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Warning: My old laptop charger died during a final edit for a $500 article last week
I was working from a coffee shop in Springfield and the whole thing just went dark... I had to scramble to find a backup. Has anyone else had a piece of gear fail at the worst possible moment?
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victor6519d ago
That charger was probably a $30 part, not $500.
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caseywalker9d ago
Funny how the cheapest part can wreck the most important thing. Like a ten cent fuse blowing to kill a fridge full of food, or a two dollar ink cartridge stopping a whole printer when you need to sign a document. The whole system depends on that one weak link giving out at exactly the wrong time.
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the_elizabeth9d ago
It's wild how the weakest piece always seems to fail under pressure. Like a tiny plastic clip holding a car's bumper on, you hit one pothole and the whole thing drags on the highway. Or the free app you need for work that crashes right before a deadline because of one weird update. The whole design almost banks on that cheap part breaking first.
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