@der_jeff Have to blame the previous owner for that. You may have heard of them, a company that's fairly big in tech these days. Apple.
A reseller has had a deal with them for about ten years: they buy 2-yr-old laptops that Apple execs have finished using & sell them on to the public. They're all max spec, this 11.6 inch 2014 MBA has 512 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM & a 1.7 GHz Haswell Core i7.
@literary That's horrible news. As far as I'm aware, NO* virus can be treated with antibiotics. So extreme cleanliness is essential.
*that's the message decent medical practitioners out here are being prompted to tell the public.
The not-so-decent practitioners are those weak arseholes who bow to their patients' demands to provide antibiotics anyway. And there are too many of those scum.
@hazardwarning 76 sq m? Bloody hell, that's nasty, my place is 88 sq m & that's a 3 bedroom unit on a big double house block, there are 6 others of the same size here.
@literary Be very careful if it is RSV. Wash hands thoroughly & often.
// @indigo
@hazardwarning Barry Morse aslo played the role of naive and highly unpopular President Johnny Cyclops in the mid-1980s LWT TV series "Whoops Apocalypse," which can be vieded/downloaded on YouTube.
Hmmm: naive & highly unpopular. Reminds me of the current Prez.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@streakmachine mentioned on pnut.io that he had added all those following him to his follow list. I decided to do the same and have just done so here as well. There were some surprising omissions.
@phoneboy I saw three different blurbs all animating OK; all about I am a fish.
// @matigo
@der_jeff Even with the 24 month statutory warranty we get in Oz, that would have run out in August last year.
Dopey cock-sucking morons. Cunt, er Cult-of-Mac have a Mac buyback scheme. Here’s a link to the one for the 15-inch MacBook.
http://buyback.cultofmac.com/sell-now/laptop/apple/15-macbook
This is not the MacBook Pro. This is the NEVER-RELEASED 15-inch MacBook.
Fuckwits.
For the first time since 2004 with numerous similar Apple laptop chargers, one of the fold-out cable retaining clips failed. They pivot on a tiny plastic nub on each side & one somehow broke off & would fall out if I tried to fold it out.
All fixed now.
First I drilled a tiny 1mm hole in the body & aligned the clip before drilling into it as well. Next I increased the holes to 3mm and eased a red-hot piece of thick wire into the holes. When it was cool enough I cut the wire as close as possible to the charger body and ground it back with 60-grit emery paper on a power sander until no sharp edges protruded.
I then used a bit of 180-grit emery paper to smooth the finish as much as possible.