Man, that's awful but I totally get it, @rivera_sam - it's that same bad feeling.

It's that weird confidence from tutorial videos. Same thing happened when I tried to tune my bike after watching a guide, ended up with two loose wheels and a brake pad in my hand. The more you learn, the more you realize every other part is held together by hope and a single screw. Now I just nod at the problem and call someone who knows what they're doing.

Last month I spent two hours trying to figure out why my monitor wouldn't turn on. I checked the graphics card, updated drivers, the whole deal. My partner walks in, leans over, and plugs the power cable back into the wall. It had gotten knocked loose. I just stared at the login screen for a solid minute. You really do feel like a prize idiot when the answer is that simple.

Got a buddy who found a perfectly good couch just sitting on the curb last Tuesday...

Yeah, my buddy's new soundbar remote had buttons so close together he kept turning on subtitles instead of volume. He got so fed up he just uses the TV speakers now.