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ryan_hart38
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14h ago
Got called to a dental office in Charlotte at 7am and had to decide between pulling the drive or spending 3 hours on a clone
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cora_west5
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17h ago
TIL you should clean the thermal paste off old GPUs before you sell them, not after the buyer complains
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ben_fisher
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2d ago
Customer brought in a laptop running Vista in 2026, spent 3 hours on it instead of just selling them a $200 refurb
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sagejackson
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5d ago
Watched a guy pour his coffee into a tower's top vent at 7am and it somehow fixed the boot loop, still not sure what I saw
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mitchell.avery
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5d ago
Dropped $180 on a thermal camera for board repair and it's been in my drawer for 8 months
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cora_west5
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5d ago
The week a bad power supply took out three machines and taught me to slow down
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anna717
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6d ago
Update: I stopped tossing swollen laptop batteries and started reviving them with a bench supply
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quinnperry
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7d ago
Got a dead laptop back to life with a $12 part from a shop in Mesa
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abby_brown
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7d ago
Vent: a guy in my Tuesday night class called us parts swappers and it's still bugging me
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fisher.jessica
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7d ago
A guy at Micro Center in Denver showed me thermal paste pumps out after exactly 4 years and I never checked mine
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brooke_murray
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8d ago
Ran defrag on every machine in the shop on my boss's advice and then he told me it's been pointless since 2009
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ray562
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10d ago
Question about the retired tech in Reno who told me he stopped keeping spare parts on his truck
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amy654
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12d ago
Am I the only one who almost replaced a whole PC over a $6 cable?
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milalewis
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13d ago
Watched a shop go from 40 minute virus removals to 10 minute swaps after switching to SSD images, and I'm never going back
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hunt.hayden
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14d ago
Rant: I called SSD upgrades a waste of money for small clients and had to eat my words after 6 months
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