Just how territorial are you when it comes to your computer, mac or laptop?
For me, well I’m pretty easy going - I have all my data backed up so if something does go awry (which it probably will) I’m covered! I don’t mind someone using my computer or laptop on a temporary basis but if I had to share it I wouldn’t like that at all !!! Plus it would have to be someone I trusted of course, otherwise it’s supervision time
What about security? Do you protect your system when you step away from it for a few moments with an automatic password lock?
So just how territorial are we when it comes to our own systems? - When you invest alot of money and time, keeping it in tip top shape - it isn’t easy to just let “anyone”, especially a newbie surfer/user to just blunder along on it is it? Maybe you’re unfazed by all of this nonsense and just gladly step aside and let your friend or client do as they please?
What about those people who just hammer at your keyboard or throw your mouse around the place violently - This drives me mental - or perhaps they have greasy hands after eating pizza or something and they are touching your beautiful expensive keyboard and mouse - and wait for it…they touch the screen!! That is the holy grail of forbiddenness!! How dare they!?:mad:
So, let’s hear it guys… What’s your limitations? Do you even have any? Maybe you don’t mind who does what to your system? Thoughts welcome
My husband had never even owned a computer when we met so I had to teach him how to use one. Worse thing to do eva.
I couldn’t stand him mucking around with my stuff, And he is a total grease monkey so yucky black unwashed hands straight from the shed on my precious, so I bought myself a new mac and gave him my old one. Then he liked using my new one better 'cos it was bigger and faster (duh!), but I kicked up such stink at him that he went and bought his own… bigger and faster of course
I do not like people using my computer(s). Though I’ve let a few (girls) do it in the past. I have a few comps (4) so I’m more lax with some than others. Currently I’m letting my GF use my oldest comp. I used to let her use my main one but soon grew tired of this and moved her to another. If I could figure out the wifi issue with my laptop I’d let her use that, maybe… I like it alot but rarely use it myself.
@Dirky - Is your computer in your workplace your own personal computer? I find it funny how people get so attached to “their computers” in a workplace when infact they are actually company property Some people can get quite territorial about their workspace - it’s like see but don’t dare touch it, and that’s even directed at the Boss too
@BPartch - A few girls? What was so special It does get tiring when someone uses your computer on a regular basis, it’s like you can’t relax or use it when you just feel like it - quite annoying and frustrating - I can understand how you shooed your gf to another (what happened with your wifi, do u have a thread about it?)
:eek2: That’s crazy! I can only imagine how you must have felt, if it were mine I think I would kick him out
Seriously though, I don’t think you really can trust someone with things you hold dear and care about - we should really say ok, what do u want to do and I’ll do it for you! Just to drop your Macbook like that just goes to show how some people just don’t care about your things (friends or not), I mean that may be a bit harsh but if he did and was very careful he would bearly touch it or not even ask for it in the first place for fear of even leaving one fingerprint on it! I would be like that, I just wouldn’t ask - nothing is that pressing that you can’t wait til you get home to check your email or something silly like your latest tweets or something!
Yeah. About two months ago, a friend was visiting me. During the course of the evening, he asked whether he could quickly use my Macbook. And so I gave him my laptop and one minute later it fell to the floor!
My heart almost stopped. Fortunately, he was sitting down while he dropped the device. It’s intact and he hasn’t asked for it eversince. Thankfully.
I like the idea of the different user accounts - I never think of that on time though, I just usually get up and say ok yeah sure go ahead cringe
A few times though, obviously when I’m meeting a client I would bring my laptop and nearly every single time - they touch the screen, almost press on it!!! I’m there trying to be nice and all I wanna do is immediatley investigate it, see that the screen is ok and perhaps then strangle the client
Touching the screen is a big “no no” to me and people just being rough with my computery things! It’s the same with discs/cds etc - fingerprints everywhere - and then just throw them anywhere on a desk or even drop them!
Do you ever get those people who just damage your things deliberately?? :confused2 - Say you just bought a new laptop/mobile and your friend goes…ooh hey lemme see…and you reluctantly say sure ok and hand it over gently, and they just literally try and break it or damage it as best they can!! (probably not really deliberate but it makes you wonder sometimes, atleast I do!)
Hands Off my things. That’s my policy not only in our house but also in my workplace especially if its a private thing. It is just a sign of respect in one’s privacy.
I think I have one of those love/hate relationships with my computer too - it’s good as it’s given me a trade and I can earn money from it all but then it’s addicting too and I can get hooked and spend wayy wayy too much time on it - I suppose that’s why we are really particular about who uses our computers/macs/laptops etc
Nobody touches my computer but not because I don’t let them or I’m working and therefore I need it.
It is rare that someone takes my computer… Occassionaly, my sister takes my laptop when she comes home, or if I’m taking the lapop with me for a presentation, she may use the main computer… but as I said, this is rare.
The only person that’s not allowed to touch it at all is my nephew. He loves to move all the icons around and I hate that
It’s really weird. Hand’s down, of all my material possessions I have a strange, strange intimacy with my computer. I think it’s wildly unhealthy one minute, and super awesome the next.
Sometimes my connection goes out and it’s awful! I don’t even have phonebooks, tv or subscribe to real world newspapers or mags. When my connection goes out, I feel/am super cut off, I think to myself “Jason, what the hell have you done to yourself now? Made yourself totally dependent on a machine. It would turn you into a battery without hesitation you know”, and then I do nothing to change it.
Then I just watch The Matrix again and usually my connection is back up!
I don’t lock it when I leave (as rarely as that happens), but everyone knows my policy and the consequences. Not to say that I go for a kill if someone touches it after all, but I don’t encourage them either.
Would not let some other person touch my computer and the other things that go along with it. My husband is the only one who is allowed, but he tends to touch the screen and I hate it – grrrrrrrrrr.
I do not work with “food fingers”. I keep things greaseless and clean
I always have at least one “other” unprivileged account set up on any of my computers so that if someone else needs to use it, they can mess stuff up as much as they like and it won’t affect my account or the system.
Protects privacy and security nicely. I use Linux. Surprisingly, non-technical people don’t seem to have difficulty using it (just as users; I wouldn’t expect a non-tech person to maintain or set up a Linux machine, unfortunately).
I do let others use my stuff. I do hold a long and boring lecture how important it is to me that all my things are used with care, kept clean and cautiously at all times.
So everyone who uses my equipment does so responsibly and I’m content.
Unreasonably so, tbh. I’ve had a few bad experiences, but I’m also keenly aware that I’m unreasonably fond of overly complex and not overly robust setups.
I loathe security, keep a great deal of highly questionable content and unfortunately I tend to have a great deal of bells and whistles installed (icons for which are all shiny, they even bring out the magpie in me and I’m used to them).
I just try not to let people use my computer, the hovering I do and the fretting I do afterwards is just too exhausting for me.
I can do supervised visits, I even braved an unsupervised one recently. If someone touched my screen though, I think I might cry!
I wouldn’t trust anyone would my computer, I’ve got everything setup exactly how I like it and if someone came in and started having all sorts of unknown fun on my machine I would be far too worried they would obliterate the PC (much of my family are the kind of technical lacking cave-people that would see an advert for “free antivirus scan” and click every link they saw). The other main issue of concern would be that they would start deleting random stuff.
I wouldn’t like that at all !!! Plus it would have to be someone I trusted of course, otherwise it’s supervision time 
I like it alot but rarely use it myself. 
It does get tiring when someone uses your computer on a regular basis, it’s like you can’t relax or use it when you just feel like it - quite annoying and frustrating - I can understand how you shooed your gf to another