I f***ed up · 2:34am Jun 24th, 2017
badly.
full story below the break:
so, everybody probably knows about my youtube channel. if you didn't- hey, I have a youtube channel!
well, one of my videos got me a copyright strike and it was deleted. unfortunately, this happened a bit after i'd uploaded it, and I had already deleted the file form my laptop to free up precious space. and I deleted the deleted file from by recycling bin. 
I wanted to get the file back so I could do a google drive re-direct, the usual, but every program I found online was something that A) had to be payed for and B) was expensive for something i'd maybe use twice.
so I went ahead and made stupid mistake #2. I went to a website that I had used before- I got my very nice video editor from there. it was a program that I should have payed for, but I found a crack on the website that gave it to me (up to a certain version) for free. I've had that editor for a year plus, never had a problem. I thought I could trust the website. anybody reading think that was the case?
if you said no, congratulations, you get a cookie. no you don't, I ate them all. ha ha ha!
I downloaded a program against my windows defender's advice, and ran it. surprise surprise, it was a trap. it started downloading a bunch of garbage I didn't want, made my computer 10 times slower in about 5 seconds.
mistake number 3. I panicked. I did a hard shut down. then I tried to restart the damn thing. hooooooo boy.
mistake number... i'm gonna call it 3.5. upon restarting, it refused to boot properly. it brought up a recovery menu. now, instead of doing the sensible thing and immediately going to a computer expert, I tried to fix it myself. I tried to do a partial reset.
I ended up deleting my operating system.
once I figured out that my laptop was well and truly fucked, I went through a complete breakdown for at least a couple hours. after I stopped crying in the corner, I realized I could use my phone to google computer repairs. I found a nice little place close to me with good reviews, so I decided to give it a shot.
thank every deity you can name, the guy who runs the place actually knows what he's doing, and he was able to recover all the files I wanted and or needed. he was then nice enough to give me a windows 10 recovery disk and walk me through the process of restoring my computer. after several hours, i'm now back to about 95%. i'm missing a few things, especially my internet links, and the disk was actually newer than my windows 10 had been before, so I have to get used to that... but my foul up has been fixed. it's taken about 3 days of my time, and prevented me from doing any work on plp episode 6 or my youtube videos, but at this point i'm just happy to have a working laptop again.
the lesson is:
yeah, yeah I know.
fuck up number 4 you sent your computer to be fixed without clearing your browser history
4581487. So what
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I haven't searched porn in weeks, but when I Did I used "in private" browsing. As for clop stories... I read them for the plot
Unless you mean my passwords and such. In that case, I trust the guy, and I had nothing on it worth stealing. what's he gonna do, write weird stuff on my Facebook page?