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Doing this with the charging connector of an ASUS zen notebook.
It broke along with the lanes that went deep in the mainboard, unfortunately it wasn't a simple resolder and fix job.

And of course, those fucking parts aren't available, never released. 1300 Euro new notebook.
 
Once I forgot that modern CPUs typically come out of the box with a layer of thermal paste pre-applied to them. So, I put on a daub of thermal paste and then got massively confused when my CPU was reading 90~° C. Had to take the damn thing out, clear off the thermal paste, and then reapply.

I hadn't assembled a PC in several years and major life events, so a couple minor details slipped the mind apparently.
 
Your Local Immigrant said:
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Doing this with the charging connector of an ASUS zen notebook.
It broke along with the lanes that went deep in the mainboard, unfortunately it wasn't a simple resolder and fix job.

And of course, those fucking parts aren't available, never released. 1300 Euro new notebook.
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Super glue or fast acting gorilla glue. If the you can get all the contacts connected then just glue it back on. Glue to the PCB do not glue the actual contacts. Then when everything is fixed then apply another layer of glue over the contacts. Ive done this, it works. Just as long as the PCB does not bend.
 
Deepthoughts said:
Remember everyone, RAID is not a backup.
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On a related note, I've spent so many cumulative hours trying to explain to people why off-site backups are a thing only to be met with "that sounds like a lot of hassle and expense"-type responses. Thankfully in most cases they never got bitten in the ass by it, but in 2 cases they absolutely did. Both were fires. One business went under because they lost ALL of their client and contract data. The other survived but a few people got canned over it.

Remember, on-site backups only work if you still have a site. It doesn't even have to be that complicated. Just have a designated employee take a backup set home every Friday evening and bring the set from two Fridays ago to work on Monday morning.
 
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Some JERK said:
On a related note, I've spent so many cumulative hours trying to explain to people why off-site backups are a thing only to be met with "that sounds like a lot of hassle and expense"-type responses. Thankfully in most cases they never got bitten in the ass by it, but in 2 cases they absolutely did. Both were fires. One business went under because they lost ALL of their client and contract data. The other survived but a few people got canned over it.

Remember, on-site backups only work if you still have a site. It doesn't even have to be that complicated. Just have a designated employee take a backup set home every Friday evening and bring the set from two Fridays ago to work on Monday morning.
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I worked at a place that used tape backup. They had fourteen tapes that they rotated through, a secretary stuck a tape into the server each day before leaving and it was scheduled to back up everything at 10pm or so. She also left with the previous tape every day so there was an off-site backup in a way, then returned with it the next day. Rinse and repeat. For a small firm many years ago it was a decent system.

Then their server shit the bed and it turns out that the tape backup job broke and stopped running several years ago.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I worked at a place that used tape backup. They had fourteen tapes that they rotated through, a secretary stuck a tape into the server each day before leaving and it was scheduled to back up everything at 10pm or so. She also left with the previous tape every day so there was an off-site backup in a way, then returned with it the next day. Rinse and repeat. For a small firm many years ago it was a decent system.

Then their server shit the bed and it turns out that the tape backup job broke and stopped running several years ago.
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That's exactly why you need someone to actually verify your backups. But if you think selling someone on a backup solution itself is hard, try talking them into paying for someone to swing by once a month and say "Yep, your thing is indeed doing the thing."

It's nearly impossible.
 
Rusty Crab said:
One time I was in a tea shop and this 'epic gamer' was sitting there with his 'epic gamer laptop' and his 'epic gamer headset' actually playing League being loud and obnoxious. He got his tea kettle and tried to pour the tea in to his cup DIRECTLY OVER his laptop. Yeah guess how that turned out.

Hard to feel bad for the guy, but then again I'm pretty sure he was an actual retard.
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For added absurdity I'm going to imagine it was one of those monster gaming laptops that go way too overboard in an effort to fill the "dude just get a desktop" niche, like this one
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Rusty Crab said:
God that's fucking stupid. I'll take 12.
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The fact that someone slapped a full mechanical keyboard on an epic gamer laptop never ceases to make me laugh. Though the newest revision now uses low profile mechanical switches, because even the Acer Predator can get in on the trend of making tech thinner.
 
Dating myself but as an inquisitive and (I thought) tech literate teen with a Linux box (an early version of Slackware) I graduated from running an old school BBS into the grand world of the Internet. I'd gotten my own phone line for the BBS as a birthday present q while ago and once my dad got Internet access I was ready to explore this new world. This is in the very early days of the WWW, and having home internet access was still very unusual. (My dad needed it for work, he was in the tech industry so every year or so I'd get his old computer when he upgraded, I had a shitton of computers running Linux, Minix, Xenix, a Sun box, and other random shit all on a LAN. Fun times.)

There was an extra phone line and an extra ISP account so I rigged up a little bash script to automatically reconnect the dialup internet connection when it dropped (and it would drop a couple times a day, it was SLIP, I think, this was possibly before PPP was a thing), it would even try to dial one or several phone numbers the ISP offered. This, with a static IP address, allowed me an ersatz dedicated line. I ran an IRC server and a site with a bunch of edgy shit about drugs and stuff like that.

Unfortunately there was some kind of fuckery with the phone company, they'd recently changed something with the area codes where I was living (my memory is fuzzy) and our phone number changed and you started having to dial all ten digits of phone numbers regardless of the area code but anyway one of the phone numbers became a long distance call when it was not previously. This didn't occur to me and the script kept doing it's thing.

This resulted in a phone bill for my dad in the neighborhood of $6,000. Needless to say he wasn't happy. He banned me from running the script but he was fortunately able to negotiate his way out of the bill with the phone company so all was eventually good and I started running the whole thing again. Very carefully.
 
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Working on an IDE drive computer. Connecter in the CD tray is stuck, pull too hard and rip the cables out of the connector. Also had moments of not setting jumper pins correctly.

Best one I saw but didn't do was school was having a computer lab day back in 1995. Kid brought a magnet to school and not knowing how shit works, puts the magnet against the screen of the MAC and kills it.
 
you know when you're done with a glass, sipped all the liquid out of it, and then like an hour later all the little droplets that had collected on the side have dribbled down and formed a small amount of liquid at the bottom

that's the amount of liquid i spilled on my last laptop that killed it. went through an opening in or around the trackpad. several years ago but i'm still fucking mad.
 
BootlegPopeye said:
We had BBS style 'internet' due to my father's work in 1988-9 (On an Apple II no less). But he treated it like he would have if he had a Ferrari - no one could use it but him. So I never knew what kind of costs the old baud modems could accumulate.
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Not really that much actually, I was a sysops back then in the early days of Dalnet. That's when I started my career in the Tech industry, when some fucktard told me I could not get in because I did not have a degree... Well that cunt did not know how stubborn I am and with the power of Computer Currents and Micro Times magazines I was able to build my rigs. The rest is history.

BTW. The Apple 2E was fucking way ahead of its time. I owned a Mac SE30 to do my manga comics/ translations back then. Good computer but the programs were incredibly expensive so I built my first PC shortly afterwards.
 
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