>Tell girls you are studying CS
>They call you help with Exel or Facebook
>Get mad when you answer you cant help them
>>51683203
>helping bitches in the first place.
Dumb feelsposter
>>51683203
fuck em they didnt wanna give you a blowjob in return so they can fuck right off
>>51683203
>>They call you help with Exel or Facebook
Not just bitches do this but pretty much everyone in my family.
I ain't even studying but they have this idea that I'm good with computers so they expect that I understand they're bullshit non-free software and shitty social media websites.
I hate it.
>Sitting in the pub alone, drinking after a falling out with my brother
>Phone rings, don't recognise the number, answer anyway it's a girl
>Hello? Anon? A mutual friend gave me your number.
>Nights turning around!
>I have this problem with my computer blah blah...
>Could you come round and fix it?
>Not tonight, any other night would be fine but I have some personal things going on tonight..
>Couldn't you just come round for 5 minutes? My essay is due tomorrow.
>I really can't, any other night I could have helped
>Fine. Hangs up.
Just one tale of many that describes my lack of importance to people outside of being able to reason with Windows.
>>51683415
Also want to add that the fall out with my brother was because he said he was going to meet me for about a month and then cancelled at the last moment because his mates were going out.
>>51683415
fix my facebook, bitch
>>51683470
Ohhh personal bullshit go drive into a lamp post you piece of shit attentionwhore. Jere's your fucking reply so now you can go die in piece
>>51683203
DAE women are evil and stupid??? xDDD
Edit: really? Downvotes? Keep em coming
>>51683203
>Tell girls you are studying CE
>They call you help with Exel or Facebook
>Tell them you only know about hardware
>Direct them to sites about Exel or Facebook
>Demand $20 for my time.
no one asks me for computer shits any more.
>Be known as the "tech" person of the family
>Cousin asks for advice on a new rig
>Give him loads of it and keep him up to date on new parts that fit his budget and deals that I come across
>Goes and buys a really shitty 17" Acer with a single core AMD Sempron, Radeon HD 3250, 3GB of 667 MHz DDR2, a 120 5400 RPM HDD and a completely awful 1366x768 display (yes, 1366x768 on a laptop)
>Icing on the cake was that they just went and bought it at his dad's standard place to buy electronics and appliances
>Place naturally charged him 800€ for the shit when they had literally the same machine on sale for half that the week before
Has now just stopped taking advice from me to avoid embarrassment when he fucks up after ignoring my advice
Then again the guy's fucking borderline retarded:
>Was supposed to do the local HS equivalent that's normally done in 3 years in 4 years, but fucked that up by repeatedly failing one of the end exams and thus completing the local HS equivalent in 5 years instead of the normal 3
>Has since then worked at a building site job that his dad got him
>Also tried to get into further education for 3 years, but failed miserably every time
>Has now completely weaseled out of the mandatory military service claiming that he wouldn't be able to take the regimentation and early wakeups
>His life is now like that of a NEET with an 8 AM to 4 PM McJob
>>51683847
When my grandmother wanted a new TV she contacted my uncle/idiot cousin's dad and they ended up buying it at the same shitty store. I shudder to imagine how much my grandmother overpaid for the TV as she complained afterwards that she had to use the savings account with most of money she and my grandfather had gotten from selling their house when they moved into a service house for the elderly.
>>51683847
>NEET with an 8 AM to 4 PM McJob
He;s not a neet if hes got a job. He's a loser but not a neet
>>51683203
>>Get mad
WAIT WHO GETS MAD YOU OR THE GIRLS?
>>51683924
A.. dangling.. participle.. fuck.
>>51683203
>>Tell girls you are studying CS
Well there's your first mistake.
>studying CS
And there's your second mistake.
>tell my grandma i do a lot of programming in school
>she asks if they teach me how to program her tv
>>51683203
In sophomore year I had freshman dorm mates. One day they brought over some of their friends they knew from high school and this 8/10 drunk girl was among them. I had my massive desktop in the dorm (I was still playing games at the time), and had it open because I was switching in a bad hard drive and attempting to do a byte-by-byte copy to a blank drive in order to save the data. I said this in the most technically nerdy way possible because I wanted her to fuck off.
She replied "Woow...ur reallly smart" in a really drunk-ass tone.
Couple days later she told me she was having problems with a new printer she bought - the cd that came with it had an old driver and she didn't realize you could dl the new driver from online.
I went to her dorm and found out her roommate wasn't there. I guess I got there early, because she had specifically just taken a shower.
Anyways I went on her Mac laptop (lul) and installed the new driver and the printer worked.
She said "Oh mah gawd thank you so much anon"
She started to give me a hug and I hugged her back.
Within a few seconds, I moved my hands down to her ass and gently squeezed.
She didn't seemed repulsed by it; instead she turned her head towards me and we began to kiss.
Long story short, installing a printer driver got me some good pussy for 30 minutes.
Fair deal right /g/ents?
>>51685050
Oh sorry, I guess I forgot the obvious part in the beginning.
The 8/10 drunk girl asked me what I was doing with my computer.
>>51683203
>not even that good with computers
>better than most
>girlfriend asks me for tech help all the time
>I gladly oblige because it's the only time I feel useful, and she gibe pussi to b0ss
>>51685152
also, she cute and I like making her happy.
I only help her and family because of the following
>last year, built gaymen rig
>friend who's a complete idiot with computers asks for help to build one
>give him advice one what to buy based on his budget
>wasted hours coming up with the perfect build for him
>ends up wasting his money on a "gaming laptop" from 2 years ago
>integrated graphics
I've stopped talking to him since and I never offer tech help to anyone outside people I care about after that debacle.
>>51683230
this desu senpai
>>51683203
>Sociology professor finds out your majoring in CS
>his dumb ass is always asking you to fix the projector
>>51683415
congratulations on not being a fucking kek
>>51685411
>be in high school
>bring laptop with me to school every day
>somehow teachers think I'm IT instead of phoning in actual IT
>make me fix everything
Thank god it's not like that in uni
>>51683649
savage
>>51683203
Every fucking time.
1 reply
>telling anybody what your major is
>visiting my family
>they ask me to fix their computer, ok
>family visiting me
>some car serviceman there
>ask him to fix my car
>profit
>>51685454
I essentially taught the computer course in high school since the teacher had no fucking clue on any of it.
> it guy at my university, in the liberal arts computer lab
> nothing ever really happens
> one day qt milf japanese teacher comes for help with her printer
> not really my job since I just work the lab, but go anyway because I was bored
> printer kept jamming
> printer is on the floor
> she bends down take out some of the jammed paper, and lingers while reading some of it
> she has a spectacular ass
> she's also reading things quietly to herself in a qt Japanese voice
> get a raging erection ( not to toot my own horn, but it was EXTREMELY noticeable )
> sit down before she can turn around and ask her a bunch of questions about the printer while thinking about baseball
> down to a chubby after 3 minutes, and abruptly pick up the printer at crotch level and get the fuck out
> there was a magnifying glass stuck inside
> go back to her office to return the printer, but she's gone
> debating whether or not to sniff her chair
> realize that's a new level of degeneracy I'd rather not cross
> leave the printer and a post it note with the magnifying glass
> never interact with her again
>be known as computer wizard to family
>mom constantly asking for help when it comes to electrical or computer shit
>any time something gets broken in the house automatically assume it's my fault even though we've lived here for 20 years
Fucking old people, I swear.
>>51683203
>actually can help her
>says that you can't
just say that you don't want to you fuck
>be considered "good with computers"
>parents, friend's parents, their baby boomer friends randomly call/text me asking how to fix their computer/phone/wifi/whatever
>haven't used windows for anything other than gaming in 4 years
>have never used an iOS or OSX in my life
>end up telling them to just contact customer service for whatever piece of software they're having trouble with most of the time because fuck spending 2-3 hours on the phone with a baby boomer trying to troubleshoot a tech issue
I just... hate it. NEVER let other people know that you're "good with computers", they'll just expect you to fix their tech problems for free and be on call 24/7.
>>51685704
>>debating whether or not to sniff her chair
>>realize that's a new level of degeneracy I'd rather not cross
kek
>>51686243
I hated it when I was a kid because clearly I liked computers so after 4 years of not being turned off ever, our P4 Win XP machine is slow as shit.
The HDD is rammed full of old documents, there's 5 programs at start up, typical adware smothered all over the web browser. Their response?
>ANON! WHAT DID YOU INSTALL TO MAKE IT SO SLOW!?
I just used to look at car manufactures websites and play on paint...
>>51685704
>not returning back to your room with the printer and waiting for her to come back so you can return it while she's there so you can slide your 3 inch dick into some tight sushi asshole
You're going to die a virgin son.
>tfw I'm talking shit when I haven't gotten pussy since 2011
J U S T
>>51683203
>people ask what you're studying
>tell them CS
>they think you're the smartest person they have ever met
>>51685050
2D doesn't count, friend
>>51683649
why so mad bro?
>cousin was designated the "computer guy"
Felt fucking good, man.
>>51683847
>NEET
>McJob
nigga do you even know what NEET means
>>51683675
So this is the power... Of reddit irony.... Whoa
Fuck off to circlebroke or whatever fucking cancer hole you crawled out from
>>51683203
>before graduating with my CS degree
>be trying to get a mechanical engineering degree
>tell people im taking statics
>everyone keeps saying "oh statistics is easy"
>"oh can you help me with this probability stuff"?
rage.jpg
>>51683847
>building site job
>NEET with an 8AM to 4PM McJob
I wouldn't call a building site job a McJob desu famitachi
>>51683847
>kuluttaa amikseen 5 vuotta
>epäonnistuu kolmena vuotena AMKiin pääsyssä
>välttelee inttiä
Sano serkulles että se on harvinaisen tyhmä jätkä
>>51683203
>tell them I won't work for free
>encourages them to ask even more inquiring for rates
You told me they'd get all offended and leave me alone /g/ you fucking liars.
>>51685641
Willie?
>>51688204
$30-40/hour + parts/resources
partial hours are charged as full hours
or something as ridiculous.
>>51683203
>doesn't know how to use excel
>>51683203
>be me
>have an official microfag office word 2013 certificate issued by m$
>have also one for excel
>>51683415
>but I have some personal things going on tonight..
>telling people you have personal things goiing on
>not just saying youre busy
>>51683847
>people ask for advice then don't take it
this pisses me off so much
>>51688779
That isn't ridiculous for good tech support. Given how much better I am than the fucking Geek Squad, I would actually consider that a good deal.
>friend is going to build a desktop
>help him out with parts
>figure he's good after giving him a list of parts and a few youtube videos on how to assemble it
>he orders the parts
>come by to help him build it/set it up
>he ended up buying different parts, one of his friends told him otherwise
>gets a fucking amd board with a intel cpu
>gets ddr4 ram for a ddr3 cpu
>>51683247
Story of my life. Lol
>people ask me what I'm studying
>CS
>"oy vey how about 6k starting?"
>mfw it's actually facebook
>>51686374
>tfw friends know my power level
>tfw friends never told anyone
>they never asked for help
>only thing they've ever asked for is movies so I setup FTP
>tfw IT technician
>tfw terminally unmotivated to improve my skills or to even enjoy a hobby
>graduated cs years ago
>people ask me to fix their computers
>say no
>ask me to make programs for them
>say no
>ask me about hardware advice
>either say i don't know or just tell them what i have
the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9QIIvSpzE
>>51685411
>those kids that practically sprint to the teacher to help them with a computer issue
Nobody cares about your computer skillz, Mr. "My hobby is testing different operating systems."
>Not being able to help with Excel.
Are you retarded? It's M$ Office. It's designed to be so easy 70-year-old normalfags can do it.
>>51689212
whelp, I'm done
>>51683203
People can't troubleshoot shit and do the most basic computer stuff, but that's a good thing because it keeps the market open for us.
>tfw 700€ for a WordPress website with Vantage theme
>tfw 50€ for wiping a HDD
>tfw 300€ for installing Windows 7 and export outlook contacts
It's been a good year.
>>51689175
this is how its done.
people who dont understand tech are like mushrooms
keep them in the dark and feed them shit
>>51683203
>caring about friends when you are in college
aren't most people there just looking to waste time until it's time to get "into the real world" because they are expecting their real lives to be worse than college? but really, if they just spend a little time being prudent in college their real lives would be so much better
>>51689212
i fucking love this guy
>>51689287
>that kid in high school who everyone called the computer guy
>literally knew nothing about computers and only knew how to remove and replug vga cables
>mfw he literally shit his pants when I asked him what a server was
>>51689106
> ...
> note to self.. jew harder
>>51685704
>a chair sniffer having an 'EXTREMELY noticeable erection'
uh huh.
>>51683203
>Tell girls you are studying CS
>They are also studying CS
Who talks to girls outside their major?
>>51689287
>>those kids that practically sprint to the teacher to help them with a computer issue
>>51688779
>>51689106
i used to charge like $15/h when i was like 14 years old.. now im 19 with a job and tuition and i just charge a number off the top of my head at the end of the job. its good working for wealthy people because you can go uninstall a virus from someone's computer and bill them $200 for an hour out of your life.
>>51686374
just charge them money.
I make a clean 50usd every time I help someone in the neighborhood
>>51689577
>lies
>Had a friend in college who is actually good with this type of shit and everyone knew it
>Teacher asked him to have the projecter display his screen instead of use it as a dual monitor
>pretends to play around with cables and other settings
>all he ended up doing was changing the fucking resolution
>topkek
Whenever someone asks him for help he just tells them to change the res and they thank him and walk off
>all these please complaining about fixing computers around town
>not charging $75/hr and making mad dosh
It's like you enjoy being poor
>>51689948
>please
plebs
>>51687924
I came from here. Been here for 10 years. Watch your tone when speaking to your superiors.
>>51691879
Tch. If you were actually here for 10 years, then who was Nevada-tan? Don't go looking on ED
>>51683203
>Hey bro I need help with my homework bro. This program we use doesn't work. How do you draw a red line on the graph?
>Just Google it.
>I didn't call you so you could blow me off you piece of shit!
story of my business school career. know what i did when i needed to draw a red line? i googled "how to draw a red line in X program"
>>51683847
>Has now just stopped taking advice from me to avoid embarrassment when he fucks up after ignoring my advice
HOW DID YOU DO THIS
HOW DID YOU DO THIS
HOW DID YOU DO THIS
HOW DID YOU DO THIS
HOW DID YOU DO THIS
All the people I know never admit to their mistakes. They ignore my advice, fuck up, blame me, and demand I fix shit. I AIN'T FIXING YOUR MISTAKES NIGGA.
Never an apology.
Never a Oops, should have listened to you in the first place.
Not even listening to my advice the second time around.
STOP FUCKING CALLING IF YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN MY OPINION IN THE FIRST PLACE
YES I MAD
>>51683203
I help certain people for free who I believe are working hard and need guidance. I do it for free but to a reasonable level to avoid spoon feeding.
Rest of them can suck my dick.
>>51691898
Is she out of prison yet?
>>51691975
be an ass about it
simple as that
>>51691916
This.
>master's degree in Computer Science
>just tell people I studied Discrete Mathematics
problem solved
>>51692216
Already tried that, it's not working.
>>51691975
I give them this ultimatum, "if you ask for my advice and you choose not to follow my advice, that means you know your shit better than I do. Since you know your shit better than me, who am I to say that I know it better than you? If this is the case, you don't need my advice. If you feel that your knowledge is not good and you do need my advice, you will follow what I tell you and if you choose not to follow exactly what I say, then it means you know your shit better than I do".
>>51692216
>be an ass to a qt
>her eyes become hazy with disappointment
>internal fedora triggers beta genes which take over my body
>tip fedora internally
>m'lady... I proceed to rescue the fair maiden
It cannot be stopped, the beta gene is too powerful.
>>51692269
I tell people that I study mathematical study of information.
>>51692323
I always give a quote at professional rates. This stops most people from asking me for help. My charge is $30 per half hour with a minimum of one hour as a callout fee. This means if I step next to your computer, that's a minimum of $60 even before I ever touch it.
>>51692377
Yes but how do you get them to put out?
>>51692412
Play a power struggle with them?
>I'm sorry girl, but it'll cost you $x to fix it
<but I need it fixed now and I have no money!
>I wonder if there's some other form of payment you could pay. I can't think of anything right now so it's too bad for you. All right, I'm going home and make love to my waifu, Asuka.
>>51692412
tell them you won't go home until they eat all the eggs.
>>51692494
MADMAN
A
D
M
A
N
>not wanting to help people
>not wanting to make the world a better place
>not wanting to get laid
>not wanting to forge social connections
>not wanting to be owed favors
You guys are really socially inept.
>>51692819
People only use you as a tool so they don't have to pay money for a technician. Its a selfish request and they don't give a shit about you as a person.
This is a lesson I learned the hard way. How come they only think of you as a friend or social connection when they need something from you? Why do they exclude you from everything else?
>>51692856
Cool story, but if nobody likes you for anything other than your expertise after meeting you, it's probably because you're a piece of shit. And whether that's the case or not, if you stop trying to interact with people, you'll never get anything out of anything.
>>51692903
Did it ever occur to you that I don't mingle with people on purpose? If you have no social media accounts and don't interact with anyone more than just the pleasantries of hello and goodbye, that is not them rejecting me, its me rejecting them.
As for like and dislike, I don't know what they think but I prefer if people hated me because it removes any kind of expectations, I don't have to please anyone, we can maintain strictly professional relationships without subjective feelings.
It saves me a lot of time and I feel at ease with myself knowing that I am not obligated to be anyone's friend.
>>51692903
As much as I do like helping people, there are too many people who really don't care about you beyond your leet IT skills. There are even people who fail to take your advice and then blame you for actions and results that you didn't advise.
>>51692959
>look at me, I am literally the most autistic loser on the planet Earth
>>51692971
>There are even people who fail to take your advice and then blame you for actions and results that you didn't advise.
I rub people's noses in it hardcore when this happens. It never happens twice.
>>51692985
>being this much of a fuccboi
you are so naive about the real world that it hurts to read your bullshit.
>>51692903
>it's probably because you're a piece of shit
no, it's because everyone else is a piece of shit.
>>51683678
what the hell where is the green text
>>51693017
I'm not.
>>51693008
I've been doing free tech support for people for over ten years now. I'm not naïve, I'm just a decent human being. And you're not. Deal w/ it.
>>51693017
Yeah, right, it's always everyone else. Keep telling yourself that.
>>51688168
What the fuck am I even reading
go back to building the cukcshed
>>51693050
There are not merits to being a nice person. It only works if you live in a society of nice people and reciprocity is part of the social culture.
You literally spent 10 years of your life serving the very people who spit on your existence behind closed doors. Brilliant.
>>51692903
>but if nobody likes you for anything other than your expertise after meeting you
Your standards are too high. Most people in this world don't even have a single redeeming quality. At least a techie has his tech experience to make him valuable. How many times have you heard of a beautiful person with a bad personality? Same thing.
>>51693050
>Keep telling yourself that.
I don't need to, I already know it. I'm just telling others to spread the word.
>>51693037
I know!
>>51693085
My actions made the world a better place. There was a net positive effect on the lives of the people around me because of my actions, and that has its own merit.
You know what else has its own merit? Doing my part to harm the exploitative business model of consumer-facing tech support outfits everywhere.
>>51693100
So? I'm making their meaningless lives better and harming other bad people's interests in the process.
>>51692959
You fucking sperg you don't have to hate people to remove any expectations from you.
>>51689130
link to that youtube vid?
>>51693125
You didn't make any difference at all. It is like trying to light a match underwater. Until the thought processes and values of society are fundamentally changed, a few 'nice' people mean nothing.
>CS uni graduate
>server automation line of work
>frequent pull requests
>expert level hardware modification
>never tell people I work with computers
>never bring computers or mobiles up in convo
tfw only my mum phones with Questions
>>51693213
Sounds like a great reason to never try to make anything better in any way. You sure have everything figured out!
>>51693166
I spent 4 years trying different approaches in the university to see how people react to me. In the end being an uptight asshole seemed to work with the least amount of effort and I spent my time studying and advancing my knowledge in peace. My own room mate fell for this meme, became too involved with other activities and lost focus of his studies. Now he is repeating the entire year and is broke because his parents are refusing to fund him for an extra year.
I am not stupid, I have years of life experience to guide me.
>>51688168
haista vittu neekeri
>>>/krautchan/
>>51693259
Maybe being an uptight asshole worked best for you with the least effort because you're naturally an uptight asshole, and you just pushed problems away instead of actually solving them, which is obviously easier.
You may not be stupid, but you sure are an antisocial asshat.
>>51693297
funny thing is that I was not like this when I started. I simply learned to adapt to my environment.
When I start my job soon, I will examine the environment again and change my behavior accordingly. Most likely I will have to play nice to get promoted, let's see.
>>51693325
>"I wasn't like this when I started! I gave up on doing the right thing to make my own life easier at the expense of others, and that's a good thing!"
>>51692377
>$30 per half hour
i would not want to live where you are
here the professional rate is $260 per hour onsite.
>>51693325
>funny thing is that I was not like this when I started. I simply learned to adapt to my environment.
I read that in Dwight's voice
>>51693380
$260 per hour. might as well throw out your computer and buy a cheap laptop for that price. The guy is literally charging 50% of the cost of a new desktop computer.
Luckily I live in a 3rd world country where the initial examination and testing is free and the charges are nominal even for major repairs. On top of that I have spent considerable time learning hardware/software maintenance so I rarely ever have to rely on them. I also manage 5 other computers in my family, all with near similar specs, Windows 10 full updated and AV installed to prevent infections.
So far so good.
>>51693428
Yes, but where I live the customers don't have ebola.
>>51693457
Neither do we. What the fuck?
>>51683247
>Not just bitches do this but pretty much everyone in my family.
>be me
>be years and years ago
>horrendous RSI hit near the end of college
>go out into the workforce, my fucking wrists are on fire
>most nights I'm almost screaming in pain every time I shift my car driving home
>WTF am I going to do?!
>try wrist braces, ice, heat, all kinds of shit
>heading home for holidays
>max out leave, looking forward to two weeks with zero computer use
>visiting grandmother's house on X-mas
>stupid aunt and her shitty kids moved in with them years ago
>"oh, anon, can you take a look at our computer? Some random retarded thing isn't working blah blah blah"
>tell her, no, I'm trying to avoid even touching a computer thanks to debilitating pain
>"oh, but can't you just TAKE A LOOK" lays in with a huge guilt trip
>end up fixing their fucking piece of shit computer
>wrists on fire every fucking key I hit on that shitty keyboard
>that fucking horrid cunt
>>51693428
youve clearly never done C2C enterprise support or anything of that sort $260 is cheap.
t. consultant/whore of the business world
>>51683203
C-level making 500k+ asks me for advice on purchasing a new laptop. Wants a few options in 3 price ranges.
>> write a while page email detailing 3 ranges, 3 brands each with pros and cons
>> I saw this $200 acer at Walmart and bought it, did I do good?
Why even ask if you won't listen? At this point I just don't ever offer advice to that person again.>>51683203
>>51693494
If it was me I'd have just fucked with her.
>yep, looks like a computer
>what do you mean fix it? You brought me here to look at it.
Do this a few times and either fuck off or learn to more direct with you.
>>51693516
>enterprise support
Enterprises literally throw out workstations ALL THE TIME because it is literally cheaper to buy another computer than it is to have it serviced. If you go to any large business -- or, for that matter, any American K-12 public school -- you'll find at least one room with a four-foot-high stack of broken computers that nobody wanted to pay to troubleshoot. They'll probably just give them to you, if you bribe somebody.
>>51693525
>C-level making 500k+
>writing them a long, complicated, intimidating email that's completely outside their field of expertise
What the hell is wrong with you? Just recommend a 13" Retina MacBook Pro and call it a day. They're happy, you're happy, everybody wins.
>>51686374
>they'll just expect you to fix their tech problems for free and be on call 24/7.
Don't forget that you're now the cause of every subsequent issue they ever have with anything.
>DOS days
>fix up friend-of-friend's computer
>custom prompt colors, custom palette manipulator to give nicer shades of ANSI colors
>ramdisk, reorder .SYS file inits, free up base memory
>much faster boot
>reboot several times demonstrating
About a week later, friend-of-friend comes by
>hey, can you come un-fuck my computer?
>uh, what?
>you fucked up my computer It won't even boot now.
>what? You saw me reboot it several times, I didn't "fuck up" your computer
>whatever, man, you fucked up my computer and you need to come fix it
Go over to weirdo's house. Sit down at computer
>complete bizarro land
>what the fuck is this shit
>utterly random reordering of init sequence
>weird, dumb prompt command that doesn't even make sense
>none of this is anything like what I do
>who did this
I just returned the computer to the state I'd left it in previously and told him not to fuck it up again. Dude had obviously tried to modify things and just royally fucked it up in a way I can't even comprehend. Like, is this guy schizophrenic?
>>51693578
He hated apple computers.
Part of why I wrote it was because he seemed genuinely interested in my opinion. I've learned my lesson. My parents listen to my advice, at least -and they're actually quite computer savvy thank christ.
>>51693032
>what do you mean?
>its right here!!!
>>51693610
>he hated Apple computers
Then tell him to fuck off. It's damn near the only laptop that's worth anything. Or, if you were in the same situation today, recommend a Surface Pro.
>>51693578
>Enterprises literally throw out workstations ALL THE TIME because it is literally cheaper to buy another computer than it is to have it serviced. If you go to any large business -- or, for that matter, any American K-12 public school -- you'll find at least one room with a four-foot-high stack of broken computers that nobody wanted to pay to troubleshoot. They'll probably just give them to you, if you bribe somebody.
except im currently contracted with 2 locations that would rather pay me than throw out their machines. and have about 5 years of experience with doing so. k-12 institutions is a rather piss poor example as most of them have a virtually nonexistent budget for IT in general anyways.
>>51693667
You're probably working on the expensive workstations, the ones serious well-paid professionals use. Those aren't the workstations most business customers use. Most business customers buy the cheapest Dells they can, so they can plop them down on the desks of a thousand drones and use them as pseudo-thin-clients. And they break *daily*.
>>51693711
i would hardly call a fleet of 4000 latitude e5450s workstations
>>51689568
That just reminded me
>be me
>college senior
>last minute preparation for thesis presentation
>(group project)
>wearing nice shirt and tie with slacks
>using PC at the front of the computer lab because it's the only one with local storage, the rest are network booted
>young woman approaches me, waits expectantly
>look up, "yeah?"
>Um, so our computer just completely rebooted and we lost all of our Word document...
>she says it with this sort of condescending and expectant tone
>like I'm personally responsible for some hardware flakiness
>"Bummer". Start to walk away with my finished project file
>She's doing that mouth agape w-w-w-wut thing
>glance back, "that's why you're supposed to save your document regularly."
>walk off
>give presentation
>voted best in class by peers
>>51693578
>Enterprises literally throw out workstations ALL THE TIME because it is literally cheaper to buy another computer than it is to have it serviced
Yet another story, kids
>be me
>be a loooong time ago
>roommate works for Honeywell
>he's IT, internal support
>he's dumb as hell, but he's still *by far* the smartest guy on the team
>every time a computer comes in he replaces everything he can
>"Oh, it needed a new hard drive"
>takes old drive home
>takes old SCSI card and drive home, puts in IDE
>takes video card out of workstation, puts in pleb-tier one
>sells everything on Ebay
>goes to work around 10am
>leaves for lunch with coworkers at 11am
>comes back at 1:30pm
>leaves work for home with his bag of goodies around 3pm
>works on his house (we built an in-ground pool over the course of about three months)
>he clears around $20k tax-free just by selling hardware stolen from work
Later on, he got into day trading. I'm the one who got him interested in the stock market. This was during the first dot-com boom. He gets custom trading software, up when the markets open, trading with his 401k, paired up with a "trading buddy" on the other side of the country. Within six months he'd destroyed his entire 401k, his other house was being foreclosed on (he was too much of a pussy to kick out the non-paying renter), and he got called into a "meeting" at work where they presented a stack of printouts of his card-in/card-out times.
I've never seen someone get bitch-slapped back to reality so hard. And get this: HE KEPT HIS JOB. Plus, they never even found out about the theft. It's some grade-a Office Space shit.
>>51693736
They are literally workstations. That is the nomenclature used to refer to them.
>>51693844
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5450-laptop/
kindly remove your head from your ass and realize the chintzy pieces of shit i service are in no way shape or form a workstation other than in that they are used for HR and sales drones to perform their menial tasks on.
>>51693874
Laptops aren't workstations. Low-end desktop computers deployed in a business environment are "workstations".
>>51693901
hence i dont service "high end workstations" for that going rate of $260.
driving my point home that you have zero clue what youre on about.
>>51693901
Not either of you to faggots, but "workstation" generally implies a pretty damn powerful machine. I'm talking a computer in the $10k range. This is why the expensive AMD FirePro and Nvidio Quadro line of graphics cards are called "workstation graphics cards".
>>51693937
there are these lovely steaming piles of shit that every purchasing dept has a massive hardon for called "mobile workstations" that also fits into that category while being a laptop.
additonally your typical workstaion with an i7 or e5 with a quadro only runs about $2000 or so.
>>51683203
>tell girls im studying EE
>they ask me to help with facebook word and adobe reader anyway
>put a .bat file with a shutdown command into their autorun folder
>tell them to restart, it should fix it
>>51694106
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>>51683203
>i dont know this
>why dont you know this, i thought you were supposed to be smart
every time
>>51694041
Seriously, what the fuck are you even talking about? I don't give two shits what some purchasing department adopts as abused terminology.
And your claim of "typical workstation" is just more complete bullshit nonsense.
Seriously, just shut the fuck up. You are literally retarded. I'm sorry that you've worked with some shitty hardware, but you're projecting wildly onto the world.
>>51694167
Heh. A friend called me and told me she forgot the password to her Windows laptop. "Uh, that sucks." She gets somewhat indignant after realizing that I'm not going to offer a fix. "Well, what would you do if you forgot your password?" "I wouldn't. I don't have that problem, because I don't forget passwords."
Seriously, I'm not in IT. I'm not dumb, and I don't get paid to solve dumb people's problems, so why would I know how to fix dumb problems?
>>51683678
MODS HE FUCKIN BROKE THE SYSTEM
But this is the way to do it. Good on ya pal.
>>51694202
Do you use a software password service or do you recycle passwords according to a formula?
>>51692412
>create ftp server on their computer on their root drive with all permissions
>backup all their personal files to your computer
>if they dont pay within a given time frame delete everything on their computer, starting with the user files and the last thing of course being their system files
>if they calls back say it is because they didnt pay and that restoring the files will cost extra
>>51694272
pwdhash + a long time password for most services
pwdhash + a longer password used for only a few higher-importance sites
gnupg + vim for all my important stuff
>>51694324
>calls police on your ass
>they tap your phone
>get busted before you can leak her nudes
Shitty plan, mate.
>>51694324
or better yet, encrypt their personal files with something like veracrypt/truecrypt and don't unencrypt it until they pay, making sure they understand why their files aren't accessible
>>51694360
Oh, and the encrypted password file is stored on Dropbox. And my keys (GnuPg & SSH) are stored in a Truecrypt-encrypted file.
>>51694393
Wow. I just keep my passwords in a keepass file.
>>51694368
>tell police you were performing a service and that once the service is paid for the service will be completed
>they ask for your business license
>throw smokebomb
>hookshot through ceiling hatch
>parkour jump to the next building and then another
>before they realize what went down im already halfway gone
>dodging bullets like neo
>helicopter chasing me, can only get a glimpse of me because my stealth is so high
>what little footage they have of me is a respectful nod and a whip of my cape before i disappears
>it was a hologram
>now im a major hacker for mother russia
>>51694453
Why didn't you ride the eagles to Russia?
>>51694510
because i would rather ride ravens
>>51692412
get them to sign a legal doc that states the system is yours till they do
>>51693618
>green?
>>51685411
>my friend's professor thinks my computer retarded friend is good at computers
>he actually comes to me every single time for help
>he's such a politician though
>prof fucks up windows install, loses files
>halp
>he brings me the computer
>its a motherfucking windows RT tablet lmao
>boot into motherfucking recovery cmd
>do a recursive xcopy on his docs to an ext drive
>have friend call this guy up later at night to confirm the names of the recovered files
>have him charge the guy $500 for it
>give friend copies of his future exams
Literally the easiest money. I don't even work in technology
>>51683649
insecurities triggered
>letting women you dont know get angry with you
>ever
dont sit there like a faggot and put up with that shit, if some bitch starts giving you grief, give it right back
at worst she'll get really pissed off and sick her beta orbiters on you, at best you'll get angry sex
I refuse to help with email problems. Just login to your webmail if you cant use it.
And I refuse to spend more time on it than 1 day in 2 months for family.
>>51695720
This is how MS is building a bad reputation they don't deserve.
That person will go buy a fagbook
>>51696317
That's awesome
1. They'll be even more confused and helpless when they inevitably fuck it up as well
2. My job will be even easier to do given the fully featured POSIX/UNIX core
3. I'll be able to charge even more money for literally a single line of code that runs for 10 minutes just because nobody gives enough of a fuck about Macs to actually service them in a way that provides any meaningful competition to me
>"anon, if i unfollow someone on facebook and they share a post from one of my friends, will i still see the original post?"
>"idk i dont use facebook"
>rumor now persists among family that i fake all my tech knowledge and that i bought my desktop just to show off
>>51683203
dumb feelposter
>>51692959
never change, /g/
>>51696406
That's good. That means you won't be their tech support.
>>51683203
It's shocking how many organisations (ran by women) have a "database" thats nothing more than a really, really, shoddily made excel sheet.
>>51685474
You got me fucker.
>>51696512
its good in that way, but considering the way he worded his post, hes probably a neet and that was his only redeeming quality around the house. whatever respect he had is gone
which if that is the case now is the time to move out because you will regret every day of your life under that roof until you do
>>51696787
In that kind of situation I think the time to move out was a couple years ago :^)
>>51686243
I just got into an argument today for that shit.
>first laptop ever was Compaq, cheap ass laptop
>3 years, I mess with it, gets broken. My fault.
>ffw today, 6 years old HP and 7 years old MacBook
>never opened, served, repaired, not even inside cleaned.
>god not even a decent antivirus
>gets fucked up
I get the lecture of not knowing how to take caste of things, that I duck computers up and the likes. Man I hate old people.
>>51696787
How can someone be so worthless as to not be respected by his own family? Even in my underconfident, awkward, virgin teenage years, I was still afforded at least that, and very often more.
>tfw doctors have been dealing with this helping others shit for millennia
They gotta have some answers by now.
How the fuck do you deal with people asking for help in a way that doesn't fuck you over?
>>51693749
you have to be some kind of turbo loser to feel then need to make up shitty sotries about how great you are on 4chan.
>graduating with BIT in a week
>don't actually like most of IT work
>just did it because it was easier
>going to go back in Spring for MS in CS
>>51687934
Americans are so fucking stupid holy shit, I only ever hear of things like this happening in america
>computer science
>not electronic and computer engineering
>>51694179
if your autism is done flaring up kindly validate your claims. or you can go back to your anime wallpaper desktop thread and shitpost elsewhere while the adults are talking.
