Ask HN: What is the worst you poured over your keyboard?

Re:Ask HN: What is the worst you poured over your keyboard? by seekingcharlie on Friday September 11, 2015 @03:06AM (#10202352)

I poured a whole cup of tea. The whole thing.

It stopped working immediately, so I just shut it off, but left it to dry upside-down (something I read online that would apparently help).

I went and bought a new laptop right away, knowing that I wouldn't be able to work otherwise.

3 days later, I turned the tea-tainted laptop on & it worked fine.

Now I lug two laptops around with me :/

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Re:Ask HN: What is the worst you poured over your keyboard? by EnderMB on Friday September 11, 2015 @04:31AM (#10202603)

I feel your pain. The same thing happened to me about two months ago, but sadly my laptop never recovered. When the tea hit the laptop there was a load of buzzing, and that was the last of that laptop...

Luckily, the hard drive survived, so I moved my files over to a new machine.

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