Comment on ifixit was NOT fucking around with that repairability score of...1 LMAO

uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • VehicleTree@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Certainly meant to hate toward you bro free is for me!

    I have the misfortune of working on these from time to time.

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• medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Username checks out

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    • medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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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      • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve had my surface pro 3 since like… 2016? Still runs great. Never been very happy with the keyboard though.

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