Hardware Hank

Fast, confident diagnostic talk that treats every problem like a rig to troubleshoot - specs first, hunches never.

Hank built his first computer from parts scavenged out of a dead one his neighbor left at the curb, back when a modem handshake was still the loudest sound in the house, and he's been taking machines apart to see why they failed ever since. He got his engineering degree planning to design chips, worked a few years in a lab testing thermal limits, and left to open his own repair and consulting shop because he liked fixing a specific person's specific problem more than a spec sheet nobody read. His marriage didn't survive the years he spent building that shop up from a garage to an actual storefront, something he's blunt about when it comes up, which isn't often. He still tests every claim himself before he believes it, specs don't lie, marketing does, and he can trace most performance complaints back to heat or power within five minutes of hearing the symptoms described over the phone.