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Try a neural implant! They're all the rage, lately.
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As far as actually cleaning stuff like coke and coffee off electronics, I have two words for you: "Brake Cleaner" (read "universal solvent").
Generally with space bars, I tend to find the problem has less to do with the mechanical key press stuff than with the little metal balancing bracket thing that's also attached to the key, and somehow has to hook into the keyboard's base as well - many times, one of the anchor points for that isn't fully engaged, and that in turn throws off the whole thing...
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Here's an out-of-the-box solution... buy a new one... a good quality wireless keyboard/mouse combo is less than $100. I know that's not nearly as fun as fixing it yourself and learning new things about DFM, but there are more challenging things to apply your curiosity to.
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The problem with just buying a new one is that keyboard manufacturers all apparently can't help themselves from fiddling with the layout and adding various keys, and as a result no two keyboard models ever feel alike. Mine's no longer being manufactured, and I'm rather underwhelmed by what's currently being offered.
Same with mice: I had been using Microsoft's original Intellipoint for many, many years, and when my last one died, I spent literally years switching between various models every few months, and it's not until Microsoft reintroduced a "classic" version of that model that I could stop doing that. I learned my lesson and stocked up. I have spares sitting in a closet that, I hope, outlast me.
The same will happen with this keyboard. When I find a good replacement I like (and is still being manufactured), I'll be getting spares.
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First, I am not rich enough to split my coke with anyone. I snort ALL of it myself.
Second of all, who drinks Tab anymore?
Ok, my dyslexia aside, the little levers on your spacebar are counter-intuitive, they may go the opposite of the way you think, or flop over when you put it in. Either a thin piece of cardstock (or two) is needed, or do it upside down if you are that coordinated.
Oh, and do the coke AFTER fixing the space bar.
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Quote: Second of all, who drinks Tab anymore?
Relatives of the folks that drink Fresca.
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Having raised over £33Million to help the NHS battle COVID, he has succumbed to the disease. A true hero. RIP.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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RIP
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes, what an inspirational gentleman.
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Bugger.
Rest well, Sir! You will be remembered.
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Captain Sir Tom Moore (Hon. Colonel), RIP.
A true hero of these British Isles in more ways than one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 2-Feb-21 15:36pm.
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He was given the honorary title of Colonel. As such, his official title is Captain Sir Thomas Moore under Ministry of Defence protocol.
And I suspect he preferred it - he earned his Captaincy in WWII the hard way!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I think he died ( as most people do ) of pneumonia - good man - they don't make them like him anymore RIP
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OK, updated.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Or, maybe he didn't lose it. Maybe we should rather see it as a battle won.
A battle won doesn't necessarily imply that the war is won. But a battle won may be a step on the way to victory. Tim Moore is a representative of battles won, not battles lost.
It has been my clearly expressed philosophy for 30+ years: Now that his life is over, let us rejoice over what he he throughout his life - what he created, which activities he started, all the memories he created in us ... When my father-in-law died, I had made my daughter (8yo) so excite about all the positive memories that I had to calm her down somewhat when we were standing at the grave.
God us dead. Nietzsche is dead. And I am getting old myself as well ...
Ever more of my old idols and heroes are reported dead. I have learned to say "Well, such is life. And it is getting sucher and sucher every day." Learn to live with it!
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RIP
Tom
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I'll wait for the movie. 
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raddevus wrote: which will have you sign into your Kindle account so you can read
So it isn't free. You pay with your identity and information about your reading habits. I don't want to pay that price.
Another aspect: "The first book in this 15-book series" is crying out loud: "You get the first shot for free, but you sure will have to pay for the subsequent 14 shots". I have nothing in principle against multi-volume stories, and often I wish there was a follow-up when there isn't. But please leave to me to be eager for the next volume. Announcing as new and unknown book with a message "There will be fourteen more volumes - start reading now!" looks too much like extreme commercial marketing. Not something I would expect to earn a Nobel prize in literature. Not even a Nebula or Hugo award.
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trønderen wrote: and information about your reading habits. I don't want to pay that price.
Me neither. I would hate for anyone to know what books email address x@y.com is reading. 
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trønderen wrote: So it isn't free. You pay with your identity and information about your reading habits. I don't want to pay that price.
In that vein, CP is not free either. 
And, yes, I was pointing out that there are 14 more in the series because I thought it was funny too.
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raddevus wrote: 14 more in the series because I thought it was funny
There are a couple series around that length that I enjoy: The Foreigner Sequence by C. J. Cherryh, and The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Both authors are good at keeping the series interesting without going off the rails.
That said, there seem to be an awful lot of these 8, 10, or more book series' out there from no-name authors. The plotlines read like a laundry list of overly-used SF/fantasy tropes.
Software Zen: delete this;
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trønderen wrote: "There will be fourteen more volumes - start reading now!"
My response to that is "you start writing now". I'll wait until they're done, then go through them. If it turns out the feedback is positive. Otherwise if it starts to suck halfway through the series, then I'll know I won't have wasted my time with any of it.
The other possibility is that it'll never get completed. George R. R. Martin is 72 and not getting any younger. He's still got 2 books to write to finish off his Ice and Fire series (on which HBO's Game of Thrones is based), and there's always been multi-year gaps between each book. I've read the first book after the first season came out, but I'm getting less and less interested in reading the rest of 'em as time goes by. At this rate, if they get completed, it'll probably be something I'll do when I'm finally retired.
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Why do Americans call it an "eggplant" when it's really a chicken?
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