Comment by 🍀 gritty

Re: "LCD vs. Sledgehammer"

In: u/stack

although I must say that's amazing it didn't break.

🍀 gritty

Jan 12 · 5 months ago

3 Later Comments ↓

🚀 jules · Jan 13 at 00:33:

You missed an opportunity to buy a new tablet. Next time, try harder.

🖥️ zetamacs · Jan 13 at 00:47:

That's got to be the strangest first-world tech accident I've heard since someone dropped their Macbook Pro on their iPad.

Props for that.

☕️ Morgan · Jan 13 at 09:58:

We once broke a Chromebook by dropping a tablet on it. I think it's the only time I've ever really "repaired" a laptop ... because on opening it up, it transpired that the impact had knocked the internal display connector loose. Plugged back in :)

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🚀 stack

LCD vs. Sledgehammer — The Accident I was climbing out of the bathtub, one hand holding my 10" tablet, the other swinging around vigorously to keep my balance. I placed the tablet onto a 5-gallon bucket of roofing compound that I keep next to the bathtub, but to my dismay, the tablet slipped off the bucket and fell onto a sledgehammer resting next to it. Glass side down, of course. The terrible sound of glass on sledgehammer! For a few seconds I thought the screen was broken: there were weird...

💬 5 comments · Jan 12 · 5 months ago