Hi Jow Forums, post your stories of brainlets family, friends and co-workers who did dumb shit with their tech or were absolute crayon-munchers when it comes to using their computers. Here's mine:
>Be at the office writing some emails >Company we asked a service from compaining we haven't paid them >Ask lady owner of the business to see if we paid an invoice for them >They are normally full of shit anddon't keep their books in order >She says she will >Much time passes >They email again and I ask her a second time for the amount >She says she is still reading through the statements >confusion.jpg >Reading what statements, boss? >The online banking statements, user >I go into her office and ask if I can take a look >She is sat in front of her laptop bleary eyed >She has spent hours pouring over a pdf of the last month of transactions >Maybe a few dozen pages of transactions >Carefully scrolling through and using her finger on the screen to keep track >I reach over and snap her laptop up and she yelps >The fuck you doing user?! >Watch, boss >ctrl-f >type in the client name >It skips ahead by pages and highlights the only transaction >I show her what I just did >She pales >I have been spending the past 12 years runing this business, user >This is a task I do every day, user. Why do I not know this trick? >You're welcome, boss >Stride out with the info I need >Teacherspet.exe
>finish building first PC >shit wifi connection >fucking pissed I bought a mobo with internal wifi just to have shit connection >be super butthurt about it for like 30min trying to think of where I can put my desktop to get signal >realize I didn't connect the antennae that was fun
Dylan Cox
kek it happens to the best of us user
Nathaniel Harris
my gran actually prints out her email, not to read them, but to scan them in and send the attachment to people. can use the attachment feature but not the froward. fucking gran!
Mason Brooks
bump
Landon Davis
>be me, retarded >try to clean pc with air canister >its a fucking state >be aware of own retardation so be real certain not to move or disconnect anything >suffocate self with dustclouds for 30 minutes >eagerly plug machine back in >doesnt boot >begin to cry >call friend who is not retarded >hes calling me a fucking idiot >he comes over and pushes hard drive back into slot >calls me a fucking retard and leaves ive still never opened the pc again in over 5 years
Brandon Cruz
>have been building PCs for nearly a decade >My own PC has a problem, I order parts, they get here >Swap out old broken shit with shiny new parts, toss the side panel back on and go to turn on the PC >No boot, no lights, no beep, nothing >Start the montage of troubleshooting for nearly 2 hours >WTF, minor problem or not, the PC was JUST RUNNING >Getting ready to tear down the entire build and rebuild, looking for problems as I go like a fucking new builder >Notice I didn't plug the 24 pin back in, like not even a little, it was just hanging there.
did you really need to fucking greentext blog that fucking story, you could of made it a one liner. >elderly women helped by brown nosing zoomer to do her bookkeeping The fucking Captcha to this post was more compelling.
Thomas Fisher
>build first PC >three days later I get a bluescreen telling me my CPU shot up to like 140 degrees celsius >open up the tower >CPU is lying on the floor I-I didn't know you had to tighten the screews, I thought the cooling paste would be sticky enough
>Be me, 19 >First time building a PC >Set it all up nicely to make sure it posts before I put everything in the case like they do in youtube videos >Plug in monitor >Doesn't work, get some error code >retard me can't read numbers apparently so I thought it was something with the CPU pins being bent >Panic and text dad >Cry a lil before he arrives because I really thought I had this all figured out before I started >He plugs in a keyboard >It fucking works
Remember to read, kids.
Benjamin Lewis
you have to be fucking with me. Did you think the screws were there for decoration?
Wyatt Thomas
Wait you mean the CPU cooler was laying on the floor, right? Like you didn't put paste inbetween the socket and CPU, right?
Christian Rivera
Lmao nigga what, do you see that antenna on the roof? hahah nigga if that was a helicopter they wouldn't have put something on the roof for the rotors to yeet into nigga haha
Ryan Cox
Yeah I meant the cooler, I'm stupid but I'm not that stupid.
Cooper Price
It even says MI-24 you fucking spacktard
Charles Lopez
and yet, you entered the thread to come and talk in it, amazing.
kek, the paste isn't gorilla glue user.
Jayden Butler
>be me >Christian household >be that age >"porn is bad user" >ok >don't really care >based parking lot Asian sells me jav CDs >home early one day >fathers computer still on >father is a computer brainlet >look through it >see browsing history >lesbian porn >fucking sinner is my mom not enough >log in into router and change password >they don't even know this exists >block adult content option >block it >check back sometime at browsing history >motherfucker resorted to lewd pictures off image search, including anime >he saved some >make them into gifs >changes into Matthew's 5:27-30 quotes >father doesn't use computer anymore
>Be me >messing around with router to open port for my torrent client >suddenly my torrent client stopped connecting >thinking I might have fucked up something in my router >spend hours on the router webui try to find the problem >still couldn't figured out why >panic.jpg >decided to do a full reset on router >router now don't even have internet >use LTE to google and people said that I had to call ISP to receive the id and password for reconfiguring >use mom's cellphone to call ISP >ISP detect my mom's personal info and giving me the credential without asking me for any info >the credential didn't work >abandon all hopes and call ISP asking for in-home support >"We won't be able to come until next morning" >Mom and dad were extremely pissed because they need internet to work and ended up have to use mobile data >next morning support came and fix >it turned out that our internet was registered under my dad name, not my mom, so the credential support gave me yestetday was wrong hence it didn't work >internet started working again >my torrent client still could't establish connection >went and ask my friend >he then look into the client setting >"user, why are you enabling proxy and why the fuck did you set it 0.0.0.0?" >whattheactualfuck? >read the log, it literally said "can't connect to proxy 0.0.0.0", hightlighted in red, but somehow I overlooked it. >disable proxy >everything worked again
Wasted my entire weekend for this.
Josiah Lee
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Jordan Walker
And how did you end up here?
Colton Foster
Based user
John Nelson
Normie life was boring/anime. /gif/ and /wsg/ are pretty fun.
>>changes into Matthew's 5:27-30 quotes fucking savage user
kek, I have a story from the only time I ever did anything close to this in terms of timeframe: >I was a kid, maybe 14 >set up a new computer from scratch >built a new desk to go in the bay window of my room >When I got cold that night, I went to plug the electric heater in (old house with shit central heating) >found all my plugs were neatly organized now and taken thanks to new PC >Power strip sat near by so I thought I'd just unplug them all and put them in the strip and plug it back in >Proceed.exe >PC and monitor and keyboard and peripherals all lose power >Go to click it on again >Nothing >clik click clik >Drag step dad in and he is puzzled >I explain >He shakes his head in his hands >user, you gotta shut down the PC before you unplug it >Power_surge.gif >Had to wait for new hard drive (or maybe it was a motherboard) to arrive in teh post as it was fried >All set for a weekend of gaming and shit >Basically one little slip took up days of my time
