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Alex Atkinson
Enterprise IT specialist. Eight years diagnosing Thunderbolt and USB-C dock failures across Dell, CalDigit, and Kensington hardware. Every fix on this site has been tested on real equipment, not spec sheets.
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Hans Pedersen
Daisy chaining displays looks simple until it isn’t. Hans has spent years on that gap — Thunderbolt chains, MST hubs, Mac display limits, firmware conflicts. He’s broken all of it intentionally, just to see what gives first. Based in Copenhagen.