Mike—better known as Oldturkey03 in the iFixit community— has been absolutely indispensable helping moderate and answer questions. The scale of his reach is pretty phenomenal. Each month, we send everyone an email that includes rough stats on how useful their contributions are. Mike’s email is pretty impressive:

That’s 1,800,000 people that have used his repair information in the last month! It’s absolutely astounding that one person can have that much influence.

Here's a few more fun articles about Mike:

• https://ifixit.org/blog/1191/nurse-heal-...
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fix...

Last year, Mike disappeared from iFixit for a few weeks to help with hurricane relief in Texas—he was helping everyone that we didn’t have time to! But of course, we didn’t want our online community to suffer while he was out. So we all banded together and stepped into his shoes for a little while, and it was a lot of work!

If you really want to get a feel for what drives Mike, you gotta watch this video we shot of Mike and Dan and Mayer last fall.

So congratulations on hitting 500k. You earned every single one of those points.

But more importantly, thank you for pitching in. And thank you for helping us fix the world, one thing at a time.

⟐ Commented November 13, 2022 at 19:16 MST

Sorry, but wanted to provide feedback that you could use.

Happy New Year!

⟐ Commented September 28, 2025 at 4:56 MST

I have someone willing to donate their MagicBand to the greater good.

⟐ Answer deleted July 10, 2021 at 18:04 MST

Help Us Crowdsource Repair Information for Hospital Equipment

We’ve already got over 100 ventilator service manuals posted online for free, for anyone anywhere in the world to use, but we need to find all of them—and organize them and make them easier to use. And when that’s done, there are other kinds of medical equipment that desperately need the same treatment.

Update: Thanks so much to everyone who helped (and who continues to help)! We’ll have a public announcement about the project soon. Meanwhile, if you have any more manuals that you don’t see on iFixit.com, DM me or email biomed [at] iFixit [dot] com and we’ll be happy to help get them posted!

Stay safe everybody!

⟐ Answer deleted July 01, 2021 at 22:10 MST

So, instead of answering question for those that are looking for help in Answers I have been busy for the last 4 weeks preparing my staff and my units for whatever lies ahead. My goal is to minimize any chance of contamination to anybody. As for our patients and community the only thing we can do for Covid-19 victims is to identify and isolate. All of our treatments will be supportive in nature only since there are no curative interventions yet. Everything we hear on TV or read on social media, is nothing but experimental.

I am in a very fortunate position. I have a President and a CNO that are in total support of protecting our staff and patients. This is our only goal.  Our facility has had an empty wing with 12 private rooms and 2 negative pressure rooms. It was closed years ago due to a decrease in one of our service lines. In the past we’ve used that wing for storage, as well as overflow area for the Emergency Department and ultimately we had it set up for the Ebola crisis which now seems decades ago. I was granted permission to use it as an isolation area for any possible COVID-19 patients.

We also utilized our Decon tent which we will be using for the mild cases, those that can be send home under self quarantine. We erected a larger tent to utilize as an overflow area just in case our county gets hit hard and we can’t keep up. Those will be for moderate cases. At least both tents have AC and the larger one utilize HEPA filtration. All vented patients etc. will be distributed between the ED and ICU in the main building. From a logistical point we got it figured out. Here are the challenges. Not enough beds/cots available. Not enough PPE available and only very limited hardware available for any kind of Telemedicine. Remember, we are a small hospital, we got one Doc working. We will need to utilize technology to our best advantage to make the most of our limited staffing and limited PPE.

We are not NYC or LA so we will never get the help we will need. Anything over 8 vented patients would be a major disaster for us, while others would be happy to only have that many. Nice that Apple now decided to make face-shields and everybody is going to build vents and donate masks etc., but rest assured those will never go to places like ours. No PR value in that for greed driven America. Our staff is prepared to face whatever challenge may come our way and we will prevail. We always do and we always manage.

We were also instrumental in establishing a drive through COVID-19 testing site for our County and if I find some time I ‘ll tell you more about that. We also designed and build a UV sterilization cabinet as outlined and tested on here. There are also two videos that I yet have to convert so I can post on here. They will explain the patient flow a bit better. I know, you all must think it looks like some sort of refugee camp. It’s totally crazy but trust me, it’ll work and we will continue to provide safe patient care as we always do

Outside triage area. This way nobody gets to enter without being checked

This is south Texas. Installing shade cloth is important to our well being.

This will be setup with rapid triage equipment to identify and isolate

Ready for a privacy fence to keep onlookers away.

Not bad for one days work. It’ll do the trick

Decon tent for assessment of mild cases

Here is our overflow for moderate victims.

Am I concerned about things to come? !&&* yeah but I do believe “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” We will prevail!

Here is a quick update about what has been going on in my little hospital/community. If we consider COVID-19 the unseen enemy, let me tell you that I have met the enemy. It is just as frightening as anyone could imagine. You just do not know who has it and it is the people that you least expect it who will hand you a surprise. We've had mild as well as severe cases of it and managed to get through this. For now, all off our patients survived. Thankfully my staff is on point and always vigilant. We managed to identify and isolate the patients appropriately without the possibility of us getting infected as well as protected the other patients in my departments by separating them to the right areas. It is scary. We still do have N-95 not because of some amazing corporate healthcare thing but by my staff being prudent and careful with the use as well as reuse on those. We are having critical levels with proper gowns now. No, we are not going to use trash bags but have managed to use our "home built" sterilizer. We manage to sterilize gowns,masks,face shields etc.

As for the efficacy of the sterilizer lights "cabinets", I purchased a photometer to measure the output of the UVC lights in this cabinet. I got an average of 500uW/cm^2 With those numbers we can re-sterilize about 15 masks in 20 minutes. Not bad for us since that is currently the daily max of masks we are using. I built an additional light that we can place in front of the cabinet so as to also do inside/backsides of gowns and masks at the same time.

What really helps us as a small facility is the willingness of Universities/ teaching facilities to share their information as well as experiences. It enabled us to learn from those and to implement processes that are helping us. Also, iFixit's initiative to get as many people involved in providing service manuals etc. for Ventilators that are commonly used makes a big difference. Even so we have not had to refer to those just yet, it provides us with a huge security blanket. We know that repair information is available and we know that there are people/organizations out there that actually do care about us. This just reiterates what we have been saying for decades on iFixit’s Answers as well as the Right to Repair. Being transparent and the sharing of information will always have a positive impact on human lives and our Planet. It makes a difference. Unlike companies like Apple, (of course not the only major corporation that does not care for small town USA) that never followed up/through with any request for assistance. No, free was never asked for. The staff in our hospital ended up providing plenty of old/older iPad's to us that we could then use to connect to our network. We use those to practice tele-medicine which does save us plenty of PPE. Again, it is not corporate America or corporate Healthcare that takes care of patients. It is the frontline staff that makes things happening. Patients do not survive because of corporate policies that are re-written daily on how to reuse masks over and over again. They survive because of the ingenuity that nurses and other staff are using to make sure that people are okay. COVID-19 has not broken the healthcare system, it only showed the general public how broken our system really is. Profit -before-People is the common factor in all of this. Let's squeeze every dime out of this and let's not worry about providers. We can always hire new ones. Let's not fool ourselves. Healthcare is no different than any other industry. Dealing with human lives is treated no different than dealing with any other commodity. As long as it makes money we will continue with this practice.

Best part of this crisis was that corporations, Governments (state and federal) as well as individuals within an organization, got called out. We found the ones that have integrity and ethics as well as those who lack those qualities. We now know who we can trust and rely on. Like my " 'Rona Team"!

These individuals have been doing the public testing in our community Drive-Thru test site since its creation. They are there. Day in, day out no matter how busy, how slow, how hot or how rainy; they are always volunteering their time. Nobody gets paid or reimbursed but everybody is there. That is the integrity, loyalty and devotion that we as human beings and healthcare providers should posses.

Anyhow, this is just an update of the ONGOING pandemic. It is NOT over yet, no matter what our "leaders" are telling us. Please continue to play it smart. WEAR YOUR MASKS, WASH YOUR HANDS AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING.

Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer

As we are all slowly realizing, COVID-19 is not going away and we will have to learn to live with it (and sadly some will continue to die because of it) until we have a reliable vaccine. My team and I continue to try to keep people as safe as possible and to identify, isolate and treat those that are infected. This is a humongous challenge due to the politicizing of this pandemic. There is so much mis and dis information out that it makes ones head spin. To say the least, people have truly interesting ideas about this virus. Besides the politicizing of this, COVID-19 has called us out. We now see what happens when healthcare is run as a business. If we continue to put profit before people, we will continue to lose the battle against this and other public health pandemics. Just in my small county, we now had over 1600 cases of COVID-19 and 28 patients have lost their fight against this dreadful virus. It hit us hard since every one of those was known to some of us. These were our neighbors, friends and families.

Because COVID-19 and all the activities that came with this, I was on a self-imposed hiatus. I did try to use Twitter to keep up with some of the great people on here but it just is not the same. Since there is no more that I can do besides the things I am already doing, I decided it is time to once more becoming more active on iFixit. Helping others to repair their devices and saving our landfills and our planet continues to be a priority to me.

Thanks to all of you that have supported my efforts and supported me during this hiatus.

The simple steps everyone can take to help prevent spreading the virus:

Wear a mask (over the nose and mouth);

Practice social distancing by staying at least six feet away;

Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds;

Here is just a brief update about how things are looking in my part of the world. Remember that my county is a small South Texas County. We have around 32,000 people listed as residents. Since my team and I are still the ‘Rona Team for the county we see what is happening on the front of the front lines. We are still tested around 100 people a week and our current rate of positive PCR tests remains to high at 20%. Out local schools and College have gone through multiple lockdowns since the fall due to higher than CDC recommended COVID-19 positive rates. Our community college had to suspend all of their athletics due to a high positive rate. As for those who think that this is all just hype, we had 40 fatalities since April strictly based on a COVID-19 diagnosis and I have been present for about 90% of those. You have not seen anything until you see what a person looks like that simply cannot breath and has to be placed on a ventilator and subsequently dies because of this. Alone, surrounded only by HCP’s in PPE and maybe their loved ones had a chance of having said their goodbyes via Facetime. What a terrible, lonely, sad way of dying. That is 40 above and beyond the fatalities that we have from other causes. I’ve also lost colleagues that have had no comorbidities, to this virus. Stuff like that weighs heavy on one’s psyche What is disturbing for most of us health care providers is the politicization. We do not care about your race, color, language, sexual orientation and least of all your political views. We care for you as a person and a human being. So let us not turn this into politics and keep it what it is: A public health crisis and a pandemic. I am okay with a Querdenker opinion like the one voiced by @einstein333 . I am not okay with thinking for a second that my friends, colleagues and neighbors have suffered and succumb to this in vain. We all must take lessons away from this.

Besides our COVID-19 test site we are now also involved in the planning and hopefully executing the immunization of our residents. We are planning to vaccinate no less than 500 people a day. I know my team and I can do it and our county government as well as employer (even so we all are all volunteers and using our vacation time ;-) is supporting all of this 100%. This somewhat restored my belief in humanity. Keep your fingers crossed that we are going to at least put a dent into this Beast.

Anyhow, iFixit has been my mentally saving grace. It allows me to deal with the stress brought on by this crisis, even so I have not had the mental attitude to do any micro repair. I did repair plenty of TV’s as well as doing some home remodel. You know, things like washer and dryer repair, installing wood burning stove, re-plumbing the MBR etc.,. It is a great way of focusing one’s anger, anxiety and despair into something useful. It clears the mind and helps me to refocus. To me, repairs and Answers are like chicken soup for the soul. The more you do and the more you give, the better you feel. It lifts the heavy, negative clouds that form around ones brain.

Wear your mask, keep your distance and wash your hands properly and often. Stay safe. It is okay if you do not care enough about yourself, but at least you should care about your family, friends and neighbors. They may be people like me that want to just live a little bit longer.

As for all of us, let’s keep repairing and protect our planet by keeping ewaste out of the landfill. Our combined efforts do have an impact, even if it is one device at a time.

Okay so here is finally some good news. I have received my COVID-19 vaccine this morning. Yay! Now on to get everybody else vaccinated.

So this will be my last update on this topic. We managed to administer around 45,000 shots. Our county has some good numbers at 74% of the population over 65 having been fully vaccinated, 56%of 16 years and over and for now just 5% of the 12-16 year old bracket. We still provide vaccines 3 times a week,

It was a chore but overall very rewarding since people appreciated our efforts. This is what it looked like every morning we held our drive through clinic

. People lined up at 3am for our 9am opening and the time from start to 15 minute wait after vaccination was 20 minutes average. We rocked it and people came from all over Texas because of this. Yes, we even had people flying in to our municipal airport for their vaccines. We went to hold clinics at local refineries and manufacturers; went to small county fire stations and whatever other venue we could get to.

This is the line snaking through the drive-thru

2500 customers each clinic day kept us busy but in a good way. Our community has slowed down with the demand on vaccine and we make sure that anybody that wants it is going to receive it.

Anyhow, this is not the all clear. We are still seeing COVID-19 positive patients but have not had a death in over 2 month. It does look better but we remain vigilant. Yes, masks, hand hygiene and social distancing are still a thing for us. The time has come to look for the new normal since I do not believe we can ever go back to the “old ways”. I believe that this pandemic has validated that we cannot trust any government to take care of us. WE THE PEOPLE have to take the initiative and look out for each other. Elected officials on all levels will have to be challenged, pushed, questioned about what it is that they are doing for us, not the other way around. I elected you, you work for me not some special interest group. This pandemic has shown how broken parts of our system are and how we have been lied too and how these lies have killed people. PPE being the biggest failure of this. It is time for us to move on and to never forget what has happened. Let us be vigilant with our elected official, trust but verify everything they say or do and let them know there will be consequences. The greatest people are those that have shown their compassion and understanding to those that have been hit hardest by this BEAST.

Let’s face it, we ARE our brothers keeper and we will have to take care of each other. Help wherever help is needed and give people a hands up when they are down. Taking care of our planet must be next. I went through a deep freeze in South Texas the way it hadn’t happened in a very long time. Ever worked in a Hospital that has no running water and is on genny power for 5 days? Interesting aromas develop quickly and try to take care of some really sick patients in an environment like that. People dying because of hypothermia, having no water or electricity, broken supply chains when it comes to things we take for granted did make us feel like a third world country. We have seen mother nature’s fury in the likes of a killer Virus and changing climate. We know it will get us in the end if we are going to continue to do things the way we have. Let us clean up our act NOW. We must stop wasting resources, behaving like spoiled brats by always wanting the latest and greatest technology and tossing that which does not please us or is “old” into the trash. NO! MORE! We must go back to the times where people were much smarter about this and fixed stuff instead of throwing it out. We must Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Repair and Recycle whatever we can and there is a lot of room to improve on that.

It’s on. Here is my new battle cry “REPAIR IS WAR ON ENTROPY”

As some of you may have noticed, I was once more on an 8 week-long “hiatus”. Not because I got tired of answering questions, loss of interest, or anything like that. I was once again busy trying to keep the Beast in check. The last 8 weeks have been an extreme challenge for our community. It started to get absolutely chaotic around July 14 (ten days past all the July 4th celebrations)

Here is our 3rd wave

This 3rd wave has been the biggest challenge for our local health care system. We had double the amount of ICU patients than our unit can even hold. We allocated empty rooms to become secondary ICU rooms and ALL of our patients were on ventilators. At times we held an additional 10 patients in the Emergency Department on vents. All of our “normal” emergencies did not stop because of COVID-19 either. We still had the traumas, the heart attacks, and strokes on top of all of this. I do not believe that anybody that does not work in this profession can even imagine what this all looked like. Remember, this is not NYC, LA, or Houston. This is rural America. Small town stuff that nobody in the News Media even cares about. You’ll never hear about us “little people” yet we have to deal with this crisis too. All of my staff worked mostly 18hour shifts since staffing has been a challenge throughout this pandemic but worsened over the last couple of months. Nurses are either leaving the acute care settings or are leaving their profession completely because of all the stuff that has been going. The decade-long nursing shortage was never properly addressed in my state and this pandemic shows how broken healthcare really is. We truly had all hands on deck yet there was just never completely enough. No, we do not like to work 80 hours of overtime in two weeks.

Hospital admissions during the last 2 months

Delta is a different Beast altogether. This one gets people critically ill within the first 2 weeks of contracting it. Most patients require hospitalization after day 10 of having been tested positive. No matter what medication we administered no matter how much specialized care these patients received, the progression of the illness took its own course and took some very rapid and unexpected turns. We did notice that the population mostly affected in this wave was the middle age group 30-50 years olds. This corresponds to the group that has the lowest amount of vaccinated citizens, and it showed. Less than 3% of vaccinated patients were hospitalized or vented. Having multiple Code Blue in a single day for days at a time wears one out pretty quick. Physically and mentally that is. This strain is so deadly it’s almost unimaginable that this is the 21st century. 40% of all fatalities in our county since the beginning of the pandemic in April of 2020 died during the last 8 weeks. That is an awful number for a small county like ours.

Yet we seem to have managed. All of my team stayed physically healthy yet most certainly will we show signs of hurt souls and will carry invisible scars for a long time. Even through all of this, we volunteer our lunchtime and a few hours each week to continue to swab our community for COVID to identify those at risk and still manage to vaccinate people. We still drive to those that can’t come to us to swab and vaccinate. We are doing this with the full support of our Hospital executives and our Community leaders. Everybody pitches in and helps out wherever they can. I have seen enough misery in the last 8 weeks to last me two lifetimes but have also seen that a crisis like the one we have can bring out the best in people. When your team becomes an intrinsic part of you and everybody has each other’s back to ensure everybody is safe and gets to go home to their own family, you know that you are part of something much bigger than anything else you will ever experience (reminded me a lot of another special group I was once part of over 30 years ago). “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. “

Thank you for letting me briefly express what the last 2 months were like and I did not mean to keep rambling on. I guess it just helps to get some of this out in the open and no more waiting to exhale. I guess sometimes I just have to fix myself too.

Now it’s time to get back to the fun part of helping people out and time to continue to fix this planet one device at a time. Remember that “REPAIR IS WAR ON ENTROPY”

So, here we go again. Actually it would probably be more accurate to say that here we still go with being careless. I was not aware that anybody had sounded the all clear on COVID-19. Yes, that is 19 we are now entering 22. We are entering our 3rd year of this pandemic and it seems we really are not taking lessons. We need to stop ;listening to the so called “experts” about Omicron being milder. It is far more infectious than previous strains and thus more people will get sick. Agreeable those that get it, do not suffer from the emergent need of respiratory support but they are ill enough to crowd our nations emergency departments. At my department that currently makes up about 80% of beds occupied by COVID-19 patients. Which would be okay if those were the only emergencies. IT IS NOT. We still have all the other life threatening illnesses to deal with as well. There is not enough room and staff to take care of all of those patients. There are no rooms in tertiary care facilities. Heart attacks, Strokes and other life threatening events cannot be transferred to where they should go. Those patients are now waiting in any local ED for days. Everybody does their best to keep people alive but we cannot fix you. Let’s stop this insanity! Stop looking at main street media for answers. Stop looking at our governments for solutions. Let’s get back to basics and let us take responsibility for our own health and welfare. We all know what to do. Mask! Social Distancing! Hand washing! Vaccinate! It is not rocket science. Your health care workers are tired! We have nothing left to give! This is what it looks like for me!

Friends, Colleagues and everybody else that may read this: STOP! We can no longer accommodate people who repeatedly demonstrate that they have no respect for others and won’t follow even the most basic common sense recommendations.

Personally, I am getting to old for this. To old for getting my backside kicked for so long. It wore me out. I need my “fix” of Answers to keep me sane. My pledge to fight the WAR ON ENTROPY is chicken-soup for my soul. Thank you for letting me vent. Stay safe.

⟐ Commented June 25, 2022 at 11:50 MST

We appreciate you sticking with us through the ebb and flow of life as a warrior against the war on entropy. It's been an honor!

Everyone raise your glass of whatever-is-nearest and join me in a cheers for @oldturkey03!

⟐ Commented November 12, 2022 at 15:22 MST

I wanted to drop in and let you know that we had an all staff meeting (something we call an All-hands meeting in the tech biz) and I was fortunate enough to present about our community!

Who y’all are, what y’all do, why y’all do what you do. I talked about the Answers forum, Meta, Mods, long-time and brand-new loyal community members, and what kinds of things are getting posted and answered in all of these places. Without going into the gritty details of what I explained, I want to jump to the last slide that was a group effort from all of the iFixit staff.

I gave all of our staff a prompt “What does the iFixit community mean to you?” These words went into a word cloud generator and this is what we made:

(If you’re not familiar with a word cloud, people submit individual words and the more a word is mentioned, the larger it gets.)

<3 from iFixit

⟐ Answered December 17, 2022 at 22:32 MST

The charger model number is DC18RA, the battery model number is BL1830, my battery is an 18v 3.0 ah Li-ion

⟐ Answered November 16, 2018 at 11:29 MST

the package arrived today and i was surprised, it was a little bit larger than i expected.

(surprise, surprise - a little bit early for christmas)

i opened the package and was..."shocked" (in a positive way ;-) )

it started with the 3 shirts (i think you all know that i won't wear the signed one)

then the blue tool bag with the note (and pro tech base toolkit)

and finally - the 3 wood chests with the complete master tech driver set series - i thought - wow, that can't be true - but after i flipped them around - i had to smile (crap, i almost had tears in my eyes).

(sorry for the bad photo quality)

and again - thanks to everybody at ifixit

markus ;-)

⟐ Answered April 05, 2013 at 3:38 MST

With 17,666 answered questions to helping people fix their things, it's easy to say that you've helped improve the world.

On behalf of iFixit (and the planet) thank you for your years of dedication, information, and support—we couldn't have done it with out you.

Cheers to Mayer, cheers to 13 years, and cheers to many more to come!

⟐ Commented May 15, 2023 at 7:33 MST

Just wanting to take this opportunity to thank all of you for an interesting year. I am very thankful for all of your efforts to make ours an outstanding fixers community. I know that a lot of you spend a lot of work and research to answer some of the toughest question. My special thanks go to @refectio @teetopp @reecee @benjamen50 @avanteguarde @jayeff @jimfixer and @theimedic for always providing excellent answers and advice. I am proud of the more junior folks on here like @captainsnowball @pccheese @gigabit87898 for having grown into respectful members of this community. Of course, a big thank you to each and everyone that supports this community. I also like to thank my fellow moderators @mayer @danj . The community we have, would not be what it is, without you.

A big thank you to @kyle @evan @kaykay @kelsea @entendu @blakeklein for providing us with a place for "Answers" and allowing us to build this community. Your ongoing support is greatly appreciated. Thank you @brittany for all your hard work with the Education Services that most of us do not even know exist. You do such an admirable job. A very special thank you to @sam ! Ma'am, you are awesome. Your always level-headed answers and logical approach to fixing things is absolutely outstanding!!! Everybody on the ifixit team, you are all very much appreciated!

Thinking warmly of each of you and wishing you and your families an extra measure of comfort, joy and hope this Christmas.

⟐ Answered December 28, 2017 at 12:26 MST

His name is Kamoka (Kamo for short) and he is the reason I’ve been offline for the last week. Picked him up last Saturday, and have spent the last week getting to know him and letting him get to know me. Training, walking, house training, etc.

He’ll be my fixit buddy for many, many years 🥰 (He’s 13 weeks and 3 days today.)

⟐ Commented February 18, 2023 at 8:51 MST

Hope it was OK to post here to let other's know, if not proper Mayer or OT feel free to delete.

I have received a Beautiful vase of flowers and nice condolence card from the team last Sunday for the loss of my wife Deb who passed away July 6. I sincerely thank ALL and hope to be back soon.

Wishing all good health,

Sincerely LPfaff

⟐ Comment deleted November 26, 2018 at 15:50 MST

Here is it as a PDF complete with instructions:

http://pdfcast.org/pdf/iphone-4-screen-r...

And also as a high-res GIF without any instructions:

http://i.imgur.com/HbYLX.gif

So, how do you suggest I make this public as part of the tutorial?

⟐ Commented August 02, 2011 at 17:48 MST

Thank you for being our unofficial news reporter! You always post such great articles on Meta—helping keep us in the loop with all the happenings in the world.

Cheers to 11 years and to many, many more!

⟐ Commented April 19, 2023 at 15:44 MST

⟐ Commented June 28, 2022 at 15:09 MST

In case you haven't noticed, there's been a huge uptick in activity in on Meta recently. How huge, you ask? Here's a graph of all meta posts and comments since 2012. (Disclaimer: I extrapolated data for the rest of January assuming posts will continue to come in at a constant rate. Click to zoom, I unfortunately cannot post large images on a discussion.):

With that in mind, we've been workin' hard to keep up with all of your requests, but tracking every request through to completion has become very difficult with the rate at which requests come in.

It's also become commonplace for people to post streams of consciousness rather than succinct requests. Those posts are challenging for us to handle, and take time away from other things we could be doing to make the community even more awesome. So here’s what we’d like to propose:

• Let’s limit the number of posts that demand admin attention (feature requests, spam reports, or bug reports) to one post per day. Try to keep other discussion grouped into topic-specific discussion threads.
• If there is a proper channel for reporting content (i.e. spam or offensive materials), use the official method, and that method only. The moderators will see your reports and they will vote on them. The system works! Let’s use it.
• Do not treat offensive content and spam as emergency situations. Take a deep breath. It’ll be ok! We’ll get to it. We swear.
• Do not threaten users with powers you do not have (i.e. banning).
• When posting, please use proper numbered lists, grammar, capitalization (this includes avoiding INTERNET YELLING), spelling, and punctuation. We really value that. Here's why.

This doesn't mean Meta shouldn’t be fun, or you should stop using it. Let’s keep brainstorming on how to teach people how to fix things! That’s why we’re all here, after all. Go ahead and reply to your's or other folks requests and discussions as you want. Feel free to make your lists as lengthy as you want, and feel free to ask questions and continue to use Meta as a discussion forum as you have been doing.

Thanks, everyone. This will help us help you.

Onward! Let’s go fix the world together.

Bumping this to the top of Meta to keep everyone mindful of the Admins' requests.

⟐ Answered December 10, 2018 at 5:55 MST

I then used the free repair manuals to install the items. In less than 60 minutes I had the laptop as good as new.

I could not be more happy with your service!

Best regards,

Sam

⟐ Commented December 13, 2015 at 9:04 MST

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⟐ Commented November 14, 2022 at 12:00 MST

Dan keeps us all updated on the latest Apple problems and solutions.

Quite a milestone Dan ;-)

⟐ Answer deleted July 22, 2019 at 14:54 MST