We got to pack a three hour show into about 90 minutes here Renee. We can do it. I think we can no baseball no sports no no movies nothing like that we gotta get we gotta get right to work.

Okay. Got a good list of topics I'm gonna say number one I want to talk about.

Macbook keyboard failures it's a recurring theme on the show and in between the last episode of the show and and us talking today.

I know got hit by the spec of us to doom.

And that fellow would be you yeah like you I think we both had a bunch of different review units since they came out in 2016 that were the original sky like ones that were last year's KB like ones.

I between Macbooks and Macbook pros my own and apples I've probably gone through eight and I've used two or three of them consistently and I never had any problem and then two weeks ago the control key stopped working and I don't use a control key often I use it for terminal and ludicrously to pick up to pull out the emoji keyboard pickers yes yes yes.

And I wasn't able to do that anymore.

For people who do not know you can type on a Mac you can type control command space and it brings up the emoji picker.

And it's a fantastic feature I it's funny I've kind of gone away from tips and tricks in recent years I don't know why but it's like I started I'll get to some later that are on the show notes but that's another one and it's like I know that there's some cool third party utilities that help with emoji and stuff like that.

But I think if people knew about the command control space and the fact that you can search.

Yes it's it's a fantastic feature it's so it's like you know you type flower and it's like all the flower emoji show up.

Oh I love this feature anyway.

Yeah I can't reassign it so the control key is done you just can't use it.

Oh.

Which exact model was this it was a MacBook Pro correct.

Yeah it was a 13 inch MacBook Pro with the touch bar.

All right so what's the current status you made a video I have it in the show notes it will be there and you can you know you went through the rigmarole with the Apple support document where you hold the MacBook at a precise 61 degree angle.

And then hold the can of air at a 57 degree angle yeah and you can't go too far because then it'll push cold out and not dust and you'll get I'm not that I did this too often but you get like frozen stuff over your key.

I think that's why some people like you know it's just like everything in life where it's like you can go really cheap or really expensive but I know some people.

Have those instead of buying the aerosol cans of compressed air you can get like an actual mechanical device you know which I think solves that problem of when you hold it at a weird angle it turns to ice and you worry that you're about to.

Give yourself frostbite or something like that yeah no I went through all of that and it worked ish if I hit the control key a little more briskly than I usually hit keys and I hit I biased towards the left side it works but it's not.

It's not comfortable I have been shown how to take the key off I have friends in the industry and they've shown like an easy way to take the key off so I'll probably do that next pop it off clean it more thoroughly pop it back on you know I've heard that taking the keys off this model of keyboard it's it in the litany of things that are bad about this keyboard design what I've heard is that it is a precarious it is very precarious and that you can damage it you know and in fact it's so easy to do.

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