Lord Alveric @lordalveric@qoto.org

@freemo Might be worth it for a $10,000 unit. It was not worth giving the §1000 laptop to the repair center to do it -- all they wanted to do was swap the motherboard... and for that price, it was simply easier to buy a new laptop.

@freemo Well, good luck with that.
I gave up on trying to repair my $1000 laptop that simply stopped booting one day. As in, it didn't even hit the BIOS. And this was the 2nd ASUS laptop that died this way, so I'm never buying another one.

I did get a cheap oscilloscope that works with the tablet, but it only worked with the Android tablet. iPod refuses to connect to its WiFi because it doesn't go to the Internet!!!! :(

And I dropped the Android tablet once and put a single crack in the screen. My wife dropped it many years later and totally spiderwebbed it! Well, it was old anyway... but I digress.

Yes, tons of repair and restore videos on YouTube. Some dude was trying to repair an old video board. I don't have the patience for that sort of thing anymore.

@freemo Just how many strikes have you dealt with?

@freemo It could still fry a copper trace buried in the layers. But hopefully you won't have that to contend with.

The flying...???
Amazon is taking measures to discourage your purchases.

Talk about being a victim of your own success.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/amazon-wants-customers-to-buy-less-as-demand-skyrockets/

https://youtu.be/-yFCdrqoK90

https://youtu.be/Z7yfK0kCAfU

May he rest well in the great Game of Life in the sky.

The Game will live on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsecAiJDI8s&feature=em-uploademail

MASSIVE. And I miss the good ole' days we could gather like this to have solid FUN!

https://youtu.be/wAi0kVTODAM

@freemo So that limited your lossess at least. Still, not pretty.

What will be real fun to deal with is if you had any arcing between the layers of your PC board.... not even sure how you'd repair that...!!!

@freemo That beyond sucks. And you could spend a considerable amount of time repairing it too.

Maybe stick a lightening arrestor on your attena to limit the damage the next time you pull the old Ben Franklin trick!

@freemo @sda Wow, yet another thing we can agree on. Stop it! Pretty soon we'll have nothing to debate about!!!!! 🤠

@freemo @sda Here we go again.
This is just a rough estimate at best. The percentage factor is a pure guess. Obviously, if more are tested, that percentage factor would have to be lowered.

If you do a proper random sample with a high enough confidence rating, you can dispense with guessing altogether.

So whatever you derive from the initial guess will necessarily have a high degree of uncertainty, which would be "nonsense" in any case.

You know, like all the guessing and assumptions going on with climate change.

@freemo @sda
If we go with the 25% asymptomatic rate, then, at this moment, we are showing 1.6 million known to have been infected, so the actual number would be k/(1-p) giving us a bit over 2 million actually infected, p = 25%

Then we can use that to calculate the actual R factor, etc., and then come up with some sort of meaningful estimate of the progression of CoVID-19.

What Cells Does SARS-CoV-2 Attack?

https://www.technologynetworks.com/cell-science/news/what-cells-does-sars-cov-2-attack-333221?utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TN_Cell%20Science&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=86072882&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--q06c4JCvQOyce6yiUm7g4oevF2BuO_X3hF8shOPG8CVZSWvYQQkiFY-x5BesSfAKtKHjZigl5s7tDBYjByliApUgaKQ&_hsmi=86072882

@freemo It is a possibility, I suppose, but I have seen other comments deleted by Quora when the author did not intend it.

Yikes.
Quora is becoming more like Facebook in its mysterious deletion of accounts.

I only caught the one below because of email notifications. This used to be "Christopher Smallwood" who replied to one of my comments. Now, he's just a meaningless string of numbers; I imagine all of his other posts have been deleted as well.

Thank god for these email notifications, or I would never know about this.

@m8ryx There are places you can get a cert for free with minimal checking.

@freemo I fear your assessment on the vaccine possibility is correct.

Knowing the R factor for CoVID-19 is tricky business. Especially with the mutations. Asymptomatic cases is a big unknown, and I do not expect that to be the same across different populations., though it may not differ by much.

Well, we'll see how this all plays out. We can speculate about this until we are blue in the face.

But all this uncertainty makes it difficult to plan for the future.

@freemo I think the vaccine could potentially be years down the road. But we do have a viable treatment possibility which should be aggressively pursued in every country dealing with this crisis.

It seems to me that the governments are really dragging their feet in this area, and we are talking low-lying fruit.