Hey Pandas, What Is Your Biggest Tech Mistake?

We've all made mistakes with technology, what are some goofy things you've done?

I once forgot my password which led to my iPad resetting. After recovering what I could, I then had to get a new iPad the next week cuz I stepped on it and broke it.

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Couriva

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Had an E-Scooter. To charge the battery pack it needs a converter. Used that correctly for about two years. Until one day I was low on battery power and in a rush to charge it. Instead of hooking it up to the converter I just plugged it straight in.
Fuses burned out and my battery pack was fried. Luckily the electric motor was unharmed. But still: a replacement battery pack is 800 bucks. A stupid mistake because I was rushing. No no to place except myself. Well, I was walking home that day.

Was so mad I sold the whole thing and bought a bigger, better E-Scooter (actually more of a E-Motorbike) for my short commute to work. But I won't make this stupid mistake again.

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Ban-One

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Ban-One (Submission author) 1 year ago

Jeez... I should proof-read before posting: "No no to place"....well, funny. Of course "No one to blame...." Thanks for not having an "edit" function on posts like these, BP.

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I once made a mistake where I accidentally set my keyboard to ancient Greek no idea how but I started freaking out and couldn't change it back for a whole day

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Rowan_the_raging_raven

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RafCo (he/him) 1 year ago

I think you just mean Greek.

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Somehow managed to delete an entire graded project on the school computer without even doing anything

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Stardust she/her

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BRUSSEL SPROUT PANDA 1 year ago

Ctrl+z

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Not mine but one of my friends in Tech for Drama (I'm in the acting field so I don't work tech) but his class was doing Wizzard of Oz. For half of the show, he pretty much had Toto barking every time something happened. Note: Just don't let him work sound anymore... Or lights.... Or anything...

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Grooks

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Thinking that people would responsibly use the internet and not only use it for personal gain. As in thinking someone would see that patterns repeat themselves a lot in human behavior and then hoping someone would use that knowledge responsibly to make a positive change in the world.

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Jennifer Menne

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i somehow accidentally turned my tablet into a cluster bomb

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best turtle

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It was 1984. I accidentally formatted the hard drive on the chief electrical engineer's computer. Not a good day.

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Laura Roberts

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Rowan_the_raging_raven 1 year ago

Never touch an engineers thing no matter how messed up it is. We have organized chaos

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Any old developer has a few.

One time I had developed some software for a client that handled their annual employee reviews and pay raises. The boss there had made a mistake: He intended to give a rather crummy employee a .7% raise, which sucks terribly, but accidentally gave him a 7% raise, which is fantastic.

He approached me and asked me to directly update the database for the one appraisal - in production - which I did... but typical DB IDEs (in this case, SSMS) only execute the highlighted SQL. Apparently when I hit run I'd not roped in the where clause, and gave the whole company that crappy .7% raise.

The HR department spent weeks sorting it out, manually asking every supervisor what raise they'd really intended (the software did logging, but not well enough to reconstruct what was intended for everyone). And paychecks had already gone out so hundreds of people actually missed out on small amounts of money for a few weeks before it was rectified.

Strangely, I caught NO flack for the mistake.

But hey, I didn't crash an airplane or alert the entire population of Hawaii that DPRK nukes are incoming, so someone out there has better stories than me.

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