ayeung

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   by ayeung 8mo ago

   I clean my MacBook Pro keyboard daily (or almost every time I use it) with either water only or if it’s really yucky, a ~30% isopropyl alcohol spray. I use a regular yellow microfiber towel (usually from the giant bag I pick up from Costco
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   by ayeung 3y ago

   Interesting fact: you can use the other Thunderbolt port and a regular Thunderbolt cable (with the Thunderbolt 2-3 adapter) instead of the permanently attached one (the one with the MagSafe power cable) so there’s less stuff dangling.
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   by ayeung 4y ago

   My (somewhat weird) roundabout way is to take a deep breath in and exhale slowly while imagining myself at a time (like say 5 minutes ago) when I did not have hiccups, but it requires concentration (usually 5-10 seconds).
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   by ayeung 6y ago

   Rectangle is another like Spectacle but adds window snapping.
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   by ayeung 6y ago

   This is just my experience, but I had observed a wild temperature difference at idle and load on two identical MacBook Pros. I’d already recently (within days) replaced the thermal paste with the same paste but still one of them was getting
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   by ayeung 7y ago

   Fun fact: a razor blade from a box cutter, and some rubbing alcohol will remove any sticker off a MacBook’s aluminum case without scratching the MacBook.