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By Gem - 11/02/2011 10:59 - Australia

Today, my Dad thought "Joseph" and "Francis" were two people hacking our internet. They are actually the names of my laptop and iPod, which have now been blocked from using our modem. He can't figure out how to unblock them. FML

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By WPA2 OR DEATH - 07/12/2012 21:49 - Australia - Queanbeyan

Today, my dad got a warning from our ISP for going well over their fair usage limit. I barely use our wifi, and I keep telling him he should password-protect our router to stop people leeching our Internet. He's blaming me anyway, and says I'm grounded until January. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/07/2023 03:00

Today, my dad was sat on my laptop in the living room trying to learn how to do some rewiring around the house when he, and I quote, ”clicked on the thing.” My laptop is now riddled with so many viruses it’s basically a house brick. FML

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By graduate - 06/06/2009 13:17 - United States

Today, I got a computer. When I opened it, I found out that my dad had made himself the administrator. He made it so everything shut off after 11 o'clock, and made it so I couldn't download anything without his password. FML

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By oopsydaddy - 14/08/2018 06:00

Today, my dad asked my help with a computer problem. Whenever he logged on Facebook, every single advertisement appeared to be hardcore porn. I had to awkwardly explain that these ads are based on his browsing habits. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/11/2012 18:55 - Europe

Today, my dad went through all the trouble of sneaking onto my laptop and photoshopping a bong into my Facebook profile picture, apparently just so he could win a €20 bet with my mom, that hinged on her grounding me by December. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/07/2015 18:19 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I was having computer problems, so I let my friend have remote access to fix them. We were video-chatting on Skype at the time, and so he thought it'd be hilarious to load hardcore porn in my browser the moment he saw my mom enter the room from behind me. I'm now grounded. FML

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Memory man

By Dad Fail - 07/02/2023 07:00 - United States

Today, my dad let me use his phone. Five minutes later, he had my mom call it because he thought he'd lost it. FML

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By Howdoiwatchpoliticsnow - 29/05/2016 20:06 - United States - Newton

Today, I tried to get my son off of the couch by turning off the wifi. Afterward, I went to watch tv. Turns out he got me back by turning off the cable. FML

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By StupidBerk - 17/09/2012 23:25 - United Kingdom

Today, my nitwit son infected our family computer with some sort of mad bastard virus after getting fooled by the promise of some non-existent Hannah Montana nudes. FML

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By Patrick - 04/09/2022 04:30

Today, I was looking after my 9 year-old nephew when I let him play some web games on my MacBook. A few hours later, I found out I'd underestimated his tech skills, as he'd changed all my contacts to "Mr. Spongebob Squarepants." Thanks to iCloud, all contacts on all my devices were changed. FML

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IcyHell 0

Friday 11 February 2011 19:15

Who the **** would name their iPod/laptops names?

ZoroFresh 0

Friday 11 February 2011 19:19

www.google.com I won't explain shit to you no matter how easy it is with information so readily available.

Comments

ancora 1

Friday 11 February 2011 21:13

I can't say I blame your dad for not connecting men's names with his daughter.

AP0CALYPSE 2

Friday 11 February 2011 21:30

At least you didn't set the names to something dirty.

agirlnamedlogan 5

Friday 11 February 2011 21:36

Reset your router

MissBrainDamage 0

Friday 11 February 2011 22:05

Mine is called Gem and yeah iTunes asks you if you would like to name your iPod so everyone yelling that it's unheard of blame iTunes you pricks

bachooka 5

Friday 11 February 2011 22:11

my iPhone is named Horatio the iPhone... because I'm cool like that... ooooh yeaaaah!

shadowskater 0

Friday 11 February 2011 22:35

god damn this is how you Unblock it go into your router/modems setting by typing 192.168.1.1 in your URL go to your wireless MAC filtering setting and click disable.

zargon 1

Saturday 12 February 2011 4:15

Glad we know how to access *your* router, but that's not remotely universal. Mine, for example, is on 192.168.0.1. Of course, nearly anything on the 192.168.0.0/16 subnet is possible, as is 10.0.0.0/8, and 172.16.0.0/12. Now, it's still easy to figure out which it is (ipconfig or route, depending on what type of machine you have), but goddammit stop acting as if your setup is universal.