The horrid tech-vocabulary of people who are not tech-savvy
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My friends dad (god bless his soul) asked me to fix his computer and get all the "germs" out of it. It was very funny and a good memory
This isn't ignorance. It's simply a media saturation generalization. Your complaint is something akin to someone in the 1890's complaining, "My mother is so behind the times that she calls acetylsalicylic acid Aspirin!" Well guess what, youngster...Queen Michael said:
It's mandatory to have a laptop in our Sixth Form, which means a lot of the Non-Tech-Savvie people have them. They all break them. My mate, Kevin, remarked on how it was amazing that mine had made it through the whole year without breaking
Simply put, it's because I treat it like a laptop : A solid, heavy, breakable, complex and expensive piece of technology. They treat it like they would treat their schoolbooks: dropping it on desks rather than placing, carrying them about in their hands and usually dropping them, leaving them lying around their house (Kevin sat on his and shattered the screen)
Another mate of mine fell for the OMG YOU HAZ VIRUS DOWNLOAD THIS NOT-VIRUS-SYSTEM NAO! popups. I head-desked repeatedly
As for terminology, everything's ok. My Gran dosen't have a computer, and my Grandma is the most technologically aware granny on the planet, albiet she dosen't understand hardware and has a ridiculously slow computer that she could very easily upgrade
My uncle dosen't understand computers, and is constantly calling my dad (a former hardware engineer and now the head of some department involved in seminars) for help. He keeps the computer under a dust sheet when not in use and treats it like a relic. It is awful and takes an hour to do anything
Simply put, it's because I treat it like a laptop : A solid, heavy, breakable, complex and expensive piece of technology. They treat it like they would treat their schoolbooks: dropping it on desks rather than placing, carrying them about in their hands and usually dropping them, leaving them lying around their house (Kevin sat on his and shattered the screen)
Another mate of mine fell for the OMG YOU HAZ VIRUS DOWNLOAD THIS NOT-VIRUS-SYSTEM NAO! popups. I head-desked repeatedly
As for terminology, everything's ok. My Gran dosen't have a computer, and my Grandma is the most technologically aware granny on the planet, albiet she dosen't understand hardware and has a ridiculously slow computer that she could very easily upgrade
My uncle dosen't understand computers, and is constantly calling my dad (a former hardware engineer and now the head of some department involved in seminars) for help. He keeps the computer under a dust sheet when not in use and treats it like a relic. It is awful and takes an hour to do anything
Dear God this - I've got a friend who'll occasionally ask for help, and it's hard to be explained anything (and subsequently explain something back) when the first thing they say is "well I've got 2 GB of space total".Davrel said:
I also told my mum about trying something instead of IE (as it's shit) and she was having difficulty with the concept that she could just click the Chrome logo instead of the IE one to use the internet.
Oh and:
"What computer do you have?"
"Vista."
"Same."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Yeah, well, my dad's a computer expert, so I never have to deal with that. Plus, my knowledge of computers doesn't extend to far beyond the "Turn it off, then turn it back on" method of fixing, so.....yeah.
I hear most of this on a regular basis; it just doesn't annoy me as long as I can work out what the friend/family member is talking about. I have no problem with 'downloading' audio from CD's to "iPods" (generic mp3 player)
It just makes tech support slightly harder to do over the phone...
[small][small]It took me 2 days to take my grandparents' computer out of sleep mode; they just thought the screen had died on them. I found the situation funny rather than annoying. [/small][/small]
It just makes tech support slightly harder to do over the phone...
[small][small]It took me 2 days to take my grandparents' computer out of sleep mode; they just thought the screen had died on them. I found the situation funny rather than annoying. [/small][/small]
People constaly tell me i have a "shit" computer when i say i have 8gb of memory, they regret it though as i insist on explaining the difference between primary and secondary memory and the von newman model in detail 
Gah!generic gamer said:I've just started using Linux properly, my mates keep telling me to look in the control panel or bring up the start menu if I'm stuck. I thought I was living with alpha nerds until it finally clicked that they couldn't tell the difference between a pc running Linux and one running windows. I wouldn't mind so much but I've shown them Linux before, shown them how a dual boot works and explained the difference!
So very Windows it hurts!
Don't you know that an image Angel becomes itself an angel? You must have created loads of them from every time you booted up your computer and now the Angel is stopping me from closing my browser tab!
OT: My parents are fairly tech savvy so this doesn't really happen to me.
My personal favorite is of course; How do I install the internet? which is usually followed by; So the internet is now on my machine.