Worked as the tech person for an office supply store in the US.
Regular (annoying) customer comes in with his desktop and printer in a cart asking for us to “verify the connections between his printer and computer”, because it wasn’t working.
Hook it all up to our work bench. It was a Win7 machine or something. Before I could navigate it, he urges me out of the way so he could show me what was wrong.
He opens chrome. You know how browsers will ask you to restore tabs when they close improperly? He clicked that option when it pops up. The first thing I see is a movie streaming site that’s in Russian with porn ads everywhere. Just raw dogging it.
He closes that tab to reveal an image of a naked child on the next tab. He closes that tab, and there’s another one.
I don’t really remember what I did, but in hindsight I wish I had called the police. I think he just ended up leaving the store with his stuff after that, but I learned months later that he came back in to use our self-service copiers and had more pictures, and our store manager threatened him and kicked him out.
One guy I knew had a picture of himself giving finger guns as his background and whenever he unlocked his phone he would smirk at it like “oh you”
It wasn’t his lock screen either, just the home screen, so he knew it looked sketch
Sketch? That’s pretty funny, I could see doing that for an in-joke with someone they were close to.
Gilderoy?
Might be helpful if the guy lost his phone at a party or something.
Worked as a computer tech in college
We had regular clients that would bring in their ten year old laptops to get “tuned up,” which normally consisted of removing whatever interesting malware they’d manage to download
One guy would bring his computer and his lockscreen slideshow and desktop would be a rotation of naked women surfing. I never looked through people’s stuff because ick, but after bringing it in multiple times you’d have seen hundreds of them
Another woman had an ancient laptop that’d probably shipped with Windows Vista that was 1 core 1 thread. It was desperately trying to run Windows 10 but was drowning constantly. You could watch the startup processes in task manager in series which was pretty cool
Had a woman deliberately hand me her phone open to her photos with like dozens of nudes while she just talked to me normally about whatever banal up issue she was having with her iPhone. Thinking about it I don’t think this was an isolated event
Stuff on the devices is typically less weird than the people
That last one just seems like a kink
I also worked as a computer tech at a university. Often i had to backup someones drive to cds or dvd depending on the situation. If a folder was too large we would ask permission to go into it to break it into smaller chunks. I began to loathe having to subdivide large photo folders onto cds. Way too many times of opening a folder of smutty pictures.
As an IT person, I’m consistently amazed at what people will do on their work computers if allowed.
People log into all their social media accounts, save credit card info for online shopping, save personal passwords, make doctors appointments, etc.
As for weirdest? I was working on a woman’s work PC years ago and her desktop was filled with a bunch of boomer-style pro Trump memes. She was logged into her Facebook account on the PC and was downloading them onto her desktop and then presumably posting them to FB. It was stuff like, “I’m a proud Trump girl!” With a picture of a Minion in front of an American flag. Classic cringey boomer stuff.
Another weird one: In college, I once saw a girl using one of the library color printers to print an entire recipe book. Like with full color pictures and everything. The whole thing looked like it was several hundred pages thick, absolutely huge. The library had a sign right above the printers that requested students not print more than 20 pages in full color, so RIP to their toner on that one lol.
Most of the schools/colleges using Xerox printers around here charge $1 per color page. Sounds like it might have been cheaper to buy the book.
macOS
Pressing ‘delete’ on a selected file doesn’t delete it but pressing ‘backspace’ does. WTF?
Further confusing is that Mac keyboards have the backspace key labeled as “delete”. Which makes sense really, but when the universal way to refer to that key is backspace, it’s just them being stubborn morons who don’t want to change it. They could’ve labelled the escape key “exit” or something else on that same logic but didn’t. I like a lot about MacOs (nothing else about apple though) but some of the hard lines they’ve taken are just idiotic to me. In finder you cannot cut files… I’ve read the long winded justification and it can fuck off. Every other platform lets you do that. It’s convenient and not confusing at all but apple people will insist cutting a file doesn’t make sense.
it’s Cmd+Backspace, and moves the file to the trashcan, it doesn’t delete it
Windows 11
Installing a downloaded app by dragging the .dmg into your Applications folder.
Just why? What is the case where I download an app installer, execute the installer, but don’t want the app installed?
It’s closer to a zip file than an installer. That one never bothered me at all
DMG actually not installer itself think about more like iso file image where system mount dmg file and u can run apps from there by double clicking them without installing or u can drag and drop content of dmg file to applications folder and become it like “installed”
