<story><title>I can fix this PC, boss, but I&apos;ll need to play games for hours to do it</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/on_call/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if this is location-specific, but I miss the times when PC technicians would actually try and diagnose problems.&lt;p&gt;Whenever a family member sends their PC to a &amp;quot;repair shop&amp;quot; (usually because &amp;quot;it was too slow&amp;quot;) they get back a freshly-reinstalled PC and most of their files dumped inside a folder called &amp;quot;Backup&amp;quot;. It then falls to me to reinstall all of their software while praying that their tax software has a &amp;quot;restore from copy&amp;quot; function or, failing that, at least a clearly-marked &amp;quot;database.db&amp;quot; file that I can overwrite.</text></comment>
<story><title>I can fix this PC, boss, but I&apos;ll need to play games for hours to do it</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/on_call/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xwowsersx</author><text>apparently&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The Register itself uses the term Regomiser as a user name generator for its registration. If this contributor is a &amp;quot;reader Regomized as &amp;#x27;Felix,&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; it would mean a reader registered and was reassigned that random name.&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;english.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;546162&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;english.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;546162&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>