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One of the moderators of the subreddit, Coffeechipmunk, said the most popular posts there are those that depict situations just moments away from exploding. "[It's] very dangerous, but very cool looking. They probably get so big because people post the pics and you think, 'Wow, that's just a bomb at that point,'" they told Bored Panda.

The subreddit was created on the 29th of February, 2012, and since then it has grown into a 427K member-strong community. They aren't interested in trivial things like cracked screens or anything -- just the filthiest, nastiest gore there is. And it doesn't seem that it's drying out, too. Just think of all the people who acquire a new gadget or an appliance and are so eager to use it, they skip the operation manual (myself included).

“The Printer Isn’t Working”

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Elsker 4 years ago

that's just.... wow....

229points

"A lot of the content on the subreddit does rather well, except for people coming for actual tech support, they get redirected to the right subreddit. For actual tech support gore, though, it seems like broken screens and slightly messy wires are the current posts that don't hit too hard," Coffeechipmunk explained.

They think the reason why r/techsupportgore got so popular is quite a simple one: "Honestly... it's very fun," Coffeechipmunk said. "In a time where most of the internet can be incredibly serious and most times saddening or angering, r/techsupportgore is fun because you go on it and you can laugh (and/or cringe) at the crazy posts. Where else can you see a post like, "Wow, these cables really are messy" to, "A lizard fried my motherboard" back to back? I love our growing community. They're a bunch of people that just enjoy tech and to some extent, the worst of it."

End User Had A Heater Next To The PC Which Was Randomly Shutting Off And She Thought She Had Smelled Burning A Couple Of Times. It Is Literally Screaming

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419points

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Panda Kicki 4 years ago

Oh, that face!

193points

If you are, however, afraid that you're gonna end up on this subreddit, there are things you can do to prevent it. There's plenty of information on the internet that you can utilize to become more tech savvy. There are forums, websites, and YouTube channels dedicated to specific fields where you can find comprehensive information on how to reset your iPhone and how to fix a malfunctioning laptop. Heck, if you're feeling really adventurous, you can even learn how to code.

When it comes to technology, the information is out there and it's available. You don't have to study computer science to know this stuff. Like a blacksmith who has an exact feel for how he needs to beat a piece of metal in order to mold it, knowledge and regular use of it will make you better at technology.

I Can't Even...

Final score:

411points

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Slinkman 4 years ago

'I saw a red floor and i want it painted black'

341points

Hospital Server Room

Final score:

406points

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Panda Kicki 4 years ago

Spaghetti! Spaghetti for everyone!

207points

First Day On Job; Set Up Those 4 Wireless Speakers For You.

Final score:

391points

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Ola Polowczyk 4 years ago

And here, dear children, you can see speakers resting in their natural habitat

220points

Told A User To Shutdown Their Virus Infected Computer And Ship It Back And To Label It As Infected. They Did Good

Final score:

386points

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JessG 4 years ago

Funny

104points

Ancient Temple Of Asus

Final score:

384points

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Mark 4 years ago

Well seeing as there is nothing connected to it its just looks like a mother board covered in a load of c**p.

78points

I Need Somewhere To Set This Candle... Oh Here’s A Good Spot!

Final score:

340points

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Panda Kicki 4 years ago

Lucky it was just a mess and not a fire...

123points

#10

"My Fan Was Making Too Much Noise!"

Final score:

329points

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Hans 4 years ago

Not comprehending technology is one thing. Not comprehending basic physics is yet another. How do such people survive?

253points

#11

I Should Tell Them It's Not A Touch Screen...

Final score:

329points

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Hans 4 years ago

Hand wipes, pleeeeeeeease!

169points

#12

"My PC Shut Off Suddenly And Won't Turn Back On"

Final score:

315points

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Chris Watson 4 years ago

What a filthy environment

125points

#13

Quality Repost Here. (I Assume This Has Been Posted Before)

Final score:

310points

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Bill 4 years ago

How old is this picture? I haven't used a floppy in over 25 years

101points

#14

One Of My Co-Workers Was Eager To Unpack Her New Mouse

Final score:

303points

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Hans 4 years ago

Admittedly, these packings just are super annoying!

216points

#15

“My Space Heater Stopped Working”

Final score:

289points

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Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago

Don't worry. Will be heating again, soon

122points

#16

Professional Cabling At Pepsi

Final score:

286points

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Mark 4 years ago

To the MAX!!!!!

143points

#17

AT&T Has No Idea Why Their DSL Services Is So Poor. It Must Be My Wires In My House. No I Don't Think So

Final score:

285points

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Hans 4 years ago

"This is meant to be like this"

102points

Someone Unplugged Something And Now The Office Internet Doesn't Work...

Final score:

277points

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chi-wei shen 4 years ago

That poor IT technican...

16points

#19

Customer Came In With His iPhone, His Glass Cracked, He Thought He Could Peel Off The Glass So He Wouldn't Notice The Crack Anymore

Final score:

258points

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Hans 4 years ago

Genius!

121points

#20

Plugging In Your USB Receiver With A Hammer For That Flush Mounted Look

Final score:

241points

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Elsker 4 years ago

when the problem sits between the laptop and the deskchair...

187points

#21

"It Didn't Plug In, So I Bent The Pins To Make It Fit"

Final score:

239points

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Hans 4 years ago

If it fit, I...oh, nervermind, I will just read the newspaper.

27points

#22

Don't Forget To Tip Your Server

Final score:

234points

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Emi A. 4 years ago

I don't even have a clue what's gong on in here lol

67points

#23

My Friend Drilled Holes In His Mouse To Make It Lighter So It Would Give Him An "Advantage"

Final score:

230points

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TheDivineMs.M 4 years ago

Advantage of what????

202points

#24

My Grandpa Thought His Headphone Jack Was A Screw Hole

Final score:

226points

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Mark 4 years ago

A screw hole for what exactly though?

233points

#25

Work For Local High School, The Disc Drive Wasn’t Working. Probably Been There Since 2012

Final score:

219points

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Hans 4 years ago

I did not see that meme face in quite a while...

105points

When The Acid Kicks In

Final score:

211points

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Fred and George Weasley 4 years ago

weird oof

50points

#27

User "Dropped It Walking To The Car." It Came In The Day After The Super Bowl

Final score:

207points

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Elsker 4 years ago

drop it like it's hot...

71points

#28

"But I Like It This Way, It's Convenient." -My Tech Savvy Aunt

Final score:

203points

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Martha Meyer 4 years ago

I would like to unsee this please!

120points

#29

Round 2 Of How Students Treat Their Chromebooks In My School, I Have No Words

Final score:

193points

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Monday 4 years ago

This makes me sad. This Chromebook did not deserve this.

179points

RaroaRaroa 4 years ago

Nor did whoever bought it in the first place.

11points

Brent Wambold 4 years ago

I pray they were charged for it - they would be here

7points

Alan Smith 4 years ago

its a chromebook. yes it did.

6points

Sterrinatu 4 years ago

I guess I was raised different. My mom taught me to not destroy other people's property. In fact, you treat it better than your own.

33points

mario.b 4 years ago

Your mother taught you well

8points

G13 4 years ago

Same! It's disgusting that people have no respect

2points

GumShoe359 4 years ago

Agree! So many people are awful to public property.

0points

temmie 4 years ago

you don't know how many kids at my school play with a Chromebook like if its a football and some of them say "the schools going to pay for it" um ..... did you read the contract they gave us before we got them and they pays like $500 or more and get mad just for that and saying i an't pay'in. there are so many dumb kids at my school i honestly don't know how they got to high school they think life is a game.

15points

ember avery 4 years ago

my school does the same and last year someone had to pay over $300 and she started crying saying she didn't do anything 😐😩

8points

Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago

Some people, including ignorant adults, think that when they wreck something they've been given to use, someone else ought to pay to fix/replace it. No respect for others' property or for something that has been given to them without having to work for it.

8points

Panda with Heart 4 years ago

Oh wow..student should have to clean the bathrooms.

6points

jevais 4 years ago

The kids that damaged laptops should pay towards new ones. This is inadmissible.

5points

Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so everything we owned was treated with the greatest respect.

5points

Mascha Claessens 4 years ago

Jup. Happend every time. They throw it on their table, they throw it in their bags, they throw their bags around... Seriously not understanding how parents can buy their kids expensive phones... :')

5points

BiEL Sampaio 4 years ago

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María Hermida 4 years ago

They should be forced to pay for it, plus a fine, plus "you can't get anything else for free for the next ten years because you don't deserve it".

4points

Joanna 4 years ago

It's heartbreaking how people are ungrateful ! :(

4points

Lisa Yario 4 years ago

Looks like one of those ant farms, or a sand picture

4points

Steven Meyer 4 years ago

That just goes to show if you give someone something, and they don’t work for it, it has no value to them.

3points

Vanta Black 4 years ago

I am currently using a Chromebook. This has given me yet another reason not to have kids.

3points

SciFi Vortex 4 years ago

I have one word. Animals.

2points

Scott Lloyd 4 years ago

the keyboard looks good besides the space bar. who the hell takes a space bar out?

2points

jevais 4 years ago

Kids that have no manners, that who does such stupid things.

0points

cinderelly 0f sPiRiTlAnD 3 years ago

If anyone did that to my Chromebook I would probably get them back with a prank (sugar vs salt, hot sauce lunch, etc.)

1point

John Baker 4 years ago

If it were up to me, that student wouldn't get a replacement - or a passing grade.

1point

AnnSmithJones 4 years ago

Spoiled brats. Their parents should have to pay for that. When my kids were loaned chromebooks for school, I'm not joking when I say that I bought them foam envelops to keep them in, checked to make sure they were not damaging them, cleaned it, taught them how to care for the cables, etc. But I take care of things, even when they're not mine. ESPECIALLY when they're not mine.

1point

Mike Rodrick 4 years ago

School taxes at work!

1point

rehabisforquitters 4 years ago

As a teacher, I'm fighting every impulse to rant about respecting the school's property...

1point

David Kichi 4 years ago

When you give it to kids for free, they think it's cheap junk and treat it as so. Next time, have them put a cash deposit for value of laptop. If returned in bad condition, money is used to buy replacement and they get to keep the one they destroyed. Everyone wins!!!

1point

Kent Fishburn 4 years ago

They didn't pay for them, the taxpayers did. So, it's free, right?

1point

Nerdiqueen 4 years ago

*reads this on a school chromebook* *screams in terror realising i KNOW people who do this*

1point

DebbyC 4 years ago

Keep giving the brats more Chromebooks!

1point

jevais 4 years ago

Debby totally agree with you. It's up to the parents to provide them instead giving them their own TV for the bedroom, no Mobil phones and less pocket money. This way the parents have no excuses for not buying one.

0points

Cee Mor 4 years ago

Well now they will have to write everything out by hand and actually carry books!

1point

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago

A reason some kids may do this, or at least from my experience, is that sometimes when you break your computer and need a replacement, they'll have to give you this silvery-chrome samsung one, but it's the exact same size and everything. Just pretty and sparkly and shiny.

1point

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago

oh hehe I'm working and reading this on one of those chromebooks

1point

Liz-ard 2 years ago

WHY???

0points

cinderelly 0f sPiRiTlAnD 3 years ago

if someone did this to my Chromebook (I am currently using) I would get SO THORNY MAD 😡😡😡😡😡

0points

Boop 4 years ago

We have these at my school and our teachers are SUPER strict about this so we're all careful about this

0points

꧁༺ʍǟռɢօ༻꧂ 4 years ago

Damn, and i thought our school was bad

0points

Šimon Špaček 4 years ago

What and why?

0points

Eyad Kamel 4 years ago

Huh, reminds me of how the kids in the basement look

0points

Bindi Adams 4 years ago

Sadly, not a unique event...some genius at ours decided to stick a pin through the camera......another decided it was a cool event to switch all the keys around.....guess that better than taking every second key......very sad

0points

ebony1k124 touch 4 years ago

What had happened was....

0points

Molly Morrison 4 years ago

Then they don't deserve one....

0points

Jace 4 years ago

They’re f*****g trash. It’s no surprise that they get abused. Computers are almost the perfect generator of impotent rage.

0points

Clare Amidei 4 years ago

I'm on a chromebook right now and I had to keep scrolling otherwise my chromebook would flip out

0points

Jeff Diamond 4 years ago

Depending on where the school is, kids tend to think the school just buys all new stuff every year. Sad to think that some kids don't respect things that can be provided as a service, but have to be done for years.

0points

Funtime Foxy 4 years ago

OML THE POOR CHROMEBOOK

0points

Teresa Groth 4 years ago

Sad!

0points

melbfk 4 years ago

Pictures say a thousand words.

0points

Janet Salisbury 4 years ago

kids at my school too

0points

Gareth Williams 4 years ago

It looks like the cover of Radiohead's Kid A album.

0points

Joshua SZABO 4 years ago

oops

0points

Donald Holder 4 years ago

Spoiled millennials. When we attended school. You had to provide your own equipment consisting of a calculator, and a pen and paper.

0points

Batty 4 years ago

ok boomer, millenials are adults now. this is gen z.

1point

Flavia Slag 4 years ago

Anger management next class

0points

Khloe Ness 4 years ago

WOW

0points

Tiffany Sparrow 4 years ago

My chromebook is a scared

0points

Kylie Stovall 4 years ago

how can u not like a crom book :[......................idiot

0points

Drake Pillsbury 4 years ago

Sadly I have one in my classroom that looks about like this.

0points

Drake Pillsbury 4 years ago

Sadly I have one from my classroom that does not look much better.

0points

Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

My kids shift key started sticking and I started panicking thinking I was going to have to replace the whole thing two weeks ago. They were nice about it and replaced it.

0points

ANDREA SERRANO MORALES 4 years ago

my chromebook from the school shuts off randomly during zoom meeting and while doing work. kids forget their pencils or earbuds so then they just close the laptop and well, it breaks, cracking the screen.

0points

L Duncan 4 years ago

Reasons 1 to 1 fails. Create safe libraries open until 10 for access.

0points

Kjorn 4 years ago

i saw worst… much… much… much worst when i worked in a highschool

0points

Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

bad - worse - worst, as in 'I have eaten worse wurst :-)'

2points

Ian Koch 4 years ago

I actually had the weird glitchy screen happen to a friend once! he didn't do it on purpose...

-1point

Lynn Morello 4 years ago

Not his why should he care????????????? WTF did he do???

-1point

John de la Cruz 4 years ago

that's the young generation of today for ya

-1point

Travis Juchter 4 years ago

Maybe they watched porn on it and was too paranoid someone would find out. Might as well smash it!

-1point

Batty 4 years ago

porn is blocked on school computers

1point

Albert G. Fernández 4 years ago

This it´s easy to explain: He´s definitely bad at Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

-1point

Destiney Torres 4 years ago

same thing happened to me except i didn't screw it up to bad just the screen,but a couple of friends of mine decided to use an umbrella and well u know, and beside my was an accident.

-2points

Ann Sterzinger 4 years ago

I hope they didn't give you a replacement till you'd read a paper book or two... clearly you are learning to spell from Reddit. Aren't they teaching you any language skills AT ALL? Or are they just spending the money I pay in taxes for you to break things?

0points

Id row 4 years ago

To be fair, those Chromebooks are c**p and would have broken sooner or later.

-3points

#30

“My Flash Drive Won’t Show Up And I’ve Literally Tried Everything!”

Final score:

192points

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Mark 4 years ago

Other than plugging in into the right port!

104points

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Peter Kelly 4 years ago

Most of these leave you asking, "How and why?"...!!!

48points

your_lesbian_friend 4 years ago

yes indeed!!

9points

misteriosa 4 years ago

I have such brainfarts sometimes, it hurts. 2 months ago, cable/net guys came to make a set up for a future tv upstairs, and moved the wireless router up etc. So, bunch of cables going into things. My children played around, and accidentally unplugged everything. Enter me, managing to plug all the cables in, except one- going from the tv receiver into oblivion. Rechecked everything, tried every hole, and after 30 mins of despair, decided to call the tech support for advice, knowing in my heart it would turn out to be something incredibly stupid, and preparing for the embarrasment. So I called, explained the situation, revised every cable I already plugged in, and leading to the one I have no idea about. 'So, it goes from the tv receiver, but I don't know where to plug it in, it says HDMI at the end of it', 'Did you manage to find the HDMI port on the tv?', 'No, I don't have a tv here yet... oh my God I knew the answer would be obvious and stupid sorry about this thank you'...

26points

deanna woods 4 years ago

Some people don't need to be allowed to use technology because they don't know how to use it properly. You don't take a hammer or any other tool to devices unless you want to destroy it.

13points

Catlady6000 4 years ago

That why there is an owners manual. Am I the only one who reads theirs? For everything from my car to my phone?

13points

Rose the Cook 4 years ago

Having an IT tech in the family the most common problems he was called to were, infant or pet had disconnected power OR said infant or pet had urinated on computer.

8points

Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

The younger brother of a friend used to sleepwalk as a kid and he once opened the lid to the record player and, believing he was in the bathroom, proceeded to pee in it.

3points

Rissie 4 years ago

I had a remote location of a care facility remove the plug for the router to plug in the panini machine. And then they wondered my everything just stopped working every now and then. By the time I came in, it had caused all kinds of issues. So much fun.

3points

ptm45 4 years ago

These people shouldn't come near any kind of technology. Go back to the stone age!

2points

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago

Well, at least now I know I'm not the worst when it comes to this kind of stuff 😂

2points

Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago

These were great, thanks for posting.

2points

alex8bk339 4 years ago

poor computers...

1point

Bob Hildebrand 4 years ago

...and then the coffee cup holder on the computer just broke off. They should make them more sturdy.

1point

Malcontent 4 years ago

TL:DR some people are total retards and need to go back to school.

1point

Micah Pettit 4 years ago

When working tech support for an online RAM and SSD company, one of my coworkers spoke to someone whose SSD stopped working. Instead of, you know, contacting the FREE tech support, they decided to go to the internet at large. They found a post somewhere (god knows what idiotic corner of the web they scoured) that recommended they put their SSD IN THE OVEN. To be fair, they apparently did get it to work again, but it ran very slowly. Gee, can't imagine WHY. Needless to say, replacement was denied.

1point

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

To be fair, there are some computer parts that gentle baking may fix - it softens and repairs micro-fractures in solder. SSD is not one of these things.

1point

Meami 4 years ago

How do these people get dressed in the morning?????

1point

Bonifasiana Kosong 4 years ago

This article hurt my soul.

1point

elia 84631 4 years ago

Most of theme seems that caused by stupid people and didn't have idea how to fix it

1point

Liz-ard 2 years ago (edited)

Well, what does this tell us? It tell us that the tech-people that develops both hard and software do not understand how far behind the rest of the common humans are in catching up, evolving and understanding how the tech-people mean things to work. This generation and social gap is the deepest cut that ever have been between them. It excludes the elder generations: pre-1980, and make life difficult for pre-millenniumers, poor people and most people living in developing countries. I was young when the first PCs came. And scared of by a type recorder teacher that know very little about computers, typing lessons in DOS and a hysterical screaming “DON’t press C-A-T!!!” every time the lesson were (thank God!) over. When Windows new graphic platform came I got mesmerised and hooked. Still a noob at age 56 and still fighting to “get it”.

0points

Mumof1 4 years ago

Are these people for real? If they had a brain between them they'd be dangerous.

0points

Megan Stone 4 years ago

I never thought I'd find tech dramas so funny!!! Thanks everyone, Hilarious :)

0points

Jace 4 years ago

Most of the “user error” images are great for story-telling, but the majority of problems with stuff in this industry is the industry itself. Every legitimate criticism of the technology gets blocked by special pleading (a logical fallacy, which, in an industry you’d naively expect to be all about logic, is all too common).

0points

Barbara Baldwin 4 years ago

Most of these left me wondering what I'm looking at..call me clueless

0points

Joshua SZABO 4 years ago

@Peter Kelly -->EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD OF SAID

0points

Fairsher 4 years ago

Would love to show these to my son but it would cause his Asperger's to explode to a 10!!!

0points

Coffey Murphy 4 years ago

I found these disturbing, especially the cables!

0points

Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago

Some of these are good arguments for keeping stupid people from breeding.

0points

Catlady6000 4 years ago

Does no,one read, or at least glance thru the owners manuals for anything? A lot of these never would have happened with a little prophylactic reading

-1point

Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

Thumbs up for "prophylactic reading"!

2points

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Peter Kelly 4 years ago

Most of these leave you asking, "How and why?"...!!!

48points

your_lesbian_friend 4 years ago

yes indeed!!

9points

misteriosa 4 years ago

26points

deanna woods 4 years ago

Some people don't need to be allowed to use technology because they don't know how to use it properly. You don't take a hammer or any other tool to devices unless you want to destroy it.

13points

Catlady6000 4 years ago

That why there is an owners manual. Am I the only one who reads theirs? For everything from my car to my phone?

13points

Rose the Cook 4 years ago

Having an IT tech in the family the most common problems he was called to were, infant or pet had disconnected power OR said infant or pet had urinated on computer.

8points

Monika Soffronow 4 years ago

The younger brother of a friend used to sleepwalk as a kid and he once opened the lid to the record player and, believing he was in the bathroom, proceeded to pee in it.

3points

Rissie 4 years ago

3points

ptm45 4 years ago

These people shouldn't come near any kind of technology. Go back to the stone age!

2points

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago

Well, at least now I know I'm not the worst when it comes to this kind of stuff 😂

2points

Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago

These were great, thanks for posting.

2points

alex8bk339 4 years ago

poor computers...

1point

Bob Hildebrand 4 years ago

...and then the coffee cup holder on the computer just broke off. They should make them more sturdy.

1point

Malcontent 4 years ago

TL:DR some people are total retards and need to go back to school.

1point

Micah Pettit 4 years ago

1point

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

To be fair, there are some computer parts that gentle baking may fix - it softens and repairs micro-fractures in solder. SSD is not one of these things.

1point