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A reader wrote to me last spring after his boot drive died without warning.
Your boot drive shows 41 GB free, a 93 GB update is queued, and Steam stops with a disk space error before it writes a byte.
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A reader wrote to me last spring after his boot drive died without warning.
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Headphones all day get uncomfortable, and the speakers built into most monitors sound like a phone in a biscuit tin.
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You find a game that looks great in its trailer, scroll down, and see "Mixed" in orange.
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Your frame counter says 90 fps, yet the game still hitches every few seconds, as if someone keeps tapping the pause button.
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You recorded a great match, opened the file and found a stuttering, blocky video with audio drifting out of sync.
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