Your personal tech fuck ups - This can't possiblly go wrong.

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I had a water cooler die on my desktop PC. I had to detatch the motherboard to mount a new cooler to the CPU. Then I had a lot of difficulty securing the motherboard back to the PC but I forced the shit out of it. Only later did I realize I had pinned the end of a fucking SATA cable underneath my motherboard.

Everything was fine, I was just being a big fucking retard.
 
Mailserver was being used to send spam. Stopped the server. IP blocked the spammer. grepped the spool for the spam, somehow inverted the match, ran it through xargs rm.

I deleted all the non-spam mail in the spool.

No backups.
 
Spilling coffee on my old gaming laptop and fucking up the power button, then trying to disassemble it and realizing I'd superglued the case together when I'd broken it over a year prior. Rest in peace Dell gaming laptop.
 
i was doing a repair on my cousins computer. when i was trouble shooting the ram, I suddenly sneezed on the motherboards and bricked his entire PC.
had to buy him a new one. all because of a fucking sneeze.
 
Always spilling wine or coffee on my keyboards. I don't deserve nice peripherals.
I fucking hate RGB bullshit for many reasons, but one reason is if I spill a drink on a backlit keyboard, the dirt blocks out the light and it looks uneven and disgusting and I can see all of my life's mitsakes.

I baked a Raspberry Pi and then my housemate decided to put a pizza in the oven at the same time while putting the temperature up even higher and it melted and burnt my poor baby.
 
My cousin built his one and only computer about 5 years ago. Always kind of complained that it would act funny sometimes, but because everytime I saw it, it was fine we never looked into it too much. Finally around the BFA launch he was complaining about it being slow all the time and I said it sounded a lot like thermal throttling. Told him to buy a six pack and bring it over and we will sort him out.

Brings the PC over and I had just built a PC and had fresh thermal paste laying around and I knew from talking to my cousin that he just used his AIOs preapplied paste. I'm a big proponent of tinting, ie using only a little thermal paste that fills in the natural crevices of metal and basically just glues the 2 metal plates together. Preapplied paste is this giant mass of shit and I'm not a fan just from the standpoint of its way way too much and probably insulating.

Take his AIO apart and immediately locate the issue, he never took the plastic film off the paste when he put it together *I am disappoint son*.

Luckily he didn't actually damage anything other than my opinion of his technical abilities.
 
Accidentally used up my entire monthly mobile data allowance by running internet speed tests because I was curious about 5g speeds where I live.

Will probably get a nasty bill too - got a text from my provider half way through a test "oops, you used up your allowance, we are going to charge you through the nose for every MB you used over the allowance" (:_(
 
Russiahatesfags said:
the fuck? what could that mean
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I'd have to check the kernel source to be 100%, but most likely file sizes in Linux are stored in off_t/loff_t type value, which is a typedef for a signed integer of a suitable bitsize. Therefore by randomly thrashing on the FS metadata there's a significant chance of setting the sign-bit to 1, which then cause the userspace to display such values as negative.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Nitpick: it actually doesn't matter how is the file size stored internally in kernel data structures. What matters is the kernel -> userspace syscall interface and that is typically based on the aforementioned {l,}off_t typedefs.
 
That feeling when you spend half an hour fucking with port forwarding in your router to try and get Red Dead Online to show an Open NAT instead of Moderate, only to realize that your rules are actually routing those ports to the IP of a PC that isn't even plugged into the router in the first place.


And the game still disconnects anyway because Rockstar's servers are dog shit.
 
One time I was messing around with Microsoft Azure with a webserver, I couldn't get the Microsoft (TM) DNS feature to work, so I just disabled it and just used the records I edited on my domain providers service. I was testing out the new at the time low-end virtual machine offering, the rudimentry webserver I created lagged like crap and froze half the time when delivering content of a simple blog with barely any multimedia. Microsoft's low end budget solutions are shitty and over-priced, you're better off buying hosting from a specialized service like hostgator or something like that.
 
Some years ago I ripped off the p3 connector of a Nintendo DS Lite motherboard. Off it's solder pads. The p3 connector is what connects the top display ribbon cable to the motherboard.

Some backstory: in 10th grade ( 2008 ), I won the nigger lottery. Upon the retrieval of a wii remote repaired from Nintendo, inside the delivery box lay a loose Nintendo DS Lite. It was not on the invoice of the repair.

And I fucked this gift from god up by not realizing the p3 connector utilizes a black flip switch to lock and release the ribbon cable. The DS Lite hinge broke and while I fixed the hinge by myself, I ruined the process on closing.

Luckily, I kept the entire assembly of the device so that one day I learn micro soldering and am able to solder a new p3 to remind me how retarded I am and how I will always be retarded.

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Got a free old Sony laptop from work I was going to repurpose with an up-to-date Linux distro. Had to destroy the hard drive though considering it could of had sensitive data on it. Sadly I spilled paper shredder oil all over it while prepping it. Completely fucked the keyboard. Needless to say I was pissed and it winded up going to a recycling center while the drive got the hammer.
I've also accidently unplugged servers at work since the cable management on it was absolutely garbage. Had a very angry customer who lost some data, pretty embarrassing.
 
Crystal Coomer said:
Some years ago I ripped off the p3 connector of a Nintendo DS Lite motherboard. Off it's solder pads. The p3 connector is what connects the top display ribbon cable to the motherboard.

Some backstory: in 10th grade ( 2008 ), I won the nigger lottery. Upon the retrieval of a wii remote repaired from Nintendo, inside the delivery box lay a loose Nintendo DS Lite. It was not on the invoice of the repair.

And I fucked this gift from god up by not realizing the p3 connector utilizes a black flip switch to lock and release the ribbon cable. The DS Lite hinge broke and while I fixed the hinge by myself, I ruined the process on closing.

Luckily, I kept the entire assembly of the device so that one day I learn micro soldering and am able to solder a new p3 to remind me how retarded I am and how I will always be retarded.

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That reminds me. Spent like $300 a year or so ago on a launch ps3. Works fine, no issues. Open is up to clean it and put new thermal paste on. Break the fucking clip holding the ribbon cable in place. So the system won't work properly. Still have it. Spent like 20 hours or so trying to fix it. It can be done, but I just don't have the will power to do so. Shit sucks. I kept it to one day get it fixed.
 
I was fixing an iMac that I was using as a 1440p monitor. The important part of that is, you know, the monitor. But its hard drive died and you can't boot it into display mode unless it can actually boot into Mac OS. I made sure to watch a video of popping the screen off and disconnecting all the parts to get at the internal HDD. At one point шт the video, this guy pops the display cable out, just yanks it. I go "okay", and as I get to that part, I pull with a decent amount of force and it won't come out. "Okay," I go, "must need some considerable force to remove because it's not user-facing and they don't want it to come out."

What the video didn't point out is that there was a catch you needed to depress to pull the display cable off of the motherboard. I just yanked it. I tore half the connectors clean off the board. Ended up paying 200 dollars to get it soldered because I didn't trust myself anymore.

Computer was a nice monitor again until the display died two months later. Fucking shameful.
 
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Crystal Coomer said:
Some years ago I ripped off the p3 connector of a Nintendo DS Lite motherboard. Off it's solder pads. The p3 connector is what connects the top display ribbon cable to the motherboard.

Some backstory: in 10th grade ( 2008 ), I won the nigger lottery. Upon the retrieval of a wii remote repaired from Nintendo, inside the delivery box lay a loose Nintendo DS Lite. It was not on the invoice of the repair.

And I fucked this gift from god up by not realizing the p3 connector utilizes a black flip switch to lock and release the ribbon cable. The DS Lite hinge broke and while I fixed the hinge by myself, I ruined the process on closing.

Luckily, I kept the entire assembly of the device so that one day I learn micro soldering and am able to solder a new p3 to remind me how retarded I am and how I will always be retarded.

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Don't be mad. That seems totally repairable,even with DIY standards. Just find a hot air solder station or a guy with one. I repaired worse.
 
Well it the past i tried to clean discs, i dunno what the fuck happened to corrupt the files on it since i used only a slightly wetted cloth to clean it and it wasn't a rough one either so now that i need to clean some discs now idk what to avoid this time
 
Zaryiu2 said:
Well it the past i tried to clean discs, i dunno what the fuck happened to corrupt the files on it since i used only a slightly wetted cloth to clean it and it wasn't a rough one either so now that i need to clean some discs now idk what to avoid this time
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CDs just decay with age. They're probably the worst medium we had (yes, I'd even prefer floppy disks) and I'm glad CDs are over.
 
AmpleApricots said:
CDs just decay with age. They're probably the worst medium we had (yes, I'd even prefer floppy disks) and I'm glad CDs are over.
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They can be fragile but I still have hundreds of burnt CDs from the 90's that works fine. The read speed is slow but the data is intact, to my surprise. These are no-brand discs as well, a lot is burnt on whatever the cheapest media was available in Portugal at the time. Also a ton of Acer discs, they made really cheap 80min CD-R's, perfect for all my precious ISOs.
 
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