Computer Maintainance

[Spooniest]

This isn't a tech support thread, no. It's a thread for jeering at the evil rotten jerkfaces who program the computers we use everyday.

Basically, if your comp has made you mad lately, you may post here about it...a computer-specific rant thread, if you will.

I, for one, just went through the ordeal of installing a new operating system. Gawd that took forever!

You are free to move about the thread...

[Denmark]

computers are just machines that do what users tell them to, and thus are only as smart as their users

[Leigh]

computers are just machines that do what users tell them to, and thus are only as smart as their users

Spoken like a true professional in the IT Industry!

Computers can make me mad sometimes, but mostly the internet since it causes me to flick and scan between too many topics within 5 minutes. They're anything but a calming influence. Constant stimulation

[Colonel Angus]

It's all Microsoft/Apple's fault. Outside of that, they'd probably be fine.

[Mirage]

What's funny is that the better you are at computers, the less often you get mad at them.

It's been a very long time since my PCs annoyed me.

[Slothy]

What's funny is that the better you are at computers, the less often you get mad at them.

Not really. As I've learned more and more about computers over my lifetime I've gone from being annoyed because something isn't working to being annoyed when some programmer somewhere decided the best way to do something is the stupidest and least efficient way possible, and everyone else on the team just shrugged and went, "sure. That seems alright to me."

[escobert]

My computer maintenance is to give it a good swift kick every month. or a good punch in the case of my laptop.

[Flying Mullet]

I, for one, just went through the ordeal of installing a new operating system. Gawd that took forever!

It took forever to install an operating system on a machine that is a composite of parts from different manufacturers adhering to different standards and each of these standards avoids interoperability for the sake of market dominance and profit? Whodathunkit?

[CimminyCricket]

I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing when I was formatting my new ssd for os prep and I ended up selecting GPT instead of mbr. now I have to switch my drives back over so I can reformat the drive and all this work is my fault.

[Mirage]

What's funny is that the better you are at computers, the less often you get mad at them.

Not really. As I've learned more and more about computers over my lifetime I've gone from being annoyed because something isn't working to being annoyed when some programmer somewhere decided the best way to do something is the stupidest and least efficient way possible, and everyone else on the team just shrugged and went, "sure. That seems alright to me."

I guess. I don't really count that as a problem with my actual computer, though.

[escobert]

I, for one, just went through the ordeal of installing a new operating system. Gawd that took forever!

It took forever to install an operating system on a machine that is a composite of parts from different manufacturers adhering to different standards and each of these standards avoids interoperability for the sake of market dominance and profit? Whodathunkit?

Thats why everyone should just build thieir own PCs and not have to deal with that nonsense! I formated and installed Windows on my new SSD in no time Saturday.

[Lawr]

What's funny is that the better you are at computers, the less often you get mad at them.

Not really. As I've learned more and more about computers over my lifetime I've gone from being annoyed because something isn't working to being annoyed when some programmer somewhere decided the best way to do something is the stupidest and least efficient way possible, and everyone else on the team just shrugged and went, "sure. That seems alright to me."

Yeah pretty much.

Also special shoutout to the jackass at my workplace that now insists on completely restricting his userforms and password locking the macroes on the databases on his pirated copy of Office!

[Spuuky]

Thats why everyone should just build thieir own PCs and not have to deal with that nonsense! I formated and installed Windows on my new SSD in no time Saturday.

What? Building your own PC makes you have to deal with it even more. It just so happens that Windows typically makes it really easy and automatic to do so.

[escobert]

not really. If you know what you have and want it's not rocket science... If my uneducated stoner ass can do it anyone can.

[Mirage]

I'm not sure what your point is. Even if you think it's easy, you are still dealing with it more when you're building and installing it yourself, compared to when someone else builds and installs it for you.