r/TechSupportGore | free internet with this one trick

I did this intentionally to fix a problem but it felt so so wrong yeah don't plug networks into themselves they scream at each other until they die and also this is called a dry patch where you have two lines connected but they're not connected in the network closet where they're supposed to be and one of these is how you end up with a very angry Lexia tutor and I have another fun story about one of these that that screwed me up for three days and caused me to rip out have to rip out drywall yeah you thought it was boring Chromebook charger pile intern for reference before we talk about the number of Chromebook Chargers I just would like to establish officially the intern as a unit of reference so now that we have our unit of measurement the intern um do Chromebook Chargers break this often or are they just like USBC and just getting beat to hell I genuinely don't know I've never owned one my friend tried to remove the scratches on his iPod with sandpaper it it looked oh my God on top of the touch wheel and everything it looks Industrial give him that the back of my iPod Touch is all screwed up because I like landed on it during a bike accident but it still doesn't look that bad airdrop yeah I think they fundamentally misunderstood how that worked students build nail polish on computer mother tried to clean it and uh washed off 26 key yeah the nail polish up fine the the owners what did you in good good Lord the hard drive was clicking yeah in an IBM Travel Star 20 gig hard drive in one of my laptops I came home from summer camp and had all the pictures all the memories from seven weeks at Summer music school and uh I booted it up to back everything up heard a couple clicks and then just this horrible as the hard drive did exactly this fun times computer lab after the flooding of the University of Tasmania and the flood had to be that much of a jerk to be like no scroll your computers but we'll pretend like we'll stop right right above the monitor line all things being said that this this actually doesn't look like that bad the lock on this safe that holds laptops at my school it's just the it's just the electronic lacking listen you still have to get inside to actually control the thing I hope customer battery doesn't last long that's that's not a battery that's back gum friends laptop was sent back like this from Razer oh oh no oh man razer's always been good to me they just switched to them from ThinkPad hopefully this was a one-off or it was damaged in shipping but it doesn't look like it was damage and shipping we understand the words in this job ticket trampoline online but but they did not make sense until we got there oh had no idea you could stream a trampoline working I.T at a high school kid left his Chromebook on a lit stove did we see this before we just did another high school student cook their Chromebook look I don't care if you don't like Chrome stop trying to turn it into Firefox like it's it that's not how you do it it's not by setting it on fire demo unit at my local Walmart I can't believe it still functions this was actually how I started to pick phones and other electronics and gear and stuff is you go to the demo units in like the really busy stores the ones that everybody's playing with but nobody's gonna actually buy and you see which ones are still working or at least if they're not charged like which ones are still intact because if they can hold up to 500 people poking at them all day they can hold up to your reviews this doesn't look like much but this little asphalt repair destroyed a 1 200 foot fiber run easily looking at twenty thousand dollars repair yeah yep I'm amazed that they they were able to find the fiber line because fiber lines even even big ones if not large two three inches across they had to find that and do asphalt repairs specifically on that and then sever all of the glass connectors inside an armored jacketed fiber line happened at least once a year in New York visited grandma and confiscated this one ah a panther bomb Grandma's got a Grenade I left my old MacBook on my shelf and didn't use it uh over one year that's what happened my God I don't know if I'm just lucky or if what because I have a stack of laptops over there some of which I have not touched in like four years and none of them are like this bad that's wow is that an oem battery CS device fell into a machine I don't actually know what a CS to oh customer support maybe Ah that's a lathe I'm guessing but the machine was hungry shipping thousands of dollars worth of computers with no packaging material yep on the plus side they are think pads uh so honestly you're probably good but I assume this is you've bought bulk uh refurb off eBay my hard drive died and I tried to fix it but got stuck can you recover the data for me what data you have some very expensive coasters braided cable is not what they meant no oh this is an affront to all that is Holy and Unholy oh I hate it oh I hate it so much okay okay okay I'll explain when you have two very thin wires next to each other you can get something called crosstalk which means that electrical signals create a little field and and they'll interfere with signals on another wire there's a very specific way that cables are designed and made for data called a 568a and 568b standard um that prevents this as much as possible and then certain types of cables have little plastic pieces to prevent crosstalk even more and they're shielding always this just breathe this is a crosstalk generator this is just everything we'll be screaming at each other all of the time it's a tiny Tesla coil of disappointment I hate it impressive but I hate it did it arrive as expected ah I'm not sure how many surfaces it was supposed to end up as um I'm pretty sure that four was was the version of the computer not four separate surfaces by the time it got to me a keyboard after 20 months of gaming you use x Crouch heretic the clues promote Cooling [Music] die now you know I'm just gonna let Linus Tech tips written rip into this one I'm not I'm not even gonna touch it daily reminder to clean your motherboard I will find you and everyone you have ever loved and make them all drink the soapy water you just put your motherboard in three screens and zero mounts oh that's did they just leave it like that that's a lawsuit user put in a help desk ticket uh my mouse does not work I have tried replacing the batteries and it still does not work well okay we'll just take a look at what did I say last episode where do people keep plugging USB things into ethernet ports we're lucky enough to have ethernet ports to begin with on like the few laptops that have them left please stop how my co-worker removes Ram oh dear God oh dear God oh yeah for the uninitiated uh the white Tabs are supposed to click out and the Ram comes out the black part is supposed to stay on the motherboard because it is attached to the motherboard and it's not supposed to come off if it has come off you are going to have a very bad day my friend at Uni found a Wi-Fi cable okay well there are of antenna extended cables into that wife like it what what the orange colored network is that in quotes cable uh located below can be used as an alternative to the normal Wi-Fi service you have clearpass or or the Ruckus version of you have something that makes you log into the Wi-Fi UC Library uh and you don't you don't know what a network cable is my brother-in-law bought a cheap two terabyte SSD but he said it was slow and not working properly uh so he wanted me to check it out and is it a USB drive is it a USB drive uh no it's four USB what you went through the trouble of like raid zeroing four USB drives to sell a cheap SS just just make an SSD at the point like this is too much work found this on site yesterday I have no words oh I do it's bring me the freaking infrastructure engineer who have signed off on this when the building was built God's name what is this also your battery who needs replacing but yeah I hope they have Port security turned on because otherwise just like oh hey can I just use your bathroom I'm gonna plug into your network and it's it's over for you why my keyboard doesn't work I will send you whatever data you choose I'll let you pick it'll be nice it'll be pleasant it will be quick and Swift and destructive a friend of mine is a nurse and uh family brought this in to be given to a patient did they hate the patient okay uh winding back two steps I can't quite make out the model number but this is either a t or an uh whatever the education series is this is not a bad laptop like this is this it's the condition in a tin I I classify this as a biological weapon taking five-year-old ssds out of of eight-year-old laptops to make some 10 year old desktops less crap that is all of higher ed that is literally all of higher ed in a nutshell like just scrapping slightly less crap to put on crap to make it slightly less crap have you tried turning it off and on uh yes that's how I got the Doom Slayer customer put toilet paper between the CPU and cooler because he read online it was almost as good you get that from a Facebook group I'm surprised it didn't just ignite but I guess the flash point of toilet paper is probably upwards of 400 Fahrenheit I hate people custom painted surface pro 4. now I'm not against painting laptops it can turn out really cool and uh oh dear God what in the did you give a toddler a can of spray paint and like an alphabet puzzle and if however I forget how much these are the pros are pretty expensive what is wrong with stop get some help this is not the way to trans support your company's equipment unless unless it's being recycled in which case like some of this like I can't tell from the backs like hang on there should be some Drive caddies in the back for SSD yeah no no I can no there are some no there's still some drives in there no that's that's that might be live equipment you're God I'm just gonna hope it's being recycled I'm just that's that's all I'm gonna do uh my PC ready so Whitney I'm sorry okay this is not this the customer's fault like uh if you no no I'm not gonna blame the customer end user on this at all because there is a reasonable expectation that if you plug a power credible into a power supply it will not melt three weeks ago during a road construction an excavator ripped off uh up oh no backbone of our neighborhood uh this 96 core cable has been laid down but hasn't been terminated 136 000 people have no internet connection uh since then yeah yep I'm surprised they have just the fiber just sitting out there like it's definitely not New York City and another small explosive The Forbidden Capri Sun hey if you pop it you enter third person view uh saw this under the Aesthetics tag on uh Pinterest oh no wait no this is the same laptop isn't it this no this laptop if I remember correctly belongs to a painter this was intentional this is fine this is the the laptop that they actually use in the studio and they work with large format canvas this is fine I'm genuinely okay with this because it's it's it's a computer running in a rough condition it should be able to do that middle school kids uh managed to get into library and treated the projector like a pinata I yeah no I can't say what I feel like you should do to the middle schoolers because somebody will get mad but uh but I feel like the projector has some ideas and we should hear the projector out I straightened uh Bend plot pins with tweezers uh but it won't work afterwards oh my Lord I admire your dedication in trying to fix it you can't you can't bend pins by the way like if if you bend a few on the corner you can fix it like very very carefully so like the idea was sound but there's just too many how about a warm graphics card back played why why is this tech support guard this is cute I I hope that you know the card isn't too hot for the kitty but I assume the kitty would you know leave that was the case this is fine I know there are going to be periods they're like oh there's lint in my computer and I'm losing three degrees because there's catford and those people should go outside and maybe pay less attention to the piece of circuitry that draws triangles very very fast in a metal box on their desk and instead pay attention to the kitty just pulled four discs at a debit card out of their PS4 I'll take houses with small children and unprotected electronics for 300 please this sums up how last week went computer was in backpack on top of car fell off and then was run over by multiple Vehicles me too computer me too my girlfriend's Xbox 360 hard drive was rattling can I recover the data no no you cannot the way the electrician repaired his own mistake at my home without notifying me optical fiber entrylink oh no they shouldn't notice did you just close Jesus okay that's a cold splice which is a tiny thing that you put for electrical connections and then you cramp it down really hard and it has conductive gel in it and it it splices cables without you having to twist anything together a fiber optic cable is light it is light it does not you're just aiming laser light in into jelly my last office we had one of these up on the break room fridge system restore disk and do another race the race now I mean these are just obvious jokes at this point thanks for packaging my drives up Amazon no problem wait no this is Oh weird oh okay so an addendum to this one there's supposed to be a cardboard insert that kind of I've I've gotten I've ordered drives like this and they come in this package but there's a cardboard insert around it that kind of suspends the drive in the middle they forgot that part clearly uh but yeah I mean yeah had a feeling this belonged here router card large Wi-Fi router guard cover locks about 90 of Wi-Fi router EMF while you can still use the router locks 5G okay okay this is a faraday cage or the uninitiated uh the Faraday cages uh block a lot of radio signals depending on how big the little holes are uh if you want a sort of example of this go look at your microwave and has a bunch of little holes and those holes are smaller than the microwave wavelengths so that it doesn't come out and cook you it just cooked your food this is sold as they these are sold as a fear-mongering thing there are religious intimate uses for the this is a fear-mongering thing it you're will still work and I am of two minds to mine because if an apartment building with lots of people and everybody buys home routers designed to cover entire suburban houses everyone should turn down the power on their Wi-Fi routers because it doesn't help their signal and it just interferes with everybody else so if you put your router in one of these and you're paranoid you could still use it if you were like 5 10 15 feet away it would be fine and people around you would not have to worry about the channel interference from your router being on too high of a power setting from the factory or Best Buy or wherever so I'm kind of in favor of this I mean if you want better signal you just take it out of the box that's not how this works please shut down computers after each use it will help keep them running virus free no in fact if there's a fire is already loaded and you reboot the computer it it could propagate this must be by the same person that wrote the sign for the Wi-Fi cable I said to delete the data not destroy four SAS discs uh well what what what security clearance was the data at are those are those bullet holes the I can't tell if those are drill press or bullet holes they look concerningly like bullet holes but yeah if you're just deleting the data to reformat an added a partition it's going to stay in the same you know security environment sure if you're deleting data to then move those drives somewhere else no no 26 past the race and and a nine mil I try to do the right thing but my family is a bunch of savages there's there's videos people I know how this happens though like your phone's dying and you go and you grab a charger apparently a really old 5 volt charger slowest one on earth from like upstairs and you're already holding the charger and the cable and you just plug it in you need you need to get charging cables this is what I did you need to get charging cables and plug them in there and just leave the cables there and then people will actually use them that's what I found micro SD in an SD card adapter and an SD card to USB adapter in a USB 2 to USB 3 adapter thanks Apple what is a USB 2 to USB 3 you know they sell USBC to SD card readers right like that that's a thing and if you're running a USB 2 card reader like you're not using SD cards a whole lot because holy crap that would take forever for like 10 minutes of 4K video shout out to the cell phone repair shop that quote unquote worked on this Xbox series X before it came to me oh oh that's a burn Trace good Lord yeah and just a global side okay so so so to explain this uh there are burned the little white teeth thing in the top left-hand corner all those teeth should be exactly the same um there's a burned one it's just gone the solder on the left and right uh that should be clear and look kind of like a Hershey Kiss uh it it's cloudy and cracks and it just looks terrible which means the solder was usually too cold I'm not even sure what they were trying to attach like what is this mess of ribbon I feel like I'm seeing Carnage and I still don't know like what happened in the accident but yeah get your get your stuff repaired at a reputable shop like an actual reputable shop if it seems too cheap it's it's not it's not worth it don't do it DJ fire hazards set up oh DJ fire has ah I thought that was an actual DJ or something I I mean he's outside but you know it's fine I don't care it's not gonna be my blown up stall thing even got the backup why is all of this in the is this oh my God is as a child again oh I didn't scroll up I'm sorry this is a tweet shouldn't have cheated wow no you know what that that's Justified yeah that's that's appropriate as long as you finish it off with arson burn the whole house down returned airpod Pros to an Apple disposal center in Shenzhen I hope I pronounced that right oh that's weird oh that's I know they can't be like resold or anything like because they go in your ears so weird kind of cool I hope they can Harvest like some of the batteries and stuff though customer describes a slight burning smell yeah I'm thinking uh the pancake uh destroyed a lot more people's sense of smell than than we currently realize we're gonna be finding that out uh as we go along okay this is a repeat but I did take this exact image to my work colleagues and I just posted it with the very little context or anything and it just caused pain for everyone it was lovely some people yeah the um these these people make I try not to judge people's you know use whatever you want use Mac PC you don't I don't care but people that do this lazy stop one of our managers combined their motorman router because he wanted the speed to be better well I know this post was for a long time ago because that's a that's one of the old Linksys but um yeah putting them having your router and modem cuddle does not make them any faster like it in fact it'll probably make it slightly slower because there will be no ventilation and people build up sorry my flight feels like it's going to be longer all of a sudden the in-flight entertainment system seems less than stable no such fire alert directory they got some corrupted storage there and a bad interrupt oh you got all sorts of problems these kind of things always give me anxiety because I'm sitting there like I should be fixing this oh I feel pressure to fix this desktop I I mean it's a very effective door stop you have to you have to agree it fits a wide surface area of the door it comes in just below the window it has a great grip great weight good doorstop good doorstep you try doing that with a Microsoft Surface okay the computer my Factory's dye store yep there is there are pieces of infrastructure that will make you your skin crawl when you discover that they are being run on Windows NT or like you know badging systems and HVAC and building management systems and security cameras even yeah yeah you thought you thought Windows XP and Windows for workstations was obsolete it's still alive and well traveled 1 000 kilometers to fix five brand new desktops which are slow for strange reasons strange reasons yeah this this did you read the unpacking instructions did you look in the computer just to be like ah Maybe the material I should leave it so the computer can breathe is this still a new warranty it should have been made but better material right into my tech shop today uh uh better better material for what put it on a stove I think I don't think your warranty covers being a dumbass this key after 10 years of entering orders at my grandmother's shop okay that's actually cool I like I like stuff like that that like when you eventually replace that keyboard I would take the enter key out and like just keep it somewhere like a little tiny frame for it and just put it somewhere because like that that's that's thousands and possibly millions of sales I don't know what your grandmother sells but like that's many many ways to like that's that's the entire business right there that's cool I like that racking painters oh no what they do now I'm staring at this I'm I'm still staring oh oh my God sorry that took me longer than it should that's that's a VGA cable usually in boardrooms it's an older type of video cable and they just painted right into the whole cable and that's probably run up into the ceiling and you gotta pull the entire thing and run a whole new one oh God dispatched about a computer that wouldn't boot uh it was epoxy to the desk they had to cut it out for us they epox okay well I'm glad they had enough faith in the computer to think it would be there forever all I gotta say Landscaping guy uh cut the cable and tried to fix it a for effort and creativity uh but not quite the customer said uh they got a few channels but internet was a no yeah uh yeah I'm sorry Landscaping guy I actually wow you know you got the right idea okay cable uh like cable internet and cable TV is on coax and that's basically like a one core and another little outside chord I'm simplifying it but this guy kind of got where you know looked at it and figured out kind of what was going on and yes it'll get uh TV but you won't be able to broadcast stuff back at this point like you won't be able to get internet because you won't be able to send a request saw this on Lifehacker today wait oh it's it's the clip art at the top of the Articles it's life have you never read they make this cute stupid art all the time like it's nuts oh my God are you actually taking this seriously that just comes off as incredibly neck Beauty I'm sorry Dell hard at work uh brand new out of box trying to image you got no boot device found oh whoops I have staring at the left side of it trying to read the label or something figure no they just didn't plug it in Wild it seemed like it was getting bigger then the screen popped off iPhone 3GS ah we've made another bomb [Music]

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Published: Tue Dec 20 2022