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You missed an opportunity to buy a new tablet. Next time, try harder.
Jan 13 · 2 months ago
🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 13 at 00:47:
That's got to be the strangest first-world tech accident I've heard since someone dropped their Macbook Pro on their iPad.
Props for that.
We once broke a Chromebook by dropping a tablet on it. I think it's the only time I've ever really "repaired" a laptop ... because on opening it up, it transpired that the impact had knocked the internal display connector loose. Plugged back in :)
LCD vs. Sledgehammer — The Accident I was climbing out of the bathtub, one hand holding my 10" tablet, the other swinging around vigorously to keep my balance. I placed the tablet onto a 5-gallon bucket of roofing compound that I keep next to the bathtub, but to my dismay, the tablet slipped off the bucket and fell onto a sledgehammer resting next to it. Glass side down, of course. The terrible sound of glass on sledgehammer! For a few seconds I thought the screen was broken: there were weird...