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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 15:20:44 JST StillIRise1963

   Spilled almost an entire glass of wine into my laptop. 🙁

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 15:20:41 JST Steve's Place

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®

     @StillIRise1963 @paninid If you remove the battery and drive/SSD, rinse it all with copious amounts of distilled water, dry it, and put the parts back, it might be okay. It probably has a motherboard battery, too, but this is all low power, and I don't think it needs to be removed. May the internet correct me if I'm mistaken.

     Don't rinse the screen, if you can avoid it.

     We rinse circuit boards with distilled water, then run them, sometimes still wet. It's not the water. It's salts in the water conducting electricity. Distilled water is salt-free.

     Wine is not helpful in that way.

     A blow dryer must be kept a distance away, to avoid overheating the plastic (or warping the screen). Not recommended. Furnace vents work pretty well. You can just set it on a towel or two, and let evaporation do its thing.

     Give it time to dry out, for the keyboard's sake.

     Not saying it will work 100% of the time, but I'd try.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 15:20:42 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®

     @paninid I think I’m fucked this time.

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     Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 15:20:43 JST Coach Pāṇini ®

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     @StillIRise1963

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 05:40:57 JST Steve's Place

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     • Coach Pāṇini ®

     @StillIRise1963 @paninid It connects to the motherboard via a bendy ribbon cable connector. Those are my least favorite connectors of all. If any wine got into it, that could cause the screen to be screwed up. It's probably covered by iFixit, if you ever get fed up enough that the frustration of getting that stupid cable to seat properly in the connector seems like a delightful change of pace.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 05:40:58 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Steve's Place

     @steter @paninid Sadly, it works, but the screen is jacked. If I use a monitor, it all looks fine. 🤷🏾♀️