Your technology confessions: What have you never told anyone?

[Ns1]

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.

:ninja::biggrin:

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have thrown away perfectly good PC parts just because I didn't want to mess with selling them online. Like an Nvidia 580GTX.....Please don't hurt me

Sell your stuff here next time. Many of us will pay you for what you are throwing away. You will get much more than jackshit and there is really very little hassle. Your local UPS store or the like will even package it for you. Money in your pocket for making a post, answering pms and dropping it off with shipping info you printed out.


As to the topic: I have bought into the Apple hate and I have never even tried one of their products. Most uncharacteristic of me; I cannot even begin to explain it. I have this inexplicable, almost instinctive loathing of, all things Apple. :|

 

[l0cke]

I guess I have a few confessions.

I spend an absurd amount of time trying to get games, consoles, etc to work and then almost never play the games. The other day I patched wine to get hearthstone to work under linux, and haven't played yet. I repaired a PS3 (that I found in the trash :hmm and have probably played 5 hours on it total.

I know how to do almost everything on a computer, but always act dumb when someone asks for help because I don't want to become tech support.

Oh, and Ubuntu with Unity is still my favorite linux.

 

[adairusmc]

Another one I forgot to post.

I hate building machines for relatives, but I still do it. One relative in particular trusts me completely to pick good parts with little regard to budget, so I pick high end parts I want for myself, and build the machine with my slightly older high end parts for their machine. They only ever play free cell and hoyle's card games, but insist on a new machine every 18 months or so.

 

[shortylickens]

I fucked my way out of Olds basement.
And Olds wasnt there.

 

[rudeguy]

OK...let me be clear:

Sometimes at work I make things seem more complicated than they are just so I can dick off a good portion of the day.

 

[Craig234]

- I still have old CRT's NEC (paid $2200) and Sony that don't work because I spent too much to stand to get rid of them and think I'll find a way to do something with them at some point

- I've wasted nearly a year of PSN+ because I haven't tried to upgrade to the hard drive I have sitting here for that and transferring the old files from the full HD

- I have to reboot my PC every couple days as it slows down probably because I only have 4GB RAM, while I've had a couple 8GB packages sitting here for years, finally tried to replace the 4GB with my 8GB once and the computer wouldn't boot - even after I went back to 4GB until played with it for over an hour

- The side panel has been off my PC for years, it's incredibly dusty in there now

- I own several sets of PC speakers and have just used headphones a couple years not wanting to bother hooking up a new set after the Klipsch 5.1's blew

- I have over 1000 PC games mostly not yet played

- I've bought various PC controllers that aren't even opened - including drive and flight

- I bought multiple pairs of home theatre tower speakers for years and haven't hooked them up, still using the built-in tv speaker

- I tried to take apart and put back together a PS3 controller everyone said was easy, didn't even come close to getting it back together

 

[Ns1]

- I still have old CRT's NEC (paid $2200) and Sony that don't work because I spent too much to stand to get rid of them and think I'll find a way to do something with them at some point

- I've wasted nearly a year of PSN+ because I haven't tried to upgrade to the hard drive I have sitting here for that and transferring the old files from the full HD

- I have to reboot my PC every couple days as it slows down probably because I only have 4GB RAM, while I've had a couple 8GB packages sitting here for years, finally tried to replace the 4GB with my 8GB once and the computer wouldn't boot - even after I went back to 4GB until played with it for over an hour

- The side panel has been off my PC for years, it's incredibly dusty in there now

- I own several sets of PC speakers and have just used headphones a couple years not wanting to bother hooking up a new set after the Klipsch 5.1's blew

- I have over 1000 PC games mostly not yet played

- I've bought various PC controllers that aren't even opened - including drive and flight

- I bought multiple pairs of home theatre tower speakers for years and haven't hooked them up, still using the built-in tv speaker

- I tried to take apart and put back together a PS3 controller everyone said was easy, didn't even come close to getting it back together

you sound like a hoarder.

 

[Craig234]

you sound like a hoarder.

I'm the only one here with an old CRT and old games and controllers. Bow down.

 

[Ns1]

I'm the only one here with an old CRT and old games and controllers. Bow down.

It's not just the old stuff you have laying around. It's the new stuff that you buy that you also let sit around.

 

[Kaido]

- I still have old CRT's NEC (paid $2200) and Sony that don't work because I spent too much to stand to get rid of them and think I'll find a way to do something with them at some point

- I've wasted nearly a year of PSN+ because I haven't tried to upgrade to the hard drive I have sitting here for that and transferring the old files from the full HD

- I have to reboot my PC every couple days as it slows down probably because I only have 4GB RAM, while I've had a couple 8GB packages sitting here for years, finally tried to replace the 4GB with my 8GB once and the computer wouldn't boot - even after I went back to 4GB until played with it for over an hour

- The side panel has been off my PC for years, it's incredibly dusty in there now

- I own several sets of PC speakers and have just used headphones a couple years not wanting to bother hooking up a new set after the Klipsch 5.1's blew

- I have over 1000 PC games mostly not yet played

- I've bought various PC controllers that aren't even opened - including drive and flight

- I bought multiple pairs of home theatre tower speakers for years and haven't hooked them up, still using the built-in tv speaker

- I tried to take apart and put back together a PS3 controller everyone said was easy, didn't even come close to getting it back together

Yeah I was in the same boat for a long time (10+ years lol, all my crap took up a whole room!). It was a combination of emotional attachment and telling myself "I'll get to that project...someday". Finally I just chucked/donated/sold it all. We have my wife's workstation (doubles as the NAS for Plex) in the kitchen and I have a Chromebook. The only thing the televisions have is a Roku 3 box on each one. It was hard to do, but my workflow at home really unstuck itself after that.

We went through a digital conversion for a year or two - movies, music, photos, documents, etc. My big project was converting my books, but it turned out to be way too much of a hassle, plus I still like having paper books in a lot of situations (children's books for bedtime stories, textbooks for studying, etc.). We use our scanner for daily mail ingest now (scan to Dropbox & then shred). I would like to add an HTPC for gaming and an HP Slate 21 in the kitchen for recipes & music, but that's about it. I've stuck with my iPhone despite there being cooler Android phones out, primarily for simplicity's sake. Not having to fuss with stuff or having a mess is incredibly mentally liberating!

 

[Kaido]

It's not just the old stuff you have laying around. It's the new stuff that you buy that you also let sit around.

I've done that too. When you're on mental overload, especially from work, projects just don't get done haha. I had a brand-new motherboard sit in the box at home for like 5 months because I just couldn't ever get myself to get to it :biggrin:

 

[Kaido]

Sometimes at work I make things seem more complicated than they are just so I can blow off a good portion of the day.

If IT was like Fight Club, this would be rules #1 & #2 :biggrin:

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

you get the hell off this forum and NEVER come back!

But...but...I'm too poor...!

 

[homebrew2ny]

I am addicted to technology.

I fully expect to buy a new gaming laptop in the upcoming weeks, complete with latest & greatest CPU/GPU, SSD, ect, as I do almost every year. Probably spend north of $2000 and will never use it for anything other than web browsing and an errant photo touch up here and there. I'll also get the PS4 and XB1 soon enough, knowing full well that if I get 4 or 5 games over the life of them, it will probably be a lot.

I was poor as a kid and never had the cool stuff, now that I am an adult and can afford it, I 'need' it even though I will most likely never use it as intended.

 

[AstroManLuca]

The worst case of buying something and then not using it was when I got a 1 TB hard drive a few years ago and it sat for probably 6 months before I installed it.

But that's the thing. It's a hard drive and I wasn't out of space YET (I was beginning to run low but I still had some breathing room). So the fact that it sat around didn't really matter.

When I buy things, I intend to use them. Very rare for me to buy something and not use it, and it infuriates me when people waste money on shit they never use. I don't make a lot of money so I have to make things COUNT!!!

Maybe the worst is that I never back anything up. Outside of pictures I've taken, copies of which live on all three of my hard drives just in case one dies. But even those haven't been backed up much lately because I lost my digital camera and haven't bothered transferring all the photos and videos off of my phone and my wife's phone and iPad.

You know what, I'm going to use this thread to try to motivate myself to hook up the phones and the iPad and back up all the pictures and videos. Don't want to lose all these pictures of my daughter.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I am addicted to technology.

I fully expect to buy a new gaming laptop in the upcoming weeks, complete with latest & greatest CPU/GPU, SSD, ect, as I do almost every year. Probably spend north of $2000 and will never use it for anything other than web browsing and an errant photo touch up here and there. I'll also get the PS4 and XB1 soon enough, knowing full well that if I get 4 or 5 games over the life of them, it will probably be a lot.

I was poor as a kid and never had the cool stuff, now that I am an adult and can afford it, I 'need' it even though I will most likely never use it as intended.

You're making my head explode

 

[rudeguy]

But...but...I'm too poor...!

when I built my first rig, it was to save money. Decent systems still cost over $2k and I was a poor single dad. I built a rig for something like $500 or so that was very decent (K7S5A in the house!).

Now its just the opposite. You buy off the rack if you want cheap and you build your own if you are going to drop money.

 

[dbk]

this is a very good read.. but to the guy that's never put together a system before.. wow.. WRONG FORUM dude

 

[homebrew2ny]

You're making my head explode

It really bothers me too....

I keep telling myself that all I need is something modest, perhaps a entry level mac book pro, or a $600-$700 decent PC laptop build, but when I pull the trigger it always comes at the cost of the latest and most expensive. It's a constant struggle...

 

[Atomic Playboy]

My first real computer upgrade was a dedicated 3D graphics card in the form of a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card. And that thing just flew; everything looked so much better, from the lighting to the crispness of the colors. Or at least that's what I would tell people while I continued playing my games in software mode because I didn't know that you had to change to OpenGL or Glide to enable 3D acceleration. Took me a few months before I finally discovered that option. Oh, so THAT'S what it does! Coooool.

 

[ahenkel]

When I'm asked to build computers for family members I build them slower than mine regardless of budget.

 

[Imp]

More of a haven't told anyone "yet"... My hard drive has been squealing for months now and nearing the five year mark. I know it's about to die, but I'm too cheap and lazy to get a new one...

 

[Ns1]

More of a haven't told anyone "yet"... My hard drive has been squealing for months now and nearing the five year mark. I know it's about to die, but I'm too cheap and lazy to get a new one...

It will die at the exact moment you are trying to create a backup of your files to transfer onto a new HD. Murphy demands it.

 

[takeru]

I'm the only one here with an old CRT and old games and controllers. Bow down.

i have a 65lb 20" hitachi CRT monitor, still in working near mint condition, sitting in an unused bedroom for more than 13 years.

every single pc accessory (mouse, keyboard, etc), pc component (usb add-on cards, video cards, modem cards, cpu/heatsinks, etc) ever bought in the last 20+ years, i still have all of them in very good condition, in plastic rubbermaid buckets, in the room next to me. yes, i still have my diamond monster 3dfx card, for example.

i have a 14 gallon rubbermaid bucket devoted to just holding pc power cables, and it is full.

i win?