So /g/, what's your biggest technological regret?
switching to dvorak
buying a celeron 333 and 66MHz RAM instead of a 300A with 100MHz.
>>45815335
not running away from home to join the circus
Not having a qt azn gf
>>45815335
buying gaymes and gaymen gpus instead of learning math or biking instead.
Not buying a memepad sooner
>>45815335
installing gentoo
Investing in Bitcoin.
Buying Bitcoin mining hardware.
Using my GPUs to mine bitcoin.
Not investing in Bitcoin when they were mere cents
>>45815335
>be 12 or something
>family has a shared computer
>one account
>no one in my family is tech savvy including myself
>family is out a lot doing stuff
>one day decide to look up porn
>accidentally set it as homepage
>cant fix it
>turn computer off and go outside and ride my bike around the street
>family gets home
>play it real fucking cool
>no one touches the computer for the next few days
>feeling really nervous
>I'm ready to just fall to my knees and start crying
>mom gets on the computer
>she see's it
>questions me about it
>I... I dun... dunno what your ta... lking about
>she believes me (somehow)
>confronts father
>he denies it
>oh shit
>he asks me about it
>I... I dun... dunno what your ta... lking about
>He tries to fix it
>can't
>mom thinks its my dad
>they argue a lot and it always comes back to that porn
>they get divorced over it.
>mfw its still my dad homepage
>>45815469
Why? What went wrong? Or is it not worth shit?
>>45815524
Top kek
>>45815335
Telling a friend to try Google Chrome (I'm back to using seamonkey now).
>>45815524
all of my spaghetti-o's
>>45815496
This, so much..
>>45815527
I got into it way too late... Nowadays, you have to make a big, continual investment in the mining hardware. Hardware you buy today will be obsolete in a matter of 3 months.
Also, Bitcoin is currently worth $315, down from over $1000 a few months ago. I lost a lot of money investing in it... I'm close to giving up hope and selling it for a fraction of my investment.
>>45815524
Dang anon you really dodged a bullet there. Thank goodness your parents just got divorced and you didn't get in trouble
Back in primary school, borrowing a guys Electronic Dictionary and searching for Penis. The guy saw everything.
>>45815335
playstation 3 @ 600$ in 2007
made a great ps2.
Not making some money off of jailbreaking phones and stuff like that.
>Buying my fucking gf badass computer parts thinking that If I spend oodles of fucking money for her to have a good computer
> Then maybe I can pull her from her ideas of medical shit to IT stuff.
> Buy her i7 4600k, buy her 760GTX 4Gb.
> She's fucking playing DOTA2. Nothing else.
> mfw She tells me that i shouldve known that she only plays one or two games.
>Also mfw i have a fucking 7870, and I couldve used that shit.
installing linux
Spending my entire highschool career on MMOs
More regretful than a personal regret, but I feel that both chrome and firefox are sinking and I try to jump ship between the two and their flavors but it hasn't been fun, nor successful. My results just seem to grow worse over time
continuing to browse 4chan after i first found out about it
>>45815791
I use to regret it, but with out this shitty place I would have never learned anything.
Buying a FX 5700 LE
The worst Nvidia chip ever release + GDDR replaced with much slower regular DDR1. The RAM couldn't even feed what was already a slow chip fast enough to have it go at full speed.
It was pathetic all around.
>>45815834
... you learned something from here?
>>45815335
Building my gayman rig without knowing anything and right before prices went down.
>>45815911
I think there's a lot that 4chan teaches people that they don't truly realize until later on.
The people that stay here longer than "RULES ONE AND TWO" slowly see that.
Personally, I kind of hate that I spend so much time on here these days, but can't deny it hasn't helped stay informed on a variety of subjects.
>>45815335
not making railgun in elementary school and shooting my teacher with it.
This:
>>45815791
but this:
>>45815834
I have truly learned a lot in my time on 4chan.
But still I would probably have been better off without you guys... nah, I was fucked up since middle school because a fat friend I got there got me into pokemon and emulators... Those 2 things really fucked my life up.
But 4chan was the final nail in the koffing.
not dual booting fedora 14 sooner
>>45815682
Let her play Casualrim and install some graphics mods, so it won't be a total waste.
>>45815335
Purchasing a Nook HD+ and purchasing an eeePC (netbook by asus)
Hmm let's see. What else...
Oh yeah buying a mechanical keyboard with an attached cable rather than a detachable one. NEVER AGAIN!
Didn't join bitcoin.
It is like 15 dollar per coin the time I first knew the coin.
I wish I have put all my money on bitcoin.
>>45815496
This.
Also, not ditching Windows and Mac OS many, many years earlier.
not knowing the shit i know now 10 years ago, my life would of improved drastically
>>45815335
Getting this shitty Bose Bluetooth headset
fucking fuck
I can use them for gaming on pretty much anything, but still, fuck
>>45815335
2 things
>buying HDMI cable from Best Buy
>buying a logitech review (Google TV)
>>45815335
ever buying a smartphone.
I feel like this fucking device controlls my life but I'm too hooked up to bring myself to get rid of it.
I get constant messages or notifications and it just won't leave me alone for 10 minutes.
One day I'll smash it on a wall
Buying anything "gaming", except maybe a mouse.
In all other cases it seems like the non-gaymen alternative is better. Most other mice seem to be wireless laptop toys, though.
Throwing away my old trackball instead of trying to fix it. No modern device can compare to that level of comfort.
>>45815335
Thinking my computer and a lot of the documentation I had around was outdated or useless.
I had this huge thick MySQL manual that was printed in 1996 or 97 and I thought it was outdated in 2001 so I didn't bother reading much of it. Similar opportunities presented themselves over the next few years (got a C book at one point).
The truth is I could have done a lot of shit with the IBM 386 system we had when I was 14, even in 1998
>>45817130
tell me more about track ball, will it fix the pain in my hand from clicking too much? I mean my fucking carpal tunel
>>45817154
by itself, no. But it might help.
Most finger operated trackballs have the left button clicked by thumb, so your hand moves in entirely different way than when using a mouse. It might help relieve your problems, at least for a while.
You might also try using a drawing tablet to controll your computer, or just buy a trackpad.
I fid for my RSI it's the best to have several devices and just change them every few hours, so I have a normal mouse, vertical mouse, finger trackball, thumb trackball and a trackpad. Whenever my hand starts to hurt, I change the pointing device.
>>45817185
hey I almost forgot I am actually using a drawing tablet right now, gee I'm embarrassed. And it has significantly reduce the strain.
getting this thing. cant even claw grip properly, i have a average sized hand
>>45815834
This. The biggest thing 4chan has taught me is no one gives a fuck about you or your opinions 99% of the time.
Too many to list but recently, Corsair M65 mice.
They have an annoying bug where at random intervals a single left click registers as a double click. Seems to be a know hardware fault and the only "fix" is to RMA. I'm on my 3rd.
>>45817203
Yeah, drawing tablet works great, but I find trackball more precise for fast movements. Unfortunately, they stopped making ergonomic trackballs a few years ago and only make ambidexterous designs now. The market is just too small. If you want something that'll help with hand pains, try to find this. It costs hundreds of dollars online, but you might fid it in a thrift store or other similar places - I already bought 2, each one for less than $10.
While perfonally I prefer the shape of Logitech Trackman FX, the general consensus is that Trackball Explorer is the most comfortable trackball. (and it was certainly easier to get used to, as trackman fx has Y axis at a slight angle)
Buying a 8350 for my gaming machine
buying a 550 Ti instead of a 650 Ti boost 2 years ago today...
I didn't know PCIE was forward/backward compatible
it would saved me shit ton off hassle and stress with the used 270X (4gb of vram is nice tho)
>Not getting an IT job immediately after taking a High School class for it
I just don't know how
i bought a dell inspiron laptop with a gen 1 i5 for gaymen.
>>45817051
Captain fucking obvious
>>45815335
Getting the rfid inserted in my arm.
>>45817560
why the fuck?
i mean shilling for cash is one thing
but surrendering to big brother like this?
>>45815335
Buying a Maverick Audio TubeMagic D1 DAC.
I don't even use the tube output, since all it does is distort the signal.
Waste of money. Wish I'd gotten an ODAC.
>>45817524
i bought a dell inspiron laptop with a gen 1 i5 for internet browsing and schoolwork
buying a razer mouse
Coming to this site everyday for over half a decade.
nexus 4
nexus 5
>>45817712
idk about you but 4chan has made my life better. I learned about so much shit most people just think i'm like a post-hipster
>>45817820
Well, you are since hipsters was the name for the beatniks 60 years ago.
I bought a Lenovo Ideapad.
getting internet and smartphone
Had a close call recently:
>looking at nexus 6 on google play store
>about to order
>double check specs
>realise it has a non-removable battery
And thats when my thought of owning one went directly into the trash.
>>45815682
Switch that shit out, she won't know.
>>45818570
Not sure why anyone can stand a idea of a non-removable battery in a phone. In a laptop it's acceptable but not a phone.
>>45818682
Say what? I think its acceptable in a phone, but not in a laptop.
>>45815524
If all it took was a porn bookmark to break up a marriage then they couldn't have been very happy.
Not learning programming before 15
I am 22 now and trying to learn, even if i have done a few minor shit my old brain finds hard to learn more skilled stuff
I bough HP notebook once
Going with a GTX over a 6870(would have gotten a lot more dogecoins)
Buying a 4670+Z87 mobo with my dogecoin monies
>>45819317
GTX 560*
4670k*
Not learning to program despite my father buying me any book I wanted. Php, Visual Basic, c, html, everything, I just never stuck with it and fapped and played video games, later found weed and acid and music and just fucked around
All he wanted was for me to study math and programming cause he knew how the future was going to pan out And he wanted me to be part of the upper class making a lot of money and not a pleb like him
Guess it's all a bit of a joke to me now I'm 25 but I see his point
Still remember him yelling at me saying "just don't come running to me when you have no options and are working a shitty job and have hardly any money"
15 year old me laughed at him but now I just feel like a complete failure
I still am shit at programming and math and I hate my job, my life, my gf and my lack of money to do anything.
>>45819064
Do you carry around a spare laptop battery? I carry around a spare phone battery and I've used it in many occasions.
Not going in to robotics so that I can invent Robotfus.
The abandonment of perfect display technologies in favour of the shitty collection of compromises that we have today.
>>45819471
>he genuinely thinks CRT and plasma were perfect
>>45815786
>tfw web developer and all browsers are shit
>>45816965
>koffing
>mfw
Buying anything from apple or hp.
>>45819590
>>45819485
>Implying CRT wasn't
>>45815682
Here's what you do:
>tell gf you're going to switch out the gfx cards because she only plays dota 2 anyway
>swap them
>so some gaymen on new gfx card
>>45815496
THIS, definitely.
Asked my mom to do it at that time :'(
>>45815697
Bite
Giving away my computer like a dumb cunt. Bob, if you see this, fuck you and your mother.
>>45815560
how much did you invest? Bitcoin is just beginning so I'd suggest just hanging in there for a few more years
>>45819590
>Buying anything from apple or hp
Funnily enough both companies produce one fantastic product; the mac Mini (pre soldered on RAM obviously) and the Proliant Microserver.
>>45819801
1000 dollars for a tablet without a calculator app
1000 dollars for a notebook that lasted a years and the HDD fucked up making me lose all my work and personal life data
They're both shit.
>>45815560
You only lose when you sell.
+ You knew the risk that it could be banned and go to 0 when you invested.
>>45819876
>one fantastic product each
>don't talk about that product
>this is a refutation
Try that again. Each company produces ONE product that is really good. Neither of those products are a tablet or a notebook.
>>45819928
>company produces 1 good product in the middle of over 6.000.000 shittly overpriced products that they release to the public every year
>b-but muh good product!!!
They're shit companies.
>>45819737
I seriously regret giving away a couple of old systems. I'd like to have them around to tinker with.
>>45819298
Same shituation here, but I made my first android app in 2 hours knowing just basics of java and modifying code, and 2 weeks later I started understanding shit much better. I jumped on learning curve, I guess
>>45815911
/g/ got me to use GNU/Linux, and taught me the importance of free software.
not buying a bunch of high end crts in 2007 when everybody was getting rid of them for chump change
>>45815524
>mfw its still my dad homepage
I regret not doing a cs degree.
>>45820142
> yfw it was a scat site.
Nexus 4 but at least I got it when it was on clearance for 100€ less. I have to do black magic to make it through a whole day and screen on barely reaches a couple of hours on the best days. Really tempted to go for a Z3C, if it wasn't because the Moto Maxx (or whatever it's called outside of Verizon) might get released worldwide sooner or later.
>>45819407
what do you expect? if i grew up in an environment like that, I would hate programming as well.
>>45819407
This part is similar to how my family is:
>my father buying me any book I wanted
This part is the opposite:
>All he wanted was for me to study math and programming cause he knew how the future was going to pan out And he wanted me to be part of the upper class making a lot of money and not a pleb like him
My dad has been one of those parents who doesn't want their kid to grow up. So I'm one of those people where 25 was still just like 15, and it was completely beyond my control.
This part is dissimilar:
>Not learning to program
>shit at programming and math
>job
I partially learned to program, and enjoyed programming, but I had a nervous breakdown over not being allowed, by the adults in my life, to grow up.
>>45820382
Seems like it. Nobody enjoys anything if they feel pressured.
>>45815335
Going insane. Becoming a programmer version of a mad scientist.
Getting an iphone
This thing is somewhere between useless and does nothing
Waiting so long before getting an iphone.
