Most embarrassing thing you did on a computer

[The Ugly One]

I learned C++.

 

[Famished]

Got a virus trying to download a pokemon emerald rom when i was like 8.

 

[judgement boy]

I used Windows instead of Linux

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It wasn't me, it was my father. He got a CD-Rom with a magazine because it was the multimedia/IT/Internet hype years and he decided to check it out on my computer. He had no computer knowledge but I used to leave computer magazines at home and he often read them on the turlet. So he had a form of hypothetical computer knowledge. The multimedia showcase about god knows what didn't start automatically(I had probably turned off autoplay) so what did he do? He somehow found his way into the Windows folder and started deleting certain .sys and .dll files for reasons unknown.
All of this happened during the time it took me to take a shower, so 10-15 minutes. When I got back he was "welp, I tried, it didn't work, then I tried to be clever and things went wrong" and that's the right attitude! He knew it wouldn't damage the hardware and that reinstalling win95 was fast and easy, so I was impressed.
gg, dad

 

[wew lad]

My first ever PC build from a parts list I came up with was an 8800 GTX I had somehow talked my parents into getting me for Christmas, paired with a Pentium Core D. It was like pairing a Titan and a Celeron.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

I don't know what's worse:
- Installing fake Minecraft mods which were just viruses that caused Windows to blow up
- Installing fake Roblox which was just a virus which caused Windows to blow up
Both would easily both be the most embarassing things I've done on a computer.

 

[Lando Griffin]

Downloaded a hack program(w/e you call it) for Adventure Quest back in 2009 when I was in the 7th grade on my windows xp computer. Proceeded to get a bad malware that ended up making lose things I couldn't recover lol.

 

[Johnathan Readit]

Wrecked my hard drive with viruses through a YouTube to .avi website trying to download a Bowling for Soup music video and had to replace it, losing everything including the music video. All for a a gag. I planned on replacing most of my buddy's bootleg movies with burned DVDs of nothing but that video. He didn't write on the discs, he had a disc binder with masking tape labels on the slots so I was going to take most of them out and shuffle the rest around and fill the rest with Punk Rock 101. It would have been beautiful.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Using Avast's web browser, or getting a Windows 8 laptop into a bootloop through shutting it off while it was shutting down.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Over 20 years ago, when I was just a boy and the internet was new, I was looking at naked ladies butts when my mom walked in the room so I panicked and slammed the laptop shut and acted guilty as fuck until it became a big fight with Mom because I was obviously doing something bad but I just wouldn't cop to it.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Over 20 years ago, when I was just a boy and the internet was new, I was looking at naked ladies butts when my mom walked in the room so I panicked and slammed the laptop shut and acted guilty as fuck until it became a big fight with Mom because I was obviously doing something bad but I just wouldn't cop to it.

Did she ever find out?

 

[Fae Supremacist]

A desktop computer I was salvaging for parts a few days ago wouldn't POST, wouldn't boot, the motherboard was showing CPU errors.
Spent an unreasonable amount of time debugging, flashing new BIOS, nothing worked, I was close to dismantling another computer just to use its motherboard as a test rig for the CPU.
Turns out that particular model of CPU just didn't have integrated graphics at all, and it was showing as a CPU error. Yes, it was a Ryzen and I should have known that. And yes, I had removed the GPU ahead of time.

 

[TheOther]

When I was 10 years old, I built a Leyden jar to be charged by static electricity and used the spark to destroy a really old computer. Well, my parents told me they wouldn't buy a new computer if the old one still worked. So... well... I managed to get the old one to secretly stop working.

It was so stupid and here is the legendary Radeon X700 and AMD Athlon 3000+. I still hate my past for that stupid decision. In the end, a new computer helped me gain the knowledge required to do my current job. So... um, it's great and stupid at the same time.

 

[TheOther]

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.

Still pretty cool, I just found out what kind of porn my dad watches after half a year of visiting my parents. I just wanted to check some emails and his story hit me in the face. xD

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Over 20 years ago, when I was just a boy and the internet was new, I was looking at naked ladies butts when my mom walked in the room so I panicked and slammed the laptop shut and acted guilty as fuck until it became a big fight with Mom because I was obviously doing something bad but I just wouldn't cop to it.

I never understood the "my parents will get mad at me for looking at boobies as a hormonal teen" meme. Is it an American thing, like jacking off with lube?
My parents were glad I was straight and my dick worked and that was the end of that.

 

[Mister Mint]

My parents got a virus when I was young and I was the only one close to knowledgeable enough to get rid of it. I searched around their C:/windows folder looking for something suspicious. I found the /system folder, that's normal, looks good. But then I saw it - /system32? ANOTHER system folder? A likely story, virus.

Yeah. I did the meme.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Did she ever find out?

I mean, she knew. We eventually compromised by her just telling me she didn't want me talking to any strangers on the internet, and leaving it at that.

I never understood the "my parents will get mad at me for looking at boobies as a hormonal teen" meme. Is it an American thing, like jacking off with lube?
My parents were glad I was straight and my dick worked and that was the end of that.

Yeah my parents were also grateful I was straight. I remember my Dad telling me it was okay to date any race of girl I liked, so long as it was a girl. I really took that to heart.

 

[Lovely Kin]

I downloaded a bunch of cool looking cursors which resulted me downloading free games, cheats, and a "free" club penguin membership. Wound up installing five different tool bars, malware, and wrecked the poor computer as a little kid. My dad reasonably was very upset at me, not just because of the viruses, but because I was stupid enough to think I could download free games from a random website. Took him a bit to fix everything that I fucked up.

 

[Don Yagon]

Built a frankenstein Ethernet cable with three ends so that I could tap into PoE from CCTV switch while connecting to the non-PoE socket for the LAN proper at the office. All so I could connect some old-ass Cisco phone that came with no power adapter. Surprisingly it works decently well, but I'm sure the management would get pissed if/when they find that out.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

.Yeah my parents were also grateful I was straight. I remember my Dad telling me it was okay to date any race of girl I liked, so long as it was a girl. I really took that to heart.

My parents seem to be super grateful that i turned out straight and gave them grandbabies. My brother married the mom of some chick i grew up with. Was a bit awkward at first but it’s fine.

Another embarrassing tech mishap. About 2000, we had a bootleg satellite setup where you could reprogram a directv card and get every channel for free. My parents went out of town for the week and i had the house to myself.

What do I do? Tape record hours of porn. And the weekend before they came home, i had a weekend trip scheduled with some friends to go to Six Flags. Hid all the tapes to where no one could find them. One problem, i left a porn channel on tv before i turned off the tv. Realized what i did in the middle of the trip. Figured i would change the channel before my parent came home.

Came home after the trip was done and my parents got home first. After they went to bed, i turned on the tv to see if i could still access those channels. All porn channels were locked down. To this day, my parents never mentioned it.