Times you fucked up

>be me, tech illiterate 10 year old
>get desktop for christmas
>have no idea the fuck i'm doing
>finally get dsl
>itbegins.gif
>download those fucking smileys and custom pointers
>download music and porn from limewire
>finally my computer had enough of my shit
>get ransomware by a fucking fake antivirus
>freak the fuck out
>can't use the internet
>can't do shit
>download antivirus to combat it
>option is to either store infected files in a "chest" or delete them
>pick delete
>turns out the infection reached to the system 32 folder
>computer stuck on bootloop

In the end, i just did a fresh restart since i found the activation cd.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)
youtube.com/watch?v=d7cvi00OZDM
youtube.com/watch?v=-6K6Cxi2DVY
twitter.com/AnonBabble

>>be me
who else would you be, idiot?

>be 9
>dad works in advertising
>use his computer and see pic related
>think it's a really cool font
>transfer it from his computer to mine with a zip disk
>installation successful but the font doesn't show up in font list
>try to debug the issue by deleting every font except for mojo
>reboot
>system font is now mojo
>it doesn't look that good in non-antialiased 12px
>no idea how to go back
>too ashamed to tell my dad

i can't remember how i fixed the issue but fuck that was stupid
both computers in question were iMac G3s with Mac OS 9

He could be Geoffrey, from elementary school

>10 years old
>ransomware
How old are you now? 15?

How old are you? Not OP but ransomware has been around longer then the Bitcoin before it would ask you to pay for a fake antivirus to get rid of it

>be me
>want do download a youtube video
>have seen my dad doing this, just click next all the time
>toolbarz.jpg

When I was little I plugged my Macintosh monitor into my PC's sound card. Fucked the monitor's pins because the sound card's port melted

last time I installed linux I tried to dual boot but didn't have backups and ended up formatting the entire HDD on my laptop

BTRFS is predy gud tho

>be computer
>get bought on christmas for some underage human
>have no idea what the fuck he's doind
>he finds out how to connect to the internet
>itbegins.gif
>get infested with "smileys" and strange frontend modification
>kid downloads into me some audio files and human tiddies
>had enough of this
>let virus download a better virus
>system-level ransomware
>kid is very freaked out
>internet is dosconnected now
>he looks dumbfounded
>manages to download antivirus
>idiot kids gives me brain damage
>bootloop

wouldn't it just pretend to be FBI or IRS and ask you to pay a "fine"

>First time building computer
>Everything turns on just fine
>Windows won't boot
>I didn't know back then that you had to reinstall Windows on a system change like that
>Think its a hard drive failure
>Some fucking forum says you can leave it in the freezer to try and fix a failed hard drive
>Do that and leave it there for a good 2 hours
>Take it out and remove the fucking condensation
>Still doesn't boot
>After a few weeks of just accepting that its dead I try to look it up one more time
>Someone recommends reinstalling Windows
>Do that
>It finally boots up
To this day I have no idea how that hard drive isn't fucking dead from what I did to it. Its currently in my server still running very well

Yes but not all of that involved encryption like all modern ransomware. Most of it just forced itself into fullscreen and did so on boot as well because they knew most people didn't know how to fix it anyway

I honestly laughed at this more then i should have

>be me
>open this thread

>writing updater for desktop app that pulls source files from github
>while testing, accidentally start debug instead of exporting a copy of the application
>run full update process on my source directory
>all the code is now the last version I pushed to github

Luckily I was able to get back some of the major changes I made, since the file I was working on was still cached in the text editor.

fucked up my 9800pro when i swapped cooler.
and couple years later some expensive RAM when i took of the heatsinks on those.

fuck off newfag

>be 15
>early 2000s
>building my first computer
>1ghz AMD T-Bird cpu socket A
>abit motherboard
>put the cpu in the board without a heatsink and fan
>power on computer, I get the bios screen to pop up
>computer goes black
>troubleshoot for two days
>realize I burned out the chip by not putting the heatsink on
>RMA the cpu
>they give me a new one
>put the heatsink and fan on
>power it up
>everything works perfectly
>install windows 2000
>excellent computer that lasted me for several years
I still feel retarded for doing this but I was used to the old pentium chips that had only a heatsink at best, I don't know what I was thinking. I'm glad they rma'd my chip honestly, it cost a lot of money back in the day and I saved up for a really long time to build it.

the freezer trick works if it's a mechanical drive malfunctioning, but you're supposed to put it in a bag and then connect it and transfer your data asap. only works sometimes, not always or often for data recovery.

>on old hentai website
>popup comes up
>forget what it was, but just close out of it
>suddenly ants start crawling on the screen
>what
>slam laptop shut in panic, unplug, remove battery
>few minutes later open back up and look at it
>ants come back, desktop turns to blue background with a yellow 'alert' saying my computer is infected
>run norton because retarded child
>nothing found
>????
>freak out
>think hackers are going to come after me for some reason
>google it
>they tell me to delete certain files
>can't do shit to combat it, even deleting all associated files with it just caused it to come back on restart
>can't even change desktop background
>have to shamefully bring it to a computer repair shop

Wasn't a major fuckup but my only real time with a virus. Nothing was lost but I freaked the fuck out.

He could have gotten AIDS from being a faggot:
>AIDS is considered to be an early example of a class of malware known as "ransomware".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)

>got my first laptop
>need to install OS
>done this before, piece of cake
>installing windows xp
>for some reason decided to pick not Quick format
>it takes so long to format HDD...
>fuckit.gif
>manually reboot
>HDD fails
>whatihavedone.gif

This is most retarded thing I did...

Set Windows folder as hidden once. And it couldn't boot. I wonder why, since the folder still exists and you can access it without any trouble.

Windows XP and earlier were prone to all sorts of stupid shit regarding folder attributes

> decided to try out ubuntu
> installed bootloader on /dev/sda1 where my beloved win7 was
> finished playing around with it abd rebooted
> there is no win7 in grub menu
> wtf.jpg
> go full banana and erase all partitions from disk
> install fresh win7
fuck loonix

>fuck loonix
No, fuck you for being stupid. I bet you pulled stupid shit like that on windows as well, because you're the type of dumbass that expects everything to "just werk lulz".

>be 6
>that is 1991
>having a A500
>be a happy little shit playing Lotus, Stunt Racer and Batman
>one day the computer doesn't start
>too young and stupid to realize my father removed the rom while servicing another A500
>tried to fixed the thing.
>dropped a screwdriver onto the mobo, with the machine connected to the main and powered on.
>dank fumes

i ended shorting the power supply. nevertheless my father fixed it the next day but man it was a stupid call.

>nevertheless my father fixed it the next day
you mean he bought another one?

no, he replaced capacitors and other pieces and the computer was running again the next day.

need to ask him what exactly he replaced tho.

>eat 6 grams of magic mushrooms
>feelsbrettygud.swf
>decide to install AoE 2
>old-ass install cd doesn't work anymore
>download first torrent on KAT
>install the game
>instant paranoia right after that because realized it might have contained viruses
>unplug internet hose from NIC
>purge EVERYTHING
>install debian
And that's how I became a linux user.

>magic shrooms
>gateway to loonix

/thread

I miss when magazines were fun like the one in your picture

Only one gigahertz?

my first computer that was my own, and not a family computer was a windows ME Gateway machine. The first thing I did was delete system32 because it was using too much system resources.

I blame that event on me becoming a network engineer.

>be 10, tech illiterate
>using internet explorer 6
>somehow manage to hide address bar
>spend months only being able to use the search box on the ISP homepage

Idiot

I don't know if there even was a virus or if it was just a figment of my imagination, but in that moment I truly felt installing linux was the only right choice.

I, for one, miss smiley/cursor central and bonsai buddy.

Funny, now that you mention it, I only used GUHNOOSLESHLEENUX on live CDs for repairs. I didn't start using it as my daily driver until about 2 months after trying LSD for the first time. That might be because I only stayed on Windows for muh gaems, and I lost most of my interest in gaems after getting fucked up on LSD.

kek

>be 8 year old me
>uncle gives me a bunch of CDs, mostly games
>get home, boot Windows 98
>pick that cool colorful CD with a drawning of a guy from the future on a hoverboard called "Drivers"
>yasletsgaem.tiff
>install it
>it asks me to restart
>do it
>PC doesn't boot anymore
I told my dad it stopped working on its on, he brought it to a repair shop and it was new in 3 days. I never touched that disk again and I probably still have it somewhere

Kek, I already did exactly the same. Lost that 80gb Samsung

Holy shit, I found it

You're still in contact with your dad? Make sure you tell him you love him.

Are those tits on his knees?

...

>member the days?
>the virtual_game_boy_advance.exe limewire days?
>had cd from someone with vgba.exe and a ton of games
>this thing was a petri dish full of virus colony >but with a hole in the middle and flat as a cd
>runs fine on my system, had no antivirus
>try to be the cool kid and run this shit on my friends parents pc
>antivirus flips its shit vgba.exe is kill
>browser cd
>vgba.exe looks fine to me
>a virus would certanly look different than wonderful vgba.exe
>uninstall antivirus

cant remember what happened then, too long ago

dude, dunno about you americans but who doesnt keep contact with their parents?

stick to weed kids, it doesn't literally fry your brain

Will smoking weed make me pick up BSD?

I remeber when psx came out out, be young, looking at memory card options, selecting them all like it was a vidya game

>Format Card

ohhh that sounds good, like organizational or something

>watch it delete all my game saves

>.........

at least I learned what format meant on a 8mb videogame card, and not a hdd or something

You must be new here.

Which drugs should I use to get started with Haiku?

>pc-chilling

That seems to be the problem.

>be 12 or something
>only computer is my dad's
>I get to play Riven for ~2h a day
>fuck around with wallpaper settings on this Win95/98 PC
>file picker opens in a folder full of porn
>I am curious and select one to see it full-size
>click apply
>desktop background is now a picture of a brown girls' vagina which takes up 30% of the screen
>original picture was a family photo which was nowhere to be found
>hear dad walk down the hallway
>panic
>too dumb to simply choose *any* other standard background and shrug it off, instead desperately try to dig up that family photo FAST
>dad enters the room, his computer is still showing a desktop full of brown vagina.
>I pull the plug, blush and run out

mfw dad never brought it up again

r u implying loonix doesnt werk

:^)

kek

thats fucking hilarious

>trying to get game to boot in dos on my old windows 98
>keeps crashing to desktop
>decide to set the exit path of dos to dos
>stuck in dos forever

> be 8
> learn how to delete files
> learn how to free disk space
> start deleting useless files in my documents folder
> go deeper to clean up that C: shit
> start deleting files in program files
> go deeper to system32
> see a lot of shit i dont even know why its in my hard drive
> delete everything in folder
> reboot
> programs dont work, lots of warning messages, system works resolution went to shit, im looking at a 8bit picture
>father sends pc to repair shop, they charge 500usd to reinstall windows

i deleted system32 before Sup Forums even existed, i fucked up several other things lots of times, fuck pc technicians, thank god i learned how to fix my own shit.

>be fat fuck 10 yr old
>Play wow vanilla
>my shitty dell can't hack it
>get a cunt hair near ironforge
>DC ten times until I fly over it
>eating lucky charms or some shitty food
>throw spoon at monitor
>it breaks and I can't raid
>Ashkandi drops
>have most DKP as warrior
>asshole GM gets it

My parents were lazy

What the fuck did I just read

>can't use the internet
>download antivirus to combat it

wut?

>installed bootloader on /dev/sda1 where my beloved win7 was

Well there's your problem.

It's all WoW terms, but DKP is a shit system :^)

>3 years ago
>trying to install various linux distros for the first time as a newbie
>tries to install with a dual boot with windows
>accidentally delete all the data on my harddisk, including windows partition, efi partition, etc.
>finds out the distro was corrupted because of faulty installation to usb drive
>don't have any install cd or usb of any OS
>that was the only computer in the house

I fixed all these issues after a fucking week. What a retard.

lot of parents fuck off, or kids are gay and parents disown them or any number of disappointments.

lots of false positive things back in the day, and any virus or shit would slow your crap down bad. if the program ran, it was likely a benign false positive.

and this is why you keep a copy of knoppix on hand at all times.

Man, I miss boot/Maximum PC. I regret throwing out all those issues I had :(

>be you
>faggot

This reminds me, they had an issue with a centerfold of the latest and greatest pc build. I hung it inside my locker in middle school.

Why didn't anyone like me? :(

i havent talked to my father in 4 years.

alcoholic faggot used to slap me around and shove me into walls until I got as tall as he did. fucking cocksucker

Made me chuckle

Kek

>be me
>be 10-12 at the time
>mid 90's
>family gets internet
>become obsessed with internet porn
>get sucked down the deep dark rabbit hole and get into some really twisted shit
>don't know browser history is a thing
>come home from school
>mom has a multi-page printout of my porn-related searches
>makes me read them aloud
>grounded for life

>12-or-so years old.
>Mom's computer she bought off HSN is running out of storage.
>Start deleting old shit I don't think I need.
>Delete system32.
>Before Sup Forums.
>I deleted system32 before Sup Forums.

used one of those antivirus installations cd

Did you start Desktop Destroyer?

>>be 9
You must be at least 18 years old to post on Sup Forums

I thought that CRT monitor was a fucking PC.

Top lel

>Minimum BS
So there's still some BS in this mag.

Kek'ed

I'm 31 y.o. I began studying PC somewhere in 1991, but got my own PC only in 2002.

So no major fuskyups happened to me, but:

1)
>trying to connect some shitty CPU cooler to my good old pentium 3's motherboard
>power up
>some shit on the mobo literally blows up
>turn it off
>install another cooler
>everything works fine

2)
>connect some unknown PSU to my old test setup
>connect FDD (why? just because it was there right near the setup)
>power on
>fire comes out of FDD, PSU ruined, one mem stick is ruined. And I guess the mobo is ruined, didn't tried to look into it since then

>newfag

Only newest of the fags type that dumb "be me" phrase", I only started seeing that shit like last year

????

Been like that for years m8 way to be a tryhard faggot tho.

Where? I haven't gone to Sup Forums since like 2009, didn't see it on other boards until recently

Shit is old as fuck, newfag.

retard

>2012
>old

Also judging by that yotsuba color scheme and the subject of those threads, that seems to indeed be Sup Forums which I said I haven't visited this decade

I destroyed two laptops by spilling beer over it. Itś going to happen again. And i don give a shit.

Get a thinkpad, it's liquid resistant

I need to remember that. Didn't knew that it was a thing. They make retardproof laptops specially for me!

Yeah it's pretty neat
youtube.com/watch?v=d7cvi00OZDM
youtube.com/watch?v=-6K6Cxi2DVY

>read them aloud
I hope your mom is sexy man

>10yo
>ransomware
Fake or underage

>iMac G3
>Mac OS 9
This was clearly over a decade ago.

Nobody has used limewire in a decade

Sup Forums should make a magazine like pic related

>be me
> shitty little 13 year old coding in the schools library
>building a worm virus because I was bored and wanted to see if it could
>run the virus
>virus tunneled through the schools network infecting every PC that was on it
>300+
>teachers loose their shit because all it displays is horse porn and you can't get rid of it
>tech guys where still looking for the culprit after I switched school