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Busy (busiest?) week at work, where Halloween is the major pizza day of the year. I was on call and some stuff broke although only one of the five things I was involved in was both a) important and b) something I could do anything about. As it's shorter and smaller than, say, BFCM at Shopify -- I can appreciate a day of stress and graph watching and heightened attention without the crushing stress that I had previously.
In computer news: a Framework 13 can survive a 2 metre drop with out being totally destroyed, but it will not be in a good way. I originally thought it only had cosmetic damage (like; huge cosmetic damage to be clear -- a caved in corner and bent lid) but also the power button, fingerprint reader and some of the keyboard was affected.
I've ordered a new input cover (fancy name for the keeb and trackpad) as well as a bottom and top case piece. That also includes new speaker modules and other stuff that is actually fine on my other laptop but that they include by default in the case SKU. I might investigate if my spares can be turned into something useful or I might keep them as spares for the next accident. Technically my screen bezel was also damaged but $50 for a piece of thin plastic is nuts so I'll muddle through with the lightly damaged one.
It's put me in a bad mood tbh, because it was avoidable and it was my fault and also it's a lot of money. I've never damaged such an expensive item. Most of my entire laptops have cost less than the repair cost for this one. Oh, well. I don't want to make it worse so it's out of action until the parts arrive in a week's time. A monkey's paw curled a finger and now I am using Sway and Helix full time on my 4GiB Debian-ized Chromebook; those being about what its little N5205 can handle.