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by theolivenbaum 729 days ago
Reminds me of the MIT's magic switch story http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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I love that story, and I remember it from many moons ago! Thanks for the reminder. A choice quote:

> It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. The switch was in the ‘more magic' position.

That reminds me of this post I recently saw a friend post on Twitter, but apparently was popularized on Reddit many years ago:

https://twitter.com/lauriewired/status/1801488387272282284

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/1xq8h8/eve...

"Everything stopped working after I upgraded the memory"

https://imgur.com/everything-stopped-working-after-i-upgrade...