It's modular now.

When I worked in cell phone repair, someone brought in a cell phone in similar condition and asked a similar question, all while seeming quite sincere.

At least they were honest; they explained it had fallen out of their pocket while mowing and gotten entangled in the mower blades. Not sure how they expected us to affect repairs, though. We declined as politely as we could and directed them to where they could buy a replacement.

I was wondering what was wrong until it hit me. I thought this was one of those laptops where they purposely cut the board into pieces so it’d fit 😬

It's dead.

At least for windows, Linux will probably run okayish.

It looks like you're going to have to reconnect a couple of traces, but if you've got some magnet wire and a fine tipped iron you should be good to go. You probably don't need that bit on the left, it doesn't look important.

Nothing some ducktape couldn't fix!

It's just a flesh wound.

If you have a soldering iron and a factory full of orphan children you can put it back together (the orphans must be children for the tiny hands)

Have you tried putting it in a bowl of rice?

!hardwaregore@lemmy.world