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Even Gamers Nexus is supportive to the Right to Repair! Hopefully before the summer break!

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Today I had someone ask a very simple question on how to accept an answer! What was replaced with top case. He did score...

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Sonos explains why it bricks old devices with ‘Recycle Mode’ This takes the cake! Instead of collecting the old gear...

Ouch! Sounds like the firmware was in the middle of being updated and in the process the S/N got messed up as the system was forced to shutdown causing an incomplete write operation. I haven’t done any of the newer retina series or anything OS-X newer than Mountain Lion which is the last version that you could poke the value in via hex. This required taking the EFI chip out and using a EEROM burner export the file image, then edit it and then reload back into the chip. Apple made a lot of changes in the newer firmware releases I don’t think you can alter now as it has a serpentine key so any alteration invalidates it. This also prevents any firmware update as well (locked in the this bad state). Apple would be the only ones who could fix this, but as we know they don’t do any logic board repairs at the depots only full replacements.

@jeffsu - This is great! Very helpful on repeated queries! I would add one element at the bottom of the page ‘Did this answer all of your concerns?’ A button then opens a fresh question based on the troubleshooting page so its traceable to it. But not held with it like we do within ‘Answers’ it’s held in Answers (treating it more like how we spin off questions from the device listing. So why do this? First it doesn’t clutter up the Troubleshooting page with follow up stuff of a problem. I would still allow people to comment on a step if the step is confusing. Then edit the troubleshooting step if needed with the additional info. If the spun-off concerns are common then we need to improve the troubleshooting page. In some cases there is a fork in the road! While not common we have some cases where depending on the given diagnostic test might require a different path to fix. It’s also possible the person jumped over a given troubleshooting page/s and needs to be pushed back to the previous page. You want to...

@captainsnowball - FYI: if you are using a Mac with Safari you can still see it! Click on the left icon in the URL menu to engage Reader mode Voilà

@sarahw Heres one that just can’t offer positive or useful input 3309162

Wow! Proud dad & grand pa. Taos NM such a beautiful area. On your visits Mayer have you gone to the hot springs in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains? Soaking really helps the joints ;-}

@sarahw - This guy is looking for a computer surrogate to bear his CPU siblings! 3281056

@sarahw - Deepak needs some motivation to move on! 3230970 I can’t find all of his noise

@mayer - I came across this Sushi SPAM phone stand ;-}

@blakeklein - Can you pick this up, thanks!

I personally like the smaller pencil units for when I’m in the field. This is what I use Dremel - VersaTip Pencil Gas Torch