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Your technology confessions: What have you never told anyone?

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I tell my family that "I am out of the loop" on newer computers, so I don't have to work on them anymore.
 
I only like desktops, hate laptops/smartphones/tablets for doing anything (except for Netflix).

My wife is a sys admin by day and does not touch a computer at home, ever.
 
mmntech said:
I will often go into Best Buy just to play with things.
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Yes, I've used Best Buy as an Amazon showroom too. 🙂

I have broken a controller in a fit of rage. Though I was able to repair it.
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I've broken SEVERAL and was able to repair them most of the time. The PS3 controllers were much harder to repair than the Xbox 360 controllers, IMO.

Probably the biggest laugh my brothers and I have is that we used to have a Madden league on the PC. I was playing a game and for some reason, got REALLY mad and ripped the Madden 2003 CD out of the drive and threw it, shattering it against the wall. I taped the CD back together and that served as the "Lombardi trophy" for our Madden league. 😀 (Yes, I did get a new copy, as fortunately, Target had it on sale that week)

I returned a GPU perfectly good to the store thinking it was broken (was crashing Windows) only to later realize it was an incompatible third party GPU monitoring app I was using.
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Happens to all of us.

About half the games I have in my collection I've never finished.
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I've got several PC and console games I've not opened or loaded. It is a really bad habit.
 
I rarely use computers when I am not working. 95% of the time I use my phone. When I built lil rudeguy's gaming rig, I had to bother the GH folks to tell me what to buy.

I am also pretty sure my next "computer" will be a Surface Pro 2. If I can get texting to work on that, I will go down to a dumb phone.
 
i stay pretty current with hardware/software because of work and I'm a PC gamer, but i have never owned a smartphone, and still use a flip phone (LG VX8700).
 
rudeguy said:
I am also pretty sure my next "computer" will be a Surface Pro 2. If I can get texting to work on that, I will go down to a dumb phone.
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FYI -- Pidgin with an AOL account (and probably software and accounts) supports texting. I text my brothers and friends from my PC all the time.
 
the first computer I ever built exploded because I didn't realize that the motherboard riser standoffs were necessary (so I just screwed it directly into the case with nothing in between the motherboard and steel case)

I throw out old hardware as well; I just can't be assed to sell shit on ebay and deal with that drama or even buy packing/shipping materials to give it away for free. it's usually 2 generations behind whatever is current, though, since I tend to keep a replacement for everything... so when I upgrade something like a video card, I'll save my old one and throw out the older card.
 
I destroyed a backwards compatible PS3 with a leatherman (ripping, prying, and destroying everything) to get a netflix disc out when it was just a bad power supply and completely repairable.

I went to install a 7950GX2 I spent a small fortune on and dropped it on the floor, busting off some components on the board. RMA denied.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
FYI -- Pidgin with an AOL account (and probably software and accounts) supports texting. I text my brothers and friends from my PC all the time.
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You don't have to have it connected to a smart phone?

I use DeskSMS right now and its awesome. The problem is that the text has to go to a smart phone with the app installed. I tried going 100% Google Voice and too many people have my old number.
 
takeru said:
i stay pretty current with hardware/software because of work and I'm a PC gamer, but i have never owned a smartphone, and still use a flip phone (LG VX8700).
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8 years old this month. Same battery. Embarrasses the crap out of my 12 year old. "But, Dad, it's got that nub on top.":biggrin:
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I don't have a backup of most stuff (namely software and photos), the really important university stuff is backed up by accident because I have 2 PCs and I need the same files on both.

I don't own a smartphone.
 
I actually manage backups for a living, and up until about 6 months ago, I had no backups whatsoever (not counting RAID).

currently I've got "ok" backups. I have my NAS backed up to Crashplan, but I don't have local backups or anything... I bought a USB drive and Acronis a couple months ago, but I've been too lazy thus far to even take the drive out of the case.

maybe I'll do that this weekend if I get snowed in. I bought a USB 3 PCI card to use for this and that's been the big hangup -- I haven't felt like disconnecting everything from my desktop so I can pull it out and open it up to install the card.
 
I generally dislike and have no desire to own a tablet.

I don't know what many common acronyms mean. DHCP? DNS? PPTP? L2TP? I know what they do but that's it.

I can never remember how to set up email forwarding in Exchange and have to look it up every time.

I loathe windows powershell.

rudeguy said:
I rarely use computers when I am not working. 95% of the time I use my phone. When I built lil rudeguy's gaming rig, I had to bother the GH folks to tell me what to buy.

I am also pretty sure my next "computer" will be a Surface Pro 2. If I can get texting to work on that, I will go down to a dumb phone.
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Google Voice.

I text from my PC quite often when I'm in the office and helping a client via text. Easier than punching it out on the phone.
 
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I have broken a controller in a fit of rage. Though I was able to repair it.
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Not sure if I've broken anything to the point it completely stopped working, but the I definitely smashed shit on the floor before. We used to have one working Super Nintendo controller and one busted one tied together with an elastic band. I also used to hit my computer when I lost playing Age of Empires...

I still go ape shit, but now that I pay for my own things and am paranoid about damaging anything, I keep it to yelling and hitting air -- the F-word has lost its power and much dirtier words come out when I'm really mad now.

OP's topic: I bought a Playbook shortly after release, then sold it a year layer for 1/4 the price. FML. Oh wait, I tell everyone that and laugh at myself.
 
When I was 11 (or so) I thought I had some chance of figuring out what was wrong with a HD by taking the lid off the thing. It was a 120MB Conner!
 
loki8481 said:
the first computer I ever built exploded because I didn't realize that the motherboard riser standoffs were necessary (so I just screwed it directly into the case with nothing in between the motherboard and steel case)
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Haha. I was going to post this as well, but you beat me to it. But after a spark flew after I powered it up, I realized my error. Luckily it didn't fry out, and worked fine once I put the screws in.
 
I once threw a temper tantrum when I came home from school to find my mother had given away my NES with all my games without asking me to someone to get out of paying cash for the job. Her logic was "You have Super Nintendo now so you didn't need regular Nintendo anymore".

Tell that to Bionic Commando, mom.

TELL THAT TO BIONIC COMMANDO.
 
I screwed up our exchange server. Took me 27 hours to repair it. Made up a BS reason (the FAT32 table misaligned with the RAM segmentation or whatever mumbo jumbo) and charged my time for the fix.
 
Sonikku said:
I once threw a temper tantrum when I came home from school to find my mother had given away my NES with all my games without asking me to someone to get out of paying cash for the job. Her logic was "You have Super Nintendo now so you didn't need regular Nintendo anymore".

Tell that to Bionic Commando, mom.

TELL THAT TO BIONIC COMMANDO.
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I loved that game!
 
Squeetard said:
I screwed up our exchange server. Took me 27 hours to repair it. Made up a BS reason (the FAT32 table misaligned with the RAM segmentation or whatever mumbo jumbo) and charged my time for the fix.
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nice. fake it to make it all the way lol
 
This isn't me but a good friend of mine was the manager of a computer repair place in a college town. Every time a cute girl brought in a broken computer to be repaired the first thing he did was scan the hard drive for nude pics.

They had a huge folder of random girls nude selfies and sex pictures.
 
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