{"id":58,"date":"2012-05-21T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steventully.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-12-23T01:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:38:34","slug":"so-your-laptop-went-for-a-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"So your laptop went for a swim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine called the other day quite upset that a glass of water had spilled on their laptop. Here are a few tips if you spill a liquid on your laptop.<\/p>\n<p>1. Unplug the laptop from AC power and remove the battery. You can seriously damage the circuitry if you leave it running.<br \/>\n2. Immediately find someone that can fix laptops. If they know what they are doing, they will disassemble the laptop, and completely dry every component.<\/p>\n<p>There is no guarantee that the laptop will work again, but the key here is that you don&#8217;t wait to get it repaired. Pure water is completely harmless to computers, but most water isn&#8217;t pure. It has all kinds of added things in it that will corrode the electronics in your computer. Anything that has sugar in it is worse than water. I would recommend that you don&#8217;t keep any food or beverage near your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine called the other day quite upset that a glass of water had spilled on their laptop. Here are a few tips if you spill a liquid on your laptop. 1. Unplug the laptop from AC power and remove the battery. You can seriously damage the circuitry if you leave it running. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tullytips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steventully.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}