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Oct. 8th, 2020 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellwayMy laptop's normal-power-cord-to-weird-laptop-socket adapter is deteriorating faster than the replacement is shipping (we don't already have any compatible spares lying around), and is now more or less unusable. This post is brought to you by a commandeered TV brain.
(I'm not actually trying to use the TV itself: I unplugged the brain's various umbilicals and moved it to my couch.)
((damn, check out *that* out-of-context quote))
I do not relish the thought of using this as my primary computer for 5 - 18 days--not only is setup a pain, it's too low-spec to be *capable* of the same setup as my own laptop--but at least it should be enough to study with.
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I *really* hope it is indeed the adapter that's failing and not the socket: sockets are *much* harder to fix. But adapters historically fail much more often than sockets, this increasingly-finicky-positioning symptom is characteristic of a failing adapter, and the adapter does seem very suspiciously wiggly in its own right (the metal bits not attached to the plastic bits as firmly as they should be). So it *is* probably a $6 delivery fix rather than a $[large-number] in-person fix.
...just as soon as the delivery shows up.
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(edit: part 2)
(I'm not actually trying to use the TV itself: I unplugged the brain's various umbilicals and moved it to my couch.)
I do not relish the thought of using this as my primary computer for 5 - 18 days--not only is setup a pain, it's too low-spec to be *capable* of the same setup as my own laptop--but at least it should be enough to study with.
---
I *really* hope it is indeed the adapter that's failing and not the socket: sockets are *much* harder to fix. But adapters historically fail much more often than sockets, this increasingly-finicky-positioning symptom is characteristic of a failing adapter, and the adapter does seem very suspiciously wiggly in its own right (the metal bits not attached to the plastic bits as firmly as they should be). So it *is* probably a $6 delivery fix rather than a $[large-number] in-person fix.
...just as soon as the delivery shows up.
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(edit: part 2)
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Date: 2020-10-09 01:05 am (UTC)and who the *fuck* thought texturing the trackpad was a good idea