>"...."
>"Nathan, are these photos 1080p?"
>"I don't believe so. The new televisions are 720p"

Our great and powerful company bought 500 televisions worth of problems we now have to spend 500 televisions worth of net pay to solve. Hooray.

you right she is quite the butterface

>Mom calls, wants me to "tune up" her geriatric PC.

>Sit on down at her "desk".
>Boot
>Takes ten minutes
>...run disk check
>watch a season of breaking bad
>disk check ends
>this hard drive is FUCKED
>boot back in
>mom had apparently attempted to run and install an HP printer driver using wine.
>this had not worked as intended
>otherwise her software was fine
>install 16.04 over 15.04 because rebel.
>wifi breaks
Fuck it
>plug a random dongle I find in it
>works
>HERE MOM. I FIXED YOUTUBE.

>mom had apparently attempted to run and install an HP printer driver using wine.

>he sent me a long email the next day telling me I had left him "stranded" and he felt betrayed and robbed.
Holy fuck this reminds me of a time when I practically triggered my mum over the size of taskbar icons

I just told my family to buy Chromebooks when they whined about slow PCs, taught them how to use it, and haven't had a trouble-call since besides "user, the screen won't turn on when I push the button." "Did you unplug the laptop to vacuum, and not plug it back in?" "Oh, yeah. Thanks!"

>people always ask me to help fix their TV/DVD player/BD player/PS3 etc.
>show up
>turn it on
>it works
>I am now the electronics wizard, one look and shit works

I don't help with computers anymore; even for money. Too much BS.

>Work in a small manufacturing business with 50 floor staff and 12 office staff for 8 years
>Move from floor to office because I know how everything works from order in to order out
>See staff member (keep in mind that all the office people really do is click fields, tick boxes and file documents. Tab is a serious key for the program we use) keep moving to mouse after incorrectly entering the wrong data into field B, not A.
"Why don't you just cut, tab up and paste?"
'What do you mean?'
>Do exactly that
'Oh.. Oh! Oh my god user! How did you find this out?!'

These people had already been here doing administrative shit 10 years before I even started working there. Unbelievable. I found one of those excel/keyboard cheat-sheets with the shortcuts and did a small lunchtime brief on how moving to the mouse reduces efficiency and flow within the workplace and the boss doesn't have to know you've all picked up new skills, so your break times just got longer.

I mean, they all knew tab, copy/paste but that was pretty much it.

>first time running dual monitors ages ago
>drag a window from one monitor to the other to show my parents
>they go nuts
>"dont go around hacking the government user"

Holy fuck you weren't kidding. Gross.

Ignorant people have already made their choice, don't try to fight it.
The urge to help and make better is just as strong as the urge to push back, it sucks.

Your mom seems shitty.

Also what was she threatening to cancel?

Well, my dad thought I will become cross-eyed if I use dual monitors...

>I mean, they all knew tab, copy/paste but that was pretty much it.

if thats what they knew then what did you teach them?

I moved out of home about 10 years ago over such a trivial thing, but long time coming.
>Backing up my games to another CD/DVD since I lent them to friends a lot and vice versa, we lived in a shithole so downloading games over dialup wasn't a choice 99% of the time.
>Polite knocking on front door
Hello ma'am we're here for the complaint over your tenant
>Mfw he called me a tenant
>Police proceed to enter my room and ask me if I am currently on or in possession of drugs

Turns out, I had my mother call the police on me over suspicions of drug use and illegally selling computers (lol wut) to friends to fuel my habit. It came from nowhere, it was ridiculous.
I'm not sure she was so mental she thought my copying games was actually some devious trafficking of illicit substances (Oh fuck yeah, pirated WCFTIII, pass the pipe) or she was just trying to get me to leave at 16.

To date, nothing has topped that technical illiteracy.

I should probably mention this was a one off, and I don't harbour any bad feelings against her for this, when she wrote this I laughed my ass off because I imagined her taking the time to write this when it took me all of 2 seconds to fix it.

This would have been around 4-5 years ago now when our data plan was going up from 30gb to 200gb

Also funnily enough I bought her a new laptop this year for her birthday.

Orcon, a telecommunication 3rd party for Aus/NZ IIRC.

>It came from nowhere

yeah it fucking sounds like it?

Idk, but it's fucking retarded

Somehow I knew whatever it was it would be Australian.

Sorry for thinking your mother is a bitch, I just kind of assumed she spoke like that often.

Tristan is this you? Switch your mom to Windows you kyke.

My parents split up 2 years after I left, dad couldn't be fucked defending/confronting her about her bottled up delusions.
Sometimes a child gets lucky and rolls 20 for crazy parent.

this
OP is the tech illiterate

This.

It's the only way the average idiot browsing Sup Forums can feel smart. That and a riced out Linux pc.

Only 2.5?
I've got 14.8 out of 16 GiB ram used, and 36 GiB swap used.

Ram not used is ram wasted.

>ram not used is wasted ram
Can't wait for this retarded meme to die.

Cache apparently doesn't exist.

Well, it is.
No point in not using ram you have, long as the lowest priority thing gets swapped out properly and you don't notice.

Or are you somehow gaining something by having half your ram sitting there idle.

If you're answer is opening a program faster, one gig is plenty for that.
Program opens, happens immediately, requests more memory, background crap gets swapped while you interact with it.

Just need to put your swap on an ssd and it doesn't matter. I dedicate an ssd just to swap, so if the ssd dies I don't really care either.

No but why would you want to need 32GB ram for web browsing?

Most of it's not actually for web browsing.
It actually because some of the programs I use have memory leaks, and I got tired of having to restart them/them crashing/being killed, so I just got this massive swap and now the leaked memory gets swapped out, and never accessed.

It also helps if I leave some youtube tabs or such open, lots of high res porn in a firefox group that I leave open until I have the free time to properly archive it, that tends to get swapped in when I masturbate, and swapped out a bit after I finish.

>mfw knowing how to use google makes you a tech genius

lol, same here. I never keep more than 3 tabs open, and my computer is beefy. I just don't feel right having so many open at once.

This fucking feeling, it's terrible.

My mother doesn't understand how ad blockers work and why they're useful. Also she thought me downloading ccleaner onto her desktop would give it a virus.

Linux is usually easier to deal with for people who are completely new to it. Say a lot about unity, but it is intuitive.

I HAVE 32GB RAM IN MY PEECEE BECAUSE THE NICE YOUNG BOY AT BEST BUY TOLD ME MORE RAM IS GOOD BUY SO NOW I HAVE TO LEAVE A LOT OF APPS OPEN THAT I DON'T EVEN USE BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S WASTED RAM

I've only got 16 GiB ram, rest is swap.

When I first switched from IE to firefox, back when I was a wee teenager, I didn't understand tabs.

I opened a few and clicked around, learning the layout, and eventually I decided "Oh, tabs are like bookmarks, buttons at the top of the page that take you to those pages"

For some reason the idea of all these pages being open was beyond me.

So, following this line of logic, I can understand why normies don't get tabs.

>log out of internet
what the fuck does she actually mean by this?

the actual skill you posses is calling "being resourceful", and as basic as it seems, normies can't into it.

The sum of human knowledge is a fucking google away but people still don't look things up. Google is literally an oracle you can ask any question and normies don't ask.

I assume closing a browser.

oh god this reminded me of this one guy I had to fix a computer for. it was running win8 despite the machine being too old for it and his idea of "cleaning" was to use the refresh function or w/e its called, basically wiping all his shit every time.

This

Isn't that sort of the point of a meme?

Details are spotty but at that time we had changed from dial up to broadband and 'not having to disconnect after you're finished' was new to her.

Or like said.

Yea, but wast majority of RAM is always used, what you meant was RAM dedicated and ot is better to have less of it, unless it starts caching on disk.

This is a thread about typical Apple users.

Internet searches are nice for a lot of things but when it comes to academia google gets useless pretty fast. Scholar is nice sometimes but I need access to the books or articles far to often and use my universitys internal system instead.

I get where you're coming from, but I'm talking about shit like "my icons are too big", "my icons are gone", or "how to get rid of toolbars"

>Ram not used is ram wasted
Enjoy your memory leak as a feature, retard.

when I used google scholar at school I had access to the articles no problem and it was way easier than using anything else for me. it also would give me citations in any particular format

Im so glad my mother uses Ubuntu and my dad is also proficient with Linux.
I can just SSH in and fix something or us RemoteD.

>little sister's laptop gets a virus because she won't stop using Windows even though she doesn't play vidya and doesn't want to even install an ad blocker
>asks me to fix it
>agree to fix it if she lets me lose my virginity inside her sweet pussy
>long story short I remove the virus and it's a miracle she didn't get pregnant
>now I get laid every month or two when she gets another virus
>I could install some software to help prevent her from getting viruses but I don't
>uninstall all windows security updates and disable auto-updates for windows, her web browsers, and adobe flash to increase chances of her getting malware

whoah, 10 tabs?

Ok for general stuff google is great.
This really depends on your field and the level you are working on. For school use its ok, i guess but for the things I need to do it is to limited, at least compared to the service provided by my university.

bio major. had access to nearly anything I wanted. the article who's pdf was unavailable was the rare exception. school has an endowment of more than $1 billion

Woop, bullshit alarm.

First day here?

>be me
>be 10
>few years ago
>want to play chink cs 1.6 knock off
>Know its reputable enough to not be a virus
>have no computer for myself
>Use moms shitty h(upside down)d laptop she bought probably a year ago
>already slow as shit, she already downloads all the new latest "ANTI VIRUS TROJAN FOJAN" Software, also Installs them sexy tool bars for IE
>Get my hands on this piece of fine machinery
>Download game
>Play for a week before I get bored and go back to being anifag and watching boku no chinko
>Mom tells me her computer has virus
>I Wonder fucking why
>Blames my vidya games
>Know its bullshit because it was already slow as shit to begin with
>still blames my vidya games
>I uninstall it
>STIL FUCKING SLOW AS SHIT
>Mom blames virus from game
>buys a new shit top cuz hp is ded
>doesn't let me use it cuz she still has files on it that she needs

>having more than 10 tabs open

how does it feel being digital hoarder with adhd?

>user x doesn't work on my laptop
>take laptop, open google, search "how to do x"
>follow instructions
>hand it back
>they were watching me the entire time
>"omg you're so smart"
Are they just determined to be ignorant? It's like the second text is on a computer screen it's in a foreign language to them.

I think we've all experienced this.

how does it feel to not be a digital hoarder with adhd?

Exactly. I can't make up my mind if this is cute or obnoxious. I need to see how attractive she is first.

She wants the D.

Just give it to her.

you better put that asshole in a nursing home

you feel for the trap

>4gb ram

nigger my laptop only has 1gb and it can handle 10+ tabs just fine

I was in the same situation when I saw this pic for the first.

i hope to fuck that she's older than you, because i don't see how you would let this happen to a younger sibling.