{"id":28991,"date":"2020-05-20T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28991"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:10:23","slug":"dont-bury-a-wet-laptop-in-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/dont-bury-a-wet-laptop-in-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Bury a Wet Laptop in Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/41383\/ask-ifixit-i-spilled-liquid-on-my-laptop-now-what\">Kevin Purdy<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/15\/dont-bury-a-wet-laptop-in-rice-better-advice-from-ifixit\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/41383\/ask-ifixit-i-spilled-liquid-on-my-laptop-now-what\">\n<p>Most importantly, don&rsquo;t try to use rice to &ldquo;draw out the moisture.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/News\/30047\/rice-is-for-dinner-not-repair\">It doesn&rsquo;t work, at all<\/a>. You&rsquo;re giving water more time to corrode your laptop, and you&rsquo;re probably getting rice inside your laptop or under your keys.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you can remove the bottom of your laptop, or even just open up a battery\/memory\/hard drive compartment with a switch on the bottom, do that.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the trick with most MacBooks out there: the screws on the bottom are pentalobe screws. Specifically, they are P5 screws. They&rsquo;re intentionally uncommon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Purdy (via Josh Centers): Most importantly, don&rsquo;t try to use rice to &ldquo;draw out the moisture.&rdquo; It doesn&rsquo;t work, at all. You&rsquo;re giving water more time to corrode your laptop, and you&rsquo;re probably getting rice inside your laptop or under your keys. [&#8230;] If you can remove the bottom of your laptop, or even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-20T21:09:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"9254a391-45b5-4f22-8128-af6c0aa04045","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-20T21:10:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AklSjkUW1TyKBKK9sCqBARQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,30,1155,1173,100],"class_list":["post-28991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbookpro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28992,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28991\/revisions\/28992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}