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ifixit was NOT fucking around with that repairability score of...1 LMAO (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (12 children)

That’s such a trash product. Crap quality components and no repairability. Hell even an iPad is better. Surface is bottom tier.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean I got 6 of em for free, and ya can't beat free LMAO

    I actually had been putting off cracking one open for awhile now but the SSDs in them had been failing one by one and I'm on the last one now lolol

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I went for this method of replacing the SSD. It's less stressful than trying not to break the screen.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh hey now there's an idea! I could probably 3d print a little cover too!

    Thanks! If there was such a thing as gold on Lemmy I'd give you some, but there's not so you'll have to settle for this 🥇

    And to think, MS could have done the same damn thing

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I wish they were more repairable. I have a Surface Pro 8 that serves my needs quite well and I was able to upgrade the SSD to a TB from the 256GB it came with, but I had to do some shenanigans with power settings and whatnot because the only SSD I could find was technically only compatible with the Surface Pro 9 and newer. But it works now and it has been a very good machine for getting through medical school. An iPad would not have met my needs and as much as I hate to admit it, having my Surface and my desktop terminal linked through OneDrive has actually been very helpful.

    Full disclosure, I am one of those nerds that bought and used a Surface Duo 2 phone until I broke the hinge by dropping it wrong. I did eventually crack it open to mostly fix the hinges, but shattered the glass in the process. I fixed that with 2 layers of laminate sticker things after assembling the shards back onto the phone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Username checks out

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Look, I'm a 4th year med student in my 30's. I know what I'm about. My undergraduate degree is in History and I worked in IT and sysadmin for a couple years before I went back to school to go into medicine.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh i didn't mean it in a negative way, quite the contrary

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I didn't take it as a negative! Just expressing that you're right on the mark about my username being quite relevant.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well I guess we've got the gremlin part right too 😂

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    When explaining why I need to go into Emergency Medicine as a specialty I tell people that I'm a naturally nocturnal basement-dwelling gremlin with weapons-grade ADHD.

    It usually gets a laugh.

    (For context, most ERs are in the hospital basement)

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