Most embarrassing thing you did on a computer

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I hit the shortcut for the screen reader and in a panic/frustration from being yelled at by a Microsoft Sam like tts I made my 'puter even more unusable by uninstalling drivers. A quick restart resolved everything, but I learned after to turn the volume down and which keys turn it off.

Also did a factory reset twice because I couldn't figure out for the life of me why my External Drive was on, but not being read. (The data cable was damaged)
 
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I was roasting marshmallows over the fireplace and also working on the innards of my desktop computer and dropped a marshmallow onto the videocard which was still hot from being on recently.

Then in an absolute fiend move, I didn't want to waste it, scraped the sticky substance from my nvidia encrusted candyland and ate it and it tasted of battery.
 
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Started basic coding/finding my way around computers in the very late 1990s, mainly on my grandfather's NEC Win 95 setup.

For some reason, I one day decided there were 'too many files' on the C: drive, so went about cleaning them up.

I literally did a search for every file on the system, then randomly deleted like every fifth file. Restarted to see how fast I'd made it, only for the system boot failure error messages to come up.

9 year old me knew he fucked up.
 
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Crashed a CNC at full speed, because I got careless and forgot the automatic path to the tool carousel collides with the product. The tool bent, product got torn off and broken, and everything that could, got misaligned. It was just a woodwork and the machine wasn't damaged, but my boss and several other people were there and saw it all.
 
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One day in December of 2023 (this was right before winter break, senior year of HS) I needed to submit an assignment in my architecture class really badly but my assigned computer wouldn't turn on. The LED on the front of the case was flashing and after looking up the pattern I found out that it was indicating a board failure. In desperation, I unplugged the computer's power cord (didn't mess with anything else) and waited about 10 seconds before plugging it back in. It still didn't turn on and I was disappointed.

However, doing this must've really fucked something up because a few minutes later I started to notice that kids were getting agitated (one was even banging his mouse against the table). I glanced at his screen and saw that his computer was offline. I don't know what the fuck I did, but I somehow fucked up the whole classroom's Ethernet connection even though I didn't touch the Ethernet cable of my computer once. I started freaking the fuck out in my head and walked out of the classroom.

Teacher got really pissed and called my fucking mom during her lunch break and bitched about me for like 20 minutes, I never got any punishment though.
 
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Probably the time I fucked up the family computer with adware and spyware installing limewire. It was so bad the whole thing had to be reformatted and reinstalled. Either that or the time I racked up over a hundred dollars going over our limit downloading songs and shitty subbed real media dragon ball videos which were sometimes surprise gore videos from frostwire. I'd queue them up at night and leave the downloads running all day when I was at school. I'd leave like 10-20 of then running at a time. Sometimes it would take a few days. I was pretty dumb when I first started pirating things and I also didn't realize such things as data limits existed. I think we had a gigabyte or something like that which was a lot at the time. I can't remember exactly now but I was way over. I got yelled at pretty bad for both of those. But I learned to always pay attention to the installers and whatever checkboxes they wanted me to click. Shit was like the wild west back then. Every fucking piece of free software had hidden bullshit bundled with it.
 
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Probably the time I fucked up the family computer with adware and spyware installing limewire. It was so bad the whole thing had to be reformatted and reinstalled. Either that or the time I racked up over a hundred dollars going over our limit downloading songs and shitty subbed real media dragon ball videos which were sometimes surprise gore videos from frostwire. I'd queue them up at night and leave the downloads running all day when I was at school. I'd leave like 10-20 of then running at a time. Sometimes it would take a few days. I was pretty dumb when I first started pirating things and I also didn't realize such things as data limits existed. I think we had a gigabyte or something like that which was a lot at the time. I can't remember exactly now but I was way over. I got yelled at pretty bad for both of those. But I learned to always pay attention to the installers and whatever checkboxes they wanted me to click. Shit was like the wild west back then. Every fucking piece of free software had hidden bullshit bundled with it.
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I was having an issue where my nvidia drivers were fucking up on linux and when i went to reinstall them there was some weird dependency change that wouldn't allow me to do what i wanted to do.

I'm retarded.

I typed in the problem on chatgpt and eventually asked it, how do i delete the dependencies that the driver package wasn't allowing me to reinstall it in a cascade style delete.

It gave me the terminal command, deleted like 800+ packages of the 1500 packages on my linux install.

Rebooted to a black screen no cursor

Had to put a thumb drive in and reinstall from scratch.

Again, I'm retarded.
 
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Oh yeah. Accidentally set a porn pic as my dad’s wallpaper on his machine. Someone gave me a cd with a bunch of porn pictures when i was in high school. And my computer wouldn’t boot and used his.

He woke me up and was like, “fix my wallpaper”. Didn’t get in trouble but still the most awkward experience i ever had with my dad.
 
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