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Just realized I've replaced over 1,000 laptop keyboards
I was cleaning out my workbench drawer and found a huge bag of old keycaps. I counted them out of curiosity, and it hit me that I must have swapped at least a thousand of those things over the last eight years. It's wild, because I never set out to keep track. I mean, it's just a normal part of the job, right? Most of them are from those budget laptops where a spilled drink means a whole new board. Has anyone else had a moment where a random pile of old parts made you realize how much repetitive work you've actually done?
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oliver_morgan5mo ago
Found a whole drawer of stripped screws last month. It was the same kind of shock. You just don't see the scale until you have a physical pile of the broken stuff.
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avery7214mo ago
My buddy who fixes phones had a box of cracked screens he was saving for parts. He finally went through it and there were like 300 of them. He just sat there staring at it, saying he could build a wall out of all the sadness he'd held.
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emma_young5mo ago
Wow, that's a whole lot of keyboards. I found a box of old power supplies once and had the same scary thought about my own life. Makes you wonder what we're actually doing with our time, doesn't it?
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