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The "Don't recommend channel" button has served me pretty well so far (although yeah, you'd have to go through something first to mark it as such).

Noted: if I ever get the chance to shop at Best Buy, I won't.

That's strange - I had some of the same symptoms and it ended up being a completely different thing - a dying (and then eventually completely dead) SSD (the Phison controller fiasco).

Other than that the CPU itself seems fine and it's only shown very minor degradation over the 4-5 years I've had it - i.e. it used to boost up to 4975 or 4950 single core, now it only goes up to about 4900 (no PBO, no CO); and I've also had to fix the SoC voltage because of the memory - but I haven't touched that in like 3 years, so not sure it's even degradation.

I'm getting worried, 'cause I've got the same. What killed yours?

Data you only have one copy of is data you don't mind losing.

You gotta pick your battles.

Oh, gawd...

Is "god" now a dirty word too?

Funny how they're like "we all" about something that is probably 50/50 or not even that.

Mine had Philips screws and was easy to open, but the switch that was broken proved impossible to find as a spare part. It's a shame that I have to bin something that should've been easy to repair.

With admin privileges no less

That would be kind of going against language's natural evolution. Many words used to be spelled with way more letters than they are today.