I break technology
so you don't have to.
Real bugs. Real rabbit holes. Real solutions. Sometimes.
The internet explains normal problems. This site documents the weird ones — the 1% edge cases nobody else writes down.
"If it could only happen to one person… it happened to Benjamin."
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All cases →AT&T sold me a small trash can when I asked for a SIM card.
I walked into an AT&T store trying to get cellular internet working on my Dell laptop. I walked out with AT&T Internet Air. Not a SIM card. An entire home internet tower.
Cash App's security feature broke Google Play.
My Cash App debit card stays locked until I need it. Google Play tried to charge the card. It declined. Google wouldn't retry. Cash App Pay wouldn't link. I eventually paid using a completely different payment flow.
Every article is a structured post-mortem.
Problem
The seemingly impossible thing.
Expected behavior
What any sane person would assume.
Actual behavior
What actually happened, in full.
Failed attempts
Everything I tried that did nothing.
What finally worked
The fix, workaround, or surrender.
Time wasted
Measured, honestly.
Frustration rating
1–10, calibrated against reality.
Likelihood
Odds another human hits this.