Post smarmy assholes you find when searching for tech questions

[Miller]

The smug faggetry and autism on stackexchange can be quite infuriating.

Quora too. I love when they flex in their profile description but give the most pajeet tech help possible. The Microsoft support website/forum is like that too, these retards will give the most generic answer just so they can boost their level: "the Windows 10 Photo app doesn't work? Perhaps you should reinstall Windows 10". They always imply that it's on the user's side, even when there are hundreds of people reporting the exact same issue.
Same thing on Steam forums: "have you tried unistalling and reinstalling your game?", yeah sure, let's delete 40gigs of game and re-download it again when the real issue comes from the latest Nvidia driver.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Quora too. I love when they flex in their profile description but give the most pajeet tech help possible. The Microsoft support website/forum is like that too, these retards will give the most generic answer just so they can boost their level: "the Windows 10 Photo app doesn't work? Perhaps you should reinstall Windows 10". They always imply that it's on the user's side, even when there are hundreds of people reporting the exact same issue.
Same thing on Steam forums: "have you tried unistalling and reinstalling your game?", yeah sure, let's delete 40gigs of game and re-download it again when the real issue comes from the latest Nvidia driver.

The MSDN ones can be the worst, it's like if a generic helpdesk cold-called you and shut down the conversation. Help is worthless if you don't learn anything, sometimes you have questions about something that isn't a real problem but you want to know WHY. Sometimes, most times, that's more important if you want to learn. I would much rather have a wild computer barbarian explain that the solution is unshielding the cable with a knife, dragging it between the teeth, twist it, then all you need is a paper bag and a lighter... while explaining something about cabling and how it relates to my power supply that I don't really understand or would ever attempt to do.

 

[Kosher Dill]

What is the deal with MSDN? Is there some sort of benefit to reaching the "Super Gold Platinum Pajeet" ranking on there? It seems like most of the regulars are just trying to rack up posts and whatever their equivalent of "likes" is, and I have no clue why.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

What is the deal with MSDN? Is there some sort of benefit to reaching the "Super Gold Platinum Pajeet" ranking on there? It seems like most of the regulars are just trying to rack up posts and whatever their equivalent of "likes" is, and I have no clue why.

MSDN used to be good but there are definitely users on this site born after that time. They must use questions answered as exp when applying for jobs because every question on MSDN is treated like just another trash mob to grind in Pajeet Quest 64.

I've tried to figure out a "dpc watchdog violation" bluescreen for a while that seems to happen on Win10/Ryzen systems and on MSDN I've found tons of "answers" where all they do is point to a patch for Windows Server 2008R2 that fixes some samba shit or whatever it was. Any relevant/useful information with dump analysis is found through google cache because those pages are no longer available.

 

[The Fool]

I've tried to figure out a "dpc watchdog violation" bluescreen for a while that seems to happen on Win10/Ryzen systems

Dunno if you've got that figured out yet but DPCs are used by drivers, so that suggests it's a driver fault. I've heard a lot of issues coming out with Ryzen, mainly because AMD just doesn't want to help anyone develop for their new hardware for some reason, plus AMD is just generally shit at writing drivers.

It could just be your hardware configuration. A sad reality is that Windows has to work on every hardware configuration on the market, and that's just not feasible for any OS to do. I've experienced my own share of bugs and quirks related to my hardware configuration in the past.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

My favorite reply I ever got on a question I asked on SO was something along the lines of: "It works me I just had to adjust it a bit." He then proceeded not to show what he rewrote about the code I presented. I hate people.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Any post that reads: "Dude, you have Google. Just use Google."

r/buildapc is full of these. God forbid someone wants to have "old tech" on their PC like Blue-ray players or wants to use all of their fan slots on their case. If someone is adding a CD/DVD player in this day in age there is likely a reason for it and they don't want to hear about your opinions on CDs being obsolete.

Because God forbid I want to play/archive my movie collection and have a personal Netflix at the ready.

 

[TFT-A9]

Dunno if you've got that figured out yet but DPCs are used by drivers, so that suggests it's a driver fault. I've heard a lot of issues coming out with Ryzen, mainly because AMD just doesn't want to help anyone develop for their new hardware for some reason, plus AMD is just generally shit at writing drivers.

It could just be your hardware configuration. A sad reality is that Windows has to work on every hardware configuration on the market, and that's just not feasible for any OS to do. I've experienced my own share of bugs and quirks related to my hardware configuration in the past.

Huh. Wonder if my issues with bluescreens in Windows are actually driver related, then. From the messages on the bluescreens I had thought it was memory management related or something, but it's weird because it's almost never the same message twice. It used to be worse before I went into the UEFI BIOS and set the RAM frequency to a more stable one, but it still throws occasional fits.

 

[Dick Justice]

I was having an issue a little while back with Mint where it was hanging/freezing and briefly contemplated looking at the forums/asking questions

I then remembered how insufferable Linux people are to "newbies" asking questions and decided to just fucking figure it out myself

Using *nix irc support channels I've never had the issues described in this thread, though I admittedly don't always get a solution. I think irc is the best place to go for support because you can ask your question a dozen places in a matter of seconds, get comparatively immediate answers, and because irc is itself inherently an idiot-filter and as long as you follow basic netiquette responses are basically all constructive. It also has the side benefit of potentially starting interesting convos.

My favorite reply I ever got on a question I asked on SO was something along the lines of: "It works me I just had to adjust it a bit." He then proceeded not to show what he rewrote about the code I presented. I hate people.

Reminds me of the classic

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Every all ages forum I've used had a filter of some sort. Always saw it as tyranny. Now I know it's so mods don't shit up the thread. Is it so hard to just PM the guy?

"No, all things must be a public act of humiliation to flex my mod-powers." ~Jannie.

Why do they do that? At my workplace i have had to "fix" computers for the boomers with the latest Microsft edge update. I don´t understand why they would move shit around when your userbase is exclusively 50+.

This one I can answer. How do you continue making money keep your meaningless job on software that has already hit the innovation ceiling? Move shit around, just like college textbooks.

 

[Pissmaster]

Any post that reads: "Dude, you have Google. Just use Google."

We're well into the years of "lmao just Google it" advice being so pervasive that half the questions I've actually searched for have come up with some jackass saying that and not solving the question.

Not to mention the ever frustrating "oh nm I just figured it out" and then they don't say what they did

 

[SIGSEGV]

Not to mention the ever frustrating "oh nm I just figured it out" and then they don't say what they did

PM'd you the fix.

 

[Pissmaster]

PM'd you the fix.

"here you need this lol"
Download: DriverPkg31.exe
>click
"Sorry, you need to be logged in to download files. Login here, or create a computertoucher.world account today!"
>check bugmenot.com for an account
>several accounts listed
>all are banned
>make an account anyway
>can't use 10minutemail or anything like it
>have to use designated email address for throwaways
>can't login until i confirm my email
>logs in, email isn't there
>it's in spam
>confirmed
>have to type my computertoucher.world password in again
>go back and find the thread
>finally click to download DriverPkg31.exe
"Sorry, this file can not be found"
>bump the thread and ask for a repost
>a mod replies
"FIRSTLY you should introduce yourself in the introduction thread here, and secondly it is against the rules to bump old threads. Thread locked."
>post in the introduction thread
>go and make a new thread asking for the driver, pointing to that thread where the driver was posted but is no longer hosted
>same mod as before replies
"This question was already answered in this thread. I suggest you learn how to use Google. Thread locked."

 

[Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD]

The .art in question was a proprietary bitmap image format by AOL. The only way to open it I can think of would be old, as in Win2k old, versions of ACDSee.

Bet Irfranview or whatever it’s called could open them, fuck, it even opens Atari ST Degas files, Neochrome, Spectrum 512 and Amiga Deluxe Paint files

PM'd you the fix.

Replied!

 

[Pissmaster]

Bet Irfranview or whatever it’s called could open them, fuck, it even opens Atari ST Degas files, Neochrome, Spectrum 512 and Amiga Deluxe Paint files

Tried it, it doesn't. I seriously have to install AOL on an XP Virtual Machine just to see what those images are. So I'd have to find a copy of AOL to install, or just use my old Chex Quest CD.

Come to think of it, for as prominent as AOL CDs were in the late 90s, I'm kind of surprised there weren't more games on CD that came with it.

 

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Tried it, it doesn't. I seriously have to install AOL on an XP Virtual Machine just to see what those images are. So I'd have to find a copy of AOL to install, or just use my old Chex Quest CD.

Come to think of it, for as prominent as AOL CDs were in the late 90s, I'm kind of surprised there weren't more games on CD that came with it.

Reading around, it appears that AOL induced Microsoft to create a patch for IE 5.01 (as came with Windows 2000) that added .ART support. One can get it here, though I don't have a Win2K VM around to test that at the moment. I'm guessing that it works within the WebBrowser OLE control too, so if you had say thousands of images you wanted to convert it would probably be possible to work something up in VB 6 to open the files in the control and then dump full color BMP images of the screen.

 

[TFT-A9]

Bet Irfranview or whatever it’s called could open them, fuck, it even opens Atari ST Degas files, Neochrome, Spectrum 512 and Amiga Deluxe Paint files

IrfanView is handy as fuck. I used it back in the day to convert images into .TGA format to do custom portraits for Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

"here you need this lol"
Download: DriverPkg31.exe
>click
"Sorry, you need to be logged in to download files. Login here, or create a computertoucher.world account today!"
>check bugmenot.com for an account
>several accounts listed
>all are banned
>make an account anyway
>can't use 10minutemail or anything like it
>have to use designated email address for throwaways
>can't login until i confirm my email
>logs in, email isn't there
>it's in spam
>confirmed
>have to type my computertoucher.world password in again
>go back and find the thread
>finally click to download DriverPkg31.exe
"Sorry, this file can not be found"
>bump the thread and ask for a repost
>a mod replies
"FIRSTLY you should introduce yourself in the introduction thread here, and secondly it is against the rules to bump old threads. Thread locked."
>post in the introduction thread
>go and make a new thread asking for the driver, pointing to that thread where the driver was posted but is no longer hosted
>same mod as before replies
"This question was already answered in this thread. I suggest you learn how to use Google. Thread locked."

That's similar to how I got working drivers for a USB 3.0 card a couple of years back. It was a VIA chipset so the drivers on their website won't work much like the hardware and the greeks. By reading and googling the actual code printed on the controller I finally found old and actually working drivers in inf/cat format on a chinese Windows forum that had to be installed against the wishes of windows.

VIA can go fuck themselves, they're consistently the worst. Fuck ProShop or whoever it was that sold me that piece of shit as well. If the only sources you find on a piece of hardware(actual chip and so on) is in chinese you're in trouble, if it can be bought in the west and googling it only returns links in russian that's usually a sign of a relatively solid budget product.

 

[Pissmaster]

Well, I converted the mystery .art files. Chex Quest came with AOL 3.0, and it turned out not to be able to read them, so I downloaded AOL 7.0, installed it, and, well, that worked. It even lets you save them as JPGs or BMPs, so that made things easy.

Behold, Random Pics & Gifs circa 2001:

Welp

 

[White Devil]

Well, I converted the mystery .art files. Chex Quest came with AOL 3.0, and it turned out not to be able to read them, so I downloaded AOL 7.0, installed it, and, well, that worked. It even lets you save them as JPGs or BMPs, so that made things easy.

Behold, Random Pics & Gifs circa 2001:

View attachment 1692753

Welp

Ha, I remember that one being on a couple mil centric sites I followed. All the arab jokes from back then would have the modern left having conniption fits.