#andrecare is what you get when #applecare runs out, or if you don't want to pony up for the high fees associated with the latter. I was Andre's appointed rep for this repair.

I am most grateful to @iFixit for their fine tutorials and tools as well as for being one of the few sources for […]

Time it took me for this repair: 5hrs 10mins not including several deep reviews of the detail of various steps of the repair tutorial and minor issues which occurred during the repair, overnight curing and testing procedures as well as documentation of the repair and issues encountered […]

I reconnected the battery and screen connectors, closed and rescrewed the cover for the connectors and retested the iPad before removing the protective covers over the adhesive strips. Then I placed several heavy books over the iPad and left it in a room with the door […]

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I tested the new battery before applying new adhesives to fix it in place.

I rechecked for remaining adhesive and applied new adhesive strips along the perimeter of the screen.
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My supervisor for this repair was extremely helpful and supportive providing entertainment and stress relief at various intervals. She was however banned from the closed room where most steps in this procedure were conducted except adhesive removal and she had the […]

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I removed the battery by taking out the adhesive strips behind it. The iPad was still warm so the adhesive strips pulled out like butter with a most satisfying sound. I even was able to pull the third one out one handed and record the removal with the other hand […]

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The next step is to remove the adhesive remnants. This is a time consuming process in my experience. I used various manual techniques and a toxic adhesive remover this time.

Last time I used a less toxic adhesive remover, but it wasn't available to me for this repair […]

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@Roundtrip @bosak I have had the opportunity to sample some Evercrisp on this trip and agree they are a tasty variety with pleasurable qualities.

@pippa the diet has a bill before it that would deport all gaijin that put their trash bags out on the wrong day. Let’s all be careful to remind each other the correct day or the week.

@dnanian convincing disinformation… the smell of burning flesh in the age of high fidelity AI slop

@gullevek sad to hear that AI slop has infected the mechanism of calibre. Content offerings are increasingly slop too so garbage is eating eating finally I suppose.

@dnanian sounds cool! plunger or pluger?

@brian there is a Buddhist temple in Ueda that hosts a whale fossil 🐳

@hoofin I am not sure I understand the use case. Is this to try to read behind a simplistic client request to see is chatGPT can hallucinate beyond what they are saying and figure out what they are really asking for?

@brian the problem seems to have been that you assumed moms tell daddies everything

@FlockOfCats like that is accidental? No, by design. Kubrick and his generation inspired many creations thereafter.