Do you trust repair technicians?What's it like to work as one? Do you ever snoop on your customers' devices?
>>108490866I knew a guy in college who did it on the side, he said he reported people for having kiddie porn a few times. He said he didn't have to go through their drives, it was usually right there in file explorers most recent
>>108490866just encrypt your shit. problem solved.
>>108490866I do my own repairs.
>>108490866Snooping someone's computer is time consuming and when trying to get many fixed you simply don't care enough to look as you're concentrating on getting the issue resolved. Unless as the anon above said, it's front and centre then no. There's not enough time to go digging. However if you're some small time doing 1 fix a week or whatever then you might do
>>108490939How many multimeters and soldering stations do you own?
>>108490955A dozen each.
>>108490960How air stations and shit?
>>108490961Yes. I have several stations on my desk, some multi-purpose with hot air and different tips.
I upgraded the panel on a laptop one time. I repasted my current laptop. You couldn't pay me enough money to do that shit full time. I would rather clean toilets than fix laptops.
>>108490866This guy hates your guts if you live in a red state
>>108490963Do you do BGA reballing as well?
>>108490985Huh?
>>108490866No but I'd trust the greatest technician that's ever lived.
>>108490985Sounds like culture war gibberish from identitarian snowflake types.
>>108490992Turns out he's an elitist who loves the smell of his own farts. In the livestreams he can't help but talk about how liberal he is and how much he prefers his shit hole socialist state despite having unliveable rent prices and God forbid if you say anything bad about blue states or anything nice about living in a low cost state.
>>108490986I only do repairs for myself. Mostly when it comes to BGA though I do dirty reflows and mostly it has worked fine for me, I'm too cheap and lazy to get stencils most of the time, unless it's something really rare or expensive.
>>108490939>>108491021>I only do repairs for myself.Why not let someone who is dedicated to repairs do it then?
>>108491022I'm too autistic and don't trust others, even if they might be more skilled, smarted or with better tools. I rather dedicate just more time and do it myself.
>>108490950https://youtu.be/IFlDpUeMsKM?si=FgQ61I4wQ50TzP4F
>>108491005yeah that's how he actually is
>>108491022It's not that hard and I usually know what breaks.
>>108490866I only do the surface level stuff most of the time. Things like making a system run like new with good software. Have been a few times I saved an old motherboard by fixing plague capacitors though. I don't snoop as I actually bother to care about human decency. Don't have to walk around with the shame of doing nasty stuff like that. Just wanna see things working again.
>>108490866come up with unsearchable problems with equipment so can charge outragous repair bills.
>>108491338>Things like making a system run like new with good software. HavLike, installing Linux?
>>108491346Why dude? That's really fucked up.
>>108491399I've done that a number of times, yes. When it's some boomer that just uses their computer as a Facebook machine, Linux is an obvious choice.
>>108490866>Do you trust repair technicians?no>What's it like to work as one?i still do some side jobs now and then so during intake i always tell them if it isnt for me to see, it shoulnt be on there.
>>108491545>so during intake i always tell them if it isnt for me to see, it shoulnt be on there.And how do they respond?
>>108491560most are oke with it and i havent seen anything too weird.only one awkward time where a friends recent goon files were in the quick acces tab.
>>108490866I'm a repair tech, I'm in work right now, its a comfy job wating for the next repair to come in, it can be anything and everything, keeps life interesting.only trust a repair job that comes with a warranty so if the shop doest offer one, they are shit and not confident in their own work.yes we look at your data, yes we know what porn you watch, we usually just laugh at you.
>>108490866I look like this
>>108491620Are you a gooch collector?
I used to fix PCs in university, once I came across an old guys laptop that had like 300GB of bikini pics of little girls.
>>108491428>system comes in with 4 sticks of ram>remove two>fix issue>tell customer the system had memory instability issues due to two bad ram sticks>don't worry, I took care of it at no extra costI have 438 sticks of ram
>>108490866When my device breaks is when I know it’s time to buy a new one.
>>108491645Do you still have the copy of the folder that you made?
>>108491650Do you live in some lawless third world country? No way the l customers wouldn't notice that. Lame LARP.
>>108491615Do people really save porn on their computer?
>>108491660Yeah, give me your house address so I can mail them to you.
>>108490866>Do you trust repair technicians?>What's it like to work as one? Do you ever snoop on your customers' devices?I don't know if they snoop I just give them a clean install without the data, I just have bad experiences with these people, they fix absolutely nothing. Device comes back to you as broken as it was back when you send it, it's better to buy devices that are user repairable then spend time to lose it all with these mongoloids. God, I expect at least better than what I got for trying it out 3 times in my life.I don't know is this the genus bar experience with Macs in the US?Because I don't own Macs or am I in the US, mine have always been 'PC's (laptops).If you are a good repair guy in Europe you gotta call these people out they are ruining your PR.
>>108491705Sweet bud, thanks.138 N Edinburgh AveLos Angeles, California 90048
>>108491615>usually just laugh at youUsually?
>>108491797Sometimes we fap to it
>>108491688yes, usually private images of their wifes, girlfriend etc.one was a kinky couple who had a sex dungeon and used to like wrapping themselves in cellophane, it was freaky
>>108491709You can lock Apple devices for repair. Same with some Androids.Encrypts everything until you get it back.
>>108490866I would trust them but I would also make sure the hard drive is cleaned of any personal info so passwords are nowhere to be found, clear browser cookies & cache & history etc...
>>108491022Why not let someone who is dedicated to fucking breed your wife for you then?
>>108491484What do you give them, in that case? Debian? They probably have no clue how to update it and it will be left unmaintained until the heat death of the universe.Is mint a good option? I'm thinking about something like that for my mum, I've once let her use another laptop I had which uses mint and she didn't even notice.
>>108492255I tend to stick them on something like Mint or Kubuntu. Then I just show them the two buttons they need for running an update. If I'll actually be there to maintain it, I install Artix.
I dont trust normal repair technicians, but afaik every HDD recovery service i've ever known is obliged to a written privacy agreement that they will not look through your drive no matter what.Not like i can prove that they didnt, since i dont have anything genuinely illegal to be caught on (the worst i have are a bunch of shitty blender porn projects), but still, having some law-backed insurance is better than none at all.
>>108492428That law goes out the window if they find illegal memes on your 'puter.
The amount of times I've seen devices filled with roaches and other vermin is enough of a deterrent to never do repair work for people.
>>108492454They'd have to scour through way too many files for that and my file folders are on a separate drive from the system one, so they cant pull a >>108490889 because the files/recent records are just not there.You can never be unprosecutable, but all things considered the chance of them finding something id go to jail for is equal to them planting it themselves.Now where i dont trust them is the pricing for this shit, because how the fuck can they prove that my drive is actually mechanically FUBAR and not just fucked in firmware, but described as the former? Easy and legal scam.
>>108490866>Do you trust repair technicians?No i once took a laptop in to get a loose charging port re-soldered instead of doing it myself and got back a fried computer, these days if it happens again i will just buy a soldering iron and take a day practicing to do it myself.
>Salem Techrepairs>Can repair the hardest of laptops>barely can build a pc tower>has to call a friend to make a retro pc from the 2000's
>>108490866The policy at my old workplace was "If you snoop, and you don't find anything worth calling the police for, you're fired."
>>108493545*removes hd*snoop on this
>>108493545>>108494067>Snooping as usual I seehttps://youtu.be/LyM1UGD8sqM
>>108494244P I N G A SINGAS
>>108493545Was it a small repair shop or some big franchise?
>>108494295Small repair shop, but I can see bigger ones having similar policies.
>>108490866I was a repair technician for the past 6 years, i quit my job last month. I had done more data recoveries than i can count but i have never snooped around the clients files, but i have opened some photos and documents just to check if i'm getting good files but i only did it because i'm retarded.
>>108494335How was it working with data recovery? Did you just run ddrescue and foremost and called it a day?
>>108494335How do you know whether you've recovered illegal content and have to report it to the police if you do not carefully check every single file?
>>108494390How do we know you are not doing anything illegal if you don't strap a GoPro to your head and live stream what you are doing 24/7?
>>108494370Don't you need a clean room to repair hard drives? It doesn't look like an easy task.
>>108494390I don't and i don't care. Most of the clients are elderly with their hdd's failing because of old age. Most of them could be beat up by a 10 year old. But some of them have busynesses with confidential documents with no backups saved only on the failed drive.>>108494370I just did software recovery and if that failed i sent the drives out to big boys to recover the data the expensive way if the client agrees. I was just mostly doing the basic maintenance stuff like the greatest technician in the OP pic related. It paid pretty well for how little i had to know about tech actually.
>>108495630What software did you use for it?
>>108490866fuck no. years ago I hired a homeless guy to pay someone else to fix an old phone for me and the feds arrested him
>>108495734Ugh?
Once had a laptop who's wallpaper was the guy dressed as a Wolf, Banging his gf who was dressed like a sheep with everything visible. He dropped it off and the gf picked it up. Both were 100% straight faced, did not even flinch.
im a neet on disability. would working tech repair/restoring thinkpads under the table from home would be decent way to earn side money?
>>108495719PhotoRec/TestDisk, FreeRecover, Disk Drill MiniTool, R‑StudioR-Studio is the best in this list but sometimes each multiple of these shits the bed while one works for some reason, so i just tried out all of them. I never figured out how to make photorec not make a billion folders of small batches of recovered files in in separate folders but it recovered files really well, it was the best one of what you can use for free with no bullshit and people usually didn't mind. They were just happy to see their files rescued.
>>108490866That one repair tech snooped through hunter bidens files
>>108496007I once had a guy come in who said his laptop randomly powered off and he couldn't get it to start. I managed to start it back up but it was just in the sleep mode, next thing he just logged in and his pornhub video kept playing full volume.
>>108493545Why only Snoop?
>>108496207kek i forgot that>>108496215what was the genre
I just give them the false pin, so they log into a dummy account and can't access anything personal
>>108493153This took me by surprise as well.Desktops made within the past 30 years or so are fairly standardized and aren't too distinct from a modern build, especially anything made for Win9x/NT or later.A budget HP windows XP tower wouldn't be difficult to work on LOL
>>108496378B8, or is this really the quality of poster on nu-/g/?
>>108496411What can they do if your drive is encrypted?
>>108490866>What's it like to work as one?in the united states, the installation, maintenance, and repair industry have one of the highest rates of suicide of any occupation. it is the highest rate of female suicide of any occupation in this country. it's literally cleaning up someone else's mess 100% of the time. even being a janitor has a higher job satisfaction rate. not only does anyone in the industry not trust each other, there is a great amount of stigma associated with being in that industry because of grifters, scammers, and fly-by-nighters besides all of the greasy fucking nerds who you know are just fishing for nudes or raiding panty drawers at work. people trust you with their devices less than they trust you with their car.>Do you ever snoop on your customers' devices?besides >>108490889 doing so is unethical. not one time.
>>108496411Don't tell me you give repair guys full access to your device... You must be retarded
>>108496495They can just plug in a Live USB and access your data if you don't have encryption..
>>108496489Wth. Is it really that bad?
>>108496407didn't even know what an AGP card was lel
>>108496007I've looked into this before. Based off back-of-the-napkin calculations, you can make a decent profit if you sell Libre/corebooted ThinkPads--non-compatible models too, just that the others fetch a premium price because apparently people can't read through a handful of documents. To be fair, Libreboot's documentation is objectively shite, Coreboot's wiki is depreciated, and some information on certain tools used are only found on forums, or discovered via trial and error. Practice editing ROMS for qemu before working on hardware if you're doing anything more involved than just flashing a precompiled ROM. You benefit from buying a used lot, and buying whatever components you need to fix/mod them in lots as well, so you need capital to get yourself started. Most people expect a new battery, and a storage device at least--preferably SSD. Buy a used lot of SSDs (not your problem if they shit themselves after a while *rubs hands semitically*). Keyboard mods are sought after too, but new ones off Aliexpress are chinesium-made pieces of shit, so don't bother. Wasn't that viable to mod them extensively up until now since the tariffs, but now there's the war--I mean regional conflict *rubs hands semitically* going on so... better get a move on and buy everything you need. If the RAM/HDD cover are missing, you *can* replace them with 3D printed replicas, but I've heard that you need to use a certain filament so that there's no chance of it catching on fire. The only problem is where to sell them. eBay requires you give them your SSN or TIN before you can cash out. Also, why are you working under your table?
>>108490866It's been forever since I did any repair stuff, but I didn't give two shits what the data was. Not my problem.
>>108496614>The only problem is where to sell them. eBay requires you give them your SSN or TIN before you can cash out.I was considering buying out an old dying homeless guy to use his SSN or finding means that illegal aliens usually use to obtain them. when I lived in 4 room housing a guy living with me had 5 different IDs from 5 different states, probably on his 6th or 7th now. The name shlomo noseberg might get me some business favors too.Thank you for the tips though anon. thought about making listing nearby locations to try dumpster diving for tech, businesses, schools, stores, gamestops etc to frankenstein parts and undercut prices online or break even on sales. enough to kickstart getting positive reviews asap on ebay/reddit/marketplace or somewhere and record repairing them for the longterm investment of making extra shekels off youtubes back. Hopefully ill have $20,000 coming through soon to buy tools / bulk laptops.
>>108496793>I was considering buying out an old dying homeless guy to use his SSNI was thinking more along the lines of using crypto for transactions directly between a buyer instead of using marketplaces, but I suppose the residentially challenged have a role in the economy too. >Hopefully ill have $20,000 coming through soon to buy tools / bulk laptopsEpic gibs, but I think you could suffice with just $1000 max, just to test the waters. Do be aware of the fact that these sometimes come either with a BIOS lock, or with Computrace.
>>108497087i'd love to use monero but I don't think the average normalfag would go for it
>>108491650I know you're joking, but>client workstation keeps having a SHIT with its SATA boot SSD>stick an NVMe in there, clone>issue goes away>1mo later BSOD loops few minutes after booting>won't stop>I/O errors>put SSD into refurbished ThinkCentre tiny>works fine after Windows does the 3-4 reboots to swap all the drivers out>take "defective" workstation home>memtest clean>prime clean>plug the old SATA SSD back in>machine just worksThere are actual gremlins in this machine
>>108490866>Do you trust repair technicians?I don't trust any repairmen. Frankly I don't trust white collar workers either. I have trust issues.That being said, I don't know what Rakesh can do that Google can't.
>>108496535yes. except that it will always be your fault whenever someone has a problem, either if you fix it or don't.>>fix it>since the last time you...>>don't fix it>I'm leaving you a bad BBB rating
its a thankless job, even if you do everything right and return an item better than new you will be blamed for unknown pre-existing faults on the system that werent requested to be fixed. Unfortunately its a job field that other intelligent people ( white and asian males ) could repair their own devices leaving you to deal with excessive amounts of women and blacks. I dont rec tech repair at all.
>>108496309Some generic anal scene with her screaming as hard as she could.
>>108497160I too would like to conduct all my transactions solely via crypto. Not out of concern for the taxman, but more so out of concern for the dollar getting raped and losing all its value one day if a certain nigger decides to do something niggerlicious. >>108497302How curious... It would appear that PC chose you. I'm sure we can expect many a great shitposts from you, anon.
>>108490866I fix a lot of somewhat older hardware both for personal use and work, and basically do anything up to board repairs. Most i've done is dirty resoldering with only a heatgun and iron to get a few smaller caps back on boards.
>>108490866I watch this guy's youtube channel occasionally, and he is amusing sometimes, but his obsession with cuck jokes, sex dolls, skeletons, and his obsession with his black friend/coworker gets annoying after a while. Once or twice these jokes would be funny enough but when you can expect it to happen in every video it gets a little weird.I will say that the gayest technician that's ever lived has exquisite taste in mid to late 2000's gaming laptops thoughbeit.
>>108498618I got him on "youtube shorts" and thought he was funny as hell. His longform videos are meh. He's also a wintard even if he recently changed his tune.
>>108498627This guy is always funny the first time anyone ever sees him, but then you watch a few of his videos and realize that the first video you ever saw is the entirety of his whole schtick/style of comedy, and it's just the same jokes every video but with a different computer/project on camera, and it quickly sets in that "oh-no, it's retarded" and you lose interest. I still check up on his channel every two or three months but I don't really care much beyond that. The guy just makes solidly mid content I guess, don't really know how to explain it.
>>108498672I think his videos are OK, but a lot of it is the same old same old.I've never got into LTT even when he was getting popular and lately I've been finding it weird how many sponsorships and shilling there has been for his products.I just end up watching long form repair videos to get my fix. I don't need to hear about LTT's amazing laptop backpacks and screwdrivers plz.
>>108498713>>108498672>>108498618This guy is the king of repairs
>>108498728>>108498713 (me)I've been enjoying his stuff a lot, informative and technical.
>>108498737reminds me of old tech videos no gaga or bazillion man crews or embarrassing product provided shill vids just straight to the point and explains himself well
>>108498750Spare Time Repair and AH-Fix-It are pretty good too if you like watching somebody work on CD players and old school hi-fi.
>>108498713>LTTI personally have never watched any Linus videos to be honest. Even with all the drama on /g/ about him and his crew I was never inspired to even try and see what the guys channel was all about. What does he even do?>>108498728Yes, I actually like this guys content. Even though he lives in Austin and is probably a leftyfag he keeps his videos professional and purely technical, which I appreciate.Unrelated, but I also like Shango66 even though it's a very niche tube TV/radio channel. Shango is also most certainly NOT a lefty, which seems to be uncommon for tech youtubers.
>>108498768There is a channel called Northwest Repair where the guy only fixes video cards. It's an interesting niche.
>>108490866He's a parts swapper not a repair technician.Louis Rossmann is a repair technician.
