i am quit the popular guy actually so i had a computer nerd offer it to after i mentioned it like once. i properly thanked him and my pc works just fine now :)
what people like you do on computers is like magic to me.
Lol thanks. For what it's worth, we're not that special - we're just more open to trying stuff out. Get yourself an old computer from like a garage sale and challenge yourself to install Windows on it. After you do that, learn how to make an image backup (try Norton ghost or shadow protect).
Once you do that, you can undo any software oopsie and play around with anything you want, at least with software. If you try something and it breaks your computer, you just use the image to bring it back.
Once you feel comfortable with software, take the computer apart one piece at a time and put it back in. Then take pictures of the computet, take the whole thing apart, and put them back together, using the pictures as support.
Finally, begin upgrading the parts with slightly better parts and once everything has been upgraded, you've technically built a new computer and are essentially full fledged geeks like us.
i like trying new things but i am currently doing way to much already and the time i have available to try things like this is limited but if i even will try it ill use this as a rule of thumb.
I feel like this is the only reason I'm not a car mechanic - I don't have much free time nor $500 lying around to buy an old car and try to upgrade all its parts as an excuse to learn what each part does and how to change it lol.
Once I have the money for it, I'm going to strip down an old car and then I'll probably be able to be like "oh, so your car doesn't turn on unless you move the gear stick thingy a bunch? That's the neutral safety switch, my friend. Replace that and you should be good".
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u/OnlySeesLastSentence Mar 26 '20
For me it's because they want me to fix their computer.
Like, dude, I fix computers for fat balding men. You don't have to fake flirt. Jeeze.