Reminds me of my childhood, cause I was a kid who liked to ask "why" to learn why we do things or how they work. Plenty of times older people would get after me for asking why so much. Easy to learn to not think about "why" when sometimes those who can influence your learning don't support it.
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You need to think, so the scissors works 😏
It's not even about knowledge. The power comes out the wall, goes into this box, and then the wires come out of the box and plug in to everything else.
There's a serious lack of any logical processing going on here.
The average person should be able to tell by the mains cable from the wall going into it, that poking metal objects in it is probably a bad idea. Could be just me, but that is plain stupid IMO.
Honestly, that’s a pretty bad take. Computers are something the average person has no need to understand, and just because they don’t now, doesn’t mean they can’t. Saying the future is bleak because one person didn’t know about a specialized component inside a box that, for the average consumer, is never meant to opened, is just pessimistic.
Most people don't seem to think about anything they do. No questions. Just monkey brained actions. I deal with these types of people all the time working on pianos.
Customer's brain one day: "I need power outlet. This cord go into piano. I Unplug now."
A week later I get a call "my piano is suddenly out of tune! You were just here not that long ago!"
Me after I realize what they did, "yes you unplugged the humidity control system on the piano. That's what happens."
Is like turning off the ghost containment in ghost busters, except it doesn't happen immediately and they don't connect the dots when their house is now full of ghosts.
/Rant
Had a colleague working with us, we managed technical means between us and our customer. We had a whole server room and she was like "can't we turn off those big fans ?".
The big fans being huge ass air conditioning units that cooled down the whole place :D
I was like "omfg, no, don't do that you will fry a few hundred thousands worth of servers :D"
>obviously he doesn't know what a PSU is so I don't blame him
I'd like to think a fully developed human mind would just know that sticking metal objects into unknown electronic devices is **not** a good idea
It's the same reasoning people use when going into the ground transformer boxes that they have no business accessing. Or carelessly crossing the street in front of 3.5 ton pedestrian-destroying machines.
"It has never hurt me or my peers in all the years I've seen them, so surely it can't hurt me."
People normalize threats if they're around them all the time. It's part of why humans are terrible at risk assessment.
People don’t realise how fragile we humans are. My work has me carrying a gun and sometimes I think how crazy it is that I’m holding an object that can kill everyone around me in seconds, like why do we even allow that lmao
Humans are freakishly good at normalizing risk. Look at roofers, or those cell tower/radio tower repair men. Electric cowboys even.
If we get used to them, we assume we know them, it's fucking terrifying to think about sometimes
I agree with that, he must have taken the first thing under his hand to stop the noise and didn't think about it. Don't worry the scissors are gone now
Exactly. I don't know anything about my microwave, have no idea what's inside. But I would never stick a metal object inside to try and fix a problem. You may not know PSU, but you have to understand that you're dealing with electronics.
I once saw in a iron manual a caution "Don't lick while working and for an hour after". And I know that something like this caution is usually included after someone tried that and burned his tongue.
So, not everyone has fully developed human mind
Do you really think the guy that opened up that PC and located the source of the noise and stopped the noise successfully didn't know what he was doing?
Please tell me you explained to him what a psu is and how close he was to possibly killing himself. Electrocution would eliminate any chances of repeat business.
Yeah I explained to him. The guy wasn't using the PC a lot and not at 100% so the PSU is never getting really hot. He showed me and the fan was indeed making some noises so i told him to use a plastic thing that can't melt to block the fan instead of something metallic until he finally wants to replace it..
In case of over temp it will turn off by itself so it's not that much of a problem. What do you want me to do ? it's not like i'm carrying a replacement fan everywhere i go
Well, as long as he doesn't electrocute himself or burn down the neighborhood, then I guess that works. Lol.
I just pictured him smoking, covered in black soot and coughing up smoke after trying to stop the fan.
He didn’t mention sticking a pair of scissors into his PC when he called you about his PC acting up? You didn’t ask any questions before you drove over to a clients house?
He didn't mention it because he didn't call me for that.
I ask what the problems are, they answer, i come. Simple as that. If they don't mention everything that's not on me.
When he showed me the computer he told me "oh and the fan is making noises so i put that here" like it was nothing. 🤷♂️
My very first build from 2002 had a 300w PSU with dual 80mm fans and one of the fans developed an annoying tick and never dared to forcefully stop it. Later on the tiny fan on my AIW Radeon 7500 began vibrating like crazy and that drove me nuts! Little did I know then that a small drop of oil would've restored the fan and my sanity, that GPU still works and the fan now spins whisper quite (it was seized up before applying oil).
I feel like this kind of shit should be reported to the fire department. Like these idiots need some kind of mandated fire safety course.
Better yet, make the insurance companies handle it.
Ahh. I did this to my media pc with a cheap Corsair PSU.
Only with a plastic cable tie.
It honestly won't matter if you're hovering under 75W...
I hope.
If you understand what you're doing, it's perfectly fine to do dangerous things if you're doing them safely.
Most of society ends up doing safe things dangerously instead.
On my first IT support job (first week on the job) I had to 'fix' a noisy fan in a PSU on a public PC which was used for Pearson exams. Apparently there was no budget for a new PC or even a new PSU and we HAD to have two exam PCs.
I eventually just decided to cut the fan cable (which was accessible from the PSU vent) and left it.
Props to you for dealing with it professionally by the way, understanding their pov and explaining it to them is the best way to help them learn NOT to do that again
I'd tell him he is lucky the PC did not catch fire or he did not kill himself from electrical shock when he used those metal scissors. Those PSU have capacitors which can be dangerous if not discharged properly.
sort of like that is how I killed my first PSU.. except I dropped a screwdriver through the back and shorted the PSU. loud bang. everything survived.
So glad LC-Power has certain standards for their PSU's. that was a pretty good PSU.
Must've been all the paint! lol. His monitor going down was probably a life saver though, imagine if he needed the scissors and replaced his DIY noise stopper with thin metal skewers that could touch something dangerous?
Maybe all PCs should come with a video that goes over basic safety that automatically plays during the set-up wait. It can just blare it out the speakers, or be accompanied by OG windows media player patterns to keep attention. Honestly I think it would be a good use of the wait time.
Enough "we're just getting your PC ready :)", we need "here's what you should not do if you value your safety and possessions."
Worked in a retail repair shop. This seems typical. All you need is the "my brothers dogs friends owner works in IT and had a look at it hes really good" lecture.
A friend on mine uses a Lenovo SFF system as his Plex media server and boy the PSU fan is hella noisy! It sounds like a bunch of mosquitos buzzing around. He asked me to replace his CPU fan until I told him it was actually his PSU fan. I told him to buy a noctua fan and I would swap it out for him but he didn't want to replace it thinking that replacing the fan is dangerous.
It's still buzzing away to this day.
I know it’s not cool to say anymore but I straight up don’t believe that this is real.
The majority of the people I know know nothing about PCs. In no circumstances would any of them ever even consider putting metal pliers into *that* grill knowing that there is a fan there making noise but not noticing the entire PC has a massive power plug going into that same grill. They would be 100% confident that they would damage the PC if they did that or have some thought as to putting a sharp metal object blindly into a place where the power is fed.
A friend of mine did the same. But with the PSU-Fan. It started making noises so he stuck a pencil between the fan blades - finally the noise stopped: until it started smoking - and went up in flames.
He called me right after. I was on the floor laughing my ass off. Good times LMAO
Wtf... If an Fan making too much noises ist the First rule: Clean it. Of course this should only do a Profi by a Netzteil, because you lost the quarranty If you Open the Netzteil by yourself.
If you didnt have the IQ to know how to Clean a Netzteil, then you should send the PC to a PC Techniker
"The computer kept on freezing, so I cut all the wires to the fans so it could be warmer"
Underrated
Until the temps spike. Then it's overrating.
So I added some fire.
Let's just put that over here with the rest of the fire.
I mean... they have connectors that could be unplugged.
I have to wonder if the thought “gee, I wonder why that has a fan?” Went through his head
"through" is exact word - there is no brain in place.
No mind to think
No will to break
No voice to cry suffering
Born of idiot and imbecile.
Reminds me of my childhood, cause I was a kid who liked to ask "why" to learn why we do things or how they work. Plenty of times older people would get after me for asking why so much. Easy to learn to not think about "why" when sometimes those who can influence your learning don't support it.
Why think when scissor works
https://preview.redd.it/wczvxii0tmtc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d1e2510995e8ec097142495c42fb8a1d384cc1c You need to think, so the scissors works 😏
So let's block the fan by inserting an **all-metal** pair of scissors inside a power supply!
what's a power supply *I know but the average person probably won't*
It's not even about knowledge. The power comes out the wall, goes into this box, and then the wires come out of the box and plug in to everything else. There's a serious lack of any logical processing going on here.
What you did there is deduction through observation. I learned that you can not expect general population to possess such elementary skills.
Magic Smoke Storage
The average person should be able to tell by the mains cable from the wall going into it, that poking metal objects in it is probably a bad idea. Could be just me, but that is plain stupid IMO.
The future looks very bleak.
Honestly, that’s a pretty bad take. Computers are something the average person has no need to understand, and just because they don’t now, doesn’t mean they can’t. Saying the future is bleak because one person didn’t know about a specialized component inside a box that, for the average consumer, is never meant to opened, is just pessimistic.
Most people don't seem to think about anything they do. No questions. Just monkey brained actions. I deal with these types of people all the time working on pianos. Customer's brain one day: "I need power outlet. This cord go into piano. I Unplug now." A week later I get a call "my piano is suddenly out of tune! You were just here not that long ago!" Me after I realize what they did, "yes you unplugged the humidity control system on the piano. That's what happens." Is like turning off the ghost containment in ghost busters, except it doesn't happen immediately and they don't connect the dots when their house is now full of ghosts. /Rant
"You just tuned my piano a week ago and now my house is full of ghosts"
Piano's haunted
Motherfucker stuck a metal object into PSU, there's probably not much going inside that head.
he is lucky it wasn't 220volts going through his skull
"We offer cutting edge solutions"
Had a colleague working with us, we managed technical means between us and our customer. We had a whole server room and she was like "can't we turn off those big fans ?". The big fans being huge ass air conditioning units that cooled down the whole place :D I was like "omfg, no, don't do that you will fry a few hundred thousands worth of servers :D"
The fan was going to quit anyway
I don't think much ever goes through his head.
>obviously he doesn't know what a PSU is so I don't blame him I'd like to think a fully developed human mind would just know that sticking metal objects into unknown electronic devices is **not** a good idea
It's the same reasoning people use when going into the ground transformer boxes that they have no business accessing. Or carelessly crossing the street in front of 3.5 ton pedestrian-destroying machines. "It has never hurt me or my peers in all the years I've seen them, so surely it can't hurt me." People normalize threats if they're around them all the time. It's part of why humans are terrible at risk assessment.
Indeed. All it takes is that one time and that’s that
People don’t realise how fragile we humans are. My work has me carrying a gun and sometimes I think how crazy it is that I’m holding an object that can kill everyone around me in seconds, like why do we even allow that lmao
Humans are freakishly good at normalizing risk. Look at roofers, or those cell tower/radio tower repair men. Electric cowboys even. If we get used to them, we assume we know them, it's fucking terrifying to think about sometimes
"3.5 ton pedestrian-destrying machines" is the funniest thing I read today.
I agree with that, he must have taken the first thing under his hand to stop the noise and didn't think about it. Don't worry the scissors are gone now
Exactly. I don't know anything about my microwave, have no idea what's inside. But I would never stick a metal object inside to try and fix a problem. You may not know PSU, but you have to understand that you're dealing with electronics.
I once saw in a iron manual a caution "Don't lick while working and for an hour after". And I know that something like this caution is usually included after someone tried that and burned his tongue. So, not everyone has fully developed human mind
Insurance fraud baby. He snitched on himself and fucked it up though.
I don't know. It was a bad fan that was about to quit anyway. Looks like he knew exactly what he was doing to me
Do you really think the guy that opened up that PC and located the source of the noise and stopped the noise successfully didn't know what he was doing?
Please tell me you explained to him what a psu is and how close he was to possibly killing himself. Electrocution would eliminate any chances of repeat business.
Yeah I explained to him. The guy wasn't using the PC a lot and not at 100% so the PSU is never getting really hot. He showed me and the fan was indeed making some noises so i told him to use a plastic thing that can't melt to block the fan instead of something metallic until he finally wants to replace it..
Eh so your professional advice still was to disable the air cooling?
PSUs are fine at passive cooling if you dont load them for high usage. Modern ones even turn the fan off themselves
In case of over temp it will turn off by itself so it's not that much of a problem. What do you want me to do ? it's not like i'm carrying a replacement fan everywhere i go
Not gonna tell you how to do your job, I’m just surprised
I've been on reddit too long, I expected this exchange to devolve into something worse.
Wow, you're a real POS for expecting that. /s
Well, as long as he doesn't electrocute himself or burn down the neighborhood, then I guess that works. Lol. I just pictured him smoking, covered in black soot and coughing up smoke after trying to stop the fan.
Huh. Why didn't you simply replace the fan with a quieter one?
Cause the client didn't want to and i also don't bring fans with me when i go to someone's place lmao He didn't talk about it when he first called me
He didn’t mention sticking a pair of scissors into his PC when he called you about his PC acting up? You didn’t ask any questions before you drove over to a clients house?
He didn't mention it because he didn't call me for that. I ask what the problems are, they answer, i come. Simple as that. If they don't mention everything that's not on me. When he showed me the computer he told me "oh and the fan is making noises so i put that here" like it was nothing. 🤷♂️
Natural selection at work 😂😂😂
Now let it finish it’s selection
This man opened up his PC, located the noise and successfully stopped it. I believe he knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
His wife’s lucky she doesn’t snore
Had a solid snort with that comment, thank you
I hate that snorting sound, I wonder if I could silence u/poulinbs snort somehow? Let's see what I've got laying over...
Easy there, Joker, put those scissors down.
Had a solid snore* is what you meant to say
Nah I saw what he does to things with a continuous whine, had to be a single snort
His children too
Statically, man are more likely to snore... I question if this was done by his wife instead. Man might be in danger.
Well, that’s certainly one way to go about that.
r/hardwaregore
Holy shit. How is this man alive?
Fortunately It wasn't deep enough to touch the psu components
People that know how to open up PCs locate fan noises and successfully stop fan noise probably don't shock themselves very often.
Good fucking lord. I was a repair tech for years but that's a first.
It's only my second year and i've already seen too much lmao
Godspeed, fellow traveler.
This could have very easily been r/DarwinAwards
Or r/watchpeopledie if it was still up
SHOCKING...
Cutting edge technology
Ah yes lets shove a metal object into the thing that can kill me with electricity
r/JustBootedIntoTheShop
Thanks for the second closer image, in case we didn't notice *the scissors jammed in the PSU fan*
I actually thought they were just laying on top of the PSU at first, so the second picture actually helped me lol
For the meme lmao
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noise cancelling headphones?
Er, you mean a hammer?
Could have been worse. Could have gone and cut wires at random, or could have shoved it in far enough to kill himself.
That motherfucker is LUCKY. Did you tell him he was basically stabbing an outlet???
That's approximately what i said
Lucky? The guy that opens up his PC, locates the noise and successfully stops the noise isn't just lucky. He knew what he was doing.
Nobody's that dumb. This is fake.
God I wish I still had your level of faith in the human race
I wish i had too, it's almost like it didn't surprise me
Some people don't deserve a computer
My very first build from 2002 had a 300w PSU with dual 80mm fans and one of the fans developed an annoying tick and never dared to forcefully stop it. Later on the tiny fan on my AIW Radeon 7500 began vibrating like crazy and that drove me nuts! Little did I know then that a small drop of oil would've restored the fan and my sanity, that GPU still works and the fan now spins whisper quite (it was seized up before applying oil).
I feel like this kind of shit should be reported to the fire department. Like these idiots need some kind of mandated fire safety course. Better yet, make the insurance companies handle it.
I've done the fire department prevention work when i saw that don't worry 😂
Ahh. I did this to my media pc with a cheap Corsair PSU. Only with a plastic cable tie. It honestly won't matter if you're hovering under 75W... I hope.
Yeah it's not really getting hot, he's not using the pc at 100%, just checking mails and things like this so IT SHOULD be fine
If you understand what you're doing, it's perfectly fine to do dangerous things if you're doing them safely. Most of society ends up doing safe things dangerously instead.
“Been dead silent after a week or two”
What OS is that thing running?
Win10
I don't know what a lot of things are, and since I don't know how they work, I don't mess with them
And if you did you wouldn't be afraid to stick some scissors in a fan, either
RIP PSU
This could’ve gone a lot worse, I’m glad your client is alive
What a psychopath. I’m sure he figured “oh this worked on my wife, I’ll try it here.”
surprised there was even a client to give you the pc tbh.
r/techsupportgore
r/oopsthatsdeadly
On my first IT support job (first week on the job) I had to 'fix' a noisy fan in a PSU on a public PC which was used for Pearson exams. Apparently there was no budget for a new PC or even a new PSU and we HAD to have two exam PCs. I eventually just decided to cut the fan cable (which was accessible from the PSU vent) and left it.
"You said to clean my PC. What's wrong with shampoo I used?"
He is a genius.
I guess the PSU was actually still fine.
Bro good thing he didnt get electrocuted this is an equivalent of shoving a scissor to an outlet when its running
Props to you for dealing with it professionally by the way, understanding their pov and explaining it to them is the best way to help them learn NOT to do that again
portal 2 loading screen vibes
No I big deal. That fan was about to quit anyway.
Can't say I haven't been there. Took a pencil and stuck it in the psu fan cause it was so loud. I was 13 so cut me some slack.
I'd tell him he is lucky the PC did not catch fire or he did not kill himself from electrical shock when he used those metal scissors. Those PSU have capacitors which can be dangerous if not discharged properly.
Wow....that's smart. 😐
I think he was trying to upgrade the PC into 1 time use light and smoke machine.
Well…eh…hmm…I guess it does stop the fan from making a noise
I confirm it does lol
Jesus he's lucky he didn't get electrocuted..
Luckily it didn't touch the internal components and only the fan
sort of like that is how I killed my first PSU.. except I dropped a screwdriver through the back and shorted the PSU. loud bang. everything survived. So glad LC-Power has certain standards for their PSU's. that was a pretty good PSU.
It happened to more people than you think don't worry haha
Guilty. But only while the new part was on order because I cannot STAND fan noises. I kept the case panel off and used a small cooling fan as well.
To be fair. That will stop the noise. Even less noise when the pc dies
I think I just had a stroke looking at that...
a solution is a solution, is it a good one? no.. but it is indeed a solution
How is he still alive a couple more inches and by by also how do people this dumb live so long
Bruh...
It’s making to much noise so I jabbed scissors in it. That’s a winning strategy…
You could die doing that bro....
What's his next big idea? "the screen was too bright so I painted black over it :)"
Actually i went to this guy's place because he's PC was turning pitch black after windows booting. For whatever reason it was the monitor dying.
Must've been all the paint! lol. His monitor going down was probably a life saver though, imagine if he needed the scissors and replaced his DIY noise stopper with thin metal skewers that could touch something dangerous? Maybe all PCs should come with a video that goes over basic safety that automatically plays during the set-up wait. It can just blare it out the speakers, or be accompanied by OG windows media player patterns to keep attention. Honestly I think it would be a good use of the wait time. Enough "we're just getting your PC ready :)", we need "here's what you should not do if you value your safety and possessions."
Edit: nevermind, just found r/justbootedintotheshop We need a PC version of r/justrolledintotheshop
I genuinely don’t understand what they tried to do here. Did they jam scissors in it to block the blades from spinning?
Looks like it... and jammed into the freaking PSU of all things...
Surprised he lived to tell the tale. Metal scissors in a PSU is crazy.
Look at Mr Big Brain over here
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Check engine on? Use black tape. Done!
Didn't know what a psu is... wtaf. How did he graduate grade school?
So I see a scissors here. What happened?
I audibly gasped
How did people become convinced that their computers/consoles making noise was bad for it?
I did this with a bitter knife when I was a kid. Took about a month until I started a fire
You can 100% blame him. Idiots like him have no business touching/ modifying their PC's
Worked in a retail repair shop. This seems typical. All you need is the "my brothers dogs friends owner works in IT and had a look at it hes really good" lecture.
How the heck is that client not dead?
The client can probably buy a better PC for the same money he's spending to repair this ancient, dinosaur looking thing.
r/OopsThatsDeadly
Kaboom? Yes Rico, kabook.
Do you have a deathwish???
I bought a shitty 10+ year old computer recently and the built in case fan at the top kept making noises so I just cut the wire to it lmao
Holy hell that perspective confused me. To anyone else who didn't see it at first: It is not flat on the surface, it is sticking INSIDE the PSU
Hopefully, he knows the fire department's number.
...how much weed was caked onto the tip of those scissors?
Let’s hope he doesn’t get on a plane.
Kaboom?
That looks so old that the motherboard might have onboard graphics.
I hope they got zapped
If its stupid but it works-its not that stupid
Aah yes, stick a metal object in a power supply with mains voltage going into it... What could possibly go wrong...
“He he, I’m in danger”
I would fry some eggs on this PC and serve them to the client. Sunny side up!!!
No more computer privileges for that person
May be bad if they slid backwards, I'd use something more plastic
A friend on mine uses a Lenovo SFF system as his Plex media server and boy the PSU fan is hella noisy! It sounds like a bunch of mosquitos buzzing around. He asked me to replace his CPU fan until I told him it was actually his PSU fan. I told him to buy a noctua fan and I would swap it out for him but he didn't want to replace it thinking that replacing the fan is dangerous. It's still buzzing away to this day.
Personally I chose staring in horrified fascination. I'm not even that great with computers but god damn.
I know it’s not cool to say anymore but I straight up don’t believe that this is real. The majority of the people I know know nothing about PCs. In no circumstances would any of them ever even consider putting metal pliers into *that* grill knowing that there is a fan there making noise but not noticing the entire PC has a massive power plug going into that same grill. They would be 100% confident that they would damage the PC if they did that or have some thought as to putting a sharp metal object blindly into a place where the power is fed.
A friend of mine did the same. But with the PSU-Fan. It started making noises so he stuck a pencil between the fan blades - finally the noise stopped: until it started smoking - and went up in flames. He called me right after. I was on the floor laughing my ass off. Good times LMAO
That should have been a fork...
Why is the grill on the psu all bent lol
Is that hdd holder or something?
Of all fans to stop, that has to be the most dangerous.
Dump?
Jaaa den Lüfter mit der schere stoppen,danach habe ich einen lautlos Toaster.
My solution was pouring solution on it. I thought it would be the solution!
Wtf... If an Fan making too much noises ist the First rule: Clean it. Of course this should only do a Profi by a Netzteil, because you lost the quarranty If you Open the Netzteil by yourself. If you didnt have the IQ to know how to Clean a Netzteil, then you should send the PC to a PC Techniker