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abby_wilson51
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2d ago
Hot take: a $15 cable tester beats my $300 tone and probe kit for most jobs
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adam_thompson53
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4d ago
A shop lead ripped my solder joints in front of the whole bench, and he was right
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oscar712
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5d ago
I wasted 3 months blaming bad RAM when the real problem was my $8 SATA cable
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oliver2
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6d ago
Spent 3 hours chasing a dead NIC before checking the switch port light
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derek_schmidt6
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8d ago
Guy brought me a laptop last Tuesday with 47 toolbars and blamed me for the slow boot
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west.henry
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10d ago
Dropped $89 on a thermal paste kit for a 10 year old laptop, total waste
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blair_dixon
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12d ago
I spent 5 hours on a laptop that just needed a BIOS battery, and I still don't know if I was wrong
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rileynelson
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13d ago
Serious question, did you guys clean thermal paste with alcohol or just dry wipe back in the day?
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ruby_patel27
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14d ago
My old shop lead swore by canned air for clogged laptop fans, and I listened for 2 years
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river_davis
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15d ago
Shoutout to the older tech who told me reseating RAM is not always the fix
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coray70
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16d ago
Vent: 3 years ago a shop in Erie lost a client's QuickBooks data because nobody checked the RAID card
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julia_miller24
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17d ago
Vent: spent 6 hours on a wifi dropout that turned out to be a $4 HDMI cable
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the_amy
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17d ago
I labeled every cable in a 42U rack backwards and didn't catch it for 2 years
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dylan_bell
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19d ago
A guy in Denver told me he loses 3 out of every 10 laptops he opens, and I believe him now
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ryanburns
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21d ago
Bench testing PSUs with a $30 tester vs a multimeter, and I'm never going back
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