Today, right after I finished writing a very important paper and saved it to my hard drive, my barely 2-year-old Macbook decided to completely stop functioning. I went to the Apple store and even they can't get it to turn on. That's $1500 down the drain along with my grade. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Today, I was writing a huge paper for a class as our last grade. My dog starts scratching himself. He hit the power button on the computer. Nothing was saved. FML
Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, it seemed like a great day. Right up until the point to where I accidentally damaged a friend's MacBook Pro. Not only do I have to pay for it, but the only way I'll be able to afford it is by returning every single Christmas gift I get. FML
Today, I stepped on the MacBook Air I purchased 4 days ago. The screen snapped in two, and I didn't buy insurance because I promised myself I would be "extra careful." $3500 well spent. FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, I dropped my 400 dollar iphone, that's been through toilets and 6 foot falls, on a walmart floor and shattered the screen. I managed, however, to catch the 2 dollar macaroni and cheese before it hit the ground. FML
Today, I spilled some milk on my laptop. I was pretty sure it would be fine as it was only a bit of milk. While cleaning the residue, I knocked a whole bucket of water into the insides of the laptop. RIP Macbook. FML
Today, I went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML
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Top comments
BurnInDemonFire 39
Always back up important documents to an external hard drive/flash drive. You never know when the shit will hit the fan.
bass_ftp 12
No offense but who the hell doesn't keep intermediate backups of important files in a cloud or or secondary hardware these days? Hardware dies ALL THE TIME, that's why for anything more important than some temporary stuff you don't save it in just 1 place.
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Comments (31)
Tony Friddle 11
your first mistake was taking it to an apple store, they don't care about their customers. Go to a third party repair shop with good reviews, guaranteed they can fix it for dirt cheap!
Matt Much 12
Try Rossmann repair group out of Brooklyn, NY. Louis Rossmann knows his Apple machines.
phoenixthesmeg 6
That's why you should sync to icloud for any important stuff. as much as I don't like Apple that feature does work well.
Moxie Mettle 10
Hmmm anyone who buys Apple products gets what they deserve. You should have auto cloud backup on. Apple accounts for 17% of cells phones and 75% of tech assist calls. Get smart and get android!
WHSKitty4ever 23
That’s why you use Google Docs… it automatically saves to your Gmail account. This solely is the reason I’m glad I switched to it. No more needing to worry about backing up and losing documents!
tounces7 28
Does Apple make such garbage products you can't even remove the hard drive?
warmonger711 8
1500 macbook = 900 windows laptop
MishMashMosh 20
uhh you don't have cloud storage?