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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 12:21:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I decided to foolishly glance at the service manual for my current Fucking Laptop and YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE CPU HEATSINK TO SERVICE THE KEYBOARD!?

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 12:21:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     removing the keyboard is easy! just
     1. remove the back cover
     2. the battery
     3. all the RAM
     4. the SSD
     5. WLAN card
     6. CPU heatsink
     7. power adapter port
     8. screen. you gotta remove the screen.
     9. the main motherboard? fuck it.
     10. take out the bios battery. yeah, that one has to go too.
     11. remove the separate board for the power-button/fingerprint thing
     12. disconnect two ribbon cables
     13. 19/21 screws depending on color.
     14. five more screws because fuck you
     15. and you're done!

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 13:34:47 JST Rich Felker

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     @foone Fundamental rule of product mechanical engineering: all wear components must be directly accessible and removable without removing any non-wear components.

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     0xC0DEC0DE07E8 (c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 21:45:54 JST 0xC0DEC0DE07E8

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @foone right?!