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That time a friend told me my CRT monitor was dying and I didn't believe him
Back in 2001 my buddy Mike kept saying my old ViewSone 17 inch was flickering because the flyback transformer was going bad. I blew him off for three months until the screen suddenly went dark and started smelling like burnt electronics. Took me two weeks to track down a replacement at a local computer swap meet, and I still wonder if I could have saved it by acting sooner. Anyone else ever ignore a hardware warning and pay for it later?
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jesse8423h ago
Classic Mike. That burnt smell sealed the deal.
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sage_perry21h ago
Wait, are we really acting like a little burnt smell is the end of the world? That thing probably ran fine for another hour before anyone even noticed. People love to overdramatize hardware stuff like it's a crime scene.
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