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charlesm52
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3h ago
Bought a $60 thermal camera off Amazon to find a short on a motherboard, best tool I own now
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chen.adam
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3h ago
Swapped a $90 hard drive for a $35 SSD in a 2017 Dell and boot time went from 4 minutes to 22 seconds
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paigew53
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6h ago
Watched a tech at a repair shop in Boise fix a no-boot laptop with a $2 eraser
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sam_thomas
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6h ago
SSDs cut my bench turnaround from 55 minutes to 20 in the last 6 months
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victorhill
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12h ago
Question about USB-C docks vs good old fashioned port replicators for bench work
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sethhernandez
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1d ago
Shoutout to the customer who watched me fix her PC for 45 minutes and then asked if I tried turning it off and on
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keithbutler
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3d ago
Appreciation post: the $12 keyboard tester I bought after a coffee spill saved a whole classroom of laptops
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veraj53
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5d ago
Rant: guy at the Fry's clearance bin said thermal paste was a scam, so I tried jelly on a Pentium 4
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diana_black
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7d ago
Spent 11 hours chasing a dead PC that turned out to be a $3 coin cell battery
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ward.jamie
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7d ago
Rant: watched a shop in Cincinnati lose 3 drives in a week because nobody checks SMART data before imaging
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paigew53
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8d ago
I used to roll my eyes at thermal paste swaps, then I saw the temps on a 5 year old Dell
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william_hunt88
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8d ago
A loose SATA cable was making a customer think her new SSD died
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val949
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8d ago
Customer told me his WiFi router 'needs a new battery' and I almost corrected him
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cora863
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8d ago
Guy paid me $60 to fix a PC that just had his monitor plugged into the motherboard
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the_claire
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9d ago
Can we talk about how I wasted 2 years reinstalling Windows instead of just checking the RAM first?
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