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<\/p>\nOne night last December, I walked out to my car carrying some recently cleaned clothes and a Chromebook. I set my Chromebook on top of my car while I was hanging up the clothes. As I set the computer down, I thought to myself, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be funny if I drove away with the Chromebook still on top of my car? That would be the Googler equivalent of leaving a coffee mug on a car roof.\u201d I think you know where this is going.<\/p>\n
I drove to dinner, and after I parked, I looked for my Chromebook to hide it away. I couldn\u2019t find it. I knew what had happened. I actually never found the Chromebook that night, but a few days later I was notified that a coworker had found it and turned it in. The bottom had a bunch of scratches, but I didn\u2019t see any cracks.<\/p>\n
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And the top didn\u2019t look bad at all:<\/p>\n
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But when I opened it up, I saw this:<\/p>\n
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Busted. For those who are curious, I\u2019ve documented the entire recovery procedure below:<\/p>\n
Total data loss: Zero.<\/strong> Steps 1 and 2 are admittedly Googler-specific, but Chromebooks can be really inexpensive<\/a>, so the financial loss is a lot less than it\u2019d be with a different laptop. Overall, I\u2019d say that if you can, avoid driving with your laptop on top of your car. There’s a good chance that it will get damaged. But if you do have to do it, use a Chromebook. Just don’t throw it in a river<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One night last December, I walked out to my car carrying some recently cleaned clothes and a Chromebook. I set my Chromebook on top of my car while I was hanging up the clothes. As I set the computer down, I thought to myself, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be funny if I drove away with the Chromebook … Continue reading Car vs. Chromebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTotal pride loss: A bit.<\/p>\n