The Weirdest Misconception People Have About Computers
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My grandma runs a blog, and she has a tech guy do the tech stuff for her while she writes the entries. One day, she and I sat down and had a conversation where she told me that she was under the impression that the Cloud was a mystical cloud in the sky that somehow stored the Internet. She was quite sure that she was wrong, so she wanted me to explain it to her. We had an hour-long discussion about how the Internet works, where stuff in the Cloud is actually stored, and even ways to ensure her files are backed up properly. By the end of it, she had a much better understanding of it all. I'm really proud of my grandma for recognizing that she didn't really know about something and deciding to ask for help so she could be more informed on the topic.
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@@CalikoFirearms Grandchild/ granddaughter. Thanks! In the time that has passed since then, I have helped her activate high contrast mode so she can see better, as well as fixing a problem where she was accidentally writing in the header/footer and was messing up her Word document. There was also a time where she was back home in a different state to where I live, and she had a picture on her phone that she needed to transfer to her computer so she could add it to her blog. She tried plugging in her phone but she couldn't find where the picture was stored, so she called me. Without seeing what she was doing, I tried guiding her to emailing the photo to herself, and when that failed I got her to text me the photo, which I then emailed back to her and she could finally download it to get computer and upload it to her blog.
@@SpeedyCheetahCub omg she sounds like such a nice lady
@@CalikoFirearms Around the time my grandfather died, my grandma, aunt, and mom had a series of arguments when it came to planning his funeral. Some time after the funeral, things went down between me and my grandma that made us all not talk for a few years. However, after a lot of working on ourselves, we mended our relationships. At one point, my grandma and aunt were visiting us, and this was shortly after my friend came out as trans. My grandma asked me to have a chat with her, walked into a different room, and told me that she didn't really understand what my friend meant. I gave her a complete explanation of the LGBT community as best as I could at the time, and after that we became much closer.
I also had to have "The Cloud Talk" with my mother. They grow up so fast. 😭
Worked in a computer store some time ago. Two best stories:
Old man call in to say his footpedal wasn't working. He was stepping on the mouse, trying to use it.
Older woman calls in asking why her scanner wasn't working. She was holding sheets of paper up to the screen and moving them up and down, expecting them to 'scan' into the computer that way.
I do server support for huge fortune 500 companies with dedicated IT departments. Probably THE dumbest thing I've seen so far was a sysadmin who threatened to take his company's business to HP and had a year-long escalation open with our engineering team over correctable memory errors and failed hard drives. No I'm not kidding. Guy was hopping mad, citing an "unusually high failure rate" and demanded we fix our defective products. Engineering did the math and his 1400+ server cluster had around a 2% part failure rate over the lifetime of their service contract, which is actually lower than average. They tried to explain to this idiot that the failure rate only _seemed_ high cause he had over 1400 fucking servers but he was hearing NONE of it. He argued back that "good quality" drives and memory should NEVER fail or have errors and HE. DEMANDED. SATISFACTION. Oh, and he also routinely refused to install critical updates containing fixes for all the other minor errors he bitched about. I just wanna know what planet this mf lived on where consumable parts last forever lol. This is the kind of stupidity I expect from end users, not someone with a title next to their name who's in charge of an entire datacenter. That is one man who most definitely lied on his resume.
Maybe he was a diversity hire?
7:10 some smoke detectors do work with radioactive material. But the type they use can't penetrate the casing. And it doesn't stop being a radioactive material when you remove the batteries.
Came to mention this. Smoke alarms all have a tiny bit of radioactive material in them, but still enough that if you had a pallet full of smoke alarms it wouldn't legally be allowed to fly air cargo due to radioactivity. But still less actual radiation than just going outside on a sunny day.
I saw a brilliant aerospace engineer try to speak into a mouse.
Did he give you a chemical formula of some sort
to be fair, they do make these little remote-looking things that you can use to record your spoken words as typed words in the computer (my therapist has one)
maybe they had one of those and just had a brain fart
I said this to my grandmother every month, the computer's not broken because it did something wrong, it's broken because it did exactly what you told to do
Why do old people automatically say their electronic is broken when in reality, it's just that they did something wrong.
@@bunniiluvin I think it's because their generation grew up with machines and things that broke mechanically so they're just used to acting and thinking like that
And it's really hard for old people to grasp the desktop/computer thing, like they don't know his to look at it, like my grandmother. I have to point out buttons or help her find files all the dam time
10:20 "Crap dancing in the corner of the screen" Probably was those dancing number gifs.
I once as a kid was so sick of my PC had 12GB of data on C disk which made it slow and unusable, we got another disk added and I decided to transfer all the files from the C disk to a new disk, forgetting that there are windows there, the computer got messed up but still could turn on but all the programs were gone, I don't remember the details but we decided to take it to support center (problems like that used to be big deal), but before that my mom was so confused because I would go on the internet and everything on the internet was still there and working, she thought I deleted internet on our computer lol
My assistant manager believes that computers are capable of independent thought. When I told her I didn't see the schedule on the invitation I received for a meeting, she insisted it was there. I went back looked, saw it was not on the first invitation but the fourth one sent for the exact same time. I told her I would look at all four next time and she said she was sorry but her computer must have been updating and it sent the messages out by mistake.
Yep, some people are convinced there's a spiteful goblin in every computer :(
Computers have been arouns for how long? At this point there is no excuse to NOT know how one works.
I think you mean how to operate them. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to understand how they work on a fundamental level.
@@banned-account You know what I meant, but yeah, people should know how to at least have basic knowledge on how this shit works.
its not strictly related but i was in elementary school when internet first became commercially available and we had IT class which literally consisted of physically writing down the steps of how to open excel into an actual notebook with a pen including the action of moving the physical mouse to cause the cursor to move. our IT teacher was using a mobile phone from the 90s, it was half the size of his head. the whole concept sounds insane now
actually there is a grain of "truth" to the whole "smoke detectors cause cancer" idea, some smoke detectors have a few grams of americium which is mildly radioactive, the thing is it is so weak that you would need to open it up and eat it for it to be dangerous, they only get like 1 or 2 hundred CPM on a gieger counter at like 10cm away, for context 30 or 40 CPM is background (at my house it is like 50-100 but that is because I am about 300m from an active factory).
14:55 to be fair, you shouldnt empty someone's recycle bin on their computer without asking
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The reference to Scotty, at 5:53. 🖖😃.
16:29 no because crucially memories can be forgotten, storage is more permanent meaning you don't have to remember you can just refer to it when needed, much like ram accesses any random thing that needs to be in memory at that time.
You can ask google where are my keys? IF you have a wi-fi or bluetooth locator attached to them. I assume he didn't have a locator attached and was just asking the internet. "Have you checked under the sofa, bed, where did you have them last? Pray to St. Jude whilst thinking about where you had them last," I assume would have been the responses to that question.
It was a 4chan thread about how a guy used word and excel macros to convert some kind of 2d geology data points into a 3d thing but the worst part was that he modded a dot matrix printer to print out the data point and instead of printing he removed the print Motors and instead had it run into god knows what. All of this could have been solved with an easy python script but no this guy had to use a modded printer and word 2010 for everything
Storage = memory. Windows Page Files literally make part of your hard drive virtual memory, though.
Oldman's computer doesnt "cooperate" .. Ever heart of Murphy's "Digital Insidiousness" that all computers have burned into their microchips?
This makes me hurt so much.
Files in the recycling bin - here I blame Microsoft for her thought that they dont use up space. Back in the days of Windows 95...98...ME. Windows modified the used space number and actually lowered that number by the space the files in the recycle bin take. This was primarily done because those harddrives in the 90's were way smaller than today. So in a less than 1 GByte HDD it was important to signal available space. Coincidental - the first types of copy protection for PC-games was "size".. For those who remember try to duplicate the CD-Rom for Microproses "Master of Orion 2" (~ 690 MBytes) on a PC with a HDD of 750 MB and windows and applications installed ^^
My grandma thought I had all the knowledge about computers, I didn’t even know how to code or to properly understand advanced settings
I don’t get the Mac vs PC thing
As long as I can get Google Chrome on it and it’s not a 20 year old clunker, it’s a good enough computer for me
"Megahertz"
"Does it?"
Guy: Megahertz
Me: Megahertz... fuckin' A man.
Half of these people can’t just acknowledge that they aren’t familiar or understand something
So many unnecessary people
Thanks for the stories
Wow, "downloaded" hit too close to home.
Not a serious concern really, but confusing the internet with the web.
hmm
Look up Academy of Ideas
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