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It isn't easy to find someone you can trust, but I was going to suggest the classifieds. There are quite a few people out there charging very reasonable rates, with much more experience than GS techs, and without the overhead of a store front. Get on the phone. If they can communicate and provide an estimate you've probably just found someone better than GS.
I tend to think of Geek Squad as the Jiffy Lube of computer repair. There's always the exceptional tech, but it's rare they aren't just passing through. Those places can't pay enough to keep good people and make a profit.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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