Experts date the beginning of the tech boom to somewhere in the 1990s. We’ve been living with microchips, laptops, and routers for around 30 years, yet sometimes we don’t abide by the simplest safety measures. Surprisingly, even 66% of Americans don’t consider themselves tech-savvy. After you’ve scrolled through this list, you might understand why.
It might seem that most people should know not to microwave a laptop or to hang a bunch of wires from the ceiling, yet some don’t. Bored Panda found the craziest examples of people mishandling all kinds of electronics, and we present the best of the worst to you here. It makes you wonder: how have humans made it this long?
#1 So Mac Doesnt Support Windows But Atleast It Supports Doors
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#2 Apply Kirchhoff’s Laws
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#3 This Coffee Grinder Fills Its Base, Motor, And Circuit Boards Up With Grounds
Cygnus_X_2112:
“That’s grounds to buy a new coffee grinder”
Watton:
“Whoever greenlit the design for this is gonna get roasted.”
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#4 User Spilt Coffee On His Laptop, So He Put It In The Oven To Dry It Out
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#5 Errrr Guys, My Capacitor Scares Me, It Has Blinky Eyes
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#6 Who Lost Their SD Card?
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#7 People That Use PC Cables To Rest Their Feet
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#8 8-Year-Old Cousin Stabbed My 300 Dollar All In One Computer When I Refused To Let Him Use It
Today my 8-year-old cousin was visiting my house. He was walking around the house when he noticed that I had a pc. He instantly started asking me if he could use it, and ofcourse i said no, he asked me again, and again and again until he finally just walked over and started trying to use it. I quickly unplugged my pc before he could modify anything. He started screaming and crying. My mom and his mom came over to see what was going on. I told my mom what he was doing, and she told me to let him use my computer because I should be “sharing” my stuff. My mom eventually told me that if I didnt share with him, she would take my computer away from me. I said “Fine ill let him use it”. I plugged it back in and left the room. Not even a minute later he came out to ask me for my password. I told him that I wasnt going to give it to him. Then he stormed back into the room and picked up some scissors that I had out and started violently stabbing my computer screen until the scissors literally got stuck in the screen. His mom offered to give me money to get me a new computer but my mom told her that I didnt need it since I own multiple computers. Now ill need to save up for a new one.
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#9 What Does The Red Light Mean?
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#10 This Router At School
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#11 Server Room From My First Hospital Job
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#12 I Still Hear A Loud Buzzing But Checked Cables And Everything Looks Ok, What Could It Be?
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#13 How Often Should I Let The Excess Air Out Of My MacBook Battery?
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#14 A User’s Desktop When I Came Into Work Yesterday
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#15 Why Is My Light Switch So Aggressive?
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#16 Maybe Using Two Is A Bit Too Much But I’m A Perfectionist
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#17 PSA: Don’t Leave Grandma Unattended At The Servers Room
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#18 Someone Asked If This Is Repairable
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#19 What Do I Do Now?
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#20 Clients Office Cable Management. I’ve Never Been So Mildy Infuriated
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#21 Glass Desk Cracked Mid Session
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#22 Is This The Correct Charger
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#23 The City’s Inspector Is Coming Over In 2 Hours. How Can I Fix My Outdoor Christmas Lights So It Passes Inspection?
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#24 USB-C Cable Just Unplugged The Wrong Way
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#25 My Grandfather Didnt Trust I’d Wipe His Hard Drive Before Selling His Old Laptop. So He Took It Into His Own Hands
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#26 My Hotkeys
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#27 Don’t Replace Ram In Poor Lighting Conditions
I was replacing my 32gb of RAM with 128gb. Got the first stick in. Lined up the next stick and pressed down firmly. I heard a solid click. I let go and the stick came off. The click wasn’t the locking mechanism. It was the sound of 7 tiny capacitors being sheered off the PCB. I wasn’t in the slot. I was between them. Luckily I know a really good board level repair guy who could give me a good price on repairing the stick and I found the components.
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#28 OSHA Approved
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#29 At My School, They Hot Glued The USB And Audio Ports
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#30 All But 2 Of My Outlets Are So Loose That Nothing Actually Stays In
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#31 Help – My Japanese Toilet Is Not Flushing, Where To Plug My Jtag?
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#32 My Grandpa’s Handmade Intercom System From The Communist Era (~1980)
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#33 Is My Soldering Good Enough?
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#34 These Cable Runs In My Server Room. Bull Clips And Rubber Bands
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#35 A Victim Of The TikTok Trend
DankLordSkeletor:
“What trend? Pouring burning acid on your laptop?”
Forward-Actuary9402:
“The trend of shoving random conductive objects in usb ports of chromebooks (like razor blades, pencil tips, paper clips, chunks of metal, coins, and wires) to short them out causing smoke or internal motherboard damage; optionally then removing a key on the keyboard and stabbing the battery. It usually causes smoking, explosions, or leaking of battery acid. Edit: thanks u/Water_bolt for reminding me about kids stabbing batteries.”
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#36 I Present You Guys One Of My USB Cables
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#37 Is This Safe To Power My Phone?
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#38 Received Email To Clean My CPU At Work. Now It Department Is Mad At Me
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#39 I Let Someone Play Tf2 On My Laptop. Came Back To This
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#40 Is The CPU Installed Correctly?
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#41 My Nephew Was Really Proud Of Cutting My Multimeter Leads
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#42 I Was Tired Of Buying Compressed Air
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#43 “Waterproof” Manscaped Razor Has Mold On Circuit
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#44 Check Before Disassembling Your Steam Deck
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#45 My Belkin USB C Cable Shorted Itself Destroying The Cable And The My Phone’s Port In The Process Everything Is Melted
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#46 Does This Count? Discharging A Bosch Ebike Battery Using An Electric Heater
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#47 How Do I Connect This Key Board To My Laptop?
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#48 Can I Solder It Back Together?
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