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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…
The only thing I hate more than a poorly documented API is a poorly labeled battery box. People walk into a store, see a small brick labeled "20,000 mAh," and then see a large plastic…
You spent over a grand on a "Smart 4K HDR" display, and the first time you watch a movie, it looks like a cheap soap opera shot on a handheld camcorder. That is the manufacturer's…
Bluetooth is a technology that works perfectly right up until the moment you actually need it, then it commits ritual suicide. I get a ticket about connecting earbuds at least once a day. The problem…
