{"id":37856,"date":"2013-10-28T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T03:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37856"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:18:10","slug":"i-dont-hate-all-computers-just-ones-that-arent-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37856","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t hate all computers; just ones that aren\u2019t mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing that often baffles me is just how poorly people treat their computers.\u00a0 It\u2019s like when you sit down at someone else\u2019s machine, and see that the desktop is completely filled with incomprehensible clutter, and the system tray icon has like 16 icons of running applications or utilities that aren\u2019t actively being used.\u00a0 And then they\u2019re asking\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0what\u2019s wrong with their machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I\u2019m not an IT guy, or someone who\u2019s really that great with the general operations of a computer.\u00a0 But I do know how to do clean installations, and understand that pre-made computers come loaded to the brim with unnecessary bloatware and egregious bullshit applications that don\u2019t really need to be on them.\u00a0 Needless to say, I\u2019ve done quite a number of clean installations for my own machines as well as the machines of pretty much everyone in my family.\u00a0 What happens to these machines once they\u2019re out of my hands is basically, the will of god or whatever deity sounds like the best to reference.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the worst phone calls I could ever get is whenever either of my parents call me up whenever they\u2019re having computer problems.\u00a0 Seriously, I think I\u2019d rather have jury duty over having to deal with the computer problems that my parents encounter, because at least while I\u2019m waiting to get called up, I can usually get a very good amount of quality reading time in the process, and it\u2019s something that has a definitive ending to it.\u00a0 My parents\u2019 computer problems?\u00a0 The endings are vague, future uncertain, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before something else occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I get word that my mom\u2019s computer isn\u2019t working.\u00a0 \u201cUser Profile Service failed the logon\u201d error, which probably means that something has genuinely fucked with the system registry.\u00a0 In a perfect world, the remedy is as simple as F8ing at the system start up and starting up Windows with the last known working settings, but I\u2019d bet my lunch money that the result of this whole issue is one of those weird Korean* virus\/malwares that leech themselves to unsuspecting users from all the random Korean websites that my mom is enamored by.\u00a0 Honestly though, trying to talk my computer illiterate mother into hitting F8 at the appropriate time during the startup itself, I\u2019m banking on being about as difficult as painting the Sistine Chapel.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Fuck you, Korea.\u00a0 Why the fuck do your stupid fucking websites all have so much fucking malware on them in the first place?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It really sucks, and I do not look forward to having to deal with this.\u00a0 I\u2019ve told my mom countless times to be careful of what sites to go to, and to not download anything at all from emails unless it\u2019s 100% from a genuine source, but it\u2019s pretty much like telling a kleptomaniac to not steal anything, it\u2019s just not going to happen.\u00a0 It\u2019s also not as if my mom\u2019s going to completely abstain from going to Korean websites, which is pretty much all she does day and night when she\u2019s not working these days, so dealing with issues like this is somewhat inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that it\u2019s exasperating to see how people treat the computers I set up for them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t set these machines up very differently than how I set my own up machines, and I like to believe that my personal computers are pretty clean and not too heavily spammed up by malware and bullshit.\u00a0 It just feels like a slight metaphorical slap in the face when the users of these machines don\u2019t do the most very common and no-brainer of simple things like running and actually installing Windows updates or periodic virus scans, and then their machines becomes vulnerable to the hourly-evolving threats of the internet, and then they come whining to me when shit goes bad, and expect me to fix everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a lot of admiration for those who do this kind of shit for a living, because I sure as shit hate computers that aren\u2019t mine.\u00a0 But at least they get paid for it, whereas I\u2019m expected to do it under the guise of \u201cfamily obligation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that often baffles me is just how poorly people treat their computers.\u00a0 It\u2019s like when you sit down at someone else\u2019s machine, and see that the desktop is completely filled with incomprehensible clutter, and the system tray icon has like 16 icons of running applications or utilities that aren\u2019t actively being used.\u00a0 And … Continue reading I don\u2019t hate all computers; just ones that aren\u2019t mine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,71,103,15,105,25],"class_list":["post-37856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-famiry","tag-motherland","tag-og","tag-rage","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37857,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37856\/revisions\/37857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}