Have you ever noticed when someone follows a suggestion with the phrase “problem solved”, the suggestion is usually condescending as fuck?
Have you ever noticed when someone follows a suggestion with the phrase “problem solved”, the suggestion is usually condescending as fuck?
I gave myself my own condescending pat on the back to say to myself ‘problem solved’, after I fixed a customer’s bent iPad 2 by whacking it with a rubber mallet.
The thing was, it was ever so slightly bent next to the volume buttons, jamming one of the buttons. A formal proper fix would have involved removing the glued on touchscreen, removing the LCD, carefully bending everything back, and reassembling with new touchscreen double sided adhesive tape and everything, like an hour of work, for one almost minor bend.
Well I didn’t feel like doing all that at the moment, I saw it as a simple problem with a simple, yet risky solution. But hey, touchscreens were going for like $7 at the time, so I took my chances.
I fully cleaned my workbench and laid a piece of paper down. Then I put the iPad face down on the paper to at least try to protect the screen. Then I put a short slab of 2x4 wood on the back of the iPad and smacked it one good time with a rubber mallet.
What ya know, it straightened out perfectly, I didn’t have to open it at all, and I got to go to lunch an hour early 👍
I just took an edible and this is hilarious. Too much work to do? Just HIT IT! BAM! all fixed!