Tech illiterate stories thread

Tech illiterate stories thread.

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>bonzai buddy
What?

probably talking about cheap sentetic drug commonly used in Turkey

>using pleb tier English Bonzi Buddy
>not using superior bootleg Japanese Bonzai Buddy

What?

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Bonzi buddy is old Windows 98 shitty freeware that also opened up your computer to malware and shit. Not to be confused with Bonzai Buddy, a helpful tool for organising your files and giving tips on how to cultivate bonsai trees.

Say what again, I dare you.

I got one I'm having an issue with now

>Been ages since built first computer
>crashed a week ago but didn't care enough to do anything because "I can fix it in five minutes just get a new os big deal"
>Go to a friend's house and struggle with the new dazloader and daemontools lite after getting W7 Home P
>Have to pay to create a bootloader on usb
>Find alternate bootloader creator but end up cucking myself because it turned out to be exclusive for Linux or something after I try using it
>remember I had an old HDD I haven't ruined and try booting from there
>ALL INCOMPATIBLE PORTS, CAN'T READ FILES IF IT ISN'T CONNECTED
> REFLECT ON LIFE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TELLING EVERYONE I'M GOOD WITH THESE THINGS

I feel ashamed and embarrassed while my computer keeps bluescreening on loop because of my ignorance.

Think I'll go kill myself

>what is Universal USB Installer
>what are ISOs

What?

What is rufus

That's not fair, I know what ISOs are

but that first keyword could help me
appreciated

>Have to pay to create a bootloader

lolwut. I've never heard of paying for a fucking bootloader. Nigga just use Rufus usb. Remember to format the USB as fat32 ( usually easiest format to read), set flag as boot, and you should be alright. Also, you can use the Daz shit AFTER you install the OS.

What?

>That's not fair

Are you 8? Fucking kill yourself.

Daemon 10 lite makes you buy a license before you're able to use the boot loader function

thanks a lot for the information by the way

are you fucking retarded? rufus, dd, hell you could even use unetbootin

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DELET

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What the shit is this.

LE 4 SQUARES LOL LE U MAD ?? LE Sup Forums MEME ONLY 90's KID WILL REMEMBER LOL LE HELLO /R/Sup Forums LOL XDDD LE REDDIT

use idiot proof lili

linuxliveusb.com/en/download

Or multiboot

What ?

I don't know if tech illiterate but OK

>be 2011
>build patrician computer
>for the money I had really high performance
>X6 1090T, Radeon 6870, 8GB RAM
>love that machine but never keep it clean from dust
>2 years later
>PC overheats
>it's time to clean, bitches
>carry it outside
>clean it using approved methods, nothing too harsh
>all while not grounded, wearing shoes
>PC is kill
>mfw
>use my ThinkPad T400 from then on
>still haven't built a new desktop
>still use T400 as main system

Screen cap of some fgt on b who had a bitch of a sister blame him for her laptop fuckups. It's been posted here so many times, people recognise the thumbnail and that's what the picture implys. Also look out for MegaMan or

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Don't have the original because it's stupid old and rage inducing.

EBIN!!!!!
SCREENCAPPED

What? Did dust completely kill your computer?

>LE
>LOL
>U MAD
>ONLY 90's KID
>/R/
>XDDD
>R
>E
>D
>D
>I
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kys redditnigger

Didn't you read my story? I wasn't grounded while cleaning the computer.

>EBIN
jesus christ why are there so many redditfaggots here
go back to your shitty news site

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EBIN!!!!!
SCREENCAPPED

newfag filter

>quoting someone who is literally a carrot
gtfo redditor scum

>EBIN
gtfo redditfag

good thread
now fucking prune it and ban us all fucking janitor

You might have loosened a power connector. Go troubleshoot the power supply for problems. It's most likely something stupid.

sign me the FUCK up. good thread goOd thREAd that's a good thread right there right there if i do say so my self I SAY SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT RIGHT THERE right there riiiight theeeeeere mmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMM OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MMHMMTHAT'S A GOOOOD THREEEEEEAD

include me in le screencap xD

What do you mean grounded? Like by your parents in your room?

kys redditnigger

he associates ebin with reddit

underage amerilard detected

and ? if you didn't get any shock you probably just loosen something

I spend hours on this board each week.

reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/

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EPIC WE DID IT /Sup Forums/

You usually don't feel anything. I fried a motherboard conductor once and I had no idea what I did wrong for a couple of days.

Is the bro that works at a Mexican big box retailer still there?

>reddit
GET OUT NEWFAG REEEEEE

Grow some fucking balls and stop crying about a website, fuckboy.

>Get new laptop
>Insert Windows 10 install DVD
>Clean install Windows 10 with no issues

How can you make such an easy process so fucking complicated?

cuz muh club

I can't even figure out exactly what he was trying to do. Pirate Windows 7? Just get Windows 7 installed and working? Dual boot W7/Linux?

Windows 7 keys practically fall off trees on eBay, you'd have to be retarded not to find or get one.

he is too dumb to burn a ISO and trashed his OS with spyware.

>windows 10
And you talk to me like I'm the retard.

Actually I'll back peddle on that, has anyone found any improvements since they made that weird metro look optional?

Normies thinking you need to know "coding" to install Ubuntu

I've never grounded myself and I never shock my shit, lmfao

Literally have same computer but two 6870s

Newfag

Don't feel bad frogman. Thinkpad is all you need. If I didn't play video games I wouldn't bother owning anything other than a ThinkPad.

tales from tech support is based faggot

grow up, man. reddit is good to go at work. Sup Forums however would earn me a visit with HR.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Knowing some bash commands don't hurt, user. In some ways, you can perform tasks faster on Linux than on Windows.

>installing Debian for friend that finally got sick of Windows 10
>trying to connect to wifi to install base system during installation
>browsing forums and other sites getting progressively more confused as to what I'm doing wrong
>after an hour remember that you have to connect with Ethernet
>quietly contemplate suicide as i plug in the cable

>a few minutes later, installation done
>trying to install i3
>not working, update system
>fuck, this is the stable version, I need to upgrade to testing
>install vim to edit source file
>forget how to open vim in command line and have to google it
>forget how to save file and have to google that too
>turns out i3 had installed after all

>trying to launch i3
>'unable to locate package'
>oh right, you need startx
>typing variations of apt-get xorg over and over again for 20 minutes
>why the fuck isn't this working
>finally realise i was forgetting to write 'install'

Wouldn't be that bad for a teenage reminiscence, but I'm an adult working in CS in Silicon Valley and this happened this morning. Fucking kill me.

>two weeks in with first computer
>want to have dos instead of win95 for some reason, how?
>let's fiddle around the boot sector with disk editor of course!
>can't boot or access disk partitions anymore, what do
>have a bootable diskette with only system but no tools
>have a diskette with cdrom driver
>mscdex.exe and everything else is on cd
>fugg

>college buying/selling Facebook group
>Stereotypical frat dudebro attempts to sell his laptop
>"I got this awesome Alienware gaming laptop with an i7! It cost me $2000 new so I'm selling it for just $1200. No viruses because I basically just used it to watch football lol."
>No seriously this is a near-direct quote
>Blurry photo of open laptop with desktop covered in bloatware
>Figure I would help him out and ask him for specs and such so others could see and he could have a better chance of selling it
>"Do you know anything else about the computer like what graphics card it has or the amount of ram and hard drive space?"
>"Lol bro i don't know anything about that, it just plays games really well."
>His friend replies
>"Yeah it plays skyrim super well"
>Oh boy
>"Well if you post your specs then you would have a better chance of selling it so people know what they're buying."
>"Okay how do i do that"
>"Just go use this program and screenshot what comes up, it's easy"
>I link to speccy
>Recieve a notification about 20 minutes later
>Instead of posting a screenshot of speccy, he posts a photo he took with a camera... of the speccy website URL
>mfw

I don't think he ever sold it.

I refuse to believe this.

Second

I don't blame you, I didn't reply to him afterwards because it was such a surreal experience, I could not come to terms with what just happened.

I'll see if i can find the post again for proof, I remember considering screenshotting it at the time but didn't for whatever reason.

You just customize it like any version of Windows. OOSU 10 and Spybot antibeacon removes 99.9% of the crap. Customizing settings and services can take care of the rest.

Quit your job.

I really hope you do have it.

toppest of amks

Linux isn't for you Winbaby.

so did you learn your lesson and opt for a more ootb distro to start off with?

your competence with windows does not translate to any kind of competence with linux

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>but I'm an adult working in CS in Silicon Valley and this happened this morning. Fucking kill me
If anything you're on par with all your coworkers

Was actually /r9k/, back when it was fun

>what is the pirate bay

DELETE THIS

I believe you. Normies are fucking retarded with technology.

>work at a bar, kitchen work
>coworker is a literal chad, nice guy, early thirties
>comes up to me while I'm cooking
>"user, you're smart, what is this? "
>holds up a USB cord, type a male connector with the other end cut off
>its a USB cord
>"what? No, look."
>proceeds to poke it at his phones charger
>"see? Its too big to be a USB."
>mfw
>no its like the one you'd plug into a computer
>he stares at it
>"yeah I guess it looks like the kind my mouse has.. Thanks user"

He's a nice guy, only other person that's going to college where I work. But Jesus I didn't think people could be that ignorant with technology.

>it's a USB line
>I'll show you later

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He didn't know what a regular fucking USB plug is?

My windows 7 install of 8 years logs into a temporary profile every reboot, wiping my user settings.

I don't know how to fix it or what's causing it, so I just use hibernate and never shut down my computer.

Honestly, it's less effort to reinstall the whole OS than try to fix an obscure problem on windows.

kys

So I work in electronics at a Walmart. At least once a week someone will come up and ask a random question about their phone.

Where do I find the pictures I took?
Where's the Play Store?
How do I activate this?
How do these plans work

Drives me crazy..

>hear ticking coming from laptop hard drive
>worried about failure, so buy replacement
>load Win7 onto usb to install on new hard drive
>boot usb works fine, but it won't install
>spend three whole days trying various fixes
>at the end of my rope when a read something stupid
>"unplug the usb after it boots, and then plug it back in"
>I'm desperate, so I try it anyway
>it completely fixes my problem and windows installs perfectly fine
>it was then that I realized that windows is retarded

That shit made me invest in a $20 external cd drive afterwards.

Your whole fucking post made my head hurt.

There are people at staples that can help people like you.

>That font rendering
Gross

USB booting Windows installs is flakey until Windows 8.1 or so. I still got an external DVD drive though.

>>oh right, you need startx
there was an option in the setup holy shit you moron, it's default selected.

And you people bitch that H1-Bs are taking your jobs.

I tried to get this running on a VM but couldn't even find it anywhere

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>Have to pay to create a bootloader on usb
>Find alternate bootloader creator but end up cucking myself because it turned out to be exclusive for Linux or something after I try using it
Wtf, all you need to do to create a bootable Windows 7 USB is format the disk as NTFS and paste all the installation disk content inside it

fucking kek