Tech illiterate people stories thread

>be 10
>learn about linux
>download install profit
>friends come over
>think i'm a hacker
>get called hacker for 4 years
>everday
>"hooyy h4x0r come overr icant fix diss"
>"hoy h4x0r comp is broken fix itt"
I was relieved when high school.

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this thread actually was a success (compared anything other in OP's life) before.

Atleast no one wanted to bully you cause they thought that you're were a real hacker, they feared you that you'd dox them and spam a fuckload of gay porn and meatspin videos on their phones.

>tfw i actually did "hax" the routers and routed every request to gayest porn you can ever imagine

>be me
>high school around 2008
>got some dumb bullies after me
>took the school's yearbook, scanned it and made an shitty mspaint edit on gay cowboy images
>next day, went to high school with a USB with all those images
>spammed those images on every printer I could find as quickly as possible
>they turned the entire school into a witch hunt, to find of who did it
>I was never caught
Life has never been better.

Were you ever caught?

>Dad thinks hacking is the same thing as pirating
>Dad thinks if you can access the internet from your phone "you have wifi"
>Dad thinks that if you watch a YouTube video you have "downloaded it"

>humble brag post about being called a hacker by 10 year olds

>Be 15
>Go to school computers room
>Enter Sup Forums
>It's permabanned
>All computers are permabanned
>Reason: Posting child pornography
>It wasn't even me

Dad is actually right about third one. Caching, user.

...

fuckin' kek'd off my chair.

>delete the 500 viruses and toolbars and crap on family friends computer, install antivirus, install firefox with adblocker

>1 week latter "YOUR KID BROKE OUR FUCKIN COMPUTER YOU TELL HIM TO FIX IT"

>their shithead kid disabled the antivirus to install some maplestory virus shit

>deleted the antivirus, told them to have at it never went back

Learned a valuable lesson at the age of 15 thanks to them.

>install firef-

Stopped reading

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I fucking hate it when you fix something and then they somehow fell dick first on the pavement and then blames everything on you when their retard asses can't even get to an hour of something breaking. I swear that I live in the movie idiocracy sometimes...

surprisingly uncommon, a) video is big b)legal reasons

fuck you.

how can a file even be that tiny?

>dad still thinks that when you download an image, the provider charges you 0.50€
>he thinks that visiting an American webpage costs as much as telephoning someone in the USA
he actually can use excel pretty well but he always describes everything he's doing on the pc. Every single step.
"rightclick, cut, and then uuuh.. user COME HERE"
I never get mad at him

>dad still thinks that when you download an image, the provider charges you 0.50€
In America, this might soon be reality.

Linux sucks

compression

...

that gif is quite humorous.

I don't think so.

i have greasyfork.org/en/scripts/404-mouseover-popup-image-viewer installed too. ANd it was fun.

saved your trick :)

Happened like 2009, when i was 16

More of a personal story

>Struggle with a shitty Pentium II desktop
>Has Suse on it
>No internet access
>Gimp all day
>Spend most of my time at friends houses playing games and browsing nets
>Download porn to my PSP then upload it home
>Manage to siphon internets off of neighbors sometimes, if i'm lucky
>I asked for connection multiple times
>They said that there's no need for it and too expensive
>Less than 15€ a month
>Instead they spend their money on booze
>Parents had a lot of talk about some internet TV shows and other things
>Now they want a net
>Parents decide to buy me a PC for birthday
>Giddy fucking goo yes
>They look for laptops
>"I'd like a desktop one please"
>"No you can't have a desktop one"
>"But i could build one for much cheaper and bett-"
>"No you'll break it and the warranties won't exist on those"
>"There's warranty for every p-"
>"You know nothing about computers, user"
>"What the fuck do you m-"
>"No, look at this one we'll buy it"
>"It's not even the one i pick-"
>"No arguments let's go"

They managed to get some shoddy acer for 800€, plus extended warranties AND tech support packages and other useless shit that didn't make any sense to get and overpayed 400€ because of that
>They never listen
>They have a paid tech support
>Ask me for help on computers
>Mfw

Part 1/2

>acer tech support
I kinda feel what's comming

That shit happens all the time.
My parents offered to buy me a laptop to celebrate me getting into uni cause I'm such a dumb fuck at anything and everything that isn't computers.

>i want this 11 inch laptop(forgot brand)
>reviews say it gets good battery life, at least 8 hours per charge
>it's pretty cheap too, only ~600aud

nfw they bought me a $900 samsung instead with a shitty gt520m housefire and literally zero ventilation.

Burnt my lap all the time, barely got 4 hours battery life.
Died from the heat a few months after warranty expired.

>Get to open up a package for the laptop
>"Thanks, it sure looks nice... and all"
>"Happy birthday user you deserve it"
>Can't play games with it really
>Atleast now i have a net and i can do things
>Nope
>Parents set up a rule that i can use it for 1h a day, upon request
>When they're not using it
>They didn't mind me using the other PC at all
>What
>Can't take the laptop anywhere
>"I need it in school"
>"It's a home pc, it stays here"
>Only because they wanted to watch internet shows on it during my school days
>Both unemployed
>They manage to download a bunch of shit on it
>Blame me for viruses
>Give up and decide not to touch that laptop and return to my desktop
>Need internet cable to connect to the PC
>Establish a connection, lay the cable neatly across the house
>"No user you can't have a cable here, it looks ugly"
>They have their own cables fucking everywhere across the floor
>"But i need a net connection to the second pc"
>"No you won't because it slows the videos down on the laptop"
>Killmenow
>Back to square 1

Those were loooooong days.

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Your parents sound like genuine retards

They returned the laptop to the store several times over because of the viruses they managed to fucking cram in it

>Every time parents have this violent autistic fit of rage when things wont go their way
>Blame me for everything
>They drag me to the store
>They start to accuse me in front of the tech guys who work there
>Techies won't believe the shit my parents spew
>Get the looks of sympathy from those guys
>Every fucking time
>The acer support was slow, almost two weeks at a time in the service
>Parents didn't understand shit the guys were trying to help
>The guys didn't probably understand either
>They suggest downloading Norton antivirus
>Nor-fucking-ton
>They still managed to download some obscure viruses on it
>Haven't touched the laptop in ages, still being the scapegoat
>"If it wasn't for your mistakes, we wouldn't have to do this"
>"I didn't even touch it"
>"Admit it user"

I had no chances

>post about tech illiterates
>is tech illiterate
Protip: you don't know what you're talking about, friendo

Atleast you guys didn't have an mentaly insane mother that thought that she could talk to the dead and draw the most retarded elephant drawings and then saying that it's how the dead speak to the living. Happy that I live alone now. and yes, that fucking forever alone piss meme is me but very happy instead of sad cause fuck other humans after all that shit.

This happened once to me when using a hotels Wi-Fi
The reason was "posting CP... Again"
Sides were lost on that day

They possess very little common sense and they take others opinions as insults if it differs from their own view

Those were hard times for me to brain, stress from morning to evening and at nights when they had a drinking party

Surprisingly the same laptop that they got is still alive, surprised it's not dead

The black top of the PC is covered in dust and nicotine gunk.
Slimy and dusty.
Fans clogged

It's a survivor, i'll give it that

> C++ dev for many years
> Always openly dislike Apple
> Every other week, Grandpa calls
> "Hay kiddo, you know about stuff, how do I put the musax on my ipod?"

reeeee

everyone has taste...
>he's using Chrome!
>he's using Firefox!
>he's using something different from my favourite, 100mb in process browser! Such plebs omfg i cant even...

please, dont be such douchebags.

>2013
>be 16
>at home with my parents and sister
>my pc is shit while my sister has a somewhat decent laptop which i can play shit on
>i download steam and some games
>next day i come home and everyone is furious
>user your games are clogging up the computer
>she clicks "next" without reading on every installer that she uses.
>downloads shit like randomsong.exe.mp3.totallynotavirus.pleaseinstallinwindowsfolder
>im not allowed to touch the laptop anymore and she gets a new one

You think that's bad? Try growing up in a middle eastern household.
It's 2016 and we still don't have an internet connection. I rely on my 4g for everything.

>save up for a laptop to lug around with my and play video games at lan parties
>ivy bridge i5, hd7670m gpu, 720p screen. Got the job done.

One day, sister gets mad at me and drowns it in the sink. Not even a year old.

>be a good little boy
>study hard, get good grades
>get rewarded with a Nintendo DS

One day mom gets mad at me for not studying enough and wakes me up by snapping it in half and repeatedly smacking me with the 2 pieces.

>buy used parts, get great deals
>i5 750
>10gb ram
>gtx 670

One day notice my images that I backed up from my camera are corrupt.
Didn't find out why my files kept going corrupt until I opened my case to check the hard drive. Turns out my dad put a magnet INSIDE my case to get back at me for something really petty.

Currently using a cheap z3735f netbook as my pc, had it for a few months now, just waiting for someone to try and fuck with it

...

When my mother was drunk, she thought she was a seer.
Predict future, tarot cards, possess healing abilities and draw these strange squiggles and shapes that depict a "message to her from the spirits"
Plus she was very mouthy, degrading and manipulative when drunk
Sober she was retracted and spend her time alone

Dad was straight up alcoholic
Spend his time usually god knows where several days at a time

And yes, i'm the same Acer-user

This shit is why kids end up killing their parents.

shit user, i already feel bad for yah...

What the fuck is tarot is it the same as loteria?

Can believe.
Atleast i was fed and not hungry, but literally the daily psychological war has led me to some serious issues physically and mentally
Godspeed bruh, why does this shit even exist

Yup, known bullshit thing. You fix their shit (often for free, especially if you're younger) and then they expect eternal warranty and try to blame you for any future problems which may (and obviously surely will) creep up. Argument is futile, all you'll hear is "I don't care, you've been messing with it, now fix it".

Clever

Cards that can depict either your future or your past.
Used to describe events that happen(ed) to a person or some mumbo jumbo like that.
Horoscope-tier kind of bullshit

Mental people's magic the gathering

>>Both unemployed
How where they able to buy you that piece of shit?

>"the image blahblahblah.gif cannot be displayed because it contains errors"

Everything is a challenge to them, a fight. It's fucked me over so much mentally but I can't let anyone know or they'll just fuck me over even more.

But you're right, at least we have food and shelter which a lot of people don't.

...

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bought my own pc a few years ago when i was 17, i have a little brother who was 14 at the time,everything is going well until one day my mom decides to use my pc to check something,i have installed linux since i wanted to see what all the fuss about it was, she says "broke the pc" i try to explain myself and i am immidietly shut down, the pc is taken from me, she goes to some shitty shop and gets ripped off on installing windows, the pc is given to my retarded brother and i cant touch it without their permission

>harvard grad
>doing masters here in engr field
>using old xp computer to obtain data from machine
>sends data over internet instead of usb because "i don't know if this desktop goes to this screen"
>is impatient about ff opening
>cites tech problems as an excuse to not send information out

...

Was close of killing my dad
>Got tired of his alcoholism and violence towards me
>"I swear if you fucking touch me one more time i'll kill you in the worst way imaginable
>Stops drinking, moves away
>Mom gets afraid of me for some time

Things started to go better after that, though it was still psychological wars with the mom

Swore myself to grow as a better person

They paid a part in advance, rest in monthly fees if i remember correctly
The welfare in Scandinavia overall is quite plentysome to a family with a child

He is actually right about the videos. Cache and time to live. Also, regardless of what you think you're doing online, there are only two transactions that can be done by a machine, downloading and uploading.

I've got more stories if anyone is interested

please no more rage

i am so glad to have grown up in a tech illiterate family that was self aware, i was a god amongst men

Righto fuckos let me tell you about the real struggle

>Grew up in a rural area
>Poor as fuck, everyone in my town has old ass rust buckets
>Still using dialup internet in 2010
>In the evenings and on the weekend the congestion was so bad you couldn't even load an image
>Going to university (i miraculously got accepted into some scholar program) that's 8 1/2 hours drive away
>Parents take me down to local electronic store to buy a laptop for it
>The choice is either Acer or HP Compaq junk
>Didn't really know the "norms" of the normal world due to living in a shit rural nutsuck town
>Fast forward a bit going off to do uni
>Notice everyone has Macbooks, Thinkpads and Chromebooks
>Never even knew these brands or models existed
>Internet is blazing fucking fast
>Ended up selling the compaq junk I got and picked up a chromebook. felt bad though but told parents I accidentally broke it
>Fast forward to finishing up Uni
>2016
>Return home
>I look around in absolute disgust
>All these rural people are living like it's the 80's
>Parents offer to help me get a new place
>Turns out dads dying from lung cancer from asbestos
>I can't even stand to even be in this town anymore it's so disgusting it infuriates me
>Slow as fuck internet even in 2016
>The nearest town is 3 hours away, the nearest city is 8 hours away
>The electronic store literally only stocks 3 types of laptops refurbed units
>It's too expensive for me to move elsewhere with better internet and quality of life
>I notice too there is like NO GRILLS in this town
>They all never return when they finish uni
>Everyone here is either under 15 or is 50+
>Have to stay to take care of dad
>Can't even live my dreams
>Forced virgin life

Share them

>One day notice my images that I backed up from my camera are corrupt.
>Didn't find out why my files kept going corrupt until I opened my case to check the hard drive. Turns out my dad put a magnet INSIDE my case to get back at me for something really petty.


what the fuck is wrong with your father.

Atleast you can quench your horniness in the tight boipuccies or the pre-teens
Dress them up in a skirt and put a push-up bra on them, makeup if necessary

Following up with my story, of how I finally had it with her.
I woke up with the police outside my bedroom.
My mother is in crocodile tears and has told them that I made a rape threat towards her.
After I got taken for questioning in a mental hospital, had to call my dad to pick me up.
Got home when it was night time. She came home with pizza and trying to act like nothing happend and then keeps on telling me sense childhood about how I am a mentaly retarded sub-human and then she nacts like a seven year old, pulling out her tongue at me and doing childish thing. I am very glad that I don't live there anymore.

>Have to stay to take care of dad
just go
go away
never look back
never return
get a new life
forget everything about your past

Alright, that's fucked up
Never had rape-threats fenced towards me or anything in sort, more like personal degradation, unreasonable restrictions and moderate physical violence
Have any contacts with your parents at all anymore?

why don't yo2u bring your family out of there?

this was my life for so many years
I feel you.

>Failed to show image, out of memory
Topkek

post em

He's very petty and non confrontational.

>parents run a pc repair shop despite being tech illiterate
>they started doing mobile accessories and shit too recently
>start noticing random chargers missing from my room
Turns out my mom goes through my stuff looking for shit she can sell thinking I won't notice, then she'll blame it on me for having "4 phone chargers instead of one". I like having spares to toss in my bag when I go out or use throughout the house, she doesn't see the point having more than one.

>mom bitches at me for charging my phone every day
>"but Sahar, I only charge my phone once a week every Thursday"

She barely even uses it and has no 4g or anything draining it. Like half an hour SoT per week with her usage.

This is a good one tho.
>dad constantly brings home laptops for me to fix cause he can't do shit
>she comes in bitching about how I never do anything to help
>point out that I'm elbow deep in a dead alienware m18x that someone traded in for an upgrade, reminding her that when he sells it the money goes to the family.
>she gets mad saying that it's still nothing, tips over my tray of screws in a fit of rage and leaves
>fix the alienware, go to her room, tell her that since its nothing I'm going to keep it, and if she thinks otherwise she can apologize.
That was probably one of the scariest moments for me, I hate confronting them.
>slam her door, go back to my room, load up and stress test the alienware.

And that's the story of how I got a free 18 inch gaming laptop.
Pic related, the issue my dad couldn't fix, a dead hd 6970m or 6990m, don't remember which because I haven't booted it up since that night.

Only with my father, other than that I live like a hermit/looner/ghosting, don't really know the exact word of it.
I actually asked him 'Why did you have sex with that mental fuckup?' at him a couple of months ago. He said that he didn't knew and the other big the reason of why he bailed was because of her money hungry bullshit. But everything is fine right now.

Windows is for losers.
Windows is for losers.
Windows is for losers.
Windows is for losers.
Windows is for losers.
Windows is for losers.

You're lucky you got out, I'm desperately looking for a job so I can afford a room at least or something AWAY from them.

Have a fight with dad about fixing a customers pc, he thinks it's the ram even though he's tested a bunch of different ram slots.

Did a cmos reset when he left to go bathroom, he comes back and thinks he was right because it posted with different ram sticks now.

Also.
>walk into sisters room
>she's sitting on the floor in front of the heater using her laptop
>in front of the heater
>laptop directly on the carpet

>mfw my dad will just give her a new one when it dies

You're a hero

>it ain't me starts playing

>be like 7
>got first PC
>want to install game
>not enough disk space (4gb winchester)
>brother and I decide to deleted unnecessary files
>"this windows directory has lots of files with default windows icon so these aren't needed"
>finally enough space for game
>next reboot windows doesn't load

another one
>win98
>somehow choose option to boot into CMD mode next restart
>can't exit lone mode
>restart does not help either, boots into CMD mode every time
we waited like a week for an IT guy to come and type exit and press enter to boot into GUI mode

Sola?

Also.
>mom kills her last laptop in a fit of rage
>dad gets her a new one
>upgrades it from 4gb to 8gb ram
>mfw she doesn't know how to use tabs and never goes over 1.5gb ram

My main pc, the netbook, has 2GB ram.

That feel when I opened cmd and typed format C:

How much does shit even cost over there?

What's a Sola?

Living in aus, back then it was almost 40 dollars for 4gb.
Like, 37 dollars iirc

Wow australia a shit

Not really. I've compared prices. After tax and conversion it's roughly the same.

Don't forget that atm 15 usd is like 21aud and all our prices include gst

plus 4gb is like 22 dollars now.

>be teh 1337 /i/fag stupid kid
>Friend on IRC posts list of fresh stolen cc
>stupid ROTC kid next to me asks what the list is
>He orders two iPods to his dad's house in Japan right there off the school computer
>Never gets caught, gives his dad one and keeps one
Dude had a lot of balls and not a lot of brain, he sure had a fun life.

Your parents are also genuine retards and your dad is a huge faggot

>I never get mad at him

Good user. Cherish every moment you have with your parents because one day they won't be around.

My dad passed away over 10 years ago and not a day goes by when I didn't wish I could sit with him and pretend to watch the world news whole be asked me questions I'd already answered.

>One day mom gets mad at me for not studying enough and wakes me up by snapping it in half and repeatedly smacking me with the 2 pieces.

Holy shit I'm sorry. Ethnic mothers though, man.

Hey man, at least you have the degree. When your dad dies you can move out and do what you want.

Until then, I'm sure you could probably bang all the underage country bumpkin grills.

and this is why you ditch family and you do you

they made you but do no favours enslaving you

it was birth, not a life debt