Tech support consists of many things; it's a range of services companies provide to their customers for products such as software, mobile phones, printers, and other electronic, mechanical, or electromechanical products. But I think that its biggest component is frustration; the soul-crushing feeling every IT person feels when they witness or, God forbid, have to clean up after our stupidity. I'm talking about desecrated HDMI ports, spaghetti cabling, laptops covered in concrete... or as the subreddit r/TechSupportGore calls it—content. This online community collects pics that will make us "cringe to the brink of passing out" and if it gets a point across it's this: technical support services usually provide users with help in solving some common problems rather than providing training on how to use the product. We haven't really learned after Bored Panda's earlier articles on the subreddit here and here. The fails look just as bad!
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Look How They Murdered My Boy
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The Computer Keeps Overheating
Mate, if your rig overheats from that, you need a better case. Preferably one with better airflow than a submarine...
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To be fair to the owner and the cat, PCs have a history of wasting energy and therefore being demanding of ridiculous efforts to cool them (and also being loud as a result). If you NEED a high-performance power-user machine, you probably already have a cat-free workspace or know to discourage the cat.
WELL that does sound logical.HOWEVER if that were true why would this cat be on the equipment?! How did he/she able to get on
Load More Replies...My cat does the same. Two of my six fans direct the heat inside upward and outward... But she loves stretching over it. And my power button is a flat button on top too. She's stepped on it several times, powering the PC off. And looking smug throughout. :')
Yea, The Printer Will Not Print If You Leave The Plastic Packaging On The Paper!
Yeah, someone's brain isn't working either
Load More Replies...After all these years, the level of naive laziness in all these people who faithfully believe in "the machine which is gonna work it all out automatically" still fascinates me.
"Put the paper inside the compartment." Guess they forgot to mention removing the packaging.
How can people be so stupid???? If you don't know, just ask, for God's sake.
I’ve seen this before. It’s... weird. What part of our culture tells someone that they don’t need to remove the consumable from the packaging first? Did they remove an empty package from the printer before putting this one in there? It sure looks like critical thinking failure, not a lack of specialized knowledge.
When Bored Panda contacted Coffeechipmunk for an earlier interview, the moderator of the subreddit said that the most popular posts in the community are usually the ones that show a device a moment away from exploding.
“It’s both dangerous and cool,” they explained. “They probably get so big because people post the pics and you think, 'Wow, that's just a bomb at that point.'"
"A lot of the content on the subreddit does rather well, except for people coming for actual tech support, they get redirected to the right subreddit. For actual tech support gore, though, it seems like broken screens and slightly messy wires are the current posts that don't hit too hard," Coffeechipmunk explained.
First It Made Burning Smells, Then It Beeped, Then It Died. Colourful Ants!
... and that is why it is called a "BUG" when the computer does not work as intended. Back in the good ol' days, the computers would frequently not funcion propperly due to a fried bug creating a short circuit in the electronics. So "bug" became slang for something in the computer not working as intended. Nowadays most problems arise due to faulty software, caused by the programmer making a blunder, but the terms bug and debugging has stuck and has now gotten the meaning of software not running as intended orfixing problems with software (often after it has been released) respectably.
Not sure they enjoyed their dressup either.
Load More Replies...Sometimes if ants appear out without me knowing and it starts crawling on me, don’t worry if you here gunshots by my house.
Ugh, awful. We get ants that are attracted to electronics where I live. It's the worst. I once had them take over a clock radio. (I mean, it did force me to update to the 21st century, so it wasn't all bad.) Still, those ants are freaky.
This ones is for the old people like me. What did the Pink Panther say after stepping on the black ant? Dead ant..Dead ant... dead ant dead ant dead ant
Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?
Nah, you gotta find the abyss code and that is locked up in a melted memory core.
Load More Replies...Same! It would be so satisfying.. or perhaps they just gave up in the first place? I would, ngl.
Load More Replies...Worse is when it looks like that -- but every wire is the same color.
Load More Replies...Ps5 In For Hdmi Replacement. Kid Said “I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard”
A PS5!! Already damaged to that degree?!?! I know a kid who needs to restart the journey into learning how to respect and take care of things that are important to you. Starting with not fixing or replacing everything treated carelessly and thus damaged beyond use. Then again, that kind of damage points to a LOT LOT LOT of use, a LOT LOT LOT of screentime. Likely the kid isn't taught much by his caregivers. That would require time away from gaming.
If you raise a child to one day punch you in the nose I'd say you did one thing right.
Load More Replies...The moderator believes the reason why r/techsupportgore got so popular a simple one: "Honestly... it's very fun," Coffeechipmunk said.
"In a time where most of the internet can be incredibly serious and most times saddening or angering, r/techsupportgore is fun because you go on it and you can laugh (and/or cringe) at the crazy posts. Where else can you see a post like, 'Wow, these cables really are messy' [or] 'A lizard fried my motherboard' back to back? I love our growing community. They're a bunch of people that just enjoy tech and to some extent, the worst of it."
Unironically Canadian It Gore
Ever seen one of these up close? They are huge.
Load More Replies...I see your beaver and I raise a (maybe) shark: https://www.theregister.com/2016/05/19/algeria_suffers_net_blackout/
Everyone needs to look up Cybersquirles.com It's a real site that tells you how many outages have been cause by wildlife. Most people don't know but the biggest threat to internet infrastructure isn't terrorism, it's animals like squires.
Yes, That's Concrete
Did you trying turning off and turning on again? Yes but the power button is stuck. Not the laptop, yourself..
Load More Replies...I thought vomit.... maybe vomit after eating pancake batter?
Load More Replies...Yup my thinkpad has been through worse and still working.
Load More Replies...I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy
Philippines, Nepal, India and the list goes on :)
Load More Replies...And in other news, due to an electrical malfunction, an entire block has been engulfed in flames in...
That Is An Ant Inside The Screen!!!
Lololol I would've clicked on it for a few hours probably before I realized it was an ant. "This virus is so realistic."
I had a similar situation with a spider. Gave to support for repair, got back the laptop along with a squashed spider. Needless to say, they removed it for free.
Grossest Controller Of The Year Goes To
A road paver trying to kill time between passes with the asphalt machine.
Load More Replies...Ewwww, no no no! As a Wii U owner, I am disgusted by this photo!
My guess: Just had it lying on a table in a student apartment where it was used as a coaster and casually as an ashtry. Since nobody used it, nobody cleaned it. The thumbsticks are probably just broken from putting things onto them.
Load More Replies...Just Had A Laptop Returned That Has A Used Bandaid As A Webcam Cover
I've had this a few times at work. Laptops should have a built in camera cover. A lot do but a lot don't
I've always wondered why they don't have a simple manual plastic slide over cover. Easy, protects lens, you could program the camera app to remind you to open lens cover, and no creepy spying through your cam! It was easier when phones only had a camera on one side, you could lay that side face down
Load More Replies...Yes, so that it would be harder to see through
Load More Replies...My mom just used a post-it note to cover her camera
It's only been "used" to cover the camera, for the well known privacy issue of putting it there in the first place, it's not like it's been pulled off a wound and stuck there covered in blood!
do people know that camera covers exist and they're like $5 for a pack of 3?
Well, now I've read this I do 🤦♀️ I shall investigate where to get some, thanks :)
Load More Replies...There's a lot to be said about "intrusive hardware". . . put a band aide on it, all better!
Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press
Hot Glue Gun Ad On Facebook. Just Why
so this was probably an English to another language and back again kind of error. Thermal paste could easily mistranslate to "hot glue"
I remember a PC company that used to glue their memory, processors and cards onto the motherboard.
Theft prevention? In my former job there was somebody who was stealing ram memories.
Load More Replies...Forbidden Caprisun
My mom had that happen once. Combination of old battery and the phone being plugged in for too long (two or three days) I think.
Load More Replies...How did they let it come to that? They don't swell like that overnight. As soon as I saw the housing of my work laptop begin to curve along the hand rest, I took it to IT because I knew it would get worse and that it's not safe.
Do NOT leave your phones on a charger at all times. Yes 100% batters is great. An exploding battery is not. Even if this is like common knowledge, people still do this. (and some of us are just unlucky)
I got that it is a battery from an earlier post, but what is this capri sun reference?
A capri sun is a kids drink in the US that looks like a silvery bag similar to the battery.
Load More Replies...Another explosive Lithium Ion battery. Can we not figure out a better technology to replace these things? I seem to remember reading that one has been invented but isn’t getting very far for various reasons (miniaturization isn’t going fast). I like Raphtaila’s comment 😄
Last I checked, several companies are working on solid-state lithium-ion batteries that don't have the flammable electrolyte. No word on how long it might be before it's ready for prime-time, though.
Load More Replies...Laptop Left Turned On In A School Bag Mixed With A Moldy Sandwich In The Same Compartment
This is why they should blow out, not in, but also why you shouldn't be disgusting.
The Forbidden Capri Sun
Expanded battery. Can explode. I got them on 3 phones as I am that lucky.
Load More Replies...We've had a run of HP laptops lately with batteries that do exactly that
One Of Our Clients Couldn't Figure Out Why His Wireless Keyboard And Mouse Weren't Working
It Was A Technological Murder/Suicide Today. Crt TV Landed Directly Onto A Brand New Asus Chromebook
Hard Drive Data Recovery
Yes, you need to take the disk out and play it in a vinyl player. Make sure to set the speed to 78 rpm.
They should have better explanations so us less techy folks can enjoy eye rolling too!
Next, lick it to see what sectors the data is on. *ahem* You should expect it ... to taste ... a bit funny.
"Why My Keyboard Doesn't Work"
Printer doesn't work? Be sure that the USB cable isn't plugged into the network jack. It actually fits in there
Load More Replies...The plug and port look nothing alike! My 3 year old daughter has the shaped blocks with matching holes table if the person needs practice. She outgrew it
User Complains About Weird Smell While Using His Laptop
How the fudge did he get the charger to that point?
While Many Of Us Are In The Business Of Tech Support, Self Help Is Often Necessary
Ps4 Botched Repair Attempt. The Shop That Did This To The Client's Unit, Charged Them $100! Should I Put Them On Blast?
If they screwed up and still demanded you pay, you have all the rights to sue them for damages.
Looks like they tried to repair where the plug goes in. Sorry, I'm having a brain fast as to the name. Anyways when I took mine in a few years ago for that repair I was told they could try to solder it back in place but that they had couldn't guarantee it would work or how long it would last. I paid $100 for the repair and it worked, for about 3 weeks. Then did this.
Behold The Beauty Of Our Office Server
State of the art airco for a state of the art server room. Budget for PR is $10 million per year, budget for IT is $10 000 for 2 years.
When the CFO pulled double duty as the IT manager because they couldn't afford one.
Free Laptop! Too Bad The Screen And Keyboard Are Ruined With The Spray Paint
Think that might be the point. I'm guessing pissed off ex-partner...
Load More Replies...That is salvageable. The paint can be carefully removed from the screen (but it will probably take more time than its worth) and the keys may not be that bad. Goo b gone!
Why take the time to do this when having a laptop for some would be a life changer.
Are we sure that isn't written on the photo? There's no bending to the letters on the screen into the creases.
Also it’s super weird that the spray paint stops immediately at the top of the screen and isn’t on the top section of the plastic at all. Also why tf would someone be giving away a laptop for free if it was actually functional anyway?
Load More Replies...Electrician Friend Just Sent Me This, Found During A Portable Appliance Test
And this is why we have portable appliance tests... That "fuse" will take far more current than the cable, so if it does overload the cable will melt and potentially cause a fire.
Likely on most of the countries this same product is nevertheless sold with a power cable which has not an integrated fuse.
Load More Replies...From the same school of electrical work that gave you "Just shove a penny into that fuse box".
That's something that someone who works with their hands, often requiring force and in tight spaces with sharp edges and protrusions needs - soft skin. Might be better yet to just deglove before starting.
Load More Replies...Which then lets the tool’s operator also take a high number of amps in a case where they have an accident...
Load More Replies...Customer Came In With A 512gb Ssd In Their MacBook Pro That Only Had 77gb Of Their Own Data On It, Yet It Was Reading As Full Of "Other" Files. After Some Digging It Turns Out That Apple Mail & Gmail Were Writing A New Encyclopedia Britannica Behind The Scenes. That's A Whole Lot Of Text
What does the op mean by "A New Encyclopedia Britannica?" What was all that text?
"A New Encyclopedia Britannica" stands for a giant mass of information. The customer's mail app created a file (mail archive file?) that is larger than the operating system. And now I wonder how and why.
Load More Replies...Not the user’s fault whatsoever. This is a perfect example of shittyass software from assshole companies who don’t give a motherfuckingfuck. It IS a support horror story because support people cannot fix the bugs in someone else’s software, but their customers do expect (and deserve) solutions. This is one of the reasons I left IT. It’s a dead end job that puts blame on people who can’t actually do anything about the problem and didn’t cause it in the first place (that’s the IT worker and the client).
Really Great Laptop Performance With A Core I7
Give it to a tabletop gamer. You could make a nice piece of terrain out of it. Some mountains, an alien desert or even WWI trenches.
This is what happens if you play happy wheels for more than ten minutes
Did they stick it in an oven? How do you do this???
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Lent It To A Friend...
The operating system was a little dark, so he decided to install a few more windows.
Install win 10 as many times as you want or until you run out of disk space. My record is 52 on a 1 terabyte drive, still had room left for more.
Load More Replies...Her: My MacBook Pro Is Running Hot. Inside The Fan: Ant Colony
I came to say the same! What is attracting them is it heat, or do they think there is food?
Load More Replies...Someone Tried To Print From USB
Got An Xbox 360 Controller In For Repair. Inside, I Found Multiple Dead Bugs And Everything Was Covered In A Fine, White Powder-Like Dust
Left out while the house was being bug bombed. Or the bugs threw one wild coke fueled party.
To be honest that actually sounds like flour and the little bugs that get into bags of flour.
Why would someone have flour in their game controller
Load More Replies...Friends Computer Has Been Crashing For Like 3 Years
Ay! I remember when my dad replaced the cooling fan things years back on our home pc (he did 90s computer tech stuff so we had stuff at home for his work etc plus he bought and refurbished old parts from his work), he had them in bout 30 mins them *BOOM* *swearwords*, dad comes out covered in coffee and black soot. Checked the fan seperately, it was a dud, stopped after approx 1 min. Rang the computer place, 'oh no its specialist we aren't reresponsible blah' plus a bunch of condescending jargon. So dad brought it in and politely schooled them on how their faulty fan had toasted his new hard drive. They replaced it all. I think coz he was 'older' (40s at the time but 90s tech was new), they just were so rude and dismissive. TLDR: faulty fan made expensive computer go boom. Tech experts learned not to judge a technician by his cover ^-^
I once took a look at a friends, step mum's computer as it kept shutting down due to overheating. Turns out it was full of dog hair, so much in fact that it filled the entire case and looked like loft insulation. This is why I always advise people to keep their PC on their desk and not on the floor as she did. She didn't get the issue so I told her it had become a vacuum cleaner that needed it's bag emptying as it sucked up all the dog hair and dust off the floor. I didn't like dumbing it down but some times you just have to.
This is without context. So a core is overheating. Ok. And? The CPU or the cooling system is problematic. That’s not uncommon.
Overheating beyond 200 degrees Fahrenheit is common?
Load More Replies...My New USB C Car Lighter
Oh my lanta get it out of the car now! Don't waste time taking a picture of it!
Why Do We Need To Hire It? Just Plug It All In
What a rubbish extension lead design. You can't use all the sockets if you plug anything ither than straight cables in - the adapters block the adjacent sockets. Having said that, this is probably the only thing that is preventing this lot going up in flames!
Ohhh 😂😂 I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what they were hiring. But it’s I.T. Thank you! 😂
Load More Replies...Stupidity Strikes Again. Now I've Got A 'Curved' Keyboard
OMG! Do you never clean your keyboard? Look at the dirt by the arrow keys!
Most people just don't realize just how fragile laptops are. I mean, you can easily melt the keyboard with a hairdryer, that's how delicate they are.
But that's aluminum, if it was plastic it wouldn't have bent but break
Load More Replies...Practice keyboard positivity and embrace those curves, girl.
How Do Things Like This Happen
Looks more like they dropped it being careless while driving an elephant stampede.
Load More Replies...Criminal Poe Adapter
PoE is Power-over-Ethernet. It is a way of supplying power to devices using the same cable as is used for networking meaning you only need to run one cable to the device. However PoE runs at 50V or thereabouts and devices need to support it. Devices that don't will likely be fried, and this friendly little cable looks like it will happily plug into any network port you happen to have...
Load More Replies...Wait, why does this exist what does it do? Why would you want to connect phone/internet to power? Does this make explosions? I have many questions
POE = Power Over Ethernet, but it generally uses a special DC converter and regulator; not a direct attachment to AC power. _This_ thing is designed to fry anything it gets plugged into.
Load More Replies...Just Imagine The Smell
I googled and it is a real thing. Name is Thermaltake X-ray. Product Description: Don't laugh... well, okay, you can laugh, but the Thermaltake X-Ray is a surprisingly practical product. The Thermaltake X-Ray is great for any home or office, allowing you to use cigarette adaptor accessories outside of your car. Besides that with the Thermaltake X-Ray you always have a place to keep your drinks, at home, and more importantly at LAN Parties. Now you don't have to worry about mixing drinks up with the people around. Plus, you'll be the weird guy who has a cigarette lighter and drink holder in their computer, doesn't get much better than that, does it? The beverage holder portion has an eject button, and can be closed when not in use.
Well that's slightly better than I was thinking - I thought the cup holder was an ashtray!
Load More Replies...That took me so long to realise that isn't a blimming car dashboard 🤦♀️
I think I saw LGR do a video on something like this one time. Very amusing thing to see, if not very impractical.
Because human ingenuity is also human stupidity... especially when capitalism is involved.
Load More Replies...Saw The Other Post About Ethernet Rewiring And Reminded Me Of This. It Worked Fine For Almost A Week Until I Replaced It With A Proper Cable
Just an broken ethernet cable extended from its good parts. No problem if the contacts are good but of course should just be replaced if possible.
Load More Replies...You may have misunderstood the post bud, it didn't stop working after he replaced it. He just meant this worked until he got a proper cable.
Load More Replies...useless use of Wago conn... twisting cable and tape singularly was enough.
Power Supply Didn’t Fit, I Guess This Works?
Yeah this is a case of multiple pieces of evidence of an IT department or other owner who just doesn’t give a damn about maintenance.
Load More Replies...It's not. It's called a ribbon cable and it's probably leading to the hard drive or ssd or smth.
Load More Replies...Measure your stuff first before you make this kind of error. 😐
Previous Install Company Ran Cat5 Over The Main Junction Box, Decided To Shield The Cable With Aluminum Foil
...assuming that you can get access to their power mains...
Load More Replies...Oh, it reminds me of when I used to work with airplanes. This is a beautiful setup compared to what some operators make...
How To Make Sure Ideas Hold Water
My Little Cousins First Build. I Told Him You Have The Wrong Ram. He Said "How You Know?"
Huh. It never occurred to me that they’re literally half the length of the larger type. How old is this kid? I’m thinking he shouldn’t be building computers yet if he’s too young to exercise the minimum effort on reading instructions and ordering parts. ALSO: do the submission forms filter out apostrophes, or are submitters just this bad with spelling possessives?
I edit books and I can assure you, sadly, no one understands possessives anymore. I'm sure you've noticed that the entire English-speaking world now thinks the possessive form of it is it's. [shudder]
Load More Replies...This Fella Got A Black Eye
"User Dropped The Laptop. Please Give Us A Quote"
Quote: The real problem isn't whether machines think but whether men do.
Quote: To err is human, to blame it on the computer is even more human.
Load More Replies...It probably holds an emotional value.. He should probably make a locket out of the CPU to preserve its spirit.
“Hey, Grab Those Couple Of Pcs In Storage Down On Lower Level, I Need One.” Here You Go Boss, I Fetched A PC For You
The lower level either has some moisterizing issue or they have to fix the damn drainage problem.
This might not be as bad as it looks. I've found some case manufacturers really skimp on the zinc plating for the parts you can't see.
Hey Isp You Always Drop Out At Lunch Time, But Only On WiFi!
microwaves (and wireless phones, baby monitors, etc...) operate on 2.4ghz and can absolutely interfere with wifi signals. this is why newer wifi bands use 5ghz - less interference but the 5ghz is less effective at distance and penetrating walls. as usual, everything is a tradeoff.
Load More Replies...Next Level
Returned Airpod Pros To An Apple Disposal Centre In Shenzhen
That's horrible, just imagine where all the chemical waste goes. People do this outside their huts leaking chemicals into the soil, it's the stuff of nightmares.
It's not chemical waste. The batteries are made from valuable and very finite materials and you can bet that they are going to be recycled. But... I don't really want to know how. I can imagine they just throw the whole batch in even more dangerous chemical susbtances and just leech the metals out of them.
Load More Replies...Shoutout To The Cell Phone Repair Shop That “Worked” On This Xbox Series X Before It Came To Me
You're looking at scuffs on the PCB which should not be there. Only the ones in the lower-right image and beneath J2 in the upper right are concerning as those are data lines, the rest of the scratches are just on the ground plane. Also, they seem to have torn the pad for J2 pin 4 off of the board. It shows very poor practice by whoever worked on it last.
Load More Replies...Unrequested Lithium Surplus
That’s scary, and I truly hope no one was HOLDING it when it went boom! 😬
Easy Fix
Stopped By A Local Sports Bar To Pick Up Dinner, This Is How They Do Online Orders Through Several Providers
I Said To Delete The Data Not Destroy 4 Sas Disks
I've seen hard disks being shot before, it's far more explosive. This looks like the work of a hand drill.
Load More Replies...Well, its deleted ain't it? Be more specific next time! (For real though, that sucks)
I did that, once. A little-old-lady, friend of a friend, was very worried that 'someone could steal her addresses and things' if she gave away/threw away her old computer. So I got out my camera and pistol, did a series of snaps of the outside of the box, the inside, the hard drive in place, the drive in my hand, then propped up on a chair at the range, then the drive with two .40 cal holes through it. No worries, then.
This Is What Happens When The Tech Before You Puts A PC Right Next To A Cnc In A Cabinet Shop.... Still Working
We have some old Dell Optiplex XE systems where I work. They were designed for nasty environments and have a very convenient removable filter to prevent dust ingress.
I Was Wondering Why It's Only 100mbps
Well you know, running a second cable is expensive. You'll just have to share!
This was really common in the late '90s. My entire school was wired this way, and not all devices were auto-MDIX at the time and it caused many problems.
Load More Replies...Be happy you get 100mbps. The average where I live is 50mbps.
Yes it works. We did this sometimes when switches weren't practical or impossible to use.
Load More Replies...I’m Not Sure They Put Enough Thermal Paste On Here
"You don't need thermal paste when you've got a cooler installed." as I was told by an intern while he sat down on the principals new laptop.
So they did not use thermal paste to "connect" the cpu to the cooler? So there wasn't adequate heat transfer out of the cpu? I assume it quickly overheated!
The little gray smudge on the cpu is thermal paste. Usually, it is a pea sized blob, not an ant sized smear. It is supposed to spread out and provide a good thermal connection between the cpu and the cooler.
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised how bullet proof Intel processors are. I've deliberately abused them far more than this for experimental purposes and they mostly survived.
Is it supposed to be the little smear on the upper right quadrant of the square?
Yes. That smear should have been a thin layer covering at least the center of the CPU.
Load More Replies...My Work (Industrial) Had Me Burn Up Some Hard Drives At 1750 Degrees In A Carbon Filled Retort. This Is The Result
And all those lovely chemicals you have just released into the atmosphere - nice! A nice big magnet will do just as well, or if you don't have one, open them up and break the platters.
The platters make excellent bird-frighteners, and fairly good wind chimes.
Load More Replies...That's just another method to destroy your pirated music collection.
"Ticket: Student Destroyed Laptop"
A board game fell on my computer screen once, but the damage was surface level. What did this kid do?!??!? Did they throw it at a brick wall or something?!?!??!
I think they threw it, used a saw on it, then stepped on it.
This Is A Nice Repair Job I Could Say
Removing Ram Heatsink, What Could Go Wrong
Apparently, This Particular Philippine Brand Of Power Strip With A Laminated Metal Casing Uses Stripped Wires In Between Outlets
Initial experiments to create Godzilla did not go as planned..
Load More Replies...The computer thing doesn't matter. The only important question is whether the lizards are alive.
iPad Meet Couch
Something Has Awoken
Checked In A MacBook Hair At Work Today
Looks like either golden retriever or golden labrador fur to me...
Not a cat. It's long enough to tangle & form knots, which wouldn't happen unless the cat had ridiculously long fur.
Load More Replies...Power Button Broke And Didn't Have A Replacement Lying Around… There Was, However, A Broken Coat Hanger
I don't get this one....are there any two wires which need to be pressed together or what?
"I Cleaned The Power Switch But It Still Won't Turn On"
I Work As An It Analyst From Home. My Assistant (Two-Year-Old) Pre-Installed This Printers Crackers For Me. He's Great!
Cable Labeling At My Friend's House Is Far From Helpful
Shore Power Cable After ~8 Years Exposure To Salty Air And Moisture
I've found that potting the terminals with hot-melt glue helps this sort of thing a bit, though judging by the condition of the wires themselves, it was time for a new one anyway.
Why would a person let the cable get to this point???
You can't tell its in this condition unless you remove the outer shell of the connector, and there is no reason to do that unless there is a problem. I would assume there was a problem in this case.
Load More Replies...Guess I Need A New Battery?
Nightmare Server Dungeon At My Job
On the bright side, you don't have to share the room with the cleaning company who needs the space for their cleaning carts, vacuums and brooms.
I definitely don't see a problem with this one. Bonus points for adding rack rails to the metro shelf.
Happy Monday, Plumbers Were Flushing The Lines Upstairs And A Couple Gallons Came Through The Ceiling. (The Leak Was Like 10ft From The Server Room)
This Physically Hurt My Brain
Removing Ram Heatsink, Be Sure To Get All That Ram
Could be trying to clean it thoroughly or apply new thermal paste
Load More Replies..." It Would Not Enter Into The Hdmi, So I Thought It Needed A Bit Of A Push..." A Pair Of Pliers And 2 Minter Later...
To be fair, I've done that mistake myself. I stopped after "this doesn't fit" but before "hand me the pliers!" Though
When You Didn’t Bring Wire With You....
Don’t Smoke Around Your PC Kids!
Ohhhh Yes The Server
Just another situation were IT is underfunded but yet is expected to keep the company running.
My Gtx 970 Decided To Get Lit
Client Was Wondering Why His PC Didn’t Work After Installing A New Gpu
Had An Arguement With My Dimm. I Won
Sandwich Telecom At Its Finest (Pic Token In France)
The Guy Who Built This Told The Customer The Water Cooling Was Zero Maintenance.... He Didn't Do A Good Job In The First Place
Maintenance: "The New Desk Arrived And I Organized The Computers For You" Geez... Thanks
Decapitated Airpod 1st And 2nd Generations
Gpu Woes Pt.2 - The Fan Of My Gtx 650ti Melted After A Gta V Session. R.i.p
It Turns Out The Ssd In A Microsoft Surface Is Removable After All!
This 'Repair' Job... Yikes
Customer States Their MacBook No Longer Turns On After Updating To Big Sur
Remember To Unlock Your Pcie Lock Before Removing The Gpu
That looks more like the result of an heavy graphic card mounted without any structural support. Modern cards can easily weight near three pounds, you're supposed to use brackets (or mount them vertically). coldzero-g...6996b2.jpg
Gtx 1080 Gave Out At The Worst Time Possible. Rest In Peace Buddy
I wish you luck in finding anything from the 10 series, or newer, at anything resembling MSRP.
Need Onsite Support
Curved Lines Render Great!!
"I Cleaned The Power Switch But It Still Won't Turn On"
Previous Install Company Ran Cat5 Over The Main Junction Box, Decided To Shield The Cable With Aluminum Foil
None of these people should ever be allowed around electronics again.
all this did was give me anxiety about the possibility of bugs being in my laptop
My dad would freak if he saw these. He yells at us if we hold a laptop by the screen for 3 seconds.
YOU HOLD YOUR LAPTOP BY THE F*****G WHAT!?!? But, seriously, that's such a relevant thing to get pissed about. You buy and replace your own s**t that you treat like s**t all you want, but if you're mindlessly spending someone else's money then of course they get pissed when you're being stupidly careless with it. How much money has he sunk in you so far, and you're still grappling with basic understanding? That's why parents should be able to refund children. "I'd like to make an exchange. This f*****t's faulty." (And I'm sure he loves ya because he does things for you, and him caring about your stuff is him caring about what's good for you, even if he does think you're a f*****t.)
Load More Replies...This makes my teeth itch. Seriously jonesing for some cable porn...
I wouldn't think anyone would have trouble in that regard these days but I hear that they all use OnlyFans now.
Load More Replies...In 2007 I started work at a medical company, you know, where a lot of private health information is kept. The company’s 80 computers were a mix of XP, ‘98, NT and 2000 on a peer-to-peer network, and the “server” was just an old desktop running ‘95. No antivirus, no firewall, no password protocols at all. The soon to be fired IT Director said antivirus software was unnecessary “if you were smart.”
I'm not tech-savvy at all and even I know whats going on, that says a lot
I’m commenting before reading as an experiment: will most of these be about mocking users for not having specialized knowledge, or will they be more about actual horror stories of objectively bad/weird behavior and bad technology? I left IT because I hated the arrogance of my coworkers hating on users, and hate the normalization of bad tech (no, bugs aren’t normal), so there’s my bias right up front. Now to read the article...
I know happy to see that these aren’t user-bashing posts. I’m not happy to see how many are basically irrelevant to the list subject. I didn’t bother with the page of extended submissions, because that’s just a dumbass website design.
Load More Replies...None of these people should ever be allowed around electronics again.
all this did was give me anxiety about the possibility of bugs being in my laptop
My dad would freak if he saw these. He yells at us if we hold a laptop by the screen for 3 seconds.
YOU HOLD YOUR LAPTOP BY THE F*****G WHAT!?!? But, seriously, that's such a relevant thing to get pissed about. You buy and replace your own s**t that you treat like s**t all you want, but if you're mindlessly spending someone else's money then of course they get pissed when you're being stupidly careless with it. How much money has he sunk in you so far, and you're still grappling with basic understanding? That's why parents should be able to refund children. "I'd like to make an exchange. This f*****t's faulty." (And I'm sure he loves ya because he does things for you, and him caring about your stuff is him caring about what's good for you, even if he does think you're a f*****t.)
Load More Replies...This makes my teeth itch. Seriously jonesing for some cable porn...
I wouldn't think anyone would have trouble in that regard these days but I hear that they all use OnlyFans now.
Load More Replies...In 2007 I started work at a medical company, you know, where a lot of private health information is kept. The company’s 80 computers were a mix of XP, ‘98, NT and 2000 on a peer-to-peer network, and the “server” was just an old desktop running ‘95. No antivirus, no firewall, no password protocols at all. The soon to be fired IT Director said antivirus software was unnecessary “if you were smart.”
I'm not tech-savvy at all and even I know whats going on, that says a lot
I’m commenting before reading as an experiment: will most of these be about mocking users for not having specialized knowledge, or will they be more about actual horror stories of objectively bad/weird behavior and bad technology? I left IT because I hated the arrogance of my coworkers hating on users, and hate the normalization of bad tech (no, bugs aren’t normal), so there’s my bias right up front. Now to read the article...
I know happy to see that these aren’t user-bashing posts. I’m not happy to see how many are basically irrelevant to the list subject. I didn’t bother with the page of extended submissions, because that’s just a dumbass website design.
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