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hugos67
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5h ago
Warning: lost 3 hours to a bad RAM stick and a caller who wouldn't listen
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the_sandra
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2d ago
Blew $87 on a "premium" USB drive for client backups in Dallas and it died in 5 days
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jamie_clark
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3d ago
TIL a $4 pack of cheap nitrile gloves beat my old cloth mats for pulling a board out of a flooded Dell
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marktorres
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6d ago
Went back to imaging drives with Clonezilla instead of that paid tool, and the $0 option won
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mia592
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9d ago
Found a repair shop in Reno with a wall of labeled dead hard drives, made me rethink my scrap bin
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richard610
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11d ago
A guy at the Peoria repair shop showed me a 5 dollar trick for stuck laptop screws
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wright.dakota
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12d ago
Spent 2 hours on a customer's slow laptop with my usual toolkit, fixed it in 10 with a Live USB
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mila_reed
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14d ago
Had 9 tickets on the board Monday morning and cleared all of them by Wednesday lunch
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the_stella
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16d ago
Guy at a bar in Reno told me my thermal paste test was worthless, and he was right
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miles_perez
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16d ago
Pro tip: a client's boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds and the fix was not what I expected
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wade_wells58
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17d ago
Pro tip: ask what changed right before it broke, not what is broken
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grant_cooper
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17d ago
Watched a guy at Micro Center in Columbus clean a laptop with a toothbrush and I owe him an apology
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samward
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17d ago
A customer at my bench taught me to ask "what did you do right before this?" and now I close tickets twice as fast
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fisher.faith
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17d ago
Watched a kid out at the Rockford shop image a drive in 4 minutes while I sat there with 3 dead USB sticks
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holly898
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19d ago
A guy at the Louisville repair shop swore by reflowing laptop GPUs in a toaster oven, and I actually tried it on a dead Dell
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