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“I possess a passion for manuals and technical documentation that fuels my omniscient façade”

I suppose there is an expectation that a computer shop should know its onions. Certainly, many of my clients would testify that I have an encyclopaedic store of data that provides instant recall to a multitude of solutions for whatever smouldering pile of broken tech comes through our door. In reality, I can barely remember my own… er, I’m sorry, have we met?

What I possess is a passion for manuals and technical documentation that fuels my omniscient façade and fills the brain gaps where once-known knowledge has vanished. 2012 doesn’t seem that long ago, but the technology of that era was different, and that’s where Nathan’s machine starts.

He’s one of those kids who loves tech and will spend hours on YouTube watching influencers demonstrating their latest “purchases”. Nathan works hard at school and was rewarded with a GTX 1660 GPU and some RAM to perk up the gaming prowess of his PC, a Troughton i7 with MSI motherboard and a couple of SSDs for extra pep.

It was a reliable little unit until Nathan installed his

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