From The Bench

Shop notes, repair stories, and device advice from Nelson, BC.

  • Need to Upgrade to Windows 11 – But Your PC Says No? Let’s Talk About the Bypass

    Need to Upgrade to Windows 11 – But Your PC Says No? Let’s Talk About the Bypass

    We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about Windows 11 and those scary messages about “unsupported CPUs” or “missing TPM 2.0 chips.” Let’s clear this up. Windows 10 support ends October 14, 2025. After that,…

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  • Custom Built PC Gaming on a Budget

    Custom Built PC Gaming on a Budget

    Overview Every game has it’s own requirements, but generally more expensive is better right? Custom building a budget gaming PC is easy! There are few things our experts know that might help you find the perfect…

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  • How to Fix Your Slow iPhone

    How to Fix Your Slow iPhone

    Symptoms and Overview Your iPhone is slow, your apps don’t launch like they used to. Urgent replies held up as you wait for the previous screen to disappear. It’s frustrating, it’s infuriating and it’s solvable. Check…

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  • Apple and the Life of Your Device

    Apple and the Life of Your Device

    So, did Apple really slow down older iPhones to encourage sales? It turns out the issue was a lot more complicated and less crooked than it sounded. In a statement released on Dec. 28, 2017, Apple…

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  • What to do when your iPhone gets wet?

    What to do when your iPhone gets wet?

    Forget the rice! It has become a grossly over-emphasized DIY solution for the water damaged smartphone. Rice doesn’t work and it just causes dirt and bits of rice to clog up your charging port and headphone…

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  • Unable to login`/bin/bash: permission denied`

    Unable to login`/bin/bash: permission denied`

    Recently I was working on a project which involved setting up sftp and rsync but having user locked to their home directory using chroot. The sftp part is easy, as it’s built into OpenSSH, but the…

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  • Setting up a Proxmox Cluster with CEPH on OVH

    Setting up a Proxmox Cluster with CEPH on OVH

    I’ve recently been tasked to setup a new cPanel system for our sister company Green Light . The system they had was just a bunch of standalone servers hosting cPanel. It was functional, but expanding was…

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  • Old Macs Need Love Too

    Old Macs Need Love Too

    Apple’s MacBook lines are reliable machines that have lasted longer and retained more of their value than many of their Windows counterparts. But of course with time things wear out and as they do things slow…

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  • The difference good equipment can make.

    The difference good equipment can make.

    WiFi. It’s everywhere and we get upset when it doesn’t work. That’s why it’s important to have the proper equipment, setup correctly to ensure it will work when you want it. Recently I had a customer…

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  • UltraSonic Difference

    UltraSonic Difference

    Every day we treat devices with spill damage. In order to achieve a high level of success we need the right tools. Once the liquid enters the machine it picks up and dissolves all sorts of…

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