{"id":2093,"date":"2012-09-16T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-16\/2093"},"modified":"2012-09-16T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T00:57:11","slug":"really-annoying-laptop-keyboard-with-a-few-bad-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-16\/2093","title":{"rendered":"Really Annoying: Laptop Keyboard With a Few Bad Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Well, this is annoying... my MacBook keyboard has started to go flaky,\nwith several keys no longer working... the “” key,<\/span> the “”\nkey,<\/span> and the “” key.<\/span> Don't see\nthem? Dooh! I can't<\/span> type them<\/i>, silly! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n

One of the regrettable side effects of Apple's exceedingly-compact, dense\ndesigns is that repair\/replacement of parts can be\n“challenging”, to phrase it kindly, and the keyboard is a good<\/span>\nexample: a key<\/span> is “repaired” by disassembling almost the entire\nmain body and replacing the whole keyboard assembly.<\/p>\n\n

I've got the “AppleCare” extended warranty so I can<\/span> get it fixed plenty\neasily, nevertheless still a hassle,<\/span> especially since the problem appeared at\nthe start of a three<\/span>-day weekend. (Monday is the “Respect for the Aged”\nholiday in Japan.) The day after that, I'll take the laptop to the repair place and\nhope it's something they can do on site, knowing I'll probably lose the laptop for\na week<\/span> or more. \ud83d\ude41<\/span><\/p>\n\n

So, we'll probably see zero posts on my blog for a while,<\/span> except that\nperhaps this will be motivation for me to finally clean my office desk to\nthe point that I can<\/span> access my MacPro (my desktop Mac). These days, I normally<\/span> do all my work with my laptop while reclining in a big<\/span> soft\nLa-Z-Boy, so my desk has grown to be a vast<\/span> wasteland of random debris\npiled in layers over time. If I clean<\/span>, I'll be astonished if I don't<\/span> find a\nfossil<\/span> or two.<\/p>\n\n

I will soothe the pain this evening by (yet again) drowning myself in beef\nand beer at the great BBQ\/Beer garden feast<\/a> at the hotel next to the (oddly-named) Qanat\nMall, as I've written of<\/a> several times.<\/p>\n\n

PS: if my prose on this post seems a bit<\/span> stilted this time, it's owing\nto the fact that I can't<\/span> type the letter “” (again, I can't<\/span>\ntype it!), so I've had to find alternative ways to phrase things. Which\nletter? That's for the reader to decipher. \ud83d\ude42 Here's a hint<\/span>: this post has\nevery letter except the one I can't<\/span> type.<\/p>\n\n

Here's another hint: to write this post while avoiding the letter that my\nkeyboard rejects, I had to<\/span> often refer to my thesars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is annoying... my MacBook keyboard has started to go flaky, with several keys no longer working... the \"\" key, the \"\" key, and the \"” key. Don't see them? Dooh! I can't type them, silly! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>

One of the regrettable side effects of Apple's exceedingly-compact, dense designs is that repair\/replacement of parts can be \"challenging\", to phrase it kindly, and the keyboard is a good example: a key is \"repaired\" by disassembling almost the entire main body and replacing the whole keyboard assembly.<\/p>

I've got the \"AppleCare\" extended warranty so I can get it fixed plenty easily, nevertheless [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}