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[OC] 1 year of doing pay-what-you-want computer repairs on my free time (jlai.lu)

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[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 10 points 15 hours ago

I would have liked to include this, but it wouldn't really be data nor beautiful cause I don't have accurate statistics, not even with approximate ranges.

However, I can tell you that most of the people I help are at least middle-aged and often seniors.

One notable exception is the one data recovery entry : they were a university student using a very cheap and/or old HDD (IDE, not even SATA) until they suddenly couldn't access anything, I was able to save everything they needed into a new one.

Another one is a few weeks ago (so not on this chart because 2026), I received a request from a mom who had bought their young son their first computer, a noname desktop from Amazon, that was poorly assembled : their issue was the monitor would turn off between 30-90 mins after starting a game, they thought it was a GPU overloading/overheating issue, but no, it was a false contact due to the GPU's power plug being stuck in a twisting position against the case door.