Post may start (and end) with a screed against Apple's warranty and repair policies, but in the middle there's what looks like pretty useful advice on cleaning out a MacBook keyboard.

With lots of cute details about how the author enjoys alcohol.

more than advice, this is a demonstrates that most users can handle a severely abused m@cbook with about 5 bucks worth of bathroom cabinet contents and a sober head.

I do a bit of drinking and computing myself, and I've learned that pipe cleaners work better than cotton swabs for un-ruining things. They rarely leave stray fibers behind, and as a bonus, can be used to clean pipes apparently.

I mean, hell, couldn't you have tried this before taking it to apple? I have a iphone 6 that apple fixed a year ago and I'm not sure how many samsung/pixel would do that? where do you even go to get those fixed?

Where you bought them, and they offer better warranty than some and don't delete your data for no reason.

I want to see that battery made out of baby rabbits and cocaine now.

How are people still surprised about Apple's customer service practices? That's the real question.

This seems like a foul-mouthed, unfunny tirade against Apple not fixing a clearly non-Apple related hardware issue. Why is it on HN at all?

Apple is terrible, but this isnt exactly new information. The author also strikes me as someone who should have known better. Their whole business model is selling overpriced hardware and then nickle and diming users through adapters and bullshit care plans. This has been the norm for over a decade. They killed the iphone headphone jack 2 years ago. Stories just like this one continue to abound. Its one thing to have your employer buy an apple laptop and deal with all the nonsense, but why for personal use? Do people expect to be an exception to the rule when buying apple stuff? I dont get it.