Wrong department. You need *life* support.

[cybiko123]

We got a tech support customer last night. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Thanks for calling [us], this is cybiko123. How can I help you?
SC: Hi yeah, my computer has this burning smell.
Me: Uh oh! Let me set up a shipment so we can get that picked up.
SC: No.
Me: Come again?
SC: NO! I paid for live phone support, so you need to give me that! I'm a lawyer, and know my rights!
Me: ...sir? Something is *burning* inside your computer. Even if we did troubleshoot it now, we'd still have to repair it.
SC: But it has my whole porn collection. I can't let you near that!
Me: This is a hardware problem. The tech probably won't need to turn on the computer other than to test parts.
SC: So?
Me: *thinks for a minute* You have 55 GB of web space available. Why not back it up on there?
SC: It's not gonna fit!
Me, to myself: (Keep in mind, 55 GB holds about 121 HOURS of video.)
Me, to SC: Would you like me to note your account about important files?
SC: You know what, forget it. You are NO help AT ALL. *click*

[Ironclad Alibi]

SC: Hi yeah, my computer has this burning smell.
....
SC: But it has my whole porn collection. I can't let you near that!
....
SC: It's not gonna fit!

Recall Rule #1 before highlighting.
>Hmmm... I think he needs a better lubricant.<

>He must have a lot of hot stuff in there.<

[ZedOmega]

Hmm... I wonder why he's so nervous about sending his computer in to get it repaired... probably something to do with what kind of porn he has on his computer...

[protege]

probably something to do with what kind of porn he has on his computer...

Sounds like someone has an entire drive full of kiddie pron. No wonder he didn't want anyone to see it

Closer to home, I know a guy who got busted for that sort of thing. He was an exchange student, and decided to keep up his disgusting hobby while in college. Too bad that he forgot about it when his computer failed, and he took it in for service. Last I heard, he got deported.

[technical.angel]

I accidentally ran into a student's porn collection today.

I checked his My Videos folder, to if there was anything in there to save... There was. Sigh.

[Flying Grype]

*makes note to store porn on external drive*

It's not... bad stuff. It's pretty much all yaoi manga (not even shota, thank you). And I do all my own computer repairs. Built the thing myself. Still... can't be too careful.

[Eric the Grey]

With all the YouTube type of sites that offer online porn nowadays, why bother even saving anything to your computer *unless* it was illegal?

Makes you wonder...



Eric the Grey

[Andara Bledin]

With all the YouTube type of sites that offer online porn nowadays, why bother even saving anything to your computer *unless* it was illegal?

Well, first, who wants to have to use all that bandwidth over and over? Save it, and it's always right at your fingertips.

Also, what if your 'net goes out?
What if it gets removed from the site (by site or owner)?
What if the site has an outage?
What if the site gets rearranged and your bookmarks no longer work?

External drives are your friend when dealing with media of any type or nature.

^-.-^

[roothorick]

External drives are your friend when dealing with media of any type or nature.

Unless you don't want to lose it.

Honestly, storing anything important on removable media is a bad idea. You should keep most things on a cloud service, or better yet, on redundant drive arrays in your own personal home server, and have an off-site backup. (Make sure the PSU has OVP, or you could lose all the drives at once.) If it's something you don't want just anyone to have access to (and I'm not talking government; think tax documents, passwords, whatnot), put it in an encrypted volume. (TrueCrypt is great for this.)

[fireheart]

*makes note to store porn on external drive*

It's not... bad stuff. It's pretty much all yaoi manga (not even shota, thank you). And I do all my own computer repairs. Built the thing myself. Still... can't be too careful.

My boyfriend stores porn on his 1TB external hard drive. And he still has space to store a good chunk of movies (stuff he's ripped straight to the computer so he has backups), some music, some games and his Viking stuff.

He has way more than 55GB of porn though. I'm actually more stunned that he has that much porn.

[Chromatix]

Well, when you consider the resolution that a modern digital camera can provide... I wouldn't be surprised to find individual photos taking 1MB or more if he actually has a subscription to a site. I'm not sure what the average number of photos per collection is. So he might only have a few dozen collections.

[protege]

He has way more than 55GB of porn though. I'm actually more stunned that he has that much porn.

...and I thought my brother was bad! Several months back, his computer started having issues. It would randomly restart itself, games wouldn't load, etc. I brought it home, saved what I could...but I told him in no uncertain terms, that I was *not* going to back up the 100GB of pron, nor was I going to attempt to re-download all that crap

[teh_blumchenkinder]

See, this is why I don't even download pr0nz0rz!
nah, I really don't even download video-- it's either youtube or dvd for me. ... Or film.
The only I thing I want to save to my computer is stills and texts and such. If I want the vid, I buy a hard copy-- I'm paranoid and have redonk-high standards for what I want to watch over and over and over again (thus warrants an acquisition). Or, really, I'm just redonkly picky!
RE: smoking computer: or it was trying to suicide, not being able to take the filth and lies. /dramallama

[Mytical]

At one time I watched Hentai, but don't even bother with that anymore. No porn for me. I can not even fathom 55gb of porn. How...why....what...?

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Movies add up quickly-- porn or not.
Google sez about 5 gb is a 2 hour movie.
eleven, twelve movies then.