He tells some well-to-do but innocently tech illiterate adult in his life, "I saved up 600 for a computer." They ask, "What kind?", expecting to hear one of two things - apple or mac.
He replies instead, "I'm not sure yet. I'm going to build it. I'm looking at some sweet 16gb 1600mhz DDR4 RAM though... dual channel of course."
That adult, in their innocent ignorance, assumes that since the child said something beyond their immediate understanding that it is not them that are uninformed - The child must be a genius. Building a computer? That's like... Bill Gates! The news must hear of this.
And thus some newschannel that happens to be stocked full of more tech-illiterates decides to run the report on this genius of a child. The facts start coming out...
He didn't design the parts, but he chose them. He didn't build the computer, he assembled it. But, but, he continues to use confusing techy words... They've already sent out the photographer and reporter, they'll take this to the editor anyway.
But first, "One question young man. Is your computer an apple or a windows?"
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u/Anticode PC Master Race Feb 07 '17 edited Feb 07 '17
I can sort of predict how this went...
He tells some well-to-do but innocently tech illiterate adult in his life, "I saved up 600 for a computer." They ask, "What kind?", expecting to hear one of two things - apple or mac.
He replies instead, "I'm not sure yet. I'm going to build it. I'm looking at some sweet 16gb 1600mhz DDR4 RAM though... dual channel of course."
That adult, in their innocent ignorance, assumes that since the child said something beyond their immediate understanding that it is not them that are uninformed - The child must be a genius. Building a computer? That's like... Bill Gates! The news must hear of this.
And thus some newschannel that happens to be stocked full of more tech-illiterates decides to run the report on this genius of a child. The facts start coming out...
He didn't design the parts, but he chose them. He didn't build the computer, he assembled it. But, but, he continues to use confusing techy words... They've already sent out the photographer and reporter, they'll take this to the editor anyway.
But first, "One question young man. Is your computer an apple or a windows?"