True, could be a thing only easily accessible via command prompt…

Awesome!

About 5 minutes of blank screen first though? What was it doing behind the scenes, contacting the Dell Mothership to void your warranty? 🤔

Oh man, you would remind me, my more modern laptop is an HP 15 DW0083WM, and my F10 key is so messed up that it would probably fly off if I sneezed on it.

I’ve already been inside the laptop before, but only to cut a service panel to easily remove/exchange the SSD module. I quickly realized that if I ever do have to replace the keyboard, I’ll have to gut all the boards and parts to get to it, not much different than OP’s journey…

Damn, that’s hella corrosion!

That wouldn’t stop me though, I already have half an arsenal of techniques stemming from salvaging flood damaged and house fire damaged boards. I’d probably try to tackle such boards something like this…

• Ultrasonic cleaner with vinegar
• Rinse thoroughly and empty the vinegar
• Ultrasonic cleaner with baking soda and water
• Rinse thoroughly and empty the soda water mix
• Spray the boards thoroughly with WD-40
• Pressure wash the boards
• Air compressor to mostly dry
• Heat the boards with a hair dryer to finish drying

Then it’s obviously a matter of good luck, inspection, testing and tackling any particular issues that the above process didn’t quite clean up. I like dude’s use of phosphoric acid, but I’d rather keep away from the extra strong chemicals until the end stages as spot cleaning only.

It would be cool to see if he ever manages to actually get all the boards running again. Obviously they’ll need new capacitors and some soldering touchups and whatnot, but still these are rare relics of the past…

While I tend to agree, I feel the average user would just end up shooting themself in the foot with such tools readily available.

If you wanna get real fancy keeping up with screws, get one of those magnetic mats like we used in our computer shop.

That’s a Dell? Damn, they’ve strayed quite far away from their old B130 design, my old potato Dell only requires unclipping one plastic cover above the keyboard to access two screws to remove the keyboard.

I feel your pain homie. Was the surgery completed successfully?

Yes

Yay, free water slide!

Animals have teeth and the potential to bite.

They can now grow various organ tissues in a Petri Dish, including brains, muscle, heart, blood vessels, etc.

Those select samples won’t just get up and walk around and bite people…

They had to kill most of the monkeys, because they’re mobile ya know…

Petri dish experiments don’t tend to walk around and potentially bite people…

Um, they can and have tested such things in Petri Dishes for quite a long time. Fuckall with the experimental live rats and monkeys and shit, they get loose and threaten the public!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ffIFQfi30yU

Can we please stop curing mice and start curing humans please?

Like what’s the fucking point, curing one of the most diseased ridden rodents? Shit, humans deliberately infect rodents with diseases.

Humans need cures, mice and rats need traps. Why the fuck are mice getting the cures first?

Hey babe, wake up, science dropped a new hint…

The anus is the first hole to develop in an embryo. Did things get mixed up backwards in his DNA?

Please don’t come after me topological experts, I know he doesn’t have enough holes to listen to the people…

No of course not, I only love slugs and snails!

They used to Tweet.

Now they sXhit.

Different but sorta related story…

While riding my bicycle, not even a dollar to my name, I encountered a woman with like a 2 year old child, with their car broke down on the side of the road. I had very little means to me, but what do?

I couldn’t leave the woman and child just hanging there, in my book it’s totally wrong to not at least do something to help.

I did a quick check over her car, and figured it wasn’t getting fuel to the engine. But she told me she had just filled her tank up at a very nearby gas station.

Note that I might not have had any money, but I did have some tools at home, and a local friend with a truck that I figured might be willing to help.

So I rode home to get my Chevy fuel line disconnect tool, then rode to find the neighbor friend with the truck. He was glad to come help too.

We went back to the lady in distress, to further check her car out. To check my theory, I disconnected her fuel line, then had her turn the key on to see if any fuel would pump.

Nothing came out. So, either bad fuel pump or bad fuel relay. Well she wasn’t about to be able to crank up and drive home, so me and my friend helped push her car over to a nearby parking lot, and my friend drove her and her young son to the next town to get them home so she could sort things out, without her young son baking in the sun.

I didn’t make a single dollar that day. I wasn’t looking for money, I was just doing the right thing as far as I’m concerned. My friend did get like $10 for fuel for his trouble of taking her to the next town, but still, what would you have done?

This might not seem very related, but in a way it kinda is. Not all relationships are romantic, hell if I met you on the sidewalk in the rain and covered you with an umbrella, that’s a brief relationship of sorts.

Not everything is about money, sometimes it’s just about being able to sleep that night, knowing you did the right thing and the best you could do at the moment.

Now if a prick billionaire is on the side of the road with a flat, I wouldn’t even bother to piss on their tire, they got a robot that can change their tire for them right?

Does that make me a hypocrit, or does that make me a genuine decent person? I didn’t have to stop to help that lady that day, but I did.

Anyways, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, sometimes everyone needs a little helping hand…

Interesting, today I learned a thing 👍

I absolutely love jumpers too!

Random story, sorta sad, but has a good ending…

One day a jumping spider landed on the back of my neck. I didn’t see it, but of course I felt it. Out of instinct, I slapped my neck. I got the little bugger alright, but I was all too sad when I saw that it was a jumper ☹️

I put the little guy on the park bench, two legs broken off and not moving. I was so sad that I sat there for a while, occasionally blowing on it to see if there were any signs of life. After probably like 40 minutes or so, it actually got up and ran away 👍

I hope it went on to eat more flies, lay eggs and have lots of babies…

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