LMC Tech
Your back hurts because you are sitting in a car seat.
Racing-style gaming chairs are shaped for a rally car, not a desk. Here is what is actually going on, and what to buy instead.
Read the fixSolutions
Things that annoy people, explained and fixed.
Every one of these starts with what is actually wrong rather than with what we would like to sell you. A fair few of the fixes cost nothing, and we say so, which is not the usual arrangement on pages with shopping links on them.
Before you replace that laptop, check what is actually slow.
Most 'too slow' laptops are a mechanical hard drive and not enough RAM. Two cheap parts usually beat a new machine.
Read the fixA laptop on a table puts your screen about a foot too low.
Laptops force a compromise: screen at the right height means keyboard at the wrong one. Here is how to break that trade-off cheaply.
Read the fixA file in two places on the same machine is not a backup.
Most people discover their backup strategy was imaginary on the worst possible day. The rule that prevents it is genuinely simple.
Read the fixThe keyboard gets the blame. The mouse usually did it.
Tingling fingers, an achy forearm and a sore wrist. What causes it, what actually helps, and what is marketing.
Read the fixLighting beats megapixels, and your microphone matters more than both.
Everyone buys a 4K webcam first. It is the least important part of looking and sounding professional.
Read the fixThe surge that kills your computer usually arrives when the power comes back on.
What a surge protector actually does, why a UPS is not just for servers, and which one you need.
Read the fixModern laptops removed the ports and sold them back to you.
Hubs, docks and why the cheap one keeps dropping your monitor. Including the power delivery detail nobody explains.
Read the fixHome inkjets are designed around selling you ink, not printing.
Why your printer clogs, why the ink costs more than the printer, and the boring machine you should probably buy instead.
Read the fixBefore you buy anything, move the router.
The free fixes people skip, and how to work out whether you need an extender, mesh, or a cable.
Read the fixHow these work
Free fixes first, shopping second.
Roughly half of what people call a hardware problem is a positioning problem, a settings problem, or a dust problem. Those get listed before anything with a price tag, because that is the honest order and because it is what we would tell you on the phone.
Where hardware genuinely is the answer, we link to a category rather than one model, since these are pages about what to look for rather than tests of specific units. The things we have personally deployed live in the reviews instead.
- Diagnosis before recommendations, always.
- Affiliate links disclosed, and never dressed up as test results.
- Honest refurbished advice, including where used is a bad idea.
- No prices, because cached prices go stale and mislead.
- No invented star ratings.
Deeper reading
Guides for the bigger decisions, reviews for specific kit.
These pages fix a symptom. The guides work through a whole category properly, and the reviews cover individual products we have actually fitted.