Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Fun fact: When laptops were thick-as-textbooks monsters, some manufacturers broke up the motherboard into a mainboard with modules sandwiched above. Toshiba did that to my laptop: 3 layers of 4 or 5 modules stacked behind all the peripherals & keyboard.

I had to spend the evening digging through everything again to convince myself that a hard drive problem isn't why I stopped the repair 16 years ago. (It went through an earthquake, & even though it was barely felt where I was, about 100 miles away, the utility power was messed up enough to kill the DC power-in module.)

I guess I shouldn't be too shy about the taped printout. How many things taped to the outside of a frequently-carried, frequently-shuffled plastic box survive almost a quarter century without a single edge peeling loose or corner turning up?

@pettancow Both, but especially the Scotch-taped Amy Squirrel; and you're right.

Put a giant black panel or posterboard in your lap while sitting in front of it, or rig one to hang from your neck or shoulders while standing in front of it, to minimize reflections.

Perk: If you can cover your face as well (& still see through it), it's a half decent privacy screen as well.

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And repaired! (I made it mine in 1998; don't judge.)

@azushark My favorites are the ones that promise to recover all the money lost in scams like this, that are literally just the same scam with different words.

I love the "horny people are X" toots @beth bot is doing.

@maxinered@queer.party Is her apartment made of adobe, or is this a communal wifi?

@kyhwana A printer that prints new shinies? :3

It wouldn't have taken so long or been so worth it today if it wasn't my first laptop or one that runs Windows *without* Internet Explorer. (Yes, IE was actually optional back when I first got it.)

I'm excited to finish a PC repair that I started 16 1/2 years ago. I thought it would never happen.

@tahajin moderate on main in 2018

Have you ever been up all night tearing your house apart, looking for just one little thing that you know for certain you've hung on to for literally half your life? I can now say I have, unsuccessfully at that, & my body's going to pay for it tomorrow. (Oh crap, it *is* tomorrow!)

@anthracite One thing I learned is that "next best" in advertising winds up meaning "worst" every single time.