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ellis.hayden
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11h ago
Client's Dell sat in my shop 3 days before I popped the back and saw the real problem
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black.joel
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17h ago
Picked a $12 USB adapter over pulling the drive for a client's dead laptop
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thomas275
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1d ago
Shoutout to the $9 USB rubber ducky that saved my Tuesday at a client's office in Reno
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elizabethn56
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1d ago
Unpopular opinion: the client who watched me replace a laptop keyboard at a Starbucks in Reno taught me more than any cert
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the_dylan
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2d ago
Client's PC died on a Friday at 4:45 and the $80 fix was buried under a pile of invoices
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hayden_butler27
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3d ago
Why do techs keep flashing BIOS on a machine that just needs a new CMOS battery?
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margareth48
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3d ago
Saw a repair shop in Cleveland still using a tube tester in 2024
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julia_patel
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4d ago
Just picked the $45 knockoff battery over the $120 OEM one for a customer's 2019 Dell, and wow, the readout tells a different story than my meter
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clairem47
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4d ago
I swore off refurb motherboards for shop builds until a dead Lenovo in Raleigh changed my mind
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norag66
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5d ago
Had 3 walk-in jobs in one Tuesday turn into 3 no-fix calls by lunch
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rowan2
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5d ago
Got a laptop from a client in Mesa that had 4 years of dust felt blocking the intake, and the fan sounded like a leaf blower
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margaret99
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9d ago
Unpopular opinion: I hit 40 dead drives in a single bucket and started rethinking my whole intake process
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michaelchen
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9d ago
Hot take: I stopped putting customer drives in my bench rig and bought a $35 dock instead
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williamhill
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10d ago
Pro tip: Windows indexing kept a dying drive pinned at 100% on a Dell OptiPlex 7040, here's the 3 minute fix
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loganl22
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12d ago
Shop lead in Spokane said to skip thermal paste on OEM coolers, cost me a comeback
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