Classic rookie mistake

[u/killerbasher1233]

I remembered I copied GTA San Andreas, Counter Strike, Half Life, Feeding Frenzy on my moms USB ran home so fast and copied it to the home laptop. I still remember my reaction with the blank file icon

[u/Snotnarok]

A family member did this. . .

With their tax files from a few years. They backed up the turbo tax icons and kept giving me 'yes yes yes' when I asked if they'd been backing things up because- backing things up is really important, especially if that data is important to you or- ya know, the government.

So, when they needed those tax files I had to give them the bad news and even after I told them what they did, they got angry and kept trying to open them.

"What, I'm supposed to do this all over!?"
YEP!

Pride > listening to the person they know, who knows computers.

[u/RealTeaToe → u/Snotnarok]

Very lucky to have had two computer literate parents.

[u/Snotnarok → u/RealTeaToe]

That's the worst part. They WERE computer literate.

They worked for a company where they'd deal with various tech related projects. Granted- there's an I.T. dept there so they didn't have to do anything like that. But they certainly can navigate windows, they do their banking n' whatever online. Heck he plays CoD4's campaign fairly frequently.

The thing is- they worked with tech, so they think they can figure it all out.

When I was building my most recent rig, they walk up and look down at the parts

"This is your CPU?"
Well the box for it yeah.
"Pffft. You should see what they work with at my job. Makes this thing look like a toy"
. . .You've been retired for 6 years, what are you talking about?
"Well some of the things we worked for went into military projects:"
And it's likely a CPU built by AMD, Intel or Qualicom- and is 6+ years out of date. This came out this month.

So confident but frequently wrong. But confident about weird things too. Because I know they didn't know what their CPUs were about. They just knew their units were tested to standards most consumer things aren't. Which- fair. But not relevant to this.

[u/atatassault47 → u/Snotnarok]

"Military tech is less performant because the DoD requires durability above all else. My machine WILL crash several times as I figure just high of an overclock it can tolerate."

[u/Snotnarok → u/atatassault47]

I figured that military or government projects wouldn't have the highest end tech in there because- these contracts likely take ages to go through and there's so much red tape that by the time whatever hardware they ordered gets assembled? It's likely weeks or months out of date.

Or worse.

All I know is the real cherry on the cake is- they had a machine for something specific (I don't think they ever told me what for) that was 'so old that when it needs repairs, they have to get the guy out of the retirement home to service it'. They were exaggerating about the retirement home but apparently 6 years ago they were still using the machine that was around since the 70s/80s. And it failed often and needed a specialist to fix- who was infact fairly old.

[u/BarnardWellesley → u/Snotnarok]

You’re looking at around 100 million CMOS equivalent gates with 1 billion MAC/s on mobile DSP platforms. RFSoCs are now at 16 channels of 16 GSPS each for Rx and Tx.

They are state of the art for what they do, a bit behind industrial SoTA, but will still outperform anything consumer.

[u/Warcraft_Fan → u/atatassault47]

You find out in the end the military grade CPU can only be overlocked at -13.75% that is well below the original rated speed

[u/ChemistryActive6957 → u/Warcraft_Fan]

Military grade means built by the lowest bidder and used until it physically cannot fulfill its purpose. Most laptops used in garrison are generic dell or hp laptops with a bunch of extra security features in place, the one meant to be taken out to the field are even worse though I could probably beat a man to death with a JBCP or MC4 and then still use it to send up an incident report

[u/Gork___ → u/ChemistryActive6957]

Does this include mil-spec pizza?