People who pretend they know loads about computers :@

[seumasbeathan]

It really bothers me when someone I know says something to do with computers that is wrong and then when I point out its wrong they tell me that they know loads about computers and that they are right.

For example, I have just had a mate tell me that his Zotac Geforce is "epic", Is it really I said, To which he replied "yeah it can play fallout 3 at the highest settings, I then told him that he should try Crysis to which he replied "It can play crysis on 2 monitors no bother" I then left the conversation

Anybody else had any moments like this?

 

[TheOneHalf]

More then I care to talk about. It's quite frustrating.

 

[dugdiamond]

ALL of my mates KNOW not to argue with me, when it comes to ANY tech

if i am unsure about something, i keep quiet, and i read up on it at the first opportunity i get.

i am often remarked upon as, "How the heck do you know that?". i have alot of useless stuff in my head - but it is excellent for quizzes, etc.

 

[SieB]

I have a friend who doesn't know much about computers, he knows how to install Windows XP, set it up, install an anti virus etc. What he does though, he will find people who don't know anything about computers and then make himself out to be a computer genius by overcomplicating what he knows and fooling them into thinking he is a computer genius.

I make him squirm and embarrass him if i'm around and see him doing it to someone whilst i'm there. I'll start talking about stuff he doesn't have a clue about and he'll try his best to sound like he knows but all he does is make himself look like a fool.

He does this with a lot of things though, not just computers. I swear he has some sort of inferiority complex or a compulsive lying disorder because all he does is constantly lie and try to make out he knows more about things than he actually does. Why he has to constantly lie to people and try to impress them I will never know.

 

[Josh Weston]

My granddad is currently fixated with the word 'server'. If anything in his house goes wrong, he asks me if the server is down. I'm not sure when remote controls and headphones had their own servers, but oh well.

 

[Jadarite]

Oh i see it's the queeg effect​

http://youtu.be/vxZhgBxYWFw​

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

i have that problem quite often, i cant say that i know shed lots but i do know what i know in great detail. and most of the people around me know that if they have a problem or question regarding computers that im the person to ask and at the same time my friends try to avoid the subject as they know that i will start to recite a essey worth of stuff they wont even understand.

ussually just saying that im on a highest possibly course for IT for my age(BTEC IT lvl3 extended + cisco lvl1) shuts them up xD

but if someone is talking about something i have no clue about such as software stuff like cs5 etc i just shut up and i will wait for opportunity to strike back

 

[PetrolHead247]

Yeah a few of people i know are quite terrible with computers but a couple of them tend to act like they know a lot. Once a couple friends of mine were talking about minecraft and how one of their PC's could only run it at like 10FPS on the lowest settings. So my other friend (who knows a bit about computers, not much) said to him how much RAM do you have, to which the reply was "I have 1TB's of memory". I was like nooooooo you fool that's your HDD, not your RAM, but he didn't believe me. I facepalmed so hard

 

[Gothique Doll]

I get this whenever I try to buy components in a shop. Sales people think that because I am a woman, I therefore cannot actually know what I want to buy or know what it is or how it works let alone know as much or possibly even more than they do. A typical conversation goes

Me: I want this please!

Sales: Are you sure? You probably want this, it's does this and that, lots of people buy this.

Me: Sure! But the thing I want does that and this and I need it for this and that and I shall do the following with it.

Sales: .... You probably want this, lots of people buy this? Are you buying it for your husband?

Me: I want that one as it does this as I will use it for that.

Sales person getting annoyed: Well technical info that isn't relevant and most people buy that and you'll be happier with it.

Me: No, please sell me the thing I asked for?

Sales, annoyed: Ok.

I tend to only buy online as a result, even if it means I wait longer or pay more.

 

[dugdiamond]

^^^ lol - i hate the jerks at PCWorld/Currys/Dixons etc.

the technicians think they know everything...

my bro wanted a nice laptop - i told him to get a sony viao F23 i7.... so off he trots to PCWorld. the assistant tried to sell him something else, and was charging a fortune for it. plus started offering him insurance before he had even seen the laptop. he got irate, and stormed out of there.

thank god for that. i bought it for him online and saved him £800 (phenominal) that he would have wasted at Pee-in-the-Sea World. lol

...and many years ago, i went to the same shop (before i bought it all online) desperate for some thermal paste..... the head tech there said, "you dont need that - it's a load of rubbish!"... i almost reported him to his head office

 

[cerbrus2]

^^^ lol - i hate the jerks at PCWorld/Currys/Dixons etc.

the technicians think they know everything...

my bro wanted a nice laptop - i told him to get a sony viao F23 i7.... so off he trots to PCWorld. the assistant tried to sell him something else, and was charging a fortune for it. plus started offering him insurance before he had even seen the laptop. he got irate, and stormed out of there.

thank god for that. i bought it for him online and saved him £800 (phenominal) that he would have wasted at Pee-in-the-Sea World. lol

...and many years ago, i went to the same shop (before i bought it all online) desperate for some thermal paste..... the head tech there said, "you dont need that - it's a load of rubbish!"... i almost reported him to his head office

If you realy want to confuse them go in and ask for an Active mini display to dvi adaptor. they cant get their heads around the active bit, and keep showing you the cheapo adaptors we all have a million of in are boxes etc as they come with every bloody GPU lol.

 

[SPS]

Lol PCWorld, the 'TechGuys' couldn't be anymore ironic.

 

[TheOneHalf]

...and many years ago, i went to the same shop (before i bought it all online) desperate for some thermal paste..... the head tech there said, "you dont need that - it's a load of rubbish!"... i almost reported him to his head office

yeah who needs thermal paste xD lol wow...

 

[Murphyslaw]

Had an experience with my mums boyfriend.

He tried to explain a program from his work. my response... i could probably write down how i would program it and get it done. No matter what i said he wouldn't admit that i could do some work on it... yet he still can't do more on a computer then press the start button and read emails... not send them... just read.

 

[Murphyslaw]

yeah who needs thermal paste xD lol wow...

that is not important at all it's just for decor reasons

 

[B3rni3]

The only time I get this really is as said before in sales situations but not very often. Most places over here just sell you what your looking for which is nice but sometimes they dont have a clue and try and make you buy something more expensive.

Same happens with broadband over here. We get reps from one company over here every so often trying to get us to change over. I am on a 50mb fibre line and a rep called one day saying I dont need that and 3mb would do. I just laughed in his face and told him to not come back. Another guy called and asked me what speed was I on and I said 50mb and he said you must be paying loads for that and probably dont need it. He then went on to say that he can offer me 8mb and thats what the average user in Ireland gets off them. I simply brought him into my room showed him the size of my mouse mat (steel series qck heavy xxl) and said to him "do I look like an average user" and then politely told him to leave.

Its quite fun to mess with those reps as they have no way of bettering my internet in anyway other than price but the price per mb is worse and the fact I get mine as part of a phone and tv package means I save on the bundle so taking the internet off it would raise the price of the other two thus negating the savings made on the internet.

Havnt had a rep in a while now so they must be ignoring our house when they call round.

 

[Lollipop]

I get this whenever I try to buy components in a shop. Sales people think that because I am a woman, I therefore cannot actually know what I want to buy or know what it is or how it works let alone know as much or possibly even more than they do. A typical conversation goes

Me: I want this please!

Sales: Are you sure? You probably want this, it's does this and that, lots of people buy this.

Me: Sure! But the thing I want does that and this and I need it for this and that and I shall do the following with it.

Sales: .... You probably want this, lots of people buy this? Are you buying it for your husband?

Me: I want that one as it does this as I will use it for that.

Sales person getting annoyed: Well technical info that isn't relevant and most people buy that and you'll be happier with it.

Me: No, please sell me the thing I asked for?

Sales, annoyed: Ok.

I tend to only buy online as a result, even if it means I wait longer or pay more.

You should totally troll them and play stupid

OT: Every single on of my friends... sometimes i wonder why i hang out with them, and it's not only tech related.

 

[Gothique Doll]

You should totally troll them and play stupid

Sadly they wouldn't even notice, just feel their stereotype was right. Besides, I don't want to play stupid in shops, I want to buy things! Although if they do pull the husband question out I do sometimes like to mess with them by saying "No, for my wife." :>

 

[The Scientific Moustache]

Its funny, in Ashford, PC world has about 30-40 employees, and the tech-guys, there are about 10. Curry's (same parent company) send faulty laptops/PC's to us, instead. There is me and one part timer at our branch.

 

[Big WigglyStyle]

hehe reading some of the sales stuff reminds me of when I went to a store called Pc Richardson and best buy to purchase a pc for my mom and since I bought the pc and two monitors the card in the pc only had one DVI a HDMI and a DP since the HDMI was going out to her T.V and the DVI to one monitor obviously I needed a DP to dvi for the second monitor. So at PcRichardson I asked the head of their tech department for a Display port to DVI and he goes a what? I clearly say display port to DVI and he goes oh,I'm not sure what... pauses and says we don't carry those to play it off of course. Then I go to Best buy to grab one and ask the guy if they had one and he goes is it for a mac? I say no it's for pc he says are you sure it isn't a HDMI I said yes, I need a display port to DVI, do you carry them or will I have to order one online? he goes are you sure it isn't a HDMI pcs don't have display port. And this is why Newegg exists