Most tech illiterate things you've ever seen

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the autism never ends

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went to their ebay.

1'200 $ for a fucking POWER CABLE

free shipping though

Alternatively

it's you again

People buying applel computers

He's from reddit
reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/

had to buy a macbook for work.
I feel filthy

They didn't provide you with something that was essential to your work?

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This filled me with so much rage

Nah, i'm feeling only cringe. Too many red flags pointing it has been made up. It's probably just some fiction written in rage by some teenage mythomaniac who has been just grounded.

True, I hope it wasn't real.

Its fake you newfags. Have you ever been on Holla Forums?
"Only a fool would take whats posted on here as fact"

The story sounds fake as shit, but I can totally believe the part with the sister getting a shitton of malware. I had a job maintaining PCs at my university and there was this one employee who had her entire PC infested with all sorts of shit malware. I have no idea where she downloaded the software, she was using, but it was awful. Only a full system wipe could have helped, but she was only a guest and didn't have the rights to get a new Windows copy from our department, so I had to try and weed out as much of that shit as I could by hand. I was glad when she was finally gone.

This sentence triggers my autism like nothing. It would be like asking a dermatologist why he can't do brain surgery. user you should know this, you are a doctor. The worst people are those who ask you something and then expect you to magically know the answer without even seeing the computer.

and this is why you are dumb op, it is better to search on the offical website than go through google. it might be a fake site.

Like which red flags?

duh huh the point of my job isn't to write your fucking documents for you, it's to make software so you can do so

fuck this

Or when someone tells you "user, you spend all your time on the computer, could you help me translate a document?"

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Not only is this shithole dead but it is filled with retarded newfags.

Oh god, I thought it was gonna be the other one. I rage just from the thumbnail. Normies are idiots.

Red fluhgs maaaaaaaan just trust me lol

fuck off then

6 year old brother thinks he got a virus on his ipad from playing a popular game he installed. Uninstalls game, reinstalls game to fix it.

what the fuck?

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Can you post "the other one"

Pretty pleb.

Be prepared to rage

I'd choke the fucking bitch until she learans not to touch my stuff.

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I almost started reading that cap before I recognized it. You're not getting me with that shit this time, ragemaster.

Better than hacking.

Fucking hell. My mom knows NOTHING about computers besides using facebook, and still gives me that shit when I don't know how to do something.

user, you sound tech illiterate for working there.

It was amazon.

SWEDEN YES

Hey folks, I'm not super savvy with scripting, but could anyone give me a starting point if I want to write a quick script that does this:

Fake as fug.

for file in folder if file in other_folder output.write("new_folder", file)

for file in folder if file not in other_folder output.write("new_folder", file)

for file in original_folder if file not in other_folder then output.write(new_folder, file)

Alternatively

for x in a/*; do ln $x c/$(basename $x); donefor x in b/*; do rm c/$(basename $x); done

Much more costly if you need to actually copy the files, and doesn't work if c can coincidentally already have a file that is named in b.

Normally I'd just do

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lmao this whole thread is just edgy teens complaining about their parents

go do your homework faggots

You probably don't want to hardlink them, unless you're sure you won't be editing them, because a hardlink will make changes to one appear in the other. You should probably do a symlink, so it's clear that it's a link, or just outright copy.

There is a Linux command specifically for comparisons like this. It really depends what you mean. For folders foo and bar, do you mean you want files in foo but that aren't in bar, or files that are just in foo or bar but not both?

For the first:

% ls -1 foo/* bar/* bar/3bar/4bar/5foo/1foo/2foo/3 % mkdir dest % cd foo % comm -23

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never. hell, my employer has fired people for this.

Here is my selection :

I can only let you imagine the surprise that bluetooth was.

This one is the difference between a normie and a chantard

The two lasts are the ones why i do not have high expectations for the future.
They were studying IT. They have coded in C. Yet still they partake in the cancer that is killing the whole thing.
What will it ever take for salvation ?

These are the pajeets that shit out the programs you see on a regular Microshit Wangblows install.

You don't need a script. I'm pretty sure rsync can do this.

Actually disregard that, I misread the original post

If you're going to mock something or someone at least spell the acronyms correctly.

cp f1/* f2/* f3
;)

A couple of the dumbfucks in charge of my state democratic party thought they were being "hacked" at the convention when strange names showed up on a public Google Doc they shared.

You freetards are very much like libtards, always trying to find a way to call yourselves victims of something.

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Clearly, you've never lived with an insane, single mother. The story illustrates, pretty much, textbook behavior on the mother's part.

I haven't had a rage attack like that in more than a year.

Holla Forums

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due to a potential security hole?

People arguing that enabling Javascript & Flash on Tor will not put your anonymity in jeopardy since it reduces your fingerprint, having you "blend in". It's happening right now in the Tor thread.

computers preloaded with wangblows 10 are way better than applel trash, as you can install loonix or wangblows in it without paying for overpriced trash.

You can install loonix on a cuckbook. Just not very easily goodnight

This kind of shit. Its so obvious its fake. Look, I can make one up right now.
You must be the most retarded people on Earth to believe this shit. Please fuck off back to 4chan, reddit, Gaia, where ever you came from.

Your greentext was probably the best in this thread.

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This has to be a troll.

Well the Intel CPUs can be controlled remotely from Ethernet, but not Wi-Fi.

I run the network for my town's high school. Most of what I do quite literally boils down to turning the printer on, putting new paper in the printer, or deselecting "print selection" on somebody's computer. These people will look at a printer, see that it is not turned on, and still not understand why it's not printing.

Not computer-related, but technically it's still technology. Many years ago when I was still a kid a friend of mine and me were playing on the playground when we found some wrecked bicycle. What he then did was take the gear shifter along with its cable off the bike and put it on his bike so that the cable was just touching his gear (it was one of those kids' bikes with only on gear). He then tried to prove to me that his bike was way faster than it used to be by driving really fast. I tried to explain to him that it was because he was just spinning the wheels harder, but he kept insisting that it was because of the cable that was just barely touching the gears.

We must have been around eight years old, definitely old enough to know that you can't just touch something with a cable and have it magically gain completely new mechanical functionality. I was also old enough to know that changing gears does not make you drive faster. Looking back, he must have been slightly retarded or something.

Well, that would explain why she's a single mother.

Subtle way to ice degenerates

Patrick82 was an infamous headfi poster who has long been banned.
He has legitimate mental problems, bought into all the audiophile nonsense and undertook numerous 'experiments' to improve the performance of his ears, which he (correctly, it must be said) identified as the weak link in his audio setup.

That's insane.

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Having javascript disabled is itself a beacon. Having javascript enabled can be used to fingerprint in certain ways, most of which are "normalized" by the Tor Browser Bundle.

You're the one who's tech illiterate, here.

Of course, now since the Browser Bundle has a sliding scale that applies things uniformly based on the level, it's less likely that it can be a beacon.
Remember, though, to make it all or nothing. If you enable javascript for certain sites and keep it disabled for others that is itself a beacon for deanonymization.

wifi is more insecure, ur packets are literally in the air.

For me the only red flag is that it's too similar to the pasta of the guy whose mother forced to give his laptop to his sister.

The other is installing Arch many years ago, when pretty much no one had ever heard of it. Unless this guy is 18-19 RIGHT NOW I'd find it hard to believe.

...but my parents were quite retarded around computers as well and they're very nice overall so these kind of stories must've happened hundreds of times around the globe so... yeah. Flip a coin.

At that point you're being MITMed and can kiss your ass goodbye already

That makes no sense.

You think only teens complain about their parents!? But, yes, this thread would benefit from complaining about non-family people for a change.

On topic:
cat /dev/urandom

Bitch please, these niggas have cables that literally cost AN ENTIRE FUCKING SUBCOMPACT CAR.

pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm

You can also install Windows on an Apple computer. It's just that applefags think their OS is exquisite, sober and perfect and if they install Windows on their sleek, shiny, paper-thin Mac they might as well have just gotten a big, heavy, thick, ugly and clunky Thinkpad from eBay.

Because playing vidya, tinkering with Linux, shitposting on East Russian leatherworks conferences and translating documents is totally all the same since it's all on the computer amirite.

It's going to take war in the mainland US or a Venezuela-tier national collapse that makes it necessary to grow up fast and abandon the comfort zone our current youth is trapped into. See all the college students angrily demanding more oppression in the form of "safe spaces", which the powers that be are obviously more than happy to deliver.

It's pretty simple: we're in the Huxleyian dictatorship from Brave New World, where the dictatorship takes advantage of the fact that nobody will revolt as long as the people still live in their cozy little bubble of comfort.

The people get their soma in the form of weed, booze and drugs, they happily accept every single privacy-raping botnet as long as it comes with shiny bells, whistles, cute emojis and Pusheen stickers, and they will happily accept any oppression that is framed with a protective, caring and motherly discourse. You are free to buy an iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S, you're free to choose between spending your holidays in Paris or Los Cabos, you're free to choose any show you want out of Netflix's catalog, all of that while you're in reality the slave of the system through a few key institutions (student loans, Sallie Mae, the healthcare industry) and the authorities promptly axing your freedom the very moment they notice through the botnets that you're breaking out of the mold.

Only when the people are forced to suddenly develop a fucking pair due to sudden adversity, will be the day people will dare taking their fates into their own hands and appreciate freedom, because it takes freedom to do what you need to do to survive.

This is fake as fuck and yet it still managed to fill me with more rage than I've felt in the past couple years total.

Correct. Intel Management Engine only works through ethernet.

You ain't seen what I've seen.
social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windows/en-us/efcd4783-e948-4f85-9659-7a6e9139a931/upgrading-from-windows-7-32bit-to-64bit

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Really liked this.

Brave New World for most, 1984 for the rest.

No, it's really not like Brave New World at all. In Brave New World, every aspect of a person's life is designed and controlled by the state. People don't revolt because they're comfortable, they don't revolt because they don't know about revolt as a concept. People are kept happy, but because it's convenient and makes them work better. The scariest thing about Brave New World is that, depending on your values, you could consider it a much better world than this one.

But in the real world, all the nice technology is independent from the state ("dictatorship"), and the amount of personal freedom is not that terribly low. There are areas in the world with worse technology and much worse freedom. It's a completely different system. That doesn't mean that there's nothing wrong with it, it's just wrong in a very different way.

1984 and Brave New World are good books, but for some reason people think entirely in terms of those two when they're trying to describe the direction of society. It ends up limiting what people say instead of enhancing it.

Fucking kek

Noice.

Okay.

I reported them all for spam.

Oops, forgot one!

Ded

Are you sure you are honest with yourself?

Deciding to use Windows is absolute tech illiteracy. Windows is the McDonalds of operating systems, it is a niggering system.

I know a 10 year old who doesn't know shit about computers but has an iPad, lives on a steady diet of WWE, and has handwriting like a 6 year old.

This one's believable.

>ask the guy to try to access them through the navigator (that’s how web browsers are called here)
WTF

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last time I saw that pasta mom took it to best buy thinking it was broken and it ended up with windows vista, then sister got it.

I say we knock out a new version that's even more extreme.

You're probably talking about

Not really someone else, but I can remember a time when I knew enough to run ifconfig, but not enough to know that 192.168.0.17 wasn't visible outside of my home. Those were dangerous times, looking back.

I had this happen just a couple days ago. Where I work, I'm not under contract to work on computers, yet this woman calls me down to fix her printer while I'm trying to get other shit done on schedule.
First sign of trouble, was when I asked her if it was wireless, and she told me "No". I lift a paper laying on it, wireless icon.
Best as I could tell from those few minutes I spent working on it, she installed the wrong drivers, and the right drivers didn't work because of the drivers she installed, but I didn't have time to fuck with it and I don't get paid to fuck with it.

As far as tech illiterate stories go, their tech guy would probably qualify, but I got another case.
these fucking people

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I'd give that honor to chromebooks.

I open it and find that it's filled to brim with dust bunnies.

No.
Fuck you dad, I hate this family, I wish I was never born.

Me and a buddy of mine run linux. Myself because ease of programming, and my buddy because it actually runs better than windows on his PC, and because I can troubleshoot him more easily, given I have more experience with linux than I have with windows. He's not tech illiterate and knows how to look things up on his own before asking for my help. It's quite refreshing considering all the retarded tech support I sometimes have to give to relatives.

Here in the Netherlands, what's called "middle school" lasts until you're about 16-18. A lot of these schools have grown to the hype of using technology in teaching. The school we went to was one of the pioneers, one of the courses beeng "computer science", which literally was word, excel, HTML, copy-pasted javascript and Game Maker.

But that's not what takes the cake. Our teacher considered us prodigies due to the fact we use linux, with famous quotes such as:
I scored pretty low for that course, due to nitpicks he always managed to point out like my CSS being inlined in the HTML while the assignment said it had to be linked, despite my build system only inlining it in the build result.
Needless to say, he was a shitskin pajeet-tier webdev.
Looking the school back up, it seems they don't offer the course anymore, and new alums are given a discount on ipads to take notes on.

>The school we went to was one of the pioneers, one of the courses beeng "computer science", which literally was word, excel, HTML, copy-pasted javascript and Game Maker.
Lucky you. The "computer" "science" course I got pressured into taking was 1% programming (on ancient windows xp computers), 1% web design (using photoshop 6 and dreamweaver to make static pages for fucking IE6), 90% writing essays in MS word, and 8% mandatory remedial math class.

It'll be worth the smack across the face.

Really, nigga?

So this is what getting old feels like...

if we're going to get into "shit we shouldn't have done in school" territory, I got a few

The first time I got to use a computer in school was like grade 3, in our school's one computer lab with a mix of win 95 and some newer 98 machines. They were relatively locked-down on the "student" accounts (couldn't access netscape/IE, start menu, etc; only some programs in a folder that opened on startup). I started off just constantly playing little edu-games instead of doing the "practise typing" things we were supposed to, then at some point I figured out how to get onto admin account (don't remember if I just guessed the password or somehow did the ESC trick), and promptly realized all the computers actually had working internet connections (I think over DSL) so I immediately started looking up funny pictures and porn (if I got the back seat) whenever we were allowed to use the computers.

Late 2009

I doubt anyone will get this.

D-d-d-did you just compile 32-bit RHEL in your downloads folder?

It's 32bit fedora with a 64bit kernel. :^)

Not entirely tech illiteracy but...

First two to four weeks. Not sure, it's been a few years.

Finally the real teacher comes along and...

Cut to halfway through the year.

The next chapter involves some explaining. I was in special ed. Not life-skills or severely autistic though. Just behavior in my case staying out of shitty general ed classes. When I failed that class, they took me in for the next semester for Web Design B because staff is retarded. One of my class's aids figured I was being a problem in that class and decides to accompany me like the aids will do with students that are pretty badly behaved. I got along with them, so it doesn't really bother me.

I don't remember what class we swapped out for that. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Gamedev class wasn't bad at least. I knew a lot of stuff they were teaching, teacher was fun, and it was generally chill. Learned about my community college's gamedev programs that aren't shit like the typical stories you hear and I'm networking well and haven't been happier.

MAKE GOOD MONEY SELLING EBOOKS ON HACKFORUMS

Shit like that was always fun

Or

Or

there's nothing really wrong with that

I put Tails on a usb for a friend and explained how it works.

No, you idiot. Imagine how the world would be if idiots like you had that kind of power.

My university was protected of being misused my the hacker called 4chan.
The ping command, useful as the campus network hat quite often downtimes, was locked for students.
pathping & co, was still available, and you could run your own programs

other fun is what windows lets do without being logged-in.
All the help functions, screen inverted ...
Bonus points when somebody let his computer logged in.
Changing the sounds is fun, because everybody is running with sounds of, until they get home or want to show something to someone.

tech illiterates get in panic for that

Top kek, I had tons of fun with this in a technical course. High contrast, magnifier, narrator, on-screen keyboard, I turned on all of that shit. And that's not even mentioning the levels of inconvenience you can cause for the person right next to you with stealthy fingers and a basic knowledge of keyboard shortcuts.

HS was terrible great.

feels old man

>idiot friends and I decide, for some reason, to learn about forkbombs

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This happened 5 mins ago while reading this thread


>to an already sent email


>stays in the draft


Also, did you guys notice how people can be completely tech illiterate but somehow STILL manage to do shit like change the Windows font to Comic Sans?

Better yet, shut down explorer.exe instead of just hiding it.

Good post.

/g/

Pajeet sold you out

WHAT

i died