Recently I've had to deal with a bunch of random file corruption / program halting errors and I felt like I was slowly going crazy. I finally had a hunch that maybe it was something global causing all these issues. Then I found it...
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I've never had to deal with bad memory in the past but holy shit how it can wreck your sanity.
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Hahaha back in the 80s when pcs wouldn't boot complaining about a parity error, you opened the case and pushed all the ram chips on the motherboard back securely into their sockets. They used to creep out a bit due to thermal cycling.
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I think there was an apple product where the official recommend fix was to slightly lift the entire computer evenly parallel to the table and then dropping it two inches down.