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“Oh look you have 3 PCs”
*Has 3 monitors*
Me: **Has a Mac**
Kid: why do you have an Apple PC?
Me: **Triggered**
When I was working at MSN tech support "Oh you mean the TV thing?"
+RyanTech777 Technically modern MACs are indeed PCs.
@@planetshine why do you have an apple pc though?
RyanTech777 that one isn’t as incorrect since PC technically means Personal Computer.
*People buying a computer:*
Only eight gigabytes of memory?!? I need WAY more than that to store my files!!!
Crashdance22 no, you need diskram if you only have 8gb of ram.
Mike Crapse missing the joke
What _about_ a ramdisk, Crashdance?
You mean, storage?
Hayden Pack RAM 😂😂
Me: **opens Linux terminal**
Everyone: oH NO heS a haCKeR
True....
[CTRL] + [ALT] + [T] it is
Cmon i just wanna clone a git repo
Everyone: "hacker"
I legitimately got in trouble for that
I littaraly got in trouble for opening cmd at my school. Never mind when I started using linux
Dude: I don't have enough memory for my games.
Me: How much do you have?
Dude: I have a tiny *256* gigs.
Me: Uh, what now?
Dude: IKR, so little. Don't you have like, a terabyte?
Me: I have a TB of storage not memory.
Dude: wHaTs ThE dIfFeReNcE?
If you say ram, there's no room for confusion
@@sebaschan-uwu unless dude doesn't know what ram is
@@tjl2836 you mean the car right??
@@poury5764 y e s
@@poury5764 what, I thought it was the sheep?!
"I ran out of WiFi on my phone"
*cringes in disgust*
Any situation where the internet connection is referred to as WiFi!
Maybe data network?
Taehun what she is saying is someone once said to her they ran out of WiFi. Which they either met they ran out of data or there WiFi disconnected.
^ or they reached their cap already.
or the wifi is not pluged in
Me: *uses inspect element*
Everyone: "He's a hacker!"
So true
cmd ipconfig xDDDD
This is the reason I hate inspect element.
my teacher starting screaming and saying someone hacked the website we were using because someone inspect elemented some text on the site and we all got a really dumb lecture i had to refrain from laughing in
Zwenk Wiel you talking about stuff like “notpron”?
Here in Germany, I've heard far too many people use the term "software program", which I find totally idiotic, as programs are software by definition.
99% of ppl here in Germany don't GET THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BLOODY CHARGER AND A POWER SUPPLY!!!! most of the ppl have never seen a battery charger in their whole life (except the one inside the phone for example)
@@anatolijleipi7594 Unfortunately far too many people are utterly clueless about electronics, particularly when it comes to charging and the impact non-rechargeable batteries have on the environment.
It's like the polish "Program Komputerowy"
I felt pain reading that and learning people say that
That's not true, there are also hard-coded programs.
Calling an SSD a “hard drive” is nothing compared to those people who refer to the whole tower as a “hard drive”.
I would say that, contrary to Linus, call it an Internal Drive for SSD, SSHD (stupid idea btw), and HHD. For USB sticks and the like, that's an external drive.
If that was their pc tower I would smash it with a keyboard or tHe CoMpUteR On ToP
Which is actually a monitor
those people exist?
How about the ones who mistake gigabit for gigabyte/ megabit for megabyte and the like?
@@robibryantbautista6197 that's more complicated
calling every form of internet "wifi" is by far the worst
People I know usually only refer to their internet connection as "WiFi" wenn it's not through their mobile carrier.
Someone ask me for a Wificable for his PC.
Psycho Cow same I hate it when people are connected to cell crevice and go I have wifi
It's so prevalent that Chinese has adopted WiFi to mean Internet...
"Wifi cable"
My mom once told me to wipe my keyboard because it was dirty and I could get a computer virus.
wtf hahaa
My Friend once said that open DVD drive could give computer a virus
my friend once said her laptop will break when I opened task manager
My friend thinks that using anything related to the command prompt or without a GUI is hacking.
+WiBS0N how? Do you have any idea how she thought that would happen or why she thought that?
"Do you have a *Samsung* charger?"
This drives me crazy. For god's sake, Samsung uses 2 universally used plugs, and by saying Samsung you don't really tell me which one you use.
30 Pin, Lightning, Type-C and Micro
Remember it everyone
I was at my friends house and I asked if he has a micro usb charger. He was like no but I do have a Samsung charger for my beats.
Yeah, or even worse. When iPhone users run out of battery and blame android users for not having the right cable, as if android is the one using nonsensical and fragmented proprietary charging cables.
@@toaddx I can't believe it's been 8 years since 30-pin was relevant
Yeah, I have asked people for a charger and they hand me a lightning cable. I wanted a USB-C charger for my laptop, phone, pretty much anything else...
My parents Calling every tablet in the world an iPad
Fr 😂😭
LoL
Fax
This just hurts everyone who has an Android tablet. Or calling every phone an Iphone. That's just not how it works. bruh.
Yooo, this is me lol
"Wi-Fi" - The internet
"iPad" - any tablet
"Hard Drive" - PC case
"You've got 2 computers?" - multiple monitors
"Lag" - low frame rate
"My PC is slow" - trying to load content with low bandwidth
"3G" - all mobile internet
"Headphones" - earphones
"CPU" - a PC
"It's not a PC, it's a Mac" - ... really?!
"the internet" - a web browser
"Switch" - Button
"Coding or Hacking" - anything without a GUI
"fast internet" - high bandwidth
"memory" - storage capacity
"Photoshopped" - any altered image or video
"Call of Duty" - any first person shooter
and for all gamers out there:
"Extended *Clip*".....
Lonewolf Gaming ‘For all gamers out there’? Not all gamers play shooters! I certaily don’t.
‘Laggy’ certainly can mean ‘of a low frame rate’, because there is a long lag between each frame render. I don’t see how you can say that it isn’t a form of lag.
Lonewolf Gaming
Macs aren't PC as PC has always- and should still refer to IBM PC compatible machines. That implies at least a half baked legacy BIOS firmware support and Macs don't have that. Even more infuriating is when people call ARM SBCs "tiny PCs"!
Lonewolf Gaming This, very much this
The one about the 2 monitors happens all the time to me!
Lonewolf Gaming When a liberal says magazine clip X_X
One of my friends told me that the iPhone X had an Android front-facing camera. I asked him what he meant, and he said that Android devices have bad cameras.
I tell him the Google Pixel 3 is known for taking the best photos and he said *"That's not an Android, that's a Google Pixel"*
Bruh
Bro, literally the exact same thing happened to me
These dumbasses dont even know enough about android to hate on it
So the truest Android Smartphone, the one with literal only Android on it, without any snick snack like Samsung or Huawei, is not "Android"... great.
Brock724 MEGA BRUUHHHHHHHH
When someone calls their tower the hard drive, and when my kids call the screen the computer, and scoff when I tell them that the tower is actually the computer because they've grown up with AIO PC's.
I hate AIO PCs for this reason. Also, it's PCs, not PC's. The PC doesn't own something.
Although, in soviet russia the pc owns you.
@@wta1518 thi's that the'se tho'se
Yeah. So many kids these days know the monitor as the computer, even if they have a tower. They just never _knew_ that the tower did anything. They just knew it was there. I hate when I tell people to turn off the computer and they hit the monitor power button.
@@BellCube I was the only person in my 3rd grade class who actually knew how to turn off the computer, not the monitor. And that's including the teacher.
Conversation between me and my friend:
Friend: *buys a laptop*
She: I got a new pc
Me: wow, what case?
She: c-a-s-e? What the hell is that?
Me: don't care about.. tell me about the specs
She: what?
Me: how is the computer?
She: powerful
..
She: it has 500gb of memory
Me: you mean storage, not ram I think
She: no no memory. The memory where I save files
*facepalm
I feel physical pain
A notebook/ laptop is a pc as well. As long it's not a mac cause you know, apple is special and shit.
Anyway: feel that pain
@@anatolijleipi7594 Even though Desktops and Laptops are similar, it would be better to not correct this misconception that laptops aren't PCs because it just causes further confusion, especially when you say that Macs and shit from apple aren't PCs when they technically are.
whats her email i will explain it to her i HATE it when people say that!!!!!!
Secondary but Latptops are PCs. Laptops are a computer, and they are usually personal property of someone. Therefore, they are PCs, though they are quite a bit weaker than your average desktop.
"Hacker" might be the most misused tech term...
"My account got hacked" a.k.a. "Someone found out that my password is my dog's name with my year of birth at the end for every website I use"
5umor also ddos is heavily miss used
Indeed! Some people think typing some commands in a game or program is hacking
the damn hackercrackers
yes!
when people don't know the difference between ping and fps
Yes pls! That shit gets on my nerves. Fucking CS-Go and Minecraft kiddies fault.
but i know whats the diffrence between ping and fps lol i get horrible ping because my internet is slow
First person shooter?
Frames Per Second
Ping fps refresh rate and response time. Nobody I've met other than me exactly knows what all these 4 mean. It drives me insane.
All my friends call the Micro USB cable a Samsung cable... I can't hear it anymore xD
oof never heard that one before, that must be painful to hear
They also call the USB-C cable "new samsung cable" as if samsung made them xD
@@mircodhd4326 lool that's even better (or worse lol)
@@pafawag5b6b5b I am in 13th grade and am still fighting the battle of only giving people the charging cable they asked for if they use the correct term and explaining to them what connector they are actually asking for if they dont... You would think after 8 years i might have made some progress, but no...
Calling the computer's case "the hard drive". As in, "I plugged my headphones into the headphone jack on the hard drive".
*screams*
That's like pointing to your car and calling it "the steering wheel".
tvdan1043 Or pointing at a lamp and call it “copper wire”
Rather trunk than a steering wheel
Don’t reference the car to the steering wheel because hard drives hold data, so it could a gas tank or the computer module.
Wanna go race on my piston?
@@krn. man my door is 200 cubic meters, its SO big
Calling the monitor a computer
Some of them are integrated with the screen
Ruan du Plessis And then calling the actual computer the "hard drive"
Ruan du Plessis calling the screen a TV.
and punch it if something doesn't work :(
My friend did too
I hate it when people refer to ALL Android phones as "Samsung phones"! There's more than one Android partner, you know.
That's crazy
In my country, people refer to every single tablet as ''iPad''. I'm freaking done
Nah. Not feeling like giving a name I know what you mean
And when someone needs to borrow a micro USB (type B) cord to charge their phone, they ask "Do you have a Samsung cord?" It drives me nuts.
״my galaxy" - has a nexus
CZcams stopped labeling 720p as "HD" now.
good
@@TereziPyrope413 wut?!
thats dumb, 720p is HD
I don't have a computer, I have a laptop.
Another one: this is my *CPU* .
Well yeah, the entire case.
I call my pc my CPU just to make fun of idiots
@@RasburryTe It's Big brain time.
Laptops are computers
@@mortis9023 They are and the same time they aren't
Also when Apple says that "Your next computer is not a computer" in their iPad Pro marketing. Anything from an iPhone to a quantum computer is a computer.
All the professors at work: There is a problem with my computer
Me: What version of Windows is it running ?
Professor : Yes it has Windows on it
Me: Ok, but like Windows 7, 8 or 10 ?
Professor : Yes it has windows on it
Well, my uncle wants me to remote desktop to his Windows 7 laptop and install Windows 10, because someone told him it's better. And he's unable to understand why I can't re-install the OS while I'm logged in and that Windows 10 is actually going to cost 200$. And then he refuses to accept that you can spend half the price of the computer on software... I'm in the US, he's in Spain. How the hell am I suppose to install Windows 10 remotely? o_O
I bought w10pro for $20 ... and you can remote install it, but it is challenging but possible. you need a fully automated/silent installer and package the remote software in it.
me: "ok does the issue happen when you're browsing the internet, or just at idle, or anytime you're busy on it?"
them: "yes"
what.
give him a step by step guide via a phone call. i'm sure that he can do it and will not do anything that he was not supposed to do.
... who am i going to fool. you those people that call you, asking what is wrong with their pc and if you tell them that they need to reboot or finally close and reopen all those browser tabs, they're like "nah bro i don't think that's it" and you try everything you could and they are like "wtf you are so bad" and you just rage and shut those damn tabs and shut down the pc and they are like "wtf staaaaap" and you reboot the pc and just reopen all the tabs and everything works and they are like "i could have done that" and you just want to smack the pc against their heads and the don't understand why you don't want to help them anymore!
Violin Iliev maybe use Skype on his phone and tell him exactly where to click
"God dammit Internet, you're making my fps slow"
If you're streaming games, that might just be the case😂
@@bennybau123 😂😂
OrangutangClan 🤣😂😃😅😀🙂😕🙁
First Person Shooter??
@@manatster Frames Per Second
so
you're telling me
that computer components are either hard or floppy
@@goos8841 I was expecting some comment like yours and I was not disappointed
@DEEJMASTER 333 yes...she did SALAD
When people don’t know the difference between memory and storage
some kid: only 32 gigs?
me: excuse me what the shit did u say
A friend said he wouldn't buy a storage device because "it was enough space for CSGO with the 16GB of RAM and the 4GB in the video card"
@@DoctorMoguri if i had a loaded gun in my hands while he said that, his life would be over
I encountered someone knowing what RAM is and called storage ROM.
Calling the Case the CPU
JunKhaos in 2nd grade my teacher told us the whole pc tower was the CPU.
Popsicle Soda he wrong, mate.
My teacher refers to the case as the hard drive. and the rest of the school refers to the case as a cpu. I in 5th grade am the only tech nerd in the school
JunKhaos well it is an old term so I guess it's true because CPU stands for central processing unit so it's not fully wrong it's just not fully right
Popsicle Soda yea that's what my tech foundation teacher told me
Me: connects an external ssd to my computer.
Everyone: oohh, that is a very big memory stick.
Are ssd's is really that big?
😏
@@kbzplayz5886 2.5" generally
I mean it is memory. And flash drives are solid state so if you use a flash drive, it's not wrong.
Well, they are not completely wrong...
It drives me insane when people call the tower “hard drive”
That's like the size of the petavyte project pro
For me it's even worse, they call it CPU
My COMPUTER TEACHER calls the tower the CPU, and the power light on it the motherboard.
Here we call it RAM
Everyone in my computers class always 'turned off their computers' at the end of class (because it was last period) by pushing the power button on the monitor...
Me and my tech-savvy friend would always go around throughout the whole room and turn off all the computers after...
In my school happen the opposite most people turn off the computer and leave the monitor on
Dude the teachers at my school this year turned off computers by LITERALLY UNPLUGGING THEM UNSAFELY.
i work at a hardware store and these are the most frustrating things:
people referring to laptops as desktops
people not knowing what fucking port they want a cable for (it´s from my pc to my monitor, duuh)
calling anything other than the actual cpu a processor
people referring to storage as ram
"1 Tetabyte, 1 Tegabyte, 1 Gizabite, 1 Magobyte", I´ve heard them all
I need a USB cable - which one? - a USB cable, duuh
people having legit no fucking clue what a pc is actually made of (apparently of metal and magic)
Airmacbook, Applebook, Air book from Apple, Apple Mac
every goddamn tablet is an iPad, no matter who actually manufactured it, don´t you dare tell the customer otherwise
"I need a really fast laptop for some intense work" aka facebook
" I need a really fast laptop for some intense work but I only have 200$ to spend, what do you recommend?"
"How do I set the temperature on my laptop? My hands get cold after a few minutes"
"nonono, I didn´t buy the product here I bought it from amazon but I expect your full service and I want you to teach me how to use it, I might even buy a USB-Stick after you´ve sacrificed 30 minutes of your valuable time to teach me how to search for cat pictures on the internet"
God I hate my job
Kiwwizz but laptops can be on top of desks XD
metal and magic lol
"calling anything other than the actual cpu a processor"
GPU: Graphics PROCESSING Unit.
also calling the whole PC a processor isn't entirely incorrect, since the whole machine is used for the purpose of PROCESSING data, whatever you use your PC for.
That's true. As long as one doesn't go about calling the personal computer a "central processing unit".
Nah, I think you just hate the customers rather than the job itself lol. Or maybe both haha.
calling lag on an older device a "virus"
Meer Shah Oh what. That is scandalous.
Or when computer stores charge 60$ to format your disk because of "a virus"
Meer Shah I remember years ago when I thought my really old iPad had a virus and that's why I was only getting 20 fps on Minecraft... those were dark times
my mom wont let me play games on her computer because she thinks that games slow down the computer. i just want to play minecraft...😣
rjln109 well kid, if you want to play minecraft, as long as you pay for it, it won't slow down the computer. Also tell your mom I know what I'm talking about and her assumption is completely illogical and untrue. Or maybe she knows it won't, and she just doesn't want you playing minecraft because she knows that you'll be out of the minecraft phase by the time you're 13
Around the age of 7, I had already fallen in love with PCs, and stuff, so I understood them well enough for a 7 year old, but, for the next 5-6 years, every single one of my friends, and petty much everyone I knew thought that monitors were pcs, like this one time I had a friend over, and I showed him this monitor, and he was like, can we play on it? And I tried to explain to him what a monitor was, but he thought I was lying for the next 3 years.
i feel like that happens to often.
I think i have some mental issues so if that happened to me, that would cause a lot of crying, yelling and suicidal thoughts
Doctor: "are you sexually active?"
SSD: *IM NOT HARD!*
I haven’t seen that joke yet funny
But.... It's solid....
@@0oXcaliburo0 lmao
@@PlasmaRB solid reply to a solid joke
Lol, look at the acronym for Fast As Possible.
As an electronic retailer I hear some of these very often.
I'll go ahead and add some of my own:
Hard drive > The actual computer tower
Samsung Charger > Micro USB charger
Samsung OS > Android
3G > Mobile broadband
iPad > Any tablet.
Daniel Dybing Calling a User Interface (UI) an OS.
Daniel Dybing Calling a User Interface (UI) an OS.
Calling any wide-angle waterproof action camera a "GoPro"
Daniel Dybing i've always hated the 3G one
cameron cross exactly
How to look like a hacker to the general public:
1. Use the command prompt
2. powershell
3. linux
4. the run command
5. using windows hotkeys
6. make your desktop background black and use a black theme
7. using any productivity software that's not Microsoft office
8. going into bios/uefi
9. Inspect element or view page source
Etc etc......
if you do any of these things in public or in class, chances are some people are gonna think that you're a hacker.
Back in school some dudes saw me install some mods for GTA San Andreas and called me a hacker.
I was reading Wikileaks Vault 7 and my classmates saw the stupid "NOFORN" and CIA logo and thought I was a hacker.
I clearly do 7 out of 9 of these and YES My classmates call me a hacker and calls the teacher
I love to mess around with inspect element every now and then. (Last year in math class, whenever we used a website for math, I would actually change the font colors to make the webpage more jnteresting. Some of my classmates actually wanted to know how I did it.)
@@vincentbuenaventura2762 i get called a hacker but no one ever tells the teacher
Moms to every gaming console: "Are you playing your Nintendo?"
My mom refers them as _Consoles_
Except the Wii, of course.. And the Playstations... Annnd the Xbox.....
My stepdad is just an asshole so he calls my Series X a fucking Playstation
Lol
my mom calls my switch a playstation
My mom refered to my xbox as a "computer" however that is tarnishing the namesake of which the PCMR withholds
Me opening cmd
My friend: R U a hacker?
Ah great profil pic linus likes it
@@icecrystal0094 mine is better. and btw, that thing with cmd is so relatable
No one has ever said that
@@HO-zy2bv lmao happened to me
B A L L S A C K G A M E R
My dad once told me (about 2 months ago) that Ryzen processors are not tested enough so they are not "safe" to use
@John_Cyrus_San_Pedro what?
@@shaansingh6048 ded
@@playerunknown7716 not very explanatory.
@@shaansingh6048 Amd overtook Intel with their ryzen CPU's
@@shaansingh6048 intel has security issues at the moment, Ryzen is safer and argubely better
Last year my brother bought a ryzen 5 2600 and then my dad asked :
"So what processor was that again?"
My brother : "it's an AMD ryzen 2600"
My dad : "... So it's a core i7?"
maybe he doesn't know what AMD is.
@@shaansingh6048 What person thinks, that AMD Ryzen 5 2600 is another meaning for Intel Core i7?
@@janthore not a lot of people hear about it, Intel has been in everything forever now. Can't tell you how many people I've strayed from Intel already (just cause pricing and what not)
YOU MADE ME SPIT LOL
General Kenobi if knew stuff you would know there is a cpu that named i7 2600
It drives my nuts when people that are into video games, even the game journalists, constantly mix up terms remake and remaster.
*"It drives my nuts"*
@@hueyrosayaga 😂😂
2:48 Disc with a *c*
*CZcams Auto-generated subs don't understand*
Hacking in movies be like...
Character: *taps a few buttons on the keyboard *
*computer screen comes up with big green box saying 'ACCESS GRANTED' *
Character: "Im in"
Omfg typical movie hacking/cracking is cringe af
When your at school and you open the command prompt and you get called a hacker. I just want to test my console app leave me alone smh.
Same story with me. I opened command prompt because the internet connection was very slow so I decided to see if I actually had a connection, so I typed in: ping google.com
The kid next to me screamed at the teacher, telling her that I was hacking.
And I got into trouble...
Shazzkid Or when somebody looks at a crappy image in like 69p in a movie, then shout "ENHANCE" to whoever is sitting at the computer. Then *bam* instant 4k picture with face recognition. So stupid smh
Razor MAN That's actually happened to me, it pisses me off so much.
Water resistant and water proof. Drives me crazy.
And in Polish I think that there is only one word for both "water resistant" and "water proof" so people don't see any difference. Or maybe there is another word but no one is using it.
that one is good
Water resistant refers to the ability to resist water under many circumstances or till a limit, like wrist watches. They don't provide complete resistance to water. Whereas water proof, means completely impervious to water.. like silicon seals, bituminous coating, etc.
HangmanSwingset lol me too
Rahul Manoj - Why did you explain this? Obviously he already knows...
My mom: "I want a cpu(pc)"
Me: "Intel or Amd?"
My mom: "Asus"
😤😤😤
Build her a pc and just slap an Asus logo on the case
At least she knew the not-really-advertised-to-average-people brand...?
"Atm machine" & "pin number" trigger me
VIN number
RPG games
Ah yes automatic t-something I forgot machine machine and personal identification number number
when people call cmd prompt a "hacker program"
I use that to check the ping of the program I'm using. "Request timed out" is the worst!
when you type color a and all turns green then it looks like you are in government's secret stuff
@@tdplay4135 laughs in bash
Thats a comment of a god a god that heard my cry greats from Germany
@@klensal4559 color 9f makes it look like there was an error
When I Have Two Monitors And Everyones Like "WOAH! You Have Two Computers!?"
What's With Capitalizing Every Single Word For No Good Reason?
Maxx Fordham lol. dont know why I do that
Pengus i have 10 computers but only three monitors :(
I remember I used to do that.
And then show them you can drag a window from one screen to another and so forth and they look at you like a magican or a divine being
I have a teacher that calls our Chromebooks "Apple Chromebooks"
Slap him
None of the others have brought me quite as much pain as this
This one gets me every time, when people say they need to upgrade their RAM so they can more space!
Nobody :
My friends : 8 GB RAM ? Even my phone has more , 64 GB !
Why don't you just download more ram?
Shronk lol
My phone has 6 gigs of ram XD
Shronk LMAO 🤣
0TickPulse my iPad got 6 gig ram and my pc will have 16 gig ram
Edit: it has 16gb ram I got it
Some random person:Look he's hacking
Me:Right click Inspect element
WTF xd
how I survive...
To be fair, inspecting can be one of the ways to start your hacking session.
I remember typing ipconfig in the cmd line in middle school and the entire class freaked out cause they thought I was hacking.
My school disabled cmd and chrome devtools but not ie devtools or edge devtools or powershell xD rip.
When I've installed Ubuntu on a schools PC the teacher was trying to return to Windows by pressing alt+F4
I would have paid a high price to see this.
lol the cs teacher is supposed to know there are more operating systems
@Lucas Zhu i installed it onto the hdd and i've not put an entry on grub that boots windows
Lucas Zhu pretty sure his intention was to not let them get to windows
Lol
When people call storage “memory”
When your primary language is not English, it's sometimes not easy to know what the difference is. In Germany, for example, there is no word for this and you think storage and memory are the same thing.
My personal favourite: "the Wi-fi cable".
Matthijs Reyers Edit: ethernet cable
I DIED AFTER READING THIS. THIS IS MY GHOST.
Nathan Kam.. You are joking right?
I lolled quite a bit at this..
😂😂😂 Quite the oxymoron!
> I get quite annoyed when people say tell me they need more memory in their computer and I immediately assume they mean RAM, but they actually are talking about running low on storage capacity with their Hard Drive or SSD. That's quite annoying to me.
> I also get annoyed when people refer to the entire computer as a CPU. I've had people ask me to shop for a new CPU for them, and I go to asking what socket they have and what other important things I need to know when looking for a CPU, and then they tell me they mean the entire desktop.
> Also, going to college to be a computer science and computer security double major, people assume that I'm automatically Neo from the Matrix and that I can hack into anything, and solve any I.T. problem they have or ever will have. In reality, I just write code and cry when it doesn't work.
Logan Davis "Cry when it doesn't work." LMAO 😂😂👍
Logan Davis that last one. so true
dude I feel your pain. I'm majoring in computer science, and my family think i can solve every technical problems they encounter, or they would ridicule me by saying"why are you studying computers then?" if i couldn't fix it.
I'm not as knee deep in it as you, but I'm pretty well versed with computers as I've been tinkering with them practically my whole life. Naturally, all my friends and family come to me with their computer problems and they expect me to be some kind of miracle worker. The truth is, I know roughly what the problem may be, I try something, it doesn't work, I cuss at the damn thing for a minute or two and repeat the process. Much of the time I get it working, sometimes I don't. No magic here.
i feel the pain, but my secrect is google, CZcams, and Reddit, thats all you need to solve all your life problems
The one that used to bug me the most was when ISPs would refer to data transfer caps as "bandwidth". Advertising the unlimited data cap as unlimited bandwidth
I call Chrome the browser that goes *"HIPPIDI HOPEDY YOUR RAM IS NOW MY PROPERTY"*
lol 😝 same
Lol
Use firefox then idiot
People who say their internet speed is for example, 30 megabytes, when it's actually 30 megabits.
People who call any smartphone an "iPhone".
People who call a monitor a "TV".
People who call a track-pad a "mouse".
People who say 1920x1080 the wrong way around, "1080x1920" for a landscape monitor.
People who mistake gigahertz for gigabytes.
people who say their internet speed is for example, 30 megabits, when its actually 30 megabits / second
Touché fine sir, touché.
Tbf, a lot of company spokespeople used to say Megabytes when clearly Mb was intended. Nowadays most ads just say "speedy internet/fast wifi" etc to cover lawsuits.
TV's should be called monitors nowadays, that's really what they are.
Lawls what if I'm too poor for a monitor so I use a TV instead
People seeing my dual monitor setup and saying "Why do you have 2 computers?"
then having to explain they're connected to the same computer. :/
yep..
I knowright
A wise family member once said "turn off one of your monitors, your taking up all of the bandwidth."
OMG THAT DRIVES ME NUTS WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT TO ME
The one that always drives me crazy is people calling storage memory
When most of my family members ask me "Where the Wi-Fi cable is" when referring to an ethernet cable
When the teacher calls the ethernet cable a wifi cable. Society is a dispoint.... Smh
@MuscularBye what the hell do you mean
*the cableless cable*
@@ploperdung seems legit
LAN works too.
MuscularBye why would you call it wifi cable?
I heard someone saying: "my iPhone camera is not working. I'm gonna let it on for a while to warm up." !!!!! True story.
Jesus Christ
No wonder they are using an iPhone, they're stupid...
XD
No joke, my dad has a friend who couldn't turn on her laptop, so she blew a hairdryer into the vent to "warm it up". She melted half of the keyboard.
She's just crazy in general, she literally believes she saw someone brought back from the dead
Me: Open terminal on Linux on my laptop
Classmate: U hacking the school, right?
That really happened
Same but I did it on Microsoft command prompt
My big issue with monitor/TV terminology is conflating height and weight. (Particularly since the standardization of the 16:9 ratio.)
720, 1080, and 1440 all refer to the VERTICAL resolution (aka scan lines) while 4k et al refers to the HORIZONTAL resolution.
When you are buying a case and someone says: why are you buying a new pc
IKR
Becuz the case represents a. New look means a new look but not the insides but for sure he got sick and bought a badass 3000hz cpu (its not a mispell) which is an Intel core i3 with a gpu which is the Intel 510 HD graphics which looks baddaass with rgb and I'm clearly missing the joke here but idc
@@jawknee4088 you mean 3 kHz.
When people say that a smartphone camera is good because it has many megapixels. It drives me nuts. It's also annoying when people say that a phone is fast when it has lots of RAM.
Gonk Gaming generally the phone can be faster with a more upper clocked ARM processor. Ram is just the random data that gets loaded into whenever you start up the application or game.
DeliZoZo gotta "love" those annual articles on "will this smartphone camera replace a DSLR?" We're many years away from that, if not never.
RAM can make a phone faster though... if your RAM is full you will see a slowdown, adding more RAM will prevent that slowdown. Thus the phone with more RAM being literally faster.
Those ram idiots are the reason ddr4 became expensive.
More RAM you have the more tasks your phone can handle at once.
Advertisers: This is an Ultra HD 4K tv
The 1 x 1 Tv: Am I a joke to you
Let’s take a moment to realize the fact that there are some people who know nothing about tech who legitimately believe that you can download ram
That's why SoftRAM sold 700000 copies
You can, at a micro center, and assuming that by download, you mean buy and install. That's what they mean, right?
People who know nothing about tech don't know that RAM is a thing.
Well, you technically can, it's just not as fast. You can do it by setting google drive as swap space. It's way, way slower but it actually works
@@hmngghh How fast would it be if you had like 10 gig ethernet
How about this one
Tech illiterate friend: can you help me fix my computer
Me: sure but from the looks of it I'm going to have to WIPE Your computer. Do you have important stuff backed up?
Friend: yes
Me: (wipes computer) there all fixed.
Friend: where is all my stuff?
Alexander Craw thats why i basically clone everything before going Kaboom now. Im like " i have knowledge so i must think for them."
don't worry, i backed it all up in a folder on my desktop!
*Reek* lol
But you put the desktop in the Recycling Bin...
Well, you just wiped it, so the data will be where it originally was.
My mom called my whole ass computer a hard drive...
I can relate
This is my biggest pet peave.
that rgb strip there? hard drive
Bro same we all have the same moms
My mom calls my computer a laptop
Where is the second episode? I loved this!
I will say, out of all the tech experts on CZcams. You’re the easiest to watch simply because you have a sense of humor
shut down the computer = hit the monitor on/off button then leaves
What I do
Who does that lol
Angus Au Yeung yeah, everything lol. Hitting the button should only be used in a emergency. Otherwise you will corrupt some files and damage your computer.
The monitor power button would only shutdown the computer if the computer is one of those where the computer is inside the monitor.
NeedForSpeed1967 Like an iMac
"dangit i ran out of wifi"
brain.exe has stopped working
Technicly you can if you over your data cap...
Hero667 then you say that you ran out of Internet data or traffic or anything else. Wi-fi is the method to connect your phone (or computer) to your modem.
This reminded me when I found out the kid from Jessie didn’t know what a modem/router was.
personality.exe is not responding
When my friend thought that his megabyte video files were taking up all his hard drive space
"Well one, you must be a lot of fun at parties"
I never laughed so hard
When I was a kid I didn’t know what screen saver was and my mom told me it was to protect the PC from getting a virus
That happened to me as well
What?!
My coworker always refers to his desktop background as his screensaver.
"My phone provider gives me 1GB of storage per month."
One of my friends thought iCloud gave your phone more storage
Spectrum
Well, it *technically* does in the same way a removable or external drive gives your computer more storage; it's not integrated storage, but it does give you the flexibility of saving data elsewhere to free up storage on your main device.
I just hate how phone providers have forced the idea of a 'gig' into everyone's minds. I am waiting for the day when all the plans switch from 2 GigaBYTEs to 10 GigaBITs, which is really 1.25 GigaBYTEs.
🤦🏻♂️
@@noahgarcia7599I really wish iPhones had microSD card bays to move apps to. I already pay for iCloud, but I can’t have more storage for more apps
Thumbnail: *exists
My dad: *thats what she said**
@johnny workshop I'm *not* hard.
@johnny workshop jokes on you, OP's parents are probably gay.
Congrats OP btw, that's so lovely UwU
When I was a child, I used to think that the "lock" function in Windows would lock your PC forever.
😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
same with sign out
bruh i thought i was the only one
My grandmother calling everything a Nintendo
PlayStation
Adorable.
Nintendo core i9 9900k
Here people call Nintendo a "Megason"...
@@iloveanime6441 Well, this could technically be true since in the '90s Nintendo was working with Sony on the "Play Station" addon to the SNES.
Putting the computer to sleep = turning it off
Especially with phones, where singletapping the power button is actually putting it into sleep mode.
I cringe when my classmates do things like that
@@cst1229 it's more like disabling the monitor than putting it to sleep, because everything still works in the background
oh my god, i hate when people say this
@@cst1229 true
"Hey son watching one of your Hentais?"
"No dad this is a lets play"
"Well then what the heck is hentai?"
(one google search later)
"Ohhhhh"
Pls say this is a true story
What? I don't get this?
Just a few I've heard
"wifi cable"
"What core is your processor?"
"apple charger"
"Monitor connector/plug"
Also, my friend did the good ol' joke where random green text runs across the screen... one of my classmates, who doesn't know tech well (but pretends to), put it on snapchat or something like that, needless to say i facepalmed. the same guy was also trying to say that iphones are better than android phones, he's arguments weren't good, the (arguably) only good point, that they have better security and are less prone to crashing, is something he didn't bring up, presumably because he didn't know that. Instead he was trying to say iphones have better performance and are a better value and other stuff like that. yeahhh. that's just a small amount of the stuff that pisses me off.
With apple charger though, if they are referring to a lightning, it is correct.
I get annoyed when people say "download" when they mean "upload," such as saying "I'll download these pictures to facebook."
BirdValiant my dad does this everytime I upload. a video. he tells his w friends "my son downloads videos all the time." which I actually do.
BirdValiant I know right.... So Linus downloaded this video yesterday right?
I think that's actually technically correct. You upload, Facebook downloads.
Exactly like I download CZcams videos "watch them" and upload videos giving videos to youtube down=receive up means giving
My dad calls transfer from an external disk to PC a download, when it's just loading
I believe sending to the server → Upload
Receiving from the server → Download
Offline Transfer → Load
correct me if I'm wrong
Once my computer teacher thought I was a hacker for using inspect element on chrome
Isy Vara same
I've had that happen too.
"You better not be hacking that computer!"
"You said to use the URL of the images we use. I'm getting the URL."
"Well what's all that code on the screen?"
"A feature built into Firefox from the beginning."
"I don't believe you. Go to the office."
What the fuck?
Normal people Translate a line of code like "HACKING!!"
Isy Vara my teacher thought I was hack8ng when her computer and mine had lag on the screen share software they had.
I opened cmd to troll my friends and I wnt to the principals cuz they thought I was hacking and they actually called the computer technicians to explain what the hell was I dong with that :/
"My internet speed is 200 mega BYTES per second"
I'm sorry but how is it right? I'm no expert
@@supersonictv8532 it's not right, it's misused. bits and Bytes are different things, 1 Byte is made of 8 bits. internet speed is measured in mega bits per second not mega bytes per second but people often don't know the difference and overestimate their internet speed for example they may think the speed of 200mbps should download 1GB game in 5 seconds but it takes 40 since the game's size in mentioned in bytes.
People referring to everything as "The Server"
Server of what?
@@breadbuttrjam1604 idk why but the "based? based on what?" copypasta instantly came to mind after reading your comment
@@finnishboy5923 Huh? When did I mention 'based'?
When your mom calls any piece of technology a nintendo
OMG she calls all of my consoles a Nintendo (They all are, but it's not called a Nintendo)
She also says Digital Download
Harald Hardrada Try having a grandparent who calls any gaming device, or the game itself as a "Game Boy". Not my family personally, but heard it from a friend.
Similarly, when Glenn Beck calls any tablet an iPad or any smartphone an iPhone
Harald Hardrada lol
when i still lived with my parents my dad would call my 360 a gameboy, lol. TURN OFF THE GAMEBOY ITS 3 AM
When people use the word hack wrong this makes me so mad. Especially when I open up command prompt and they tell the teacher I'm hacking something.
Ian Hewett at school I opened a command prompt yto fix something and everyone said I'm "hacking" and I got detention for a week
same
groundzero_0506 Yeah because everyone knows you use power shell for hacking. While technically you can use cmd for rooting around. Power shell is much more in tune with scripts. although I has a small .com that I wrote to bypass local Windows logins for recovery.
I always try to correct people by saying the term is cracking and not hacking.
Ian Hewett its the best then you do color 0a and run wmic computersystem and they think you are god😂😂😂
everyone in my class: aNdROids aRe tRAsH
me: no
Bro my computer science teacher on the first day said "who has a apple?" Half of the class sticks their hands up then the teacher said "if you have a apple you 1. Have a bad taste 2. I want you out of this room". It was legendary
@@rnsxnce LMAO WHATTTT
@@astrolul i have a pretty cool computer science teacher
@@astrolul but nobody went out cause it was a joke
@@rnsxnce apple bad am I right?
Mother: needs a new pc and don't have any knowledge about pc.
Me: explains how i3, i5, i7, i9 works
When my mother still thinks that i9 isn't fast enough
Get i69
Get an i9 XE.
@@soccera3072 when the mom wants to run a server
"Why do we have Slow WiFi??"
But uses a PC connected to Ethernet with no WiFi on Motherboard
@DarklingGolem, and stupid people who think WiFi is internet. 🤦🏻♂️
i’m pretty sure ethernet is a more reliant connection
GlassyRS the point he is trying to make is that ethernet is slower
@HildronOS i literally said that you illiterate fuck
*Small lag spike
mY GamEs GlItcHinG
I'm guilty of saying that!
That's my elder brother.
I use the word stuttering
@Macedon1anYosh1 ping is how strong or weak your internet connection is while stuttering is when you experience short lags
@Macedon1anYosh1 then why telling me about the difference of both?
Unfortunately, when you buy a brand new mac, which have had SSDs for years and years and years, on your desktop you still see Macintosh HD referring to the SSD.
Lmao, not many people know that "Macintosh HD" is Macintosh Hard Drive, not the resolution
@@toaddx Oh funny, I would have never even thought of 'high definition.'
Well obviously Macintosh HD is referring to the ability to store high definition video files on said drive and definitely not any sort of hard disk or drive
*opens bios to overclock*
“Omg he is hacking!”