ITT Tech stories where you fuck up bigtime
>Be building a computer for my cousin
>Taking one of my old PSU's over to his house
>End up idly fiddling with it in the car, flipping the voltage switch back and forth
>When I get it hooked up in his rig mostly made with brand new parts it immediately fries the motherboard
>Cap pops off near the top of the mobo, flies down the hallway and hits my other cousin who was helping me in the head
I replaced the mobo, which was all that broke, but holy shit I will never feel okay about it.
>building a clients 1.5K gaming rig
>build catches fire under power button, fans start blowing smoke everywhere
>I actually sperg out and for one split second think about how cool it would be to incorporate a smoke machine into a build
>come to my senses and turn it the fuck off
>I had plugged power into an out on the fan controller, sending a surge down every line attached to the controller
>electrical tape the melted mass of cords and repair the fucked power button
>it's still working to this day
Haha holy fuck I thought I was gonna lose money on that one.
>>55554986
The moment you notice the smoke and smell is the worst part, that "oh fuck" feel.
>Be poor
>It's winter
>Laptop casing broke and the motherboard is open
>Press the power button
>Not really paying attention, finger touches the motherboard
>ZAP
>Now won't display anything on the screen
:/
>>55552794
>be 4 years old
>shove fork onto wall plug
>nothing happens
>shove it in deeper
>still nothing
>feel stronger and stronger
>magically grow up to be an adult with super muscles
>mfw i'm superman
>>55555132
oh fug
> Be my
> Write code to make server run better
> Type spaghetti
> Delete entire server
I got fired
>>55555208
And nothing of value was lost.
>Hey anon site3server2 has crashed again, can you reboot it?
>log into iLO and reboot site2server3
