ughhhhh yes this is so annoying (randompcb and me have become the classroom's tech support ugh)

Start talking about logic gates and flip flops and PLAs and FPGA, maybe even throw in few of the ASICs. If they don't shut up even after that then bring in the big guns and start talking about doping and PN junctions and How BJTs are better than FETs

I was legally contracted to say yes.

At least it was satisfying to answer NO when the question involved their personal (not a company one) acer cheap mall laptop filled with mcafee, bloatware and socuh combined with the slowest low capacity hdd in existence.

Hell NO