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I just had a customer bring in a ruggedized handheld terminal, barely six months old, completely dead after what they described as a "brief dip in a puddle." They were adamant that it was IP68…
Just a few weeks ago, my personal laptop, a reliable old Lenovo, started pulling the classic disappearing act. I'd unplug it with a reported 70% charge, walk to another room, and within five minutes it…
I was recently on-site helping a small design firm migrate their network infrastructure to a new office space. The client, enthusiastic but a bit misguided, had taken it upon himself to pre-purchase what he thought…
I was knee-deep in a stack of old digital photos recently, trying to restore and touch up some cherished family memories. I'd spend ages adjusting the white balance, tweaking contrast, and perfecting the hues in…
The other week, I noticed a persistent smudge on my Alienware AW3423DWF. It wasn't a dead pixel or burn-in, just some dust, a few faint fingerprints, and what looked like a tiny, dried droplet that…
I recently had an old daily driver, a sturdy but aging Dell Latitude 5490, that was starting to feel like I was running it through treacle. Boot times were stretching into minutes, applications like my…
The phantom "Offline" status is my least favorite ticket I distinctly remember the last time I walked into an accounting department to fix a "broken" printer. The LED lights were solid green. The network cable…
Marketing departments love big numbers because they assume you failed high school physics. If I had a dime for every time someone complained that their "10,000mAh" power bank only charged their 4,000mAh phone twice before…
There is no greater lie in the tech industry than the "Up to 1050 MB/s" sticker on an external drive box. I have a drawer full of "high-speed" drives that throttle down to 1998 floppy…
The USB-C port is the biggest scam the computer industry ever pulled off. It promised simplicity—one reversible connector to rule them all. What it delivered was chaos. That little oval hole on your machine could…
