The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Stevicus]

The world has been turned upside down.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

 

[sun rise]

When an older person asks me for computer help, I find the answer usually ends up being, "The device is 10+ years obsolete. Upgrade it." Then they get mad at me, and say, "Surely you have a solution." and go on how "in their day, people could fix things".

The one true answer is reboot.

 

[Brian2]

When an older person asks me for computer help, I find the answer usually ends up being, "The device is 10+ years obsolete. Upgrade it." Then they get mad at me, and say, "Surely you have a solution." and go on how "in their day, people could fix things".

I'm not that old (69 isn't old) and I was told the other day that I would have to order single black ink cartridges for my printer online because it was 10+ years old and not supported by Epson any more. Then the store person said that he was surprised it still worked.
So now I order online or keep buying packs of 4 colours and mainly use black.
But I guess I could use the other colours up by getting the printer to make black by combining the other colours, which it has done in the past.
But really this seems like ageism to me. 10 years in not old and Epson has given up on the poor thing.
Maybe 10 is ancient for a printer, I don't know how many human years in one printer year.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I'm not that old (69 isn't old) and I was told the other day that I would have to order single black ink cartridges for my printer online because it was 10+ years old and not supported by Epson any more. Then the store person said that he was surprised it still worked.
So now I order online or keep buying packs of 4 colours and mainly use black.
But I guess I could use the other colours up by getting the printer to make black by combining the other colours, which it has done in the past.
But really this seems like ageism to me. 10 years in not old and Epson has given up on the poor thing.
Maybe 10 is ancient for a printer, I don't know how many human years in one printer year.

10 years probably is old for a printer, but I'd worry more something like a laptop and on an old OS - I mean at some point, if you don't have one of the latest OSes, you may leave yourself more vulnerable to computer infections. Me, I'd never do any banking on a Windows XP computer, but that's just me.

I know of a couple other electronics that'd be hard to keep 10+ years.

But as for printers, I kind of see it like, "A printer is a printer."

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

But the particular problem I was stuck on recently, was this Windows XP netbook wouldn't interface with a new router. And since I wasn't getting paid to help, I'm not going to exactly spend 20 hours on it trying every setting on the router, especially with how long each router reboot can take. I'll just be upfront and tell the person: "You need to upgrade."

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Revoltingest]

When an older person asks me for computer help, I find the answer usually ends up being, "The device is 10+ years obsolete. Upgrade it." Then they get mad at me, and say, "Surely you have a solution." and go on how "in their day, people could fix things".

My computers & printers are well over 10 years old.
I bought my main business computer in 1999.
It still runs well...although the Zip Drive is long dead.
Still has the original hard drives, main board, etc.
My dot matrix printer (Epson LQ870) just clickety
clacks along year after year.
New machines would mean new software.
**** that!

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

My computers & printers are well over 10 years old.
I bought my main business computer in 1999.
It still runs well...although the Zip Drive is long dead.
Still has the original hard drives, main board, etc.
My dot matrix printer (Epson LQ870) just clickety
clacks along year after year.
New machines would mean new software.
**** that!

Yeah. And that's fine. But if you ever ask me to give you free computer help. I'll just tell you to upgrade.

Actually, I'll probably tell you that anyway, and even call you a haggis eater - and on my own dime, too.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I will admit there's an extremely legacy software I use, too. I've found a way to get it to work on Windows 11, just not perfectly.

 

[Revoltingest]

Yeah. And that's fine. But if you ever ask me to give you free computer help. I'll just tell you to upgrade.

Actually, I'll probably tell you that anyway, and even call you a haggis eater - and on my own dime, too.

You could help with hardware only.
I run a British op sys that you've likely never even heard of (BOS).

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

You could help with hardware only.
I run a British op sys that you've likely never even heard of (BOS).

My specialty is things that old people don't yell at me over. What I actually do with computers, is keep up on the latest GPU technology and methods, and program for GPUs, creating graphics effects, etc. At one point, I also gave some advice about GPUs in general and how I saw them interacting with game engines.

Before that, I was just kind of into benchmarking things in general.

So here are some terms I'm more familiar with: Fillrate, ROPs, TMUs, Arithmetic Logic Units, caches, AA, resolution, framerates, memory bandwidth, fragment shaders, vertex shaders. Oh, and framebuffer.

 

[Brickjectivity]

To "bear with." Such puns are barely appropriate. What if someone gets hurt?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

My specialty is things that old people don't yell at me over. What I actually do with computers, is keep up on the latest GPU technology and methods, and program for GPUs, creating graphics effects, etc. At one point, I also gave some advice about GPUs in general and how I saw them interacting with game engines.

Before that, I was just kind of into benchmarking things in general.

So here are some terms I'm more familiar with: Fillrate, ROPs, TMUs, Arithmetic Logic Units, caches, AA, resolution, framerates, memory bandwidth, fragment shaders, vertex shaders. Oh, and framebuffer.

Optimization is a big thing for me in that category too. Sometimes by editing a few lines of shader code for example, you can get an extra 15+ frames per second.

 

[Revoltingest]

My specialty is things that old people don't yell at me over. What I actually do with computers, is keep up on the latest GPU technology and methods, and program for GPUs, creating graphics effects, etc. At one point, I also gave some advice about GPUs in general and how I saw them interacting with game engines.

Before that, I was just kind of into benchmarking things in general.

So here are some terms I'm more familiar with: Fillrate, ROPs, TMUs, Arithmetic Logic Units, caches, AA, resolution, framerates, memory bandwidth, fragment shaders, vertex shaders. Oh, and framebuffer.

I use custom nerdelclusters, retro encabulators,
panendermic spervings, & quantanium rafflets.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I use custom nerdelclusters, retro encabulators,
panendermic spervings, & quantanium rafflets.

 

[Brian2]

10 years probably is old for a printer, but I'd worry more something like a laptop and on an old OS - I mean at some point, if you don't have one of the latest OSes, you may leave yourself more vulnerable to computer infections. Me, I'd never do any banking on a Windows XP computer, but that's just me.

I know of a couple other electronics that'd be hard to keep 10+ years.

But as for printers, I kind of see it like, "A printer is a printer."

Yes it's amazing how many scammers are out there wanting to rip people off. The latest one (I think it would be a scam) was a text I got today asking if I wanted to work part time for Twitter.
I figure they would be giving me their software on my computer and I would be giving them my banking details for my pay.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Yes it's amazing how many scammers are out there wanting to rip people off. The latest one (I think it would be a scam) was a text I got today asking if I wanted to work part time for Twitter.
I figure they would be giving me their software on my computer and I would be giving them my banking details for my pay.

Sounds like a scam to me.

 

[Brian2]

But the particular problem I was stuck on recently, was this Windows XP netbook wouldn't interface with a new router. And since I wasn't getting paid to help, I'm not going to exactly spend 20 hours on it trying every setting on the router, especially with how long each router reboot can take. I'll just be upfront and tell the person: "You need to upgrade."

Sounds sensible and honest. The consumer society is probably unavoidable when it comes to new technology unfortunately.

 

[Revoltingest]