Tech Fuck Ups
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All these crypto locker threads got me thinking about times dumb tech mistakes I've made. What major tech fuck ups have you caused and what did you learn from them?
>My fuck up
One time I rooted my wife's tablet and installed a third-party keyboard then deleted the stock keyboard. 2 weeks later the tablet froze and I had to factory reset it and lost the goddamn keyboard.
>What I learned?
Holy shit why didn't I make a backup
ripped a usb drive out without ejecting
completely fucked it over
>>51651424
>women
>niggers
/thread
>Root Galaxy S2
>device inpoerable
>spend hours researching repeating steps, know I'm doing EVERYTHING right
>finally realize I'm using a rom meant for the international variant, not the US model
Read the ENTIRE file name, kids.
I purchased an antivirus once
[spoiler]never again[/spoiler]
>>51652377
Why the fuck don't all boards have spoilers. Now I feel embarrassed.
>live in Yurop
>had a power supply with voltage switch
>plugged it into the 230 V mains with it on the 110 V setting
It's dead, Jim.
>>51651424
>females working as computer repair technicians
>tried dual booting Linux Mint on Sony VAIO laptop
>secondary VAIO UEFI on top of the Windows 8.1 UEFI
>fucked up, wiped hard drive
>got clean no bloatware windows 8 image
>gonna dual boot again with no VAIO UEFI
Also, I have no clue how to enter BIOS now, it's still in legacy mode and boot priority is external drive then internal drive, so I have no reason to change it but I would like to know how to access it.
can't use my PC at the moment because I tried to escape Win 10
>get tired of Win 10 sucking
>install linux Mint
>internet won't work
>try to install first lubuntu and then os X after that
>fail at both but mint still there tho
>have a eureka moment and internet works
>next up try to fix GPU drivers to play some games
>install new drivers (I think)
>now can't even load the OS
>can't do safe mode
>fail at making new bootable USB as I did in the first place
right now I cant be fucked to try to fix it
I'll just leave it like this a week or two until I can summon a fuck to give
One time in a really old version of Ubuntu I deleted the Recycle Bin and some recursion shit happened and I ended up with a file path that was just recycle bin/recycle bin/recycle bin/recycle bin for like hundreds of levels deep
It wasn't really a fuckup but it was the first time I had to use rm -rf to fix something
Back with my Galaxy S1, I formatted the internal memory to... A couple mbs.
Thankfully that was a recoverable issue.
I'm pretty sure I've done plenty of fuck ups I currently don't remember.
>>51652374
Literally same my family. Did it with the Atrix 2, the S2s only competition
Encrypted sd card with a bunch of photos on an old Droid X2. When I traded in the X2 I pulled the sd card and put it in the new phone without decrypting it.
>mfw lost all the photos from my sons first year
>friend gave me a computer that doesn't work
>i'ts just that the bios can't find the windows partition for wathever reason
>did something i don't remember
>MBR CRITICAL ERROR
>try multiple tools to repair it, nothing work
fuck
"Sorry gurl, the hard disk crashed, nothing to save, I had to format and reinstall"
>What i learned
the MBR
>be 12
>had this gaming box for a few months now
>starts overheating bad because I lived in an absolute dump and is full of dust
>dumb me decides the fps drops are cause by software
>try to update bios using the GUI tool that came with mobo
>BSOD at 99% completion
>mobo dead
should have just cleaned it. never done anything so borderline retarded again.
>>51651424
Why does this stock photo exist? What context could it possibly fix into?
>>51652432
>be 12
>wonder what that weird little hard to flip switch on the back does
>flip it
>pc makes a popping sound and dies
>realized I fucked up bad
>wasn't my pc, don't tell anyone about it ever.
got away with murder there
>>51651424
Back in 2007 I bought a second 7800GTX for Crysis. Had a 550W LC-Power PSU... Played for about an hour until the fucker literally exploded. Took the mainboard with him but the rest worked fine afterwards.
export DESTDIR=/mnt
...
sudo make installworld
>>51652457
>Fucking up mint
>doesnt work out of box ergo using 20 year old chinese toaster
i grew up poor, got free computers from my mom's boyfriend since he worked in a surplus computer/recycling center. i had my own computer but it was a Pentium II when everyone was already upgrading to Pentium 4's. i went to a LAN party with a bunch of friends but didn't have much to do because no good computer of my own to play games. a good buddy had just upgraded his entire computer so he gave me his old one minus the hard drive and some expansion cards. so i'm hooking up my own hard drive and everything, getting it ready to go. somehow i shorted out the cpu fan cable. as soon as i turn it on i hear a pop, foof, and then the magic blue smoke came out. honestly i was a dumb emotional teen and started getting super pissed at myself. free computer literally went up in smoke.
>>51656432
You must live in Europe, here it just runs everything at half voltage. The machine doesn't run but the fans spin.
>crypt all my important files, like diares, some db, work, projects, albums, all photos
>no space on disk
>fuck it
>make mirror
>set password on ranom 120 bit a es
>Make a keypass archive on usb, archive get's corrupted and there is nothing i can't to. L
iteraly i lost all my fucking files, and last backup is from 1 years and covers nothing.
When I was young I wanted to play some computer game (can't remember what exactly it was) but my Graphics Card couldn't handle it so I got my parents to take me to a local electronics shop where I bought an ATI 3D Rage II card that fit an AGP slot for like $70 or something (a lot of money to a kid like me back then, I paid for it from my lawn mowing money). When I got home I found out that my HP pre-built desktop's MOBO didn't have an AGP slot... it only had pci slots.... A certain revision of that MOBO had an AGP slot and I could see where my board was designed with an AGP slot in mind as there was a blank space on the PCB with a bunch of leads that terminated into nothing and some little holes where the port would've been secured to the board. I ended up having to get my parents to take me back to return the card and exchange it for a card that fit a PCI slot. My parents weren't happy that I had made such a stupid mistake and lectured me for quite a while about making purchases without doing an adequate amount of research beforehand... I think I was only like 11 or 12 at the time but that was my first "tech fuckup"
>my fuck up
Basically i took apart a computer it put it in a cardboard box, it was a beer box so i called it "beerputer", i took off the heatsink and put it back on after putting it in the box, and forgot to apply new thermal paste
long story short, it caught on fire, this was well before computers shut themselves off before overheating
>what i learned
apply thermal paste, elmers glue, cum on the fucker, something to not have your computer burst into flames in your bedroom
>>51657679
Was this in 1980? Like, PCs shut off from overheating since pretty much forever ago.
Also, it probably wouldn't have burst into flames because of lack of thermal paste... you probably shorted something and it sparked and caught the box on fire... :/
>my fuck up
When I was 12, was trying to pirate software, forgot to verify checksum, ended up with 'fake alert' antivirus software. Decided 'fuck it' and backed up porn pics and then reloaded the OS.
>what I learned
Don't f*cking pirate bullshit software, and test in a VM first.
>>51657876
Alternatively...
>none of that ever happened in the first place
Probably just some kid trying to act like an oldfag and coolguy beer drinker.
>>51657919
Fair enough...
Biggest fuck up was accidentally installing a motherboard without putting in the spacers
>you can guess what happened
>>51658022
The short failsafe kicked in and nothing happened?
That's what usually happened. Girl who liked me just after I got out of high school was trying to build her own PC...
>Anon, help, it won't boot up, I followed the tutorial online though!
>Ummm... there're no standoffs here...
>Standoffs?
>Yeah, the little metal things that came with the case?
>Oh... I didn't put them in there.
Man... software testers are... not good at building PCs.
>>51658022
How is that even possible? Do the MOBO screws fit the holes on the case or something? I find it hard to believe that the component manufacturers would be so shortsighted as to make the MOBO screws have the same thread size/pitch as the male threads on the MOBO standoffs.
>>51658087
>software testers are... not good at building PCs.
Most of them are fucking stupid.
And I say that as a software tester.
Like holy shit my replacement is a fucking blank slate. Dude couldn't even figure out how to hook up his own workstation.
>>51658096
Probably kept going and ended up retapping the mounting holes, the metal is pretty soft in cases.
>>51658087
Don't generalize, these are people who just get into the trade for money. People who actually care about this stuff would be well versed in hardware and software.
>>51658134
>People who actually care about this stuff would be well versed in hardware and software.
Spotted the student
>>51652396
It happens a lot here, to the point that people would have assumed it was intentional if you hadn't mentioned that it wasn't.
> boss says you have to send now now now, anon
> boss says fuck with the sender while sending, anon
Sent blank emails with no subject lines to +10k of our client's subscribers.
Whoops. Should have left it alone.
>>51658104
lol
>>51658134
I said it as a generalization, but that doesn't mean it's universally true.
From other thread:
>>51658085
>>51657876
>PCs shut off from overheating since pretty much forever ago.
Pentium 4 added an on-die temp sensor. Pentium 3 would shut off if it got too hot. This would work in the case of an insufficient or clogged heatsink, but since the sensor wasn't on the die, if the heatsink was removed or installed with really bad thermal conductivity (like if you forgot the paste), the CPU would fry before the heat got to the sensor.
This was a problem sometimes since the way the heatsink bracket was designed, in rare cases the heatsink would fall off.
AMD temp sensors were slow to respond like this well into the P4 era. So, it's not necessarily as ancient as you think.
>>51658384
True, there were a lot of not so good heat sensors... but never saw one burst into flame really. Though catching other flammable material is pretty believable.
One of my favourites
>Working in tech shop
>Pick up a cooler from a system that was written off due to surge fucking everything
>Planned to use for overheating media centre
>The same day I had to start antipsychotics (seroquel)
>Was told to take at night
>Get home and take pills
>Sit down with a drink
>15 minutes later high as shit
>Decide to use cooler for gaming system to replace stock Intel cooler
>Everything seemed to go well
>No POST
>Whatever, I'll deal with it in the morning, pills make me tired as fuck
>Wake up
>Everything is normal
>Inspect motherboard
>Clearly visible damage around socket
>OhShitNigga.jpg
>Motherboard is out of warranty by a week so no warranty scans for Gigabyte
>M8 gives me old board because I did a lot of work for him
>Take CPU out
>Fucking thermal paste under CPU
>Shit was cash
>Set up my last build in 2011
>Turn it on, it starts flashing the LEDs on and off without starting the computer
>Oh holy shit
>Look up the hex code on the motherboard for the half second it shows up
>All signs point to motherboard being DOA
>Get ready to remove motherboard
>The goddamn CPU power cable is unplugged
>Unplugged it while fitting the heatsink
I felt like an absolute moron
>>51656346
IDK, maybe secure disposal of private data?
>>51653868
Open windows cd - command line - fix mbr
:^)
>>51656699
Proof nvidia causes house fires
