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Wiicked said:
My battery seemed to be so bad in the first place that I had no choice but to do this :X
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How old is the battery, and have you made sure it's not on any recall lists? Sometimes batteries can wear out like that but at that point I'd suggest getting a new (matching!) battery if you can.
 
Zach said:
How old is the battery, and have you made sure it's not on any recall lists? Sometimes batteries can wear out like that but at that point I'd suggest getting a new (matching!) battery if you can.
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About a month and a half old. That's possible, though that laptop is the one I replaced because I spilled iced tea on it and the previous one (they're the same model) didn't have a great battery either. Maybe I'll look into it.
 
countryemo said:
I wonder if I got ripped off, my stepdad apparently asked where was my laptop (because I haven't been using it). So we took in next day to get it looked at, 2 days later we got it back, he cleaned it he said, took away some bad stuff that was messing with it, cleaned up my startup. then charged a pretty good sum of cash. 2 hours later the Wifi cut out and blue screen again lol. It seems to be working fine-ish now. Besides some weird malware programs just showed up and Firefox is totally gone from my laptop.
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You got ripped off, properly cleaned computer wont get malware that fast. Uninstalled Firefox is another proof, it's never done as a part of cleaning.

I recommend to learn to clean it yourself, it's not hard and you'll save money if you do it yourself.
 
Yeah I know, it kind of annoyed me especially since he said he would just look at it and starting fixing things without telling me, and the problems still persist. He said he would do a back-up and clean install of windows for free though.

Edit: Firefox is gone again, I don't think it was him that did it, because it was gone after the first blue screen when I got it back, and a SuperAntiSpyware, and Malwarebite? showed up on my desktop at that startup too. This is a fun $200.
 
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Zach said:
I could be getting a job at Amazon soon :)

It's only seasonal, and not really tech-related, but still neat to be working with one of the largest e-commerce sites.
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aybreh get me with dem discounts :P :P :P :P
 
Hakumen said:
aybreh get me with dem discounts :P :P :P :P
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Unfortunately, they don't offer Prime to employees let alone discounts.

Also, I was apparently withdrawn due to "lack of communication" with them over the weekend, when I was away on a conference with no chance at all of checking my emails. What ******** that is.
 
Team Fail said:
It's the weekend... Wouldn't you normally expect them to ask for a response on a work day...?
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Exactly this. Calls on the Weekends are pretty scarce, if they're done at all. That's straight garbage.
 
countryemo said:
Yeah I know, it kind of annoyed me especially since he said he would just look at it and starting fixing things without telling me, and the problems still persist. He said he would do a back-up and clean install of windows for free though.

Edit: Firefox is gone again, I don't think it was him that did it, because it was gone after the first blue screen when I got it back, and a SuperAntiSpyware, and Malwarebite? showed up on my desktop at that startup too. This is a fun $200.
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If you do any college like stuff. you could ask to sit in a Level 2 IT group pratical. normally they fix mechines, clean them and defrag. or if you like reading get a book
 
Zach said:
Turns out I got the whole Amazon job deal resolved :)

Most of the time, I tend to just reset a computer if it's having major software problems. That's also why I perform routine backups as well (and system images too) because you never know if something in your computer is actually going to mess up or not.
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I dont get that often? would not surprise me if your running windows 10/8
Also Undertale much? Your gonna have bad time. you will get addicted to it.

I had a debate with my teacher. apprently mono is emulator. its not its a reimplementation of the .net toolset. same like the microsoft c compiler is a reimplementation of the IBM compiler
 
PinkCatDragon said:
I dont get that often? would not surprise me if your running windows 10/8
Also Undertale much? Your gonna have bad time. you will get addicted to it.

I had a debate with my teacher. apprently mono is emulator. its not its a reimplementation of the .net toolset. same like the microsoft c compiler is a reimplementation of the IBM compiler
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I didn't say that it happens often (because to me it doesn't), it's just that's what I do whenever it does happen.
 
Team Fail said:
That's always good to hear.

I might have an opportunity to start doing some freelance work in the next week or so - A local store that a friend of mine works at uses Microsoft Access for storing customer information and order information, but it apparently really sucks, so I said that she should talk to her manager, and perhaps for a small fee I can write them a program to manage their content better.

In the meantime, I've decided to write out some documents in the event that I do go through with this, including a non-legal document for stating work and whatnot. I can't afford a lawyer for obvious reasons, however, it does lay out what terms I run by. I also hope to have it go by a lawyer once I can afford one. I still have some stuff to add and remove though, I hope to have a rough draft the next few days that I can run past a few people to suggest edits.
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Ive wanted to go into freelance? how do you go about it?
 
Unofficial tech support. Fun when it works, frustrating when it doesn't. :)
 
Team Fail said:
I've done that a few times for friends, although I might start charging a small amount for stuff now because it takes away from precious time.
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You really should especially if the same person is always constantly going to you for tech support! I know I would if I had that issue for sure...
 
It just wouldn't feel right for me to charge for tech support within the family...
 
Zach said:
I agree with you there, but would friends or even acquaintances be different? :P
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Probably the same thing. After all... they probably went to my side for a reason. Least I could do is to make it free of charge. It's just not in me to make it paid tech support.
 
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