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title: "portable computers: screw solutions"
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started: 2020-01-17
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published: 2020-01-18
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this is the first time over a month has gone by since submitting
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an earlier blog entry. i have written and accumulated several new but very
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incomplete posts since the last i submitted. but this all has
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nothing to with this mischievously misleadingly titled blog entry i am
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writing and you are reading.
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## part zero / portable computers
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by portable computer i basically am referring to notebook computers,
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laptops, netbooks, those kinds of portable computers. not as portable
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as other computers like mobile phones, tablets, or the timeless
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[tamagotchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi "kids' best friend")
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of the 1990s, but designed to be used as one would their desktop
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computer but on-the-go and without needing to lug around a screen or a
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mouse or a keyboard or anything because it's built into the device and
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as with a desktop computer, you can plug in external hardware as
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needed.
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> you could have just said, say, ***laptops*** and there'd have been
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> no need to explain anything
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shut up, other me. sit in a corner somewhere and drink a beer
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> i don't have any beer
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so go shopping
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> no u
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no u
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-------
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**[omitted]**
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-------
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sorry about that. the smeghead's an absolute nutter. let's move on.
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## part one / parts of speech
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### in the beginning～
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～i gave this blog entry a title with two main parts. and the second
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part of the title was made deliberately ambiguous in a vain attempt to
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be intriguing, hopefully make the reader curious.
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> hah. you just admitted you were vain
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no i didn't. i said i did something that was vain. these two things
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do not equate each other. stop being thick.
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> stop being so mean so mean to yourself, dude.
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> i have feelings, too, you know
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[*sigh*] i know. i'm sorry. forgive me?
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> [silence]
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\*じ～～～～～～～～～～\*
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> ok! fine! you are forgiven just stop staring at me like that. it's
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> creeping me out.
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a subtitle of "screw solutions" can mean several things, and the word
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that changes everything is that first one. setting aside
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interpretations that don't fit the context here, whether or not
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*screw* is being used as a noun or as a common sfw expletive-alternative.
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i'm talking about the noun. the tool, as in the bolt or the nail
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modified with an inclined plane wrapped helically around
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aforementioned tool's axis and with groovy heads (that is to say,
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there's generally grooves on the head designed to fit a certain type
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of screwdriver).
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> **OK YOU KNOW WHAT. I'M STEPPING IN.**
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wait, what? why? this is *my* blog post.
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> no. no; it's really not. it's a horrifying lovecraftian supernatural
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> monster that's going to consume the psyches of everyone who reads
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> this if i don't stop you soon. so zip.
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------
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> this has gone on to far too long. and what have we said? not much of
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> anything. here's something: my thinkpad, `pure illusion`, had room
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> for another hard drive and so i decided to make use of that. this
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> was shortly after it arrived. i didn't need to look at a manual or
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> make any online searches for how to do this. i used my best
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> judgement for where i thought the space for it would be, unscrewed
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> one screw, allowing me to expose a part of inside `pure illusion`,
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> gently pushed the drive in nice and snug, and screwed the cover back
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> on. the whole process took less time than finding the screwdriver,
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> probably.
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## here comes the kicker
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the hard drive was taken out of an old dell laptop whose life was
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already over. i actually removed the hard drive before i got `pure
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illusion` because i was going hard drive hunting and i was curious how
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hard taking apart and putting back together the necessary parts of the
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notebook to get to the drive would be. that process took a very, very long time
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in comparison, and i never bothered trying to put any of the pieces
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back. i think i ended up just removing whatever i parts i could in the
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end that seemed like they might be useful at some point in time. i
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don't put a lot of trust in my memory though regarding what happened
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when because [**spoiler alert**] the majority of what you remember
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probably didn't happen the way you remember it happening. eye-witness
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testimony is both the number one most relied on type of evidence that
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gets convictions in court, and one of the least reliable type of
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evidence that can even count as evidence in court.
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the laptop i dismembered had a ***lot*** of screws i had to remove.
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i cannot recall at which point i could remove the hard drive. but
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here's a lovely photograph of the pieces. note the plastic baggie. in
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it are at least 30 screws i had to unscrew and there's a couple of
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pieces with screws attached to them after unscrewing them from when i
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was planning on putting it back together still. and i easily may have
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lost several screws while in the process.
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do you know how many screws it would take to replace `pure illusion`'s keyboard? two.
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i've also replaced a key on the keyboard. on most (especially modern)
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laptops this is a daunting task, and in most cases not worth the
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effort. on `pure illusion` it was nothing short of simple.
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# before you go
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## here's some anime i recommend
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**(chosen pseudo-randomly and in no deliberate order):**
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- cowboy bebop (likely will focused on in a later post)
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- kono subarashii sekai ni shukufuku wo
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- flying witch (likely will focused on in a later post)
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ではじゃあまたね～
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`stay tasty in 2020 o/`
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