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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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 โ€œoh youโ€

It wasnโ€™t his lock screen either, just the home screen, so he knew it looked sketch

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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That last one just seems like a kink

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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Pressing 'delete' on a selected file doesn't delete it but pressing 'backspace' does. WTF?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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"

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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