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(DIR) Post #Aoiix05rBN0dUyPEJs by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T01:38:23Z
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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!?
(DIR) Post #AoijItGlEd2MhkwbDM by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T01:42:21Z
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removing the keyboard is easy! just 1. remove the back cover2. the battery3. all the RAM4. the SSD5. WLAN card6. CPU heatsink7. power adapter port8. 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 thing12. disconnect two ribbon cables 13. 19/21 screws depending on color. 14. five more screws because fuck you15. and you're done!
(DIR) Post #AoijypmuZLd44NyzIW by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
2024-12-05T01:49:52Z
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@foone Same goes for my old 2011 macbook pro.You have to gut THE ENTIRE THING to *eventually* get to the keyboard.THEN you gotta take out a few dozen screws the size of couscous grains.When reinstalling the NEW keyboard, you gotta also reinstall all few dozen couscous grain screws, BUT NOT TIGHTEN THEM FIRST because if you do you are GOING to have screws that won't go in right. Ask me how I figured that one out.So you gotta put 'em all in loose first, and THEN go back to retighten them.
(DIR) Post #AoilGrpzmqQharaW0G by websterleone@meemu.org
2024-12-05T02:04:16Z
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@foone despite the cost and compatibility issues, suddenly very happy I went with Framework for my current laptop o-o;
(DIR) Post #AoilKtJMFYrtK2Eyq8 by foobarsoft@mastodon.social
2024-12-05T02:05:04Z
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@foone I didn’t know you used a Mac. (This is either correct or sadly similar)
(DIR) Post #Aoilqu2J5dgIpyWtLk by gudenau@fosstodon.org
2024-12-05T02:10:51Z
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@foone I've torn apart several dozen different models of laptops at work and I've never seen anything this stupid. That's very concerning.
(DIR) Post #Aoim4bA83jOoM5icue by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T02:13:21Z
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@foobarsoft nah it's a dell system proudly running windows, but clearly they've been spying on Apple's homework
(DIR) Post #Aoim7rpaXeaUvAfaa0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T02:13:37Z
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@AKawaiiDragon the sad thing is that this is a computer I got to replace a used thinkpad
(DIR) Post #AoimAi0fVu1jKVCvHk by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2024-12-05T02:13:38Z
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@foone I had misinterpreted this at first and assumed these were servicing instructions for a standalone keyboard and was getting increasingly concerned that you had created a keyboard involving an SSD, ribbon cables, a bios battery, etc or you'd found some "AI Enabled" keyboard that had an entire computer built into it to run Markov chains and displayed suggestions on a little display. Though the idea that they'd put dedicated removable RAM and an SSD into that seemed excessive
(DIR) Post #AoimIdHIzQ4uyHldsu by SynT4ck@gladtech.social
2024-12-05T02:15:43Z
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@foone Yes. Dell has taken to doing this. I imagine Lenovo as well if my X260 is any indication
(DIR) Post #AoimXud0lT8F7qCqh6 by 4bz@freeradical.zone
2024-12-05T02:18:37Z
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@foone this is redonkI'm so happy every laptop I've had to work on so far has removing the keyboard being a step to get to the motherboard 😅
(DIR) Post #AoipTaiT9eMy4dOG2K by stylus@social.afront.org
2024-12-05T02:51:20Z
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@foone to reverse the process, simply follow all those steps in reverse order, including having the dropped screws leap back onto the table & un-snapping those damned injection molded plastic tabs
(DIR) Post #AoisAkpvbSRXp0aYXw by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
2024-12-05T03:21:40Z
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@foone It's not so much "removing the keyboard from the laptop" as it is "removing the laptop, piece by piece, from the keyboard"...
(DIR) Post #AoitKUcwp8z4Ooizqq by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T03:34:29Z
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@mischif @AKawaiiDragon my problem was mainly that it was too slow to do gaming too, which made it limiting for a lot of stuff I do
(DIR) Post #Aoiw8jCD8DYByGIgVc by hyc@mastodon.social
2024-12-05T04:06:06Z
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@foone yeah... my old Dell Precision laptop was a lot easier. I wore out 2 keyboards over the years, and replacing them wasn't a huge haassle.My current Lenovo Legion 7, no freakin way. It came with a UK keyboard and I thought I could swap it for a US one, but the keyboard is integrated into the top deck, with the touchpad. And you have to disassemble *everything* to get there. And there's a bunch of tiny micro ribbon cables to disconnect, etc. I gave up.
(DIR) Post #Aoj0pIKFJJAwu1byds by miomao34@techhub.social
2024-12-05T04:58:31Z
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@foone sounds like dell latitude
(DIR) Post #Aoj566sdW5yO93yGdU by henryk@chaos.social
2024-12-05T05:46:27Z
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@foone I had the same reaction when I spilled some coffee into a modern Lenovo X1. Turns out: for modern *flat* machines, the keyboard _is_ the machine. Keyboard and base chassis are one unit, and then you just screw in the electronics from the other side. It's not so much that you're replacing the keyboard. It's more of a you put the electronics into a different chassis.
(DIR) Post #Aoj7inuACTiIUpGPwW by duffadash@digipres.club
2024-12-05T06:15:39Z
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@foone It's easy! Just memorise this little ditty: https://youtu.be/OpCJzdWxEbQ
(DIR) Post #AojTeuaLcQUT33Xo4u by er1@mk.moth.zone
2024-12-05T09:14:43.000Z
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@foone@digipres.club At least you don't have to use a soldering iron?
(DIR) Post #AojTevl1GEcYgRXqLo by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T10:21:39Z
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@er1 ironically, since I'm only looking into this out of a plan to make my own keyboard and soldier it in
(DIR) Post #AojWGaSp4sYZYV7L1s by robelix@chaos.social
2024-12-05T10:50:56Z
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@foone just remove everything except the keyboard.
(DIR) Post #AojX1dFCYftJmyB9HM by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T10:59:28Z
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this isn't removing the keyboard from the computer, this is removing the computer from the keyboard!
(DIR) Post #AojXwTaJ92foKv9lQm by gryzor@androiddev.social
2024-12-05T11:09:39Z
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@foone put back computers inside keyboards!
(DIR) Post #AojZVW7dnlwGIR1KcK by maxh@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-12-05T11:27:11Z
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@foone Why in all fuck does it matter what colour it is?
(DIR) Post #AojZZ5Od6tqIZ7fWHQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T11:27:57Z
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@maxh Apparently they use a different screw arrangement on that model!
(DIR) Post #AojZuml95A1p8RXzbk by maxh@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-12-05T11:31:45Z
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@foone Is there any good reason to do that?
(DIR) Post #AojaJDPDfBfyj9wNGa by foone@digipres.club
2024-12-05T11:36:10Z
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@maxh I can't tell from the service guide, no.
(DIR) Post #AojaxrKkdDRS93EOAK by favretto@mastodon.social
2024-12-05T11:43:32Z
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@foone at least it HAS a service manual available.
(DIR) Post #Aojbdi4VSRLpa8aYca by Mux@swingset.social
2024-12-05T11:51:09Z
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@fooneEasier to take a blow torch to the chassis
(DIR) Post #AokFlipCXOv0OunyVM by jackemled@furry.engineer
2024-12-05T19:20:42Z
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@foone Why does the amount of screws depend on color? That's so weird