Tech story threads

ITT
Stories that made you want to revoke someone's technology card completely.
Stories that made you want to rage so hard to the point that prison is a nice place.

>Family comes to me when tech shit goes back
>Step dad asks for my advice on anti virus
>Tell him to get Comodo, get all the free shit
>Firewall, scanner and there's something else but I can't remember
>he does
>3 days later he says his computers slow
>check it out
>Nortan, Comodo, Avast, and I think 2 others on it
>"Why Do you have so many virus scanners?"
>"Having more protection is better right? Like a having more men in an army"
>Explained that they send off false positives and other things like that
>Everything goes around his head
>Explained they basically fight each other and to pick 1 and keep it updated

>Step dad (again)
>Asks me to download him movies from torrent sites
>Finally teach him how including not to download cam movies mostly
>give a man a movie (torrent) he'll watch for a day. Teach a man to torrent, he watches for life
>Go in the den to see what my mom, him and step sis are watching
>Fantastic beasts
>CAM VERSION
>Explain that it's out on Amazon so there's a web rip to get that.
>"It's not out on DVD so how can there be on the internet but a cam version
>IE See reaction image


Also if you have other images like that, post them. I wish to collect them

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When someone bitches about technology because it's a meme.

Pretty much Sup Forums

I find it as a kind of stress reliever 2bh

>be in middle school
>use TeamViewer to grab a contact off my PC for another friend
>teacher freaks out and says I'm hacking
>I calmly explain to here that I'm not and i have permission (from myself because it was my PC I was accessing) to do this
>she still calls the SRO (school cop, welcome to america) in and i get escorted to the office where the principal and VP are waiting
>1 hour lecture about how evil i am, suspended for a week, not allowed to use a computer at school for the rest of the year
The VP was a former IT guy too and he still went with it to "teach me a lesson."
Its not like i was fucking around during school work time. I had already finished and the teacher didnt give a shit if you played flash games once you were done.

Boy that sucks

Just want to kick the IT guys ass.

Yeah I see that shit with older people. Specially baby boomers. They have no idea 1/2 the time how technology works. It's not complicated but they see it as brain surgery so might as well let them be amish
Every phone my mom gets, she treats it so poorly that it dies in almost 6 months. I took her old phone and cleaned it out and now I have a decent phone to use. 2 years with it. Meh, it's ok tho.

How do old people fuck technology up so bad?

>Team Viewer
>Hacking

What the fuck is your "teacher" problem? What did they teach you there? Learn how to turn on a computer by pressing the power button? What a shit school

OP you suck. Autists like you are the reason why we can't have nice things.
>conversation with technoobs
>be elitist fagoot OP namefagger
>greentext.html
>can't 'splain shit properly to a noob so I rage
Half of it is your fault since YOU were in charge.
This is why many people hate you so much.

I hope you don't have prospect for teaching careers.

Eh. I got my immature revenge. He apparently lived near me and i saw him shopping with his bf (who the fuck makes out in the chips aisle anyways) and spread the "rumor" that he was gay. Given that this was a middle school he soon got no respect at all from most of the kids.
Microsoft office 101 was the only thing that they covered besides the basic shit. The specific teacher in this thing was a social studies one though.
They either refuse to learn or have dug themselves into a comfy niche and dont want to learn about the "scary computer box"

>be collegefag
>ethics instructor discussing about hacking, online crimes etc.
>doesn't know what RAID is

Methinks: what the fuck

post this on reddit so it goes all over the news echochamber.

>Dad forcing me to turn off my server because it's too loud

What should I do? I need it to run 24/7

Also AlphaSmarts are kind of comfy.
>Reddit

This is public school most likely. A while back I made this thread, I think a month ago. A guy said that a teacher who hardly knew jack shit about computers was about as dumb as they get. He was proven wrong several times even by google and sent the kids to the principals office for "back talking"

You're mad user. Calm down
I explained it as thus:
"I'll show you how to get movies. It's really simple. Go here."Points to kickass when it was around RIP for now" then type in the movie you want. Click this button for seeders. Click the magnet icon to start the download.The more the better (most of the time). Then it will open your bittorent and show you the files. Then you can select any files you want to download if not all. Depending on size depends on the time. Don't download cam movies. Just wait for it to get a digital release or a DVD release. Then someone will rip it in about a day and upload it. Afterwards just watch it. You can choose to seed out, which allows other users to download it from you and several people at chunks at a time, or not. I normally don't if there are over a hundred seeders. sometimes I'll be nice and give a 1:1 ratio"

Is that complicated user?

So explain how this is my fault?
>Name fag
>Doesn't realize I'm doing to be ironic

get a quieter fan/cooling system?

Well, my dad is 57, and he calls me up about PC shit once in a while and I help out. Granted, most of the shit I know is literally googled but nothing too complicated. I taught him the same shit I taught my step dad and my step dad is younger than him. So that should tell ya something. I told my dad, when you get a new piece of tech, always press buttons and explore. If you don't understand it, google it. There's always someone online that already explained it.

This kind of shit urges me to dev malevolent AIs

Maybe your dad just wants to talk with you? My dad (who recently turned 50) gave up and now only uses his iPad for computing. I helped him pick out a old ThinkPad a few months ago so he could sync his iThings with iTunes though because his 2003 XP laptop was full of malware and out of storage space.

Do you? Do you really?

And thought American schools were supposed to be more advanced than our 3rd shithole schools, I was wrong.

my dad or my step dad?

My dad tries to understand tech as much as he can. He use to work for Dish network for around 15 years. around 5 or 6 years after the Archos Pocket dish had come out and then was kicked cause hollywood cried like bitches. So he can grasp most as long as it's explained decently.

My step dad does too but not as well. He think I'm some genius who knows how to give specific bandwidth to certain tech in the house. I wish, maybe I wouldn't get fucked over on Splatoon.

(I blame the japs)

>Looking at lady's laptop
>She's complaining that all of the settings are all wrong
>Basically all that's wrong is that she wasn't logged in on Facebook and Gmail, because her husband uses her laptop and logged her out
>She didn't know her passwords, she just expected it to open automatically
>Reset her passwords for her
>She tells me how her husband always uses her computer instead of his own because he doesn't like his work laptop
>He had a personal one which he didn't like either
>"luckily it got stolen"
>wat
>"you know, so that he'd have a good reason to look for a new one". but now he's dragging his feet about it because he prefers to use my one instead"
>it gets worse
>he used to have an iPhone which he didn't like
>it fell in the water on a fishing trip
>dragged his feet about getting a new one
>used his wife's Samsung phone and liked it
>ended up getting an new iPhone because of "brand loyalty"

fantastic beasts is a great movie, but you run the risk of getting letters from your ISP because its so new.

we've never gotten them before. The thing people get in trouble for a lot of times is if it's a CAM rip from what I heard and so many of my friends who HAVE ripped in the past are way too impatient to get it. I told them they should just either wait for it to come to red box or torrent a legit copy and not some cam rip...

This actually happened to me not to long ago, I just downloaded a load of shit to watch later on... a few old old things and newer releases.

I got dinged by our ISP about a certain animated movie about pets, luckily I'm not being sued and it was more of an awareness warning. I need to get a seedbox or at least an offshore VPN, they sent a report of my public ip along with detecting the torrent and the client I used for it, stupid thing is I didn't even download it... it was still waiting in my queue list.

if they do this, they suck. This is why I don't mind Charter. They don't ping us for it.

This is why you install a torrent client on your phone and go to places that have public wifi.

what are you to them, the cuckold?

>brand loyalty
well and the fact he prolly would of been completely lost on an Android

>parents ask me which virus scanner they should use
>tell then none, just keep windows update and it'll be fine
>Heresy, everyone knows you should use a virus scanner
>Tell them windows comes with MSE/defender even though it's placebo
>Yeah but another one is better right
>No it's not, virus scanner companies don't do research to find exploits then not report them so only theirs is safe to threats nobody knows exist
>But some guy at dad's work uses Norton
>Herewhego.jpg
>Tell them Norton puts viruses on your PC so they can sell their software
>Revoke their admin privileges, they now need me to remote desktop them if they want to install anything

Sometimes I feel my parents are your typical boomer born just in time to be surrounded by technology and understand nothing of it

It's his house you faggot

>would of

You will be lonely.

>mom's friend comes over with her netbook
>it doesn't boot
>put in a liveusb
>boots
>everything OK, but no hard drive detected
>take it apart
>turns out the hard drive was literally pulled of the socket
>also some screws were missing
>put it back
>gave it to her
>got 5 bucks...

You have to put up with this because they are the toolbar parents

>Have
sorry user, force of terrible habit i need to break

hey user, be nice.

I'm not because I still love my parents and also because I have a qt3.14 asian gf

>she has a macbook pro
>Ask her why she wants a Mac as it's quite expensive for a weibo machine
>It looks cute
>But she also has a $2000 thinkpad for work
>Doesn't use it because it looks ugly

>they are the toolbar parents
But it's not that what's making the computer slow user. Remember that one time you installed rollercoaster tycoon?

Taught my mom how to torrent and convinced her that downloading > streaming. Also installed adblocked chrome and firefox and told them to use those browsers but still catch her using IE from time to time.

>5 bucks
I would of charged 20. I get paid sometimes by this woman next door to fix her computers. I taught her how to Ubuntu. am surprised that she hasn't come to me to figure it out.

Oh wait I just remembered something

>Give little ol' lady number if she needs me.
>Texts me one day "user can you come help me with my computer?"
>"Sure why not"
Just to be clear, this is not a porno gone bad, she's like this religious woman who can't have men around unless another woman is around unless she's married. It's really stupid.
>Brings a busted up laptop to me.
>bought it from the main flea market
>LITERALLY still has the password enabled
>"Can you get it off"
>Have no idea how to crack a password (yet)
>get on the drive with a live boot of mint
this is where I explained her linux and how easy it actually was if you're just using it to surf the web desu
>computer works
>she bought it for 30 bucks with no battery
>old heavy ass laptop from like 2005
From what I understand she told me, is that her ex-husband didn't let her on computers at all causing her to obsess with collecting computers even tho she has no idea what she's doing with them. Sort of like that kid that collects Yugioh or Pokemon cause they are shiny and can't play the game.

So she's on and off asking me for some help. I don't mind. Sometimes she gives me a few bucks but she's so broke I feel bad for her.

I play it now. I don't really get the point.

My dad pulls this shit from to time trying to clame that Edge is decent.

I cannot grammar today

I didn't want anything from her, she just handed me the cash. In my place this is about 3 times less than what a computer repair service would take.

>hide it in basement
>get better/quieter cooling system
>underclock,undervolt
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OR

>rent a fucking VM, most of the time it's cheaper.

>I'm not
Who'rye foolin' boy?

Myself only

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reee

after a while it stops hurting.

An I the only one here with parents that aren't completely tech illiterate?
I mean they're not great with technology by any means, but they don't do stupid shit like installing multiple antivirus programs or toolbars.
They also take my word on most matters without much questioning, so we don't even get into arguments when they ask for help.

>An I the only one here with parents that aren't completely tech illiterate?
It seems

You need to be 18 to post here user

honestly that's just my step dad with the anti-virus. Otherwise, most of my parents aren't idiots. My dad learns pretty quick, my mom listens but a lot of times takes a few tries. Finally got her to understand what her Hotspot on her phone was. We use it cause I don't have service on my stuff. My stepdad finally learned but thinks I'm this master hacker or some shit. Seriously, I know I'm 25 and I know computers a little but god damn, I have no use for hacking honestly.

My mom is just "set in her ways" and if she doesn't need it, she wont. She comes to me for most shit. I'm trying to get her to use her new 4k$ TV that has basically a Pi in it so she can watch youtube, netflix, Hulu and other shit. I've been trying to show her how. I figured of all things, she would love to listen to her 70's music on it with these giant speakers she got.

Nice sleuthing bud.
My dad is an electrical engineer and my mother has a degree in MIS.
She never got a job relevant to that degree and she hasn't kept up with technology, but like I said she isn't dumb enough to get viruses and she also trusts my advice.
Same thing with my dad. He doesn't keep up with consumer technology that much, but he can figure things out on his own.

Dat whole explanation part. Holy fuck dude, that's way too high of a bar for tech illustrates.

Just buy them a chromebook and Netflix account.

Yea next time you come back they'll blame you:
>"I clicked download button, yet I can't watch cancerseries S69E420"

once in a while I make idiot proof guides for people to follow. That's explaining it with visuals. our commonly millennial would understand if I told you what to go download and where to go and what to click in basically 5 steps.

My step dad went out of his way one year to buy my mom a laptop. However, he basically treated his laptop like trash and started to use my mom's even tho it's "hers" when in reality it's not. When I use it he hates it cause he thinks I'm going to fuck it up. I know it's funny. Same guy that comes to me for tech problems thinks I'm going to fuck it up. I literally only do 1 thing on there and that's to play GTA VC cause my computer is a toaster to the point it can't run jack shit.

CTRL+F looking at lady's laptop
and that's basically my step dad but with the laptop only.

>TFW Cancerseries ended at S7 cause of the main character wanted to go do Cucked the movie

Do you have a PC so fucking shit it can't run Vice City? Did you just hook up a monitor to an acutal toaster?

Post Speccy user.

The computer is to years old if not older. I was able to make it work with 2 extra gbs of ram and threw on W7U. Hearthstone plays, but now Pokemon TCG O gives me this weird colour background. Yeah, it wont load Vice city barely and it's older than the Sims 3 and it runs pretty decent on my PC.

>hacking is bad
Tired of that outdated and ignorant shit

I thought only my dad was like that, my dad like whenever i see him hes using my mom's phone and always try to download shit on his own phone by clicking and download those spam shitty download ads on websites probably because of manly nature of being bossy, or something, village people are really hard on their wives and totally opposite kind of people you see on /b complaining about their wives

>letting another man fuck your mom
Cuck

This. For older folks and the tech illiterate, I just give them kodi with exodus and call it a day. It's pretty hard for them to break that

That's my mom not my gf. That doesn't make me a cuck at all.
A cuck/cuckold implies that I am letting a man have sex with my partner. I'm not Oedipus.

>not fucking his mom
Complete and utter cuck

hey if you're into incest go for it user. Not my fetish. I don't fetish shame.

>Middle school
>First TeamViewer was released in 2009
kys

Move out faggot

Charter dinged me for Bioshock and Fury Road, but two out of hundreds isn't much.

Not him, but you obviously can't count.
I'm currently 18, and I finished middle school in 2012.
I was 13 when I finished.

kys kiddo