Unusual way to kill my laptop while onsite....

[YeOldeStonecat]

So I'm onsite at a physical therapy office, working on their wireless. They have a detached barn building across the lot that they put one of the "Crossfit" franchise workout gyms in. They building changed a bit and I wanted to re-orientate the Unifi AP which was 1/2 way up the corner of a wall. I climb up a short ladder and stand up on top of a refrigerator and grab the UAP to twist it counter clockwise to pop it off the base. No luck. I'm wrestling it with both hands...no luck. What they heck? I can always spin even the resistant ones when I use both paws.

So I climb down, snag one of the screwdrivers with the pull out shaft that allows you to flip either end for large or small...I pull out the shaft to use the small end to push into the hold on the UAP to depress the lever cam thing to let it spin off the base. I'm gripping...grunting...twisting with all my might..and she finally POPs free! Screwdriver shaft goes flying to the left...landing somewhere outside my peripheral vision.

I notice why the UAP was on there so tight...they paint the walls...with a brush, and a bunch of white pain dripped onto the top 1/3 of the UAP which was mounted on the wall vertically. Above my line of site. The paint acted like glue on that top seam.

I remove the UAP and climb down to work on the conduit hiding the cable going up the wall from the floor...I glance a my laptop which was about 15 feet over to the left on a shelf. My screen is all tie die splattered! That whole distance...the screwdriver shaft had to find my laptop screen on the way down! Grrrrr!

gotta go without my trusty T431s for a couple of days til a replacement comes in. In the meantime...I just fired up my old Thinkpad E420s. Time to catch up on tons of updates...but no SSD in this old one.

 

[coffee]

OH. I know the feeling.

Different hardware but just another Oops - > I was working on my car and had the trunk open. I was investigating my back air shocks. I set my phone on the inner part of the trunk where the rubber seal is. After a little bit of investigating the unit inside that controls the air pressure in the shocks I got up, Faced the trunk and slamed the trunk down. My phone was caught half in and half out of the trunk effectively shattering the screen. Its one of those moments where just as you do something you realize it but it was too late.

Hopes for a speedy recovery of your laptop

 

[FremontPC]

Aw, hell!

Well, maybe clone the SSD off to another drive and clone the E420 to the SSD so Svchost doesn't drive you mad. Having to go back to a spinner, that's more than I could tolerate, lol!