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

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Once, I got a new power supply for my desktop to replace out an older one, but because the cables were so similar between both, I chose not to use the included cables of the new power supply, but instead the cables of my old power supply to connect to the motherboard, GPU, CPU, and drives. The result: I burned out all my SATA drives and had to buy new ones since apparently the ground wire for the cables connecting to the drives was different between the two types of cables. I was very lucky not to have damaged the rest of my computer, but it was a valuable lesson not to assume that just because two cables look the same and have all the same fittings, that they are interchangeable.
 
volatile said:
bruh lmao, I'm now forced to restart my entire digital life because my external hard drive completely killed itself and I didn't have a chance to back it up. It's a Western Digital and it's been like 2 FUCKING WEEKS since I bought it. I've learned my lesson now but this is so cruel. I had roughly 2 terabytes of archived content.

The only thing left for me is my password manager database. I don't know what to fucking do. I should create a more resilient off-site backup solution so that shit like this doesn't happen again. BUT, I can't un-spill the milk. Shit's over for me. I'm in for a great reset on my digital life.

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There's something up with hard drives lately. I bought one and it went to shit in less than ten days, so I exchanged it and got a new one and it went to shit in two weeks. These were WD drives I bought to replace a Seagate drive that shit itself within five months. My superstition blames it on them being 5TB drives, that is an unnatural number of terabytes.

Questions: Does it spin up when connected? Does the light turn on?

One weird thing that I have noticed it that switching the USB cable to one from another drive can revive seemingly dead drives. I don't know why, maybe try that.

Another option is to pop it open and get the drive out, hook it up to SATA or another enclosure, there is chance of that working. Maybe the USB/SATA controller just died.
 
volatile said:
bruh lmao, I'm now forced to restart my entire digital life because my external hard drive completely killed itself and I didn't have a chance to back it up. It's a Western Digital and it's been like 2 FUCKING WEEKS since I bought it. I've learned my lesson now but this is so cruel. I had roughly 2 terabytes of archived content.

The only thing left for me is my password manager database. I don't know what to fucking do. I should create a more resilient off-site backup solution so that shit like this doesn't happen again. BUT, I can't un-spill the milk. Shit's over for me. I'm in for a great reset on my digital life.

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I've setup a CRON job to zip up my critical folder of files every weekend and upload it to Google Drive. It uses the same password each time to encrypt it, but it's really good to set something like that up.

I had a really big fuck up like that a few years ago and cleaned house on nearly 3TB of games, videos, critical files, holiday photos and everything. Never making that mistake again. You can write a basic script using Python or C# if you're on Windows schedule the CRON job every time your PC turns on or something like that.
 
volatile said:
bruh lmao, I'm now forced to restart my entire digital life because my external hard drive completely killed itself and I didn't have a chance to back it up. It's a Western Digital and it's been like 2 FUCKING WEEKS since I bought it. I've learned my lesson now but this is so cruel. I had roughly 2 terabytes of archived content.

The only thing left for me is my password manager database. I don't know what to fucking do. I should create a more resilient off-site backup solution so that shit like this doesn't happen again. BUT, I can't un-spill the milk. Shit's over for me. I'm in for a great reset on my digital life.

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Its too late now, but its a sign you should get a better storage solution. If you're lucky maybe there is some sort of warranty that could cover data recovery since the drive was brand new. I bit the bullet and bought the drives to make a NAS out of an old PC a few years back and its relieving to know there are extra checks in place to make sure I don't lose shit. Its a great intro for home server setups too if you have any interest in that. The drives can be pricey to buy in at first, but aside from that you can pretty much use any spare PC you have laying around.
 
Some retarded intern at my current place of work thought the Windows Server that we use was his own personal VM. He pretty much nuked our entire infastructure because he may be retarded.

My current boss is usually a chill dude. But after he found out, he began to lose his shit.



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Might be hard to see, (since i cropped my hand out of the photo), but the dents are my managers knuckles.
 
There's a few:

-Broke a CRT monitor on a Windows 95 machine when I was like 11 by fucking with the display settings and trying to set a monitor with a max resolution of 1280x960 to 1600x1200. It did NOT recover, but I learned an important lesson about being careful with settings changes that day.

-Stripped out and ended up basically drilling out a dinky little screw on the GPU cooler retention bracket on my X800 XT Plat I had while trying to install a 2-slot Arctic cooler on it, effectively making it impossible to run since it wasn't getting even pressure. I RMAed and Asus sent me an X850 XT instead of just replacing the cooler and sending it back; how times have changed. Learned an important lesson about the proper tool for the job as a $30 set of small electronics screwdrivers would have prevented all of this.

-Bought 2 260 GTXes to SLI for Crysis. SLI was my mistake, but I found a cascade of fuckups related to a badly designed motherboard under gaming load that resulted in not being able to do SLI anyway which was NOT my mistake.

-Related to the above: "upgraded" to Vista shortly after this...and Crysis proceeded to drop from the very playable 30-40FPS range on XP to sub-1 FPS on the same exact settings due to going from DX9 to DX10. The upgrade was free and it still cost too much. :story:
 
  • Heavily stripped the screws on the back of a Switch
  • Bent the back of the case of same Switch
  • Broke an internal cable of the SAME Switch
  • Knocked off and lost an internal fan connector on a Thinkpad
  • Damaged a laptop headphone jack by janking a pair of earbuds out from the side
  • Lost several internal parts to a Wii remote and an N64 controller
  • Damaged a SATA motherboard connector by jamming a cable in at an odd angle
  • Got water damage on an internal DVD player, destroying it
 
Many, many years ago I suspected I had some kind of virus on my computer and was looking for where it could be hiding.
"System" - this seems like a perfectly normal folder. Carry on.
"System32" - ha! Another System folder? A likely story, VIRUS.

And that mistake prepared me for 4chan, as I now knew from experience why "delete system32" was very bad advice.
 
rm -rf *

missed the slash

Can't remember what I was doing.

Also once wasn't satisfied with thermal performance on my newly built PC, so I decided to reseat the heatsink and oops off comes the processor too yanked from the socket (new Ryzen 3900x) and in my panic to get it off of the heatsink it was adhered to I got thermal paste on the pins. I spent a good hour with alcohol and q tips cleaning it off with a very nervous and shaky hand, looking for bent pins. The processor ended up fine.
 
So I wanted to upgrade my laptop's memory, right? I've taken it apart before and I swear there's a spare M.2 slot. So I order a 1TB Kingston M.2, pretty low heat, mid range, everything is looking great... then I take it apart, and a youtube tutorial later, i realize that the M.2 slot is the main hard drive. I'm not going thru the bullshit to clone it lol. External SSD's and flash drives it is for me. On the plus side, I got a perfectly good m.2 for a future build.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
So I wanted to upgrade my laptop's memory, right? I've taken it apart before and I swear there's a spare M.2 slot. So I order a 1TB Kingston M.2, pretty low heat, mid range, everything is looking great... then I take it apart, and a youtube tutorial later, i realize that the M.2 slot is the main hard drive. I'm not going thru the bullshit to clone it lol. External SSD's and flash drives it is for me. On the plus side, I got a perfectly good m.2 for a future build.
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Cloning it is super easy though and takes no time at all, don't let that part worry you. You can also buy a pen-style enclosure for the nvme and use it as an external.
 
i was building an lfs system in a vm taking snapshots as i went just in case (at least i thought i was)
i had just finished compiling the very last package and was about to clean up my sources folder with
Code: 
rm -rf */
HOWEVER, i typed it in wrong. what i had actually typed was
Code: 
rm -rf /*
and i didnt realize untill it started complaining that it couldn't delete shit.
but it was already too late, nothing was spared, not even ls...
so i went opened up my snapshots to go back to the last one, but i didn't have any, i was so focused on the lfs system, that every time i had to do a snapshot. i had thought i did one already and went ahead anyways without checking.
so i had to start all over again, a good 4 days gone because of a stupid mistake.
two things to take away from this:
one: check to see if you've made a snapshot/backup/whatever, doesn't matter if you think you're sure, CHECK ANYWAYS.
two: double check what your typing and if possible, test the command in an environment where it can't do much harm.
 
set up an entire surround system for the family computer, redid drivers, swapped sound cards, ordered a new sound card before realizing I didn't press the fucking power button
 
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i just accidentally deleted a txt file with 1000+ valid login creds for cock.li email accounts.
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I got locked out of a cockli account because I thought I'd be fancy by generating a new random password, complete with extended ASCII and all.
 
At a former employer I changed an AWS network ACL for the main production VPC. The entire data ingest system for an app with 100+ million installs went down for about 10 minutes while I tried to figure out what was going on. It couldn't believe such an innocuous change would blacklist all traffic but I had the weights wrong like a retard. Since I was in charge of operations, I successfully silenced everything so no one knew what I did. There was no data loss since the app waits to dump the data.

I was checking voltages on a solar setup and blew a few components. It took me way too long to discover my voltmeter positive lead was in the ammeter socket and I was shorting the entire thing. I blew a raspberry pi v1.
 
Trying to create a torrent file to send over a bunch of files to my friend directly. The torrent didn't seed properly, so I proceeded to delete the created torrent through the client while also instinctively pressing the checkmark to also delete the files. Luckily I had a backup, though a pretty outdated one. Lesson was learned.
 
I migrated to a new phone and lost all my WhatsApp message history. It didn't transfer from my old phone to my new one. I wasn't thinking and my new phone created a WhatsApp backup, and basically made it impossible to recover my messages. I restored my old phone, and that backup didn't include my WhatsApp messages (seriously WTF meta?).
 
I'll admit I'm a bit of a data hoarder, but I'm also always broke and can't afford backup drives period (also external drives are always more expensive than internal drives).
 
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