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The Register, Friday, April 4th, 2025
Techie demoed the effect in about 3 seconds, as On Call again tries to break tech-support world records
The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Simon" who shared three tales of extremely rapid tech support satisfaction that challenge our arrival-to-fix world record of 8.5 seconds.
We'll open with his story of a remote support job that came his way during COVID-19 lockdowns.