Irritating technology faux pas

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mr_zen256

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I'm sure many of you have computer illiterate friends or family members. Perhaps I'm over sensitive and should seek professional help, but there certain pet hates that I have when our beloved technophobes try to talk about computer hardware or technology in general.

One which has struck me recently and many other times over the years, is when someone calls your box, a hard drive.

Please, call it a box, case or system, but for the love of god.. not hard drive!

I dont know why, but I find something offensive about naming a whole computer system after a single function component.

If there is anyone else out there with hardware or technology faux pas pet hates, please chime in so I don't feel alone and OCD.
 
Sorry, never heard of an entire system being referred to as a hard drive, lol. I used to hear "CPU" before, but its not like I cared.
 
honestly its NBD (at least to me) if they're a bit ignorant about terminology, if it annoys you that much, teach them the correct way, instead of hating on them for it
 
obobski said:
honestly its NBD (at least to me) if they're a bit ignorant about terminology, if it annoys you that much, teach them the correct way, instead of hating on them for it
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I wouldnt say I hate on them for it. Just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

I'll get over it :)

I think this thread has pretty much run it's course. Feel free to dead thread it mods!
 
I with ya, "rubs me the wrong way" aswell. No sense in trying to educate them half the time anyway, they don't care either way.
 
It bugs me when people try to abbreviate PCI-Express as "PCI-X".

It also bugs me when people declare that they are "out of memory" when, in fact, their hard drive is full.
 
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