I just built a computer system from scratch, about $600 of crap stuck together that will last several more years longer than the one I built years ago…or the one I built years before that…and before that.
I didn’t really think about it, I just knew and at the same token the dudes at the store knew what was compatible without me having to write shit down and guess.
It was almost paint by numbers now, being in the case every so often.
Same with the software…My new comp has Vanilla Windows XP2 Pro with 5 ANTI SOMETHING (CCleaner etc…) and Firefox…Almost Intuitively.
When Will I graduate to LINUX?
DOES THIS EVER END???
How is it, I can I fix other peoples Comps, and they still have no idea how they work, or even care…have no Idea what a video card is, or a fan or…that dust all over it might not be the best thing for your PRECIOUS GODDAM PICTURES on your thing that keeps stuff on a disc in an array of potential switches manipulated by magnetic radiation in a concentric matrix of values pertaining to either 1 or 0…
Does Anyone here Have a Recording Studio Using Linux?
The same way that I have only the vaguest idea why turning a key in the ignition of my car starts the engine or what actually happens when I change gears while driving. Fifty years ago, an adult could possess a solid grasp of how things in the world around them worked. These days, topics become so complicated and technical so quickly that if it’s not a passion or necessity, we bend our minds in other directions. Yes, much of computer technology is now plug-and-play, or at least somewhat standardized and documented, but there’s a threshold of knowledge required to be comfortable enough building one’s own computer, not to mention a financial investment for the tools and other equipment.
There are precisely 2 people at my company who know how to put toner in the printer. I’m one of them and had just been hired, and wasn’t familiar with the printer - these people had been using that printer for years.
Don’t feel too important, there are precisely 2 people in my group that know how to replace the water jug in the water cooler. I happen to be one of them.
I do that very thing with the computer three doors down from our office. I started by using thehighly technical exploratory systems check, but these days I just walk in the door and ping, all fixed.
Personally I think the system just catches up with all the random thumps and commands it’s received before the user calls me, but hey, guru works too.
Not to minimize your accomplishments, but it’s not really all that hard. Component compatibility is much harder (not that it’s hard, but relatively harder) than actually inserting dongle A into slot B. I’ve built (and upgraded/swapped out components as needed) two computers, and I don’t consider myself a guru of anything. A lot of young geeks have the ability to put together a computer, it’s just not that big a thing. There are definitely people who don’t want to muck around with motherboards and thermal paste (nor are they willing to learn), but that doesn’t make it a rare special skill.
I was the same way for a long time. I was afraid of fucking up something crucial. But eventually, motivated by a desire to save money, I read a couple guides, bought a pile of parts on newegg (after having a tech-savvier friend vet their compatibility) and just started plugging shit in. Lo and behold, it worked! But if I’d had money to blow at the time, it might have been more economical to pay someone else to do it for me. That doesn’t make computer-building some kind of high-tech sorcery, heh.
If you’d only done it earlier, you could have used a $39.99 copy of Windows 8. If there are any lingering bits of incompatibility, it’s not too hard to set up a VM to make it work. For a new computer, there was no reason not to upgrade to Windows 8 from XP. None that I can think of, at least. (Now, being at least quadruple the price, there is a big reason not to do so.)
It would have been a fair shot easier than switching to Linux, that’s for sure.
IDK man, just for intel desktop processors there are about a half dozen different processor socket types - 775, 1155, 1156, 2011, 478. And that’s before you even start talking about servers or about AMD chips. Plus there about a half dozen m/b form factors - ATX, ATX-E, mini-ATX, micro-ATX, mini-ITX, HPTX, etc. Then there 3 SATA protocols so far even if they all happen to use the same connector. Same with PCI-e x16. That’s up to gen 3 but uses the same socket. A lot of stuff is backward compatible and will work if you slap it together but there’s probably more going on that is immediately obvious.
A guru? Cuz you built a few computers out of pre-existing components? Hate to burst your bubble but those people who dont seem to know what they are doing, is cuz they dont care or dont have time to mess with such things. You are no more guru than I am as a carpenter/woodworker, whose clients have no sweet clue how or why to do the things I may do to complete a job. You have a small amount of specialized knowledge and a penchant for electronics, but you are no guru. If you were youd have constructed some kind of revolutionary new computer, not an off the shelf conglomerate of parts that work together anyways. That being said, its nice to pat youre own back now and then, and even better to have skills that are in demand.
In my current social bubble (past and present), no one knows how to do much more than their occupation/job and maybe make some food or grow a garden.
While I…
Have mastered 4 trades, (i.e. actually got paid to do them for over 5 years each), play multiple instruments and write music, have a conservative knowledge of most of the physical sciences, although not as in depth as I’d like. I just have an intuitive interest in most stuff in general. Even went back to school a few times just to keep my brain active doing something.
What the hell is everyone doing with themselves?
It seems anyone I find with an aptitude in e.g. Photoshop/Illustrator, they are incapable of doing much more than that. They can’t preform other trivial web things if it isn’t scripted for them already. Same goes with trades people. They get into their little job circle and peruse nothing more that doesn’t pertain to what they already know.
I can’t count on asking anyone doing anything for me , so I have to do it myself, that means learning to do it, from my perspective, apparently no one else on the planet knows how to do anything I need done.
Everyone that knows anything resides as an avatar on the internet?
