NOO ANON!!!
YOU'LL RUIN THE CD ROM DRIVE BY NUDGING IT TO CLOSE
USE THE DAMN BUTTON!!!!!!
>if you ever just rip out the usb out of my laptop without unmounting it first I'll never let you use my laptop ever again
>ok that's it, fuck off you bastard
>>55085004
>YOU'LL RUIN THE CD ROM DRIVE BY NUDGING IT TO CLOSE
No.
(PC hangs and stays frozen for almost an hour already)
>NO. STOP. If you push the reset button I'll use all of my data!
>BRO YOU GOT TOO MANY FILES!! THE LESS FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE THE FASTER IT GOES!
>>55085071
Not strictly wrong, drives near max capacity will cause slowdowns.
>Which one is better Mac or Windows?
>>55085071
This
I still can't download something in front of my family because "it'll slow down anon!!1!!!11!!"
>leenox?
>a u like... a fuggin hagga?
>Dont click when you see the loading symbol, that only slows it more
>>55085081
>Fragmentation is still an issue
Sonic! He's got an attitude. Sonic! He's a oh fuck it...
>HE'S THE FASTEST THING ALIVE! HE'S THE FASTEST THING ALIIIIIIVE!
>its glitching bro!
>>55085004
>hard drive breaks
>I GUESS U HAD 2MANY GAMEZ LEL
>Battery saving mode has okay performance
>>55085115
>dont move the mouse
>>55085134
lmao
I have about 120 excel files from my customers. I think Ill soon have to upgrade.
>>55085122
SSD write speeds slow down with disk usage. Doesn't really have to do with fragmentation.
>>55085004
>YOUR GAMES GAVE THE COMPUTER VIRUSES
>>55085153
>FIX IT RIGHT NOW OR BE DISOWNED
>>55085144
The stupid part was the HDD was 80GB (this was a while back) and had only 3 games installed (CS1.6, Quake 3, and Half-Life) - hardly too many even by 1999 standards.
>2009, wipe the malware off my grandma's laptop.
>Her seven year old backlight burns out a month later.
"I think you've broken my computer!"
>lag
>>55085205
Kek
>>55085153
Inb4 that textless screencap
>>55085205
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>>55085014
fucking this. took me 5 months to convince my buddy that you didn't have to "safely eject"
>>55085205
OH FUCK THIS. I KNOW THIS TOO WELL.
>anon, you're good with computers
>help me with this and that
*helps
weeks later (diskettes brought from work still lying next to the PC)
>help me unfuck the PC. you ruined it. I paid $2000 for it and it's like brand new
a little later turned out the office where she got the diskettes had a severe virus problem.
>1
>2
>3 4
>>55085004
Why do you people let your relatives treat you like trash?
I've had 0 issues with family or friends blaming me for random bullshit. Maybe I'm just lucky with people that are not retarded but still these stories sound way too exaggerated.
>>55085014
>>55085282
>not unmounting
Hate this meme. If either of you unironically believe this, get the fuck off my /g/.
>>55085282
>>55085322
I hope both of you corrupt your filesystems because you still had data in cache when you ripped the drive out.
Seriously you dumb niggers, "safely remove/unmount" wasn't put there by the OS designers just for the lulz.
>>55085282
Dumbass, you DO have to safely eject.
Flash drives are slow, and because of this, the OS caches all write operations to the flash drive in RAM, and slowly gets around to commiting them to the flash drive.
If you write a bunch of shit to the flash drive and suddenly eject, you just corrupted all your data.
Safely-eject simply forces the OS to commit all cached writes RIGHT NOW so you can eject it safely.
>>55085305
FUCK
>PAUSE MUSIC FIRST BEFORE UNPLUGGING THE HEADPHONES! YOU DONT WANNA BREAK THEM
wew la
>>55085337
You dumb nigger, I was agreeing with you.
>>55085347
lmao, this is a new one for me.
I'd probably throw the person out in the quickest way possible
>>55085014
I hate it when people just remove it when they dont know there's no file transfers.
It's ok to pull it if you're not using it, but a lot of retards just yank the damn thing without checking at all.
I was helping some lady install chrome on her computer and she wanted me to transfer over her firefox bookmarks. I opened up firefox to export out the bookmarks and around 30 tabs opened. After i exported the bookmarks I closed firefox, and then she flipped her shit. She said those tabs had been important to her and that she's gonna have to go and find them all again and that it'd take hours. I used firefox's restore recent tabs feature and opened them all back up again, to which she said that those weren't all the right tabs. I apologized and asked her what she did when she needed to close Firefox, and she showed me that she just restarted the computer (Firefox was set to reopen all previous tabs). Anyway, I kept apologizing and then transferred over the bookmarks.
>>55085370
damn yankees
Don't hit the power button to turn it off! You gotta go Start -> Shutdown!
Miss, it's not 1995 anymore. It's OK.
>>55085378
You just ruined my day
>>55085134
Coworker said the about his harddrive the other day. Now he's worried that if he adds any at all to it it'll break.
>>55085305
>tfw there is still not Windows 9 and Half-Life 3
>>55085004
Theoretically couldn't this fuck the motor up though
I rarely ever saw cd drives fuck up opening and closing back in the day but people who had ones that did I'm sure was from this
>"Normie click the hidden in folder options"
>"normie thought that the files got deleted because it's gone."
MY FRUEND
>>55085370
Lost some good porn this way
Whole folder got corrupted.. shouldn't it have only ruined the one file it was working on? Maybe my drive just failed.
>>55085337
>>55085338
as long as I closed anything I had open from the drive, I've been fine. never had an issue. won't fall for the meme
>>55085424
If you really shoved it hard you can make the tray skip teeth on the gearbox, which would require disassembly to repair, usually. I've had that trouble where the computer was on the floor and someone smacked their leg into the open CD tray or a rolling chair was pushed into it etc.
>>55085471
>I choose to take this unnecessary risk because I don't want to waste a half second to safely eject the drive.
>It works on my machine.
End your life. Besides, the original post was
>if you ever just rip out the usb out of my laptop without unmounting it first I'll never let you use my laptop ever again
so you can eat shit and die, faggot.
I also hear your mother is a whore.
>>55085338
I just wait until the access light stops flashing, like a fucking floppy drive.
Never had an issue.
I don't see what all the autism is about.
>>55085493
don't cut yourself on all that edge
>"Internet Explorer is faster on Windows because it is made by Microsoft"
>>55085493
also, I'm not the retard that does all his sensitive work on a flash drive. shit was only ever used for transfer
>>55085376
>>55085205
>my uncle told me to fix his old ass PC when I was a kid
>decide to format the whole thing because that shit was beyond my novice repair man skills
>"uncle I'm about to format the whole thing, everything will be deleted, do you need anything from HDD before I wipe it clean?"
>yeah I got nothing in there just wipe it off
>2 days later he told my dad that I deleted his work files on purpose and I got grounded for two weeks
>a month later his laptop burned out and he blamed me for that too
>>55085540
What kind of massive dirty asswipe is your uncle?
Holy fuck.
>>55085338
if thats true how come diskmark on a generic usb 3.0 drive isnt lightning fast?
>>55085376
you must be a nu-male
>>55085378
marine copypasta?
gnu/linux?
>>55085461
Don't ever move files between drive, copy, then delete the old version. pleb.
>>55085318
they're not, people are just generally stupid and believe whatever they want.
>"YOU RUIN MY PC"
>wat?
>"THE THING YOU DID 2 YEARS AGO BROKE MY PC!"
>>55085149
ssd aren't affected by fragmentation
>>55085338
>/g/ believes this
>>55085338
>Dumbass, you DO have to safely eject.
What's with all these pansies ITT?
I never had any problems with flash drives.
I just pull them out when there's no traffic and the LED on it has been off for a couple of seconds.
If you rip that shit out without checking, of course there might be fucking up taking place but otherwise? Pff.
>>55085471
it's not a meme, it's windows shitty write delay "feature"
>>55085305
IM MAD
>>55085620
megaman
>>55085014
You clearly have no idea how a xHCI driver stack functions. The OS has no way of knowing you are going to pull that shit out without you telling it. At any time the host controller could be handling a critical operation and removing power/connectivity to it could permanently damage the device.
>>55085805
Like I give a shit after a whole decade without any problems
>>55085596
Canadian
Once my mom thought I got a virus on the family computer and she screamed at me so loud I hid in my closet for like a day
>>55085153
>>55085122
Fragmentation is not the only issue. As files are written to a hard drive they will begin to be located nearer the inside of the platter, and access speeds will be slower.
>>55086215
Did you ever come out?
>>55086390
Yes I came out eventually after she felt bad and made amends.
>>55086411
Good that your family embraces you for who you are anon.
>>55086265
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>>55085805
HAHA That's a good one, especially since nobody who uses flash drives for real use Linux.
Get real, faggot.
>>55085014
>>55085282
oh my gosh anon this is bait right?
>>55086476
Faggot you get real fake as fuck keyboard warrior and it's not even mechanical hahaaha
>>55085282
Not for the sake of the computer, anyway. Without safely ejecting, it is a bit of a crapshoot whether the data on the USB drive will be good.
>>55085781
I did this for a long time. Then I bricked an old mp3 player (has no activity light of course) by not safely removing it. It's rare, but it's a thing that happens and it's probably best to keep good habits.
>>55086495
jesus am i the only one in this thread who's ever seen this menu?
btw, quick removal is selected by default for removable media.
seems like quite a few would even go so far and turn off the PC before they pull out the flash drive just to not damage their $5 stick and the porn on it
>>55086594
Honestly, no, I haven't bothered keeping up to date on the dumb ways Windows handles mounting and unmounting drives.
But either way, it's still good to properly eject it to keep good habits. If you eject but don't need to, you've lost nothing but maybe a second of your time and the trivial effort of a couple of mouse clicks. If you don't eject but it turns out you did need to, you might have fucked the data on the drive.
But hey, no skin off my nose what you do. Just don't go giving me shit for doing things properly, even if it might not be absolutely necessary.
>anon I'm canceling my internet subscription because I was notified that I had been hacked.
>>55085014
In Linux, OS X you probaby get some file corruption if you write to the drive and pull it out after it says it has copied everything, it usually is still operating even if you can't tell.
In Windows it depends if you're setting it as quick removal or performance, if it's performance, it's basically the same as with Linux, it shows you it has copied everything but actually it just buffered the files to memory and is still transferring them to the drive.
Wasn't /g/ supposed to be full of programmers and shit?
Guess that's the level of intelligence that counts as a developer these days.
>>55085122
On HDD's it is a issue, not on SSD's
>>55085376
Instead of rationally explaining?
Or just calling it quits and asking money for the time wasted.
>>55085098
Fuck you
>>55085115
wasn't this like a shitty CPU thing
>>55085014
I've trashed thumb drives and SD cards by jerking them out.
If you're not carefully you really CAN hose them, but, wait until it's been long enough for the OS to quit fucking with them and it should be fine. Just don't copy a bunch of files then as soon as the transfer window closes yank it out.
>>55085098
for rotating discs this is somewhat true though.
>>55086751
>Wasn't /g/ supposed to be full of programmers and shit?
Before 2010 it was like 80% "nerds"(part enthusiastic, part bored) and 20% normies/shitposters, now it's like 50% people who own a smartphone and want to talk about their smartphone they're about to buy, 10% nerds and 40% who are not only bored but also just shitpost because it's so easy and low effort around here
>>55086939
shut up fag
>>55086767
>SSD's
What are the SSDs in possession of?
>>55085014
>>55085337
FUCK OFF TECH ILLITERATE KEKS
Safety removal was a meme created by Microsoft. Enjoy your Red Pill.
>Microsoft figured that 99.5% of users who make a transfer to a flash drive don't disconnect it immediately.
>So to fake improvements in magical Microsoft optimization, they lied about the rate of transfer.
>Meaning the transfer would display as finished while still continuing in the background.
>Of course, users that did disconnect immediately after the transfer displayed complete would have corrupted data.
>Hence the birth of the safety eject, which would display "not safe to eject" if background transfers were still taking place.
>Microsoft was fairly quick to remove this in later iterations of Windows, along with the safety eject as a whole.
>Old timey users complained and demanded it be brought back so their data won't be corrupted, hence that's why it's still around today.
There's literally no reason to use safety eject anymore, its just to keep Normie's from panicking.
>>55087184
I meant KEKS**
/threading my own post
Fuck Y'all
>>55085493
>a half second
Sometimes it'll take like ten seconds for me to unmount a USB drive.
I'm on Debian though, so I dunno.
>>55086912
>implying SSDs would be better
No.
>Computer is slow
>bang the mouse
>>55087234
if it takes 10 seconds it was most likely writing to it when you unmounted
>anon I bought a new 1 TB drive for my PC but it's not working
>"Okay, let me see."
>PC is running Windows 98
I swear, uncles are the bane of everyone in tech. He insisted on continuing to keep that ancient Compaq running simply because he would do his taxes using a version of Turbotax from 1998 and steadfastly refused to upgrade his tax software to anything from the current millennium.
>>55085527
It's because of the higher quality pixels that are fully uncompressed that Microsoft uses. Farm fresh and free range.
>>55085305
FUCK YOU
>>55085113
I really like this image... Mind if I save it?
>>55086289
Also, as a hard drive fills up it gets heavier, slowing down the rotational speed, further slowing down file access. When a 7200RPM drive is 95% full, it will slow down to about 2100RPM, thats how heavy the magnetic data is.
>>55086594
>>55087614
SD cards and USB sticks are treated differently, though.
>>55087266
>computer is slow
>smack the monitor
>>55087522
you aren't actually adding mass to a disk though, just aligning its existing matter with magnetism
I don't doubt that drives can slow down when full but I would assume it has more to do with balance than actual weight
>>55087621
>computer is slow
>kick the case
>>55087184
....did you just seriously describe disk caching?
I hope that was ironic, anon.
>>55085004
I actually agree with this one.
>>55087639
Taking the bait
>>55085387
>windows wasnt shut down properly would you like to start in safe mode?
is this what you do every time, because im pretty sure you still have to shut pcs down senpai
>>55087653
This one works though
>anon, stop masturbating at the computer, your semen gets the keyboard and mouse all sticky
Fuck you mom, you know damn well that once it dries it just flakes off and isn't sticky at all
>>55085689
What shitty OS doesn't use copy by default when dealing with multiple drives?
>>55085689
>copy then delete old version
huh?
>>55087711
Things have changed a little; these days typically if you hit the power button that'll trigger the operating system's shutdown, rather than immediately cutting the power. Back in the day it was a hard power button, so you needed to manually shut down via the OS first.
>>55087766
But if you hold the button it's still a hard shutdown though
>>55087763
he means, instead of moving the file, copy it to the drive, then delete the original file from the HDD.
personally I leave a copy backed up somewhere if it's anything important
>>55087743
>>55087763
Obviously means copy, then manually delete after verifying integrity of the copy.
>>55087639
Christ, anon, don't take the bait if you don't know what you're talking about.
Drives slow down as they get full because of the way they store data. They generally don't store all of a file in one place, it's split up according to its internal logic. When the drive fills, the available spaces to store those bits are further and further apart, so it can't optimize their placement.
It's faster to find a whole book series if they're on one bookshelf than scattered throughout the library.
>>55085014
>never safely eject
>suddenly usb stick is corrupted
>couldn't fix it and lost all data
and then I safely ejected.
>why dont your laptop have antivirus anon
>what is this sandbox thingy
>hey bro install malwarebytes it is the best antivirus recommended by reddit
Fuck me why don't normies mind their own shit
>>55085014
>be freshman year
>health class
> end of year so class is doing absolutely nothing productive
>teacher calls me over
>"you're good with computers right anon?"
>half of his files on his portable hard drive are corrupted
>ask him if he safely ejects his drive before he removes it
>"what"
>mfw
>>55086265
>>55085799
>>55086464
I feel like if someone told me the story behind this i would remember it, but I cant put my finger on it
>>55087807
any response to this is only going to be taken as damage control but I want to assert that I did know this. maybe I'm retarded for thinking a HDD could ever slow in its functional rotation but I do know how one writes.
My mon once took our pc to an repair-shop and payed 25 bucks to find out why one of the icons on the desktop was missing.
>i was away at my grandparents
>got scolded (this is expensive technology anon)
>2 weeks computer ban at a punishment
>>55087863
I don't have the actual screengrab, but it is essentially the sad tale of the only computer literate person in a family being blamed for all of the families computer problems, banned from the family desktop and having his laptop which he bought himself taken away and given to his sister, who promptly torrents justintimberlake.exe and throws it in a puddle when the resulting malware corrupts a school paper she was writing or something
>>55087863
>Your games cause viruses
>Sistersmusic.mp3.exe
>Buy own computer
>Linux
>DoNotDelete.backup
>Bestbuy "fixes it"
>Computer defenestrated
>>55085205
Maybe you did. Like those 30 year smokers who die two months after quitting.
>>55087888
ah yes the crucial plot point I missed was geek squad installing windows and formatting his partition labeled specifically not to be touched, costing him some kind of important work I believe.
I had a similar experience with my first desktop, my SSD died and I didn't know what was wrong at the time, so I said fuck it and took it to best buy so they could find out which part was fucked.
we found out it was the SSD, and I said fuck it, I'll buy a new HDD (SSDs were kind of expensive at the time and mine died within a year so I figured I'd wait a generation or two before I got another), and I was like fine, just install Windows on this HDD and leave my second HDD alone. I came back and found I had an empty 2tb Raid set up instead of the two 1TB disks functioning separately.
luckily I was a NEET at the time and of lost games I could redownload and movies I had already watched.
tl/dr even if you only barely know what you are doing, best buy will do the opposite of what you want
>>55087864
With age the motor could lose its oomph I suppose. It wouldn't have anything to do with the platters though, unless something got loose inside the drive.
>>55087975
I felt the premise was feasible but I knew the person was wrong. I guess that was kind of the point.
>>55087965
Best Buy and other chain store "repair" shops (office max, etc) are generally shit.
I work at a local repair shop and constantly hear horror stories from our customers where they brought their computer in for a virus removal or something, and all they fucking do is install a fresh copy of Windows without bothering to back up files or even ask the customer.
>father installs pirated Windows ME
>YOUR GAMES KILLED THE COMPUTER
I will never forget
>>55088015
I was actually counting on their incompotence, I didn't think they would be able to set up a RAID, and didn't want to lug my computer home until it was completely functional (I had to walk because no car, I didn't want to have to take it home and open it up again), I figured they would slap the drive in and install Windows on one of the drives, giving me a 50/50 shot at keeping muh gayms.
I knew deep down I was probably going to lose my data but I risked it anyway. don't be lazy kids.
if nothing else I should have removed the harddrive before I brought it in and put it back once the issue was sorted.
>>55085527
Well they probably do have access to lower level APIs than Google or Mozilla do.
Whether they actually take advantage of that or not is the question.
>>55085136
holy fuck this, as a starcraft/warcraft player it infuriates me when someone says that
>>55087833
Sometimes I hate working as a tech, people are always asking me what antivirus I use. I don't use any because I'm not a dumbass. Plus I work with computers, on the off chance I do get something I have portable virus scanners coming out of my ears, I don't have to install shit.
>>55088201
When I first started my last job, I used to tell people that I used linux so I wouldn't know what the best Windows AV was. But then I realized how autistic that sounded from a PC salesman. Then I would just recommend an AV that we didn't sell (MBAM) or NOD32 if it was onsale.
I can't tell you how many PCs came into the store with viruses though that had a "free" version of mcafee or an expired version of norton though. Both of those AVs are trash.
Geek squad standard protocol
>Sorry, the viruses on your computer couldn't be removed without us formatting your harddrive
>It'll be $XXX to format your computer
>Plus $XXX to set up windows #
>We also added some software on here that you should run everyday, heres a pamphlet on the programs and what to do
>15 page pamphlet
>>55085318
yeah?
>Stay at my fathers house, bring my laptop because his pc is an shity old prebuild with no dGPU.
>he visits his cousin across the country, because the cousin had a stroke
>stays there almost a month because its totally cool to stay that long with a family whos father just had a stroke
>comes back, i go home after a few days
>he calls me and tells i fucked up his pc
>tfw when the monitor has a yellow vertical line across the middle of the screen
>not ever turned it on or stayed near it
I always fix everything on his pc and tell him how to use it, and it always ends on him screaming that i dont know shit because someone on a clickbait article says otherwise.
Also later he brought the monitor to a rtv repair guy (i told him that its too fucked to repair at this point) and the repairman literally took away the control panel and change it to a broken one, so the mnitor is stuck on all the color/contrast "enchacing" modes.
>>55085424
You will wear out the motor faster for sure. I never push it shut anymore. It's just not designed to do that.
>>55085004
You will though.
>>55088269
You're not the only one
>>55085318
They aren't exaggerated. Stupid people get scared easily when they are in a situation they do not understand, fear makes people behave irrationally. From there you get
> Your games gave the computer viruses!
> That thing you did to my pc 3 yeats ago broke it! Fix it again!
>I don't know why this thing's slow, i dindu nuffin except download a million viruses and toolbars from porno websites that I'm not gonna tell you about. The machine must be broken so fix it, good luck asshole!
I started charging family and friends just to weed these assholes out, the more of a faggot someone is the less they are willing to pay usually. Do you know how bad that makes me feel?
>>55088476
pretty bad i guess.
>>55087863
>>55087882
>>55087888
gets my blood up every time
>>55088514
It makes me feel like a dick, I don't want to be a dick but the world forces me to.
>>55088228
> When I first ... my last
>I used to ... that I used
>how autistic
>>55085135
On a Z5c here, literally can't tell the difference fampai
>TFW dad did this to my PS2
>use a grounded wristband when assembling a computer
>static electricity is gun ruin da WHOLE THING
so fucking normie tier, bad handeling and negligence will kill components, not this fucking shit.
>Something doesn't work
>Hit it
>CRT used to get a green tint to it on the family computer when I was a kid. Dad brings in the "Big fucking hammer". What fer fixing the "computer tv"
>It workes
>"BFH" Now lives beside the computer.
>>55087794
Who the fuck was talking about holding down the button again?
> high school has CRT monitors (2005-ish)
> been fiddling with monitor settings at home
> figure out that degaussing the monitor if it's been running for a while makes a cool noise and the image shakes
> English class
> researching something on computers
> go around in computer lab degaussing every monitor
> female teacher freaks the fuck out and reports me to sysadmin / cs teacher
> never hear from him
Not because of that incident, anyway.
>Early 2000s
>What kind of pc do you have?
>It's as strong as Pentium 5
>Its an AMD CPU.
>>55085378
I'm now tempted to make this my background.
> figure out history teacher is computer illiterate
> by this point school has at least one computer in every room so the teacher can do aministrative stuff, play solitaire or look at porn, idk
> these computers have TFT monitors and no PS/2 ports anymore, the age of USB has begun
> regularly pull out the keyboard, mouse or network connector just far enough that the signal is lost but it looks like it's still connected at first glance
> teacher wonders why it's not working
> offer to help, make a big show out of googling for 10 minutes and fiddling with the connectors (at this point plug device back in but act like it's still not working) and typing tree in cmd
> finally "fix" the problem
> repeat several times
> kn'own as computer wizard to teacher
> fucked around with pcs instead of having to read about WW2 for the billionth time
> even got some extra A grades for helping with the pc problems
MISCHIEVOUS
>>55088530
Sometimes it's be a dick, or get dicked.
Nothing wrong with charging for a service.
>Notice the monitor has been moved, it's now plugged into the integrated graphics port
>Switch it back
>Next day Dad goes off at me for moving it back
>Ask why he wants it there
>"It's closer to the power supply so it can get more power"
>Dad hears from a friend that Linux is superior
>This friend apparently went suggesting to a technologically illiterate man who does his work from home that he should install Linux on all his computers
>Dad actually does it
>Even to my computer
>I get somewhat used to it within a couple weeks
>He gets sick of not being able to use any of the computers and puts windows back on them all
>Including mine
>While I wasn't home
>Had dial-up until 2008
>"If the internet is always on then we'll get hacked"
>>55089204
>Doesnt lock his computer even when going to the shower.
shiggy digly
>>55089204
Set a BIOS password dude
And put a padlock on the case
>>55086751
Those times are long past.
>>55089417
Nah, still would corrupt data if you use cache and pull it just out.
Btw, just trusting the indicator LED if it has finished is shit, because it could have just paused the operation to quickly do something else.
Most people don't even know what data corruption is.
Sometimes it might be entire missing files and a corrupt MFT, other times it's just corruption at your mp4 video at 49:15 for 4 seconds.
>>55085318
>>55085318
I don't even know about the others ITT but me personally i derive a certain sense of pleasure out of being "the guy who knows computers". Even now when i was eating my meal downstairs my dad kept asking me random shit relating to basic menial tasks in regards to browsing just because of the mere fact that i was physically present and within reach.
Basically without me the whole core IT infrastructure of my family and their business would break down and would have to be rebuilt from scratch by some expensive outside contractor, and this does give me a sense of power also
>>55088589
is your dad a fucking ork mekboy kek
>>55089397
how would that help?
>>55085048
This. Always, fucking normies
>>55089445
I was talking about this:
>Wasn't /g/ supposed to be full of programmers and shit?
I dunno.
My immediate family always trusts me, especially my mom and dad, I say something about a computer and it's basically taken as the word of God by them. Hell, my dad even noticed that the family computer is making some noise and said "It's just a fan on the case, noise definitely isn't hard drive or the processor fan, we should change it", so he's actually nowhere near completely illiterate. Mom is completely IT-illiterate, however.
My sister's kinda cocky. She downloads random dll's from dlldownloadsite.ru onto my uncle's computer so she can play MUH LEAGUE there, and I keep telling her not to do it, but she says "IT'S ONLY DATA, DATA CAN'T GIVE YOU VIRUSES, ONLY PROGRAMS". Tried to explain what a dll was and why she was wrong, didn't listen, oh well.
Family tends to know that I'm capable.One time he and his son bought the same computer from the same store, hard drive full of bad sectors on cousin's one and my uncle described the typical symptoms on his. Must have been a bad batch of drives, offered to change them without charging for my time since he's a pretty cool uncle. Decided to take it to a shop, got it back a week later and jewed out of $400 ("But the guy at the shop said he had to change the cables too").
One of my cousins was forced to either get a job or get a degree, so he started some CS/CE meme pseudo-major at uni. People started asking him for help, he dropped out half a year later and is now studying to be a history teacher, family's back to me.
>>55088795
glorious
>high school back in 03-04
>school has network for students and teachers
>students usernames are their full name plus grade
>students passwords are date of birth with their initials
>logging into randoms accounts and create files then rename xxxteens.com etc etc
>file names getting flagged and picked up by schools IT department
>students getting suspended for trying to access porn and having porn on their accounts
>few weeks later compulsory for all students to change their passwords from default on next log in
>>55089531
BIOS password would stop people from booting from their own devices and installing operating systems without the password.
Lock on the case would stop someone just taking the hard drive out and installing an OS on it on a different computer.
You're protecting the hard drive.
>No, roll down the window. The air conditioner takes up too much gas.
>>55089681
That's a legit complaint, I've had cars with shitty engines that had trouble driving off on hot days with the AC on full.
>>55089661
> from booting from their own devices
oh right, well except if you defaulted to that order so he doesn't have to change it
>>55089681
It's true, of course the amount of extra gas consumed depends on the car model and ac unit.
My old car would raise engines' activity to a minimum in order to supply the AC unit with enough power.
>>55087618
My old TV could never read the movie files when I did not safely eject the usb drive after copying the file onto it with my computer.
Why is that?
>>55089681
It does. AC compressor are parasitic.
>>55089681
air conditioner =/= hot air blower
the second one is just waste heat from the engine so you could have your windows open and blow hot air into your face without any problem.
AC on on the other hand might make your engine need around 1 liter more gas on 100km for example.
>>55088476
>>I started charging family and friends just to weed these assholes out, the more of a faggot someone is the less they are willing to pay usually. Do you know how bad that makes me feel?
I do the same thing and don't feel bad in the slightest. I charge a fraction of what it would cost to take it to a shop. Why would you?
Before that if they got viruses 3 times and had me deal with them each time, I would just install Linux on their shit instead.
>>55089681
Retard.
>>55088756
He wasn't wrong.
>>55085004
You should use the button.
Im pretty sure they design it to be pushed for stubborn idiots like yourself who are too stupid to simply press the button to close it properly.
Im almost sure it wears the motors down.
>>55087395
Lmao
>>55085424
engineer here. no, unless you bend it up or down while pushing nothing will break
>>55090143
If they're brushed motors they're only worn down as much as they normally would be.
>>55085409
Games are very heavy for hard drives. So too many will put too much weight on the drive and break it
>>55088720
Is this you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9nOtX-CJg
>>55085376
>kept apologizing
>neet meme
faggot confirmed
>>55085322
>>55086751
>>55086896
>>55087825
>>55087852
Read >>55085014 again you niggers, the normie panic was the guy thinking it would damage his LAPTOP not that it would corrupt the USB drive files.
>>55089417
>Rene Descartes
>Picture is of Voltaire
>stop doing everything so quickly, you're going to break it!
>pc is doing something
>hourglass
>wiggles mouse left and right
>>55086594
Never seen this menu, but to be honest, I always seen Windows cache everything. No way you can copy a 1000 files and 500mb in 3 seconds to an SD card or pendrive.
Yet it happens.
Then when I unmount safely, it waits up to 1 minutes to finally write them out. So yeah.
>>55089681
> Don't roll down the window because if there is dirt on it, it will scratch the glass.
Company's new car, so now instead of fresh air, I almost fall asleep. 10/10.
>>55090644
There is nothing wrong with that.
>>55085540
Your uncle should be hanged for being an incompetent wankstain
>>55090598
I think that was the joke.
>>55085540
i hope that fucker has a slow painful death
>>55085378
>>55088526
Never made me furious because I was a cunt and used my brother's laptop and downloaded random shit for my own purposed :^)
Sucks to be a loser and not being able to defend yourself
>tfw caught my sister manually renaming mp3 files
>tfw she had done 200 out of 1700 or something files
>mfw
>>55090644
I do that, and I'm a Linux-using programmer. The shame.
>>55090798
i wiggle mine in little circles.
>>55090796
How else would you rename them? I assume she was using the artist/song name as filename.
>>55090849
I renamed 4gb of music with musicbee
All automated,took 10 min
>>55090849
Mp3Tag can do it, however you'd like them to be named.
>>55090798
I do it too because back in da day, I had a 133Mhz that if left idle would resume with its clicking sounds once I wiggled the mouse. Don't feel bad.
>>55090847
>i wiggle mine in little circles.
well I kinda need long strokes for mine...
>>55088795
underage b&
>>55088526
If this guy was me I would have trashed the entire place. Even police costudy sounds better than a family that backstabs you this hard.
>>55085540
>repair his PC
>his laptop burns out and blames it on you
That mother fucker
>>55090644
>WinXP
>transfer files
>follow the paper with my mouse
>win7
>transfer files
>follow the white glow with my mouse
>play game
>follow the loading bar elements
>>55090994
>>follow the paper with my mouse
I... I did this too. It was hypnotizing.
>>55085048
>wait to see if it recovers
>k. It has been 5 seconds, click
>set up network sharing on printer attached to family computer so I can print from my laptop
>every spooler service fuckup is now my fault
Ten years later and I'm still pissed.
>>55091019
Circular loading bar are my favorite like pic related
Sometime when i play game i get weird loading bar that i can't follow.This really anger me.
>>55088260
To be fair to the geeksquads, these pc don't usually come with a virus but with a shitload of them and stuff that's probably hard as fuck to remove, it faster and safer to just back up the personal data and format the rest.
>>55085305
I don't get it
>>55091086
I like loading bars with actual information on loading percent I hate any that don't least use a bar graph.
Back in high school our """IT""" """""PROFESSIONAL""""" was a mom type with absolutely no computer experience whatsoever
We once were in the media center, all booting up desktops and when this screen (pic) came up she had everyone wait for the timer to run down. She had one kid sit out of the standardized exam we were to take cause he hit enter on "start Windows normally" and thought he broke the fuckin computer
>>55086939
/g/ is worse than /v/ now
>>55091679
Elementary School.
We literally had a PC room full of Win 32 Machines.
It was the 2000's
>>55086939
I miss when /g/ was techloli/g/y.
>>55091831
Let's make /g/ great again
>best friend has anger issues and is really strong
>once got angry at his iphone for bugging or something(?) and punched it so hard he made a huge crack all over the screen
>"Why did you just crack your iphone?"
>"BECAUSE IT FUCKING PISSED ME OFF"
/g/ would shit their pants if my best friend was their best friend. Almost punched my monitor once and already fucked up one my mouses by banging it, was a chink mouse tho
>Stop clicking! You'll make it load slower! DON'T TOUCH THE MOUSE!!
>>55085004
>YOULL LOSE ALL FILES IN FLASH DRIVE IF YOOU DONT UNMOUNT IT IN BEFORE
>>55086558
>bricked
shitty hardware/10
reformatting should fix any issue that arises from ripping out during transfers
>>55085347
No, you pause to avoid having Always by Erasure blasting out of your speakers
>anon stop making the cd drive jerk you off
>you'll break it stop
Every single time when something fairly simple has to be done with computers my mom assings it to me. "You have education on computers so you must know every single thing about printers." and "My phone doesn't send messages with images attached what do I do?" I don't fucking know install cyanogenmod.
>>55085461
>shouldn't it have only ruined the one file it was working on? Maybe my drive just failed.
there are file system structures which record folder structure, file+folder attributes, names, physical location of the actual file data etc.
if these data structures get corrupted your files your file can still be on the drive, but if you have no idea where exactly they are you won't be able to use any of them.
>>55085376
>I kept apologizing
Man you sound like a huge cuck desu baka senpai.
>>55085377
yankee go home
>>55087184
Are you retarded? MS did not invent disk caching.
You cannot trust that the state of the disk is actually what the OS claims it is, only that it will logically act like it is in that state.
>>55085805
>permanently damage the device.
why?
you can corrupt the file system, but if you reformat the device it works as good as new
if the USB spec doesn't allow arbitrary removal that's absolutely retarded as it's common practice(and officially supported) to remove devices without telling the OS, heck, for anything other than storage devices you CANT even tell the OS to "safely eject"
>anon, your laptop is going to overheat if you don't get a cooling pad!
Fucking 400 dollar ~2009 Dell piece of shit would have overheated if I looked at it wrong I swear
>>55091859
>anime poster
Start by killing yourself!
>>55091899
>my friend broke his 2K laptop because his skyrim CTDed and he didn't save the game before the CTD
>he also broke his phone for losing a clan war in COK iPhone game
I know that feel but he doest dare to touch my stuff like that because he knows I will end his existence if he goes berserk on my shit
>>55092168
That's right though, those things were fucking garbage.
>>55090644
What's wrong with that? It verifies that the computer is not TOTALLY frozen and it's a good way to kill time until it starts working again.
>>55092040
Is install cyanogen equivalent of install gentoo in android realm
>Don't open the text mesaage! It'll count towards my limit!!
>>55085004
>don't pull your dick out so fast!
Lol, women.
>>55092226
Just another spin on android that's good for bringing new life into old phones or getting rid of touchwiz.
>>55092202
I did eventually open it up and swapped the 2gb sodimm and wifi card into an Acer netbook for a relative who then never used it because it overheated running Xubuntu
I think the only reason they didn't blame me for it was because it actually ran on it, unlike Windows
>>55092169
Dunno if trolling or just retarded...
