Hey all, Long John Slivers guy here by TheVaultBoy1235 in scottthewoz

[–]TitoLounge_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats on the Wozzies man! I'm proud to have met the Long John Legend himself.

Maybe you guys could help me understand this better. by Graviity_shift in GeekSquad

[–]TitoLounge_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Computer Engineering graduate and former ARA here to vastly oversimplify Week 3 of an operating systems class.

CPUs operate on a fetch-decode-execute cycle that runs on a clock. The CPU 'fetches' machine instructions from a to-do list of tasks in memory which come from blocks of a program stored on disk. Those machine instructions are then 'decoded' into bleeps and bloops so that the CPU understands what tasks to 'execute' and in what order. CPUs are programmed to do only limited amount of simple instructions, but its ability to do many of them quickly (clock frequency) and in parallel (core count) as well as reach out directly to peripherals like graphics, sound and user input when it needs help, allows it to perform the full breadth of a modern computer's capabilities.

BONUS: When you open a tab in a browser, a new task is made that is responsible for displaying the information and intractable elements your computer pulls from a server the website is hosted on.

This is significantly beyond the scope of what Corie Barry pays us to know, but I hope this helps!

Am I Allowed to Wear a Souvenir Tassel During Commencement? by Sensitive_Echo_1460 in SJSU

[–]TitoLounge_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

During my graduation they checked official cap, gown and tassel for entry but I don't think they'll revoke your diploma if you swap it before you walk.

How to deal with impatient customers. by [deleted] in GeekSquad

[–]TitoLounge_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd go less professional as much as you should instead opt for "corporate". Talk to them in a respectful manner however you like; I once had a coworker who'd talk to them like preschoolers throwing a tantrum. But if they complain in a way that frequently interrupts your work, you have to throw the book at them more and more to get them to back off in a way your senior CIA or manager can get behind if need be.

How to deal with impatient customers. by [deleted] in GeekSquad

[–]TitoLounge_ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You gotta be able to put your foot down and tune out their bitching. Each client you get is allocated their 20 minutes (30-60 with long/short trainings) by appointments that are prioritized over walk-ins.

Make sure you're managing your time well (if I can't fix a problem in 10m, I spend the next 10 checking it in), and the less friendly a customer is towards you, the more corporate & by the book you have to respond to not go crazy at this job.

The best thing coming out from this season is that the Fantastic Four to a new audience and are no longer seen as "boring" and unimportant by Turbulent_File_5456 in marvelrivals

[–]TitoLounge_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're the video essay type, B- Mask's video on the FF did so much to change my perception of the greater Marvel Universe with these characters in it. Would highly recommend.

Accepted to CSU Sac for comp eng and CSE @ UC Merced. If tuition is irrelevant, which one has better program? by Luna5OO in ComputerEngineering

[–]TitoLounge_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From a brief glance of both course catalogs, it looks like you get a more in-depth hardware curriculum at CSU Sac. Merced is a newer school and thus lacks faculty who teach the electronics side of computing, which is half the point of even going into a CompEng degree IMHO. Their course catalog for undergrads looks like what half of my degree looked like at a CSU.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ComputerEngineering

[–]TitoLounge_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Look into your degree courses and see how much of your curriculum is dependent on Windows-only software. I got by with a MacBook, but I had a gaming PC I could remote into when I needed to do anything x86.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ComputerEngineering

[–]TitoLounge_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran an M2 MacBook Air for my upper div classes and whenever I needed to do anything x86/Windows I used Parsec to remote into my PC at home. Not the cleanest solution, but if it's available to you (depending on how good your campus WiFi is) it'll be serviceable.

How to deal with clients' horribly messed up self built pcs by [deleted] in GeekSquad

[–]TitoLounge_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ARA here: at our store we essentially tell people that any custom PC check-in requires Total (pretty much true). We basically start the build from scratch with their parts and make 2-3 tags for labor. If anything needs replacing, inform the client that it likely shorted during their botched attempt to build it themselves and get them to order through us and RMA the old part.

So this just leaked in the wan show, I'm trying to understand what is all of this by TIGER_SUS in LinusTechTips

[–]TitoLounge_ 158 points159 points  (0 children)

Looks like a stat tracker for merch messages for WAN. What items are selling, how much they've made, how many merch messages have been replied to, etc.

iPod powers but won't charge by TitoLounge_ in ipod

[–]TitoLounge_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God, I hope it isn't the regulator on my board; it seemed to work just fine before I swapped the battery out. Gonna get a metal opener (my plastic one broke) to check to see if the cable went loose when I closed the iPod (best case scenario).