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

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Gatdam Animal Person said:
Jeez, can you readily buy replacement fans for this kind of laptop? No need to forwanwan your hardware but if you can easily fix it, why not do it?
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I did try to fix it, i broke the port. I did not have any soldering tools with me back then (i was broke, the main reason why he even commissioned me)

it's all good now though, he's dead. Bro off'd himself, miss him sometimes. He wouldve love kiwifarms
 
More of a mishap rather than fuck up, but in my first time of assembling the very first PC, I managed to put CPU fan cord into case fan slot. They are identical, but it took quite a while to figure out why my PC doesn't boot up without that annoying pop-up after I press the button
 
I once had issues with steam early on in my process of learning linux, my solution was to rm -rf *mesa* for some moronic reason lost to time, and suffice it to say, I learned a valuable lesson
 
Not that exciting of a story but some time ago I was repairing an Eden guitar amplifier which had few blown mosfets. I thought to myself "Oh thats an easy repair, needs a few hours of work" yeah I know I shouldn't say that.
So after sourcing the schematic from the manufacturer I replaced all blown components, glass fuse and one shorted capacitor. After checking everything, nothing is shorting anymore and all traces have been repaired. "So, the moment of truth, will the amplifier work? Well ofcourse it's going to work" I said while recording my repair attempt. So, I've powered the amp up, and I hear the transformer humming, but the power LED on the EQ board isn't lighting up. That's odd. Lemme turn it off and on again. BANG! The new transistors now have a new inspection hole the size of BB ball. Well shit.. This is not going to be an easy repair after all.
 
I have so many fuck-ups it's unreal, but my crowning achievement of tech fuck-upery was that I buffer overflowed an Internet gateway because I realized it was running a vulnerable OS and I was bored and wanted to see what would happen. Everyone lost Internet for a few minutes but then it came back. I don't know if it rebooted or it failed over, but there were probably hundreds of people using it at the time.
Shouldn't have been running an out of date OS, but I don't get to pretend to be in the right in that situation. Wound up landing me a job, though, so all's well that ends well?
 
Agent Snigger said:
I once had issues with steam early on in my process of learning linux, my solution was to rm -rf *mesa* for some moronic reason lost to time, and suffice it to say, I learned a valuable lesson
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I don't know anything about Linux. What did that do?
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
I don't know anything about Linux. What did that do?
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It deleted most if not all of the graphics stack on my 'puter, and the way I did the deletion made it nearly impossible for apt to rectify it.
Ended up just re-installing, but I learned not to do that nigga shit, as well as the importance of having my data and documents on a separate partition or drive, as it makes a clean install far less tedious
 
I once tinkered with a laptop. For some reason they used always the same screws, just different lengths. I then proceeded to accidentally screw through the chassis when closing up the Laptop again.
 
Agent Snigger said:
It deleted most if not all of the graphics stack on my 'puter, and the way I did the deletion made it nearly impossible for apt to rectify it.
Ended up just re-installing, but I learned not to do that nigga shit, as well as the importance of having my data and documents on a separate partition or drive, as it makes a clean install far less tedious
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Oh yeah, backups are very important. I have an old HDD that I only connect about once a month to back up all my important files (pictures and videos I made, documents etc.). I wonder how many people I personally know bother to do that.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Oh yeah, backups are very important. I have an old HDD that I only connect about once a month to back up all my important files (pictures and videos I made, documents etc.). I wonder how many people I personally know bother to do that.
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I don't even mean backups necessarily, though they're lifesavers, I more mean that by having your data separated from your installation, worst comes to worst, you pop in a live CD and can just glass the installation without losing data. Most annoying part of it is setting up fstab again, but it's not bad
 
I had a PowerMac 7100 given to me by my brother when I was way too broke to buy a computer for myself.

A SCSI cable had a connector fall off and go under the motherboard when I was replacing a hard drive and I thiught it was just the plastic bits, so I gave up on fishing it out.

Turns out it wasn't just plastic, and when the table the Mac was on got bumped a few moths later, there went the Mac. Fried the motherboard.
 
After waiting for 8 years to get a faster Internet connection, I just got fiber this week. The first thing I did after the technicians left was coil the cables, which damaged them and I lost connection. Nobody told me how fragile those things are, goddamn it!
 
Where I live we have 220v. I bought a 110v rice cooker on a trip abroad and was wondering why it kept smelling like the food was burning, but the food itself was always fine. Then one day the thing wouldn't turn on anymore.

I eventually realized what happened and changed the fuse in it (that obviously had melted/died), and now I use the cooker plugged into a converter. What a world!
 
Replaced the backlight of a 32" 4K LCD panel, then broke the whole panel by pushing too hard against an edge during reassembly. 🤦‍♂️
 
Linksys WRT said:
I have so many fuck-ups it's unreal, but my crowning achievement of tech fuck-upery was that I buffer overflowed an Internet gateway because I realized it was running a vulnerable OS and I was bored and wanted to see what would happen. Everyone lost Internet for a few minutes but then it came back.
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Somewhat similar, I once accidentally released my own DHCP server (running in a VM) into the company network and got several clients connect to it. No big deal, and the admin didn't seem to have noticed.
 
When I was repasting my Xbox 360's APU, I fucked up reinstalling the ribbon cable for the power button on the front of the console. The ribbon cable was ruined so my console would randomly turn on and off until I harvested one from another 360 and installed it in mine. At least I can play Saints Row in peace now.
 
Back when Morrowind was the hottest game on the PC and SLI was just getting popular, one of the salesmen at my favorite local parts shop sold me on two new NVIDIA cards, and the concept of hooking them up together. Yay, cool. It worked great for a few days but every once in a while it'd BSOD or glitch the fuck out, even during low-load tasks like, well, not playing Morrowind. By the time I could properly troubleshoot it I was just dicking around on the web when

BLAM-BLA-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM

A fucking Roman Candle goes off under my desk.

Turns out, when you buy two new top of the line GPU's, you might wanna upgrade your PSU to run them.
 
Minor but embarrassing fuck-up: for a few years I saw the weird Chinese characters in the bobthefish theme's Git prompt for oh-my-fish as some sort of weeb shit I didn't understand and never thought about it much. Then I found out what nerd fonts are.
 
fucking around with an old PC, i had an old SATA HDD hooked up to it to see if it was still working, since this was an older PC it only had molex so i had a molex to SATA power adapter connected to it. i had my ear right next to the drive to listen if it was actually spinning up
turn on the 'puter, audible POP
'huh that's weird"
smoke coming from the HDD, one of the wires on the molex to SATA adapter glows bright orange then incinerates itself
quick shut off the pc, rip the cable out and throw it onto the metal bottom of the tower away from the carpet and cheap chinese wood desk
wait for adrenaline to stop pumping for about 20 minutes then try a different adapter
the hdd still works btw
 
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