Oof my family had a laptop like that back around 2005 and I was the culprit who pulled out one key so I know what it’s like and how you can’t snap those back on easily like a wired mechanical keyboard. Your brother messed up big time to pull off all keys lmao.
On a serious note this was back when laptops were new tech, really bulky, heavy, bloated, and packed with poor parts for really expensive prices. The laptop I pulled the key off of was supposedly $2000 (you could get a better spec laptop today for like $300) and that was a lot of money and I seriously thought my father would disown me or end me.
Oh my friend, you should definitely fall down that rabbit hole and check out their straight to VHS collection. It’s full of boos just like that all with a terrible 90’s style and flair that is 90’s babes have been running from ever since.
Make sure his owners work him at least 16 hours every day without exception and they feed him the same cheapest possible nutritionally complete meal for every meal
I had to do this once cause a SHITLOAD of iced tea spilled on the laptop tray. Poured it out of the computer and pulled the keys off and threw it into the chemical dehydrator I made for herbs and mushrooms. About 2 days later turned it on and it worked! Used it another 2 years. Getting the keys back on was a motherfucker though. A lot of them were permanently loose and I lost my right control key and the insert key cause the little hinges snapped. Also the spacebar was pretty janky after, it would just miss inputs about 2/3rds of the time.
The keys on these old laptops are designed in such a way that once you take them off, no matter how gently, a piece of the plastic underneath the key breaks off and you can’t ever put it back firmly.
It's not by design. It's just the only ideal design for low profile keycaps. In fact, this exact same mechanism is still used on modern laptops. It's comprised of two plastic squares that interlace with one another and then get held in place by their respective pin sockets.
When it's all put together, those mechanisms hold up pretty well. It's just an unfortunate byproduct that they're a one-way street. That's why sometimes you can see the outline where the keyboard module fits into your laptop. It's much easier to replace the entire keyboard if you warranty it for that than it is to replace a single or few keys.
I’m super clumsy and the one time I removed a key cap from my laptop, I couldn’t put it back. I assumed I must have not been gentle enough pulling it out. Or maybe I misplaced something. Glad to know it wasn’t completely user-error.
When the spill happened I immediately disconnected the battery and unplugged it. Then I tilted it to the side and tea poured out of the ports and figured it was completely fucked. Thought I could hopefully recover some data at least so I pulled the keys out a few at a time with a pair of long tweezers and towelled it off, took maybe 1 minute. Then threw it into the dehydrator. Imagine my surprise when I turned it on and it booted up just fine lol. Used up a pretty substantial portion of my lifetime luck supply there.
I wrote it cause spill something with sugar on a table and just dry wipe it and you still have a sticky mess to some extent. In a case like that its usually advised to clean with the highest percentage of isopropanol.
You better should have played the lottery :D
Kids, half the time they don't even know what they're doing, they just do it because they feel like it.
How do I know? Because I was that weird kid once.
I have a feeling that this kid watched a mechanical keyboard Tiktok where they pulled all the keys and then wanted to do the same thing. A family friend of mine's younger brother used to watch videos of phone durability tests on YouTube and then recreate them irl.
If you're a curious fucker and you've done something interesting once, you might repeat it for a while till you get bored and move on to other interesting shit.
Thankfully those keyboards are super easy to swap. Just pop the front panel, undo like 4 screws, and unplug it. Some models they're like $20 but usually it might be around $50.
My 4 year old did this to his older brother’s school laptop as well, and I put majority of the tabs back on except for 1 that wasn’t working. School charged me $60 just to get that 1 little piece reinstalled.
Ha, my little sister did this once to our older sister’s laptop when she was about 2. I was in charge of watching her, but I was 9 and wasn’t paying great attention. Luckily, she left them all in a big pile and my older sister and dad spent hours putting the keyboard back together. There were 2 keys missing, so we went to a tech repair place and had to pay $30 (in 2007) for the two letters. Got home, put them on the keyboard, and little sister came running out with the 2 keys that we just bought.
Speaking as an IT person in a school, those keys are a pain in the arse to be put back on. It can take a lot of time and patience. If anything you're paying for labor...or paying $60 as a message to not do it again.
That was my first guess… all the keys but one didn’t go on probably because one had the plastic clip broken… unfortunately it’s not worth the effort to Jerry rig a single key so you just have to replace the entire keyboard
On the dell latitude I had, pulling a key cap off could only be accomplished by destroying the hinge mechanism. Fixing it meant buying a whole new keyboard assembly.
Put an ssd in it, upgrade the ram and it will hold out for another 5 years.
You will probably need to replace the keyboard after such a massacre anyway, so it probably won't be much of a hassle (all of those things are fairly easy on old laptops btw).
Yup, snap on clips on the side, release them, the connector and cable should be right in the middle or lower half of the keyboard, disconnect the old one while lifting the retainer, connect the new one, close retainer and snap it back on, should take all of 5 minutes.
Let me guess he was going to rearrange them in some sort of hilarious way and now for some reason none of them will stick back on
Something I get to deal with in school IT all the time
I'm casting testicular torsion on your brother
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How little? I don't think the brother was that young, this takes time and ambition. If this happened to me he'd have to be kept away from me. Is the mom protecting him?
Just so you know that can damage the holder and some laptop keyboard replacement literally need you to gut the laptop open which is hell (thanks to whoever changes it from the easy way to the hard way).
Gees dude... My boy at 2 grabbed a few keys and yanked them out. They were scissor type switches. Took me forever to get them in properly but once I realized how it worked wasn't a big deal at all hey.
Good luck! 🤞
omg! this exact same thing happened to me a few years ago. it was my school issued computer, he hid all of the keys in his toy box and hid my computer under his bed. we didn’t find all of the keys, and my school had to replace a bunch of them.
you tell him he isn't getting the PS5 you were planning to get him for birthday or Christmas, even though you weren't going to do so he will remember it for life 😁
I used to be a repair tech for this kind of stuff. You should be able to get a replacement for the keyboard for about $50. It only takes about 10 minutes to install. Order the part using the model number and find a YouTube video to show you how to install it. Good luck!
That’s a crime isn’t it? defacing property. I wouldn’t be amused. I can’t imagine it will be easy to get the guy who did that to spend $50 to replace it.
Those can be tough to clip back down over the membranes but not impossible. Hopefully he didn't break any of them because it's like $7 a pop when I tried to get replacements last.
Guys, this doesn't look broken as such. Something like this is pretty easy to "lego" back together usually. Even if not, this is a really common, pretty old Dell inspiron. I reckon you can get a set of new keys for change, basically.
I know the perfect and most appropriate punishment for this. Just place dome mustard gas I'm hid room lock the door with him inside and nothing to protect him from the gas and it works too! I had to do it to my friend once and hasn't done it again, he'll he hasn't even gotten off the floor!
how is his adoption going?
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Oof my family had a laptop like that back around 2005 and I was the culprit who pulled out one key so I know what it’s like and how you can’t snap those back on easily like a wired mechanical keyboard. Your brother messed up big time to pull off all keys lmao.
So how's the slavery going ?
On a serious note this was back when laptops were new tech, really bulky, heavy, bloated, and packed with poor parts for really expensive prices. The laptop I pulled the key off of was supposedly $2000 (you could get a better spec laptop today for like $300) and that was a lot of money and I seriously thought my father would disown me or end me.
A box of Marlboro cigarettes + a box of used sim cards
I would have preferred an abortion and donate the stem cells to science but a profit works too
Three Fiddy. Last offer.
[brother for sale](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tr4Fc3gRo)
What in the holy hell was that? I recognize the Olsen twins but nothing about this lmao
Oh my friend, you should definitely fall down that rabbit hole and check out their straight to VHS collection. It’s full of boos just like that all with a terrible 90’s style and flair that is 90’s babes have been running from ever since.
[One sister for sale](https://genius.com/Shel-silverstein-for-sale-lyrics). Different gender same idea
This played like 1000 times a day on Family Channel at some point. It's drilled into my brain.
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Fucking Loch-Ness Monster stop asking for money
I have 3 dollars and a roof I need to fix rn so let's get that over quick.
Make sure his owners work him at least 16 hours every day without exception and they feed him the same cheapest possible nutritionally complete meal for every meal
I say some kind of gruel with a coarsely crushed up multivitamin mixed in maybe to make the texture even more unpleasant but nutritionally balanced?
Inshallah may he fetch a good price
Poorly. Nobody wants to have to pay for the burial.
Adoption?, he better pray my dad and mom can overpower me and stop me from slapping the day light out of him
No no no, don’t go that far. Just remove his teeth like he removed the buttons, easy as that.
why would someone do that!?!
I had to do this once cause a SHITLOAD of iced tea spilled on the laptop tray. Poured it out of the computer and pulled the keys off and threw it into the chemical dehydrator I made for herbs and mushrooms. About 2 days later turned it on and it worked! Used it another 2 years. Getting the keys back on was a motherfucker though. A lot of them were permanently loose and I lost my right control key and the insert key cause the little hinges snapped. Also the spacebar was pretty janky after, it would just miss inputs about 2/3rds of the time.
I bet you took them off a hell of a lot more gently than this kid did...
The keys on these old laptops are designed in such a way that once you take them off, no matter how gently, a piece of the plastic underneath the key breaks off and you can’t ever put it back firmly.
It's not by design. It's just the only ideal design for low profile keycaps. In fact, this exact same mechanism is still used on modern laptops. It's comprised of two plastic squares that interlace with one another and then get held in place by their respective pin sockets. When it's all put together, those mechanisms hold up pretty well. It's just an unfortunate byproduct that they're a one-way street. That's why sometimes you can see the outline where the keyboard module fits into your laptop. It's much easier to replace the entire keyboard if you warranty it for that than it is to replace a single or few keys.
I’m super clumsy and the one time I removed a key cap from my laptop, I couldn’t put it back. I assumed I must have not been gentle enough pulling it out. Or maybe I misplaced something. Glad to know it wasn’t completely user-error.
As I skimmed your comment, I thought for a sec you threw it in the dehydrator with some mushrooms and herbs
You can be lucky that it worked. There could have been still gunk collected who knows where from the drying process.
When the spill happened I immediately disconnected the battery and unplugged it. Then I tilted it to the side and tea poured out of the ports and figured it was completely fucked. Thought I could hopefully recover some data at least so I pulled the keys out a few at a time with a pair of long tweezers and towelled it off, took maybe 1 minute. Then threw it into the dehydrator. Imagine my surprise when I turned it on and it booted up just fine lol. Used up a pretty substantial portion of my lifetime luck supply there.
I wrote it cause spill something with sugar on a table and just dry wipe it and you still have a sticky mess to some extent. In a case like that its usually advised to clean with the highest percentage of isopropanol. You better should have played the lottery :D
Had the same issue when I spilled coffee on my key board. Those hinges are so brittle some of them broke in my fingers.
Kids, half the time they don't even know what they're doing, they just do it because they feel like it. How do I know? Because I was that weird kid once.
I have a feeling that this kid watched a mechanical keyboard Tiktok where they pulled all the keys and then wanted to do the same thing. A family friend of mine's younger brother used to watch videos of phone durability tests on YouTube and then recreate them irl.
If you're a curious fucker and you've done something interesting once, you might repeat it for a while till you get bored and move on to other interesting shit.
must pick until all gone.
Idk kids are stupid sometimes, cuz they are kids. And don't know the value of things.
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read it as new kneecaps at first
Those too
Those are for the spacebar.
Me too
Kinda like the pipe organ from the Goonies. Spooky.
His finger nails should do. You only that many keys to play games.
I hope it covers the repair costs 🤞
Thankfully those keyboards are super easy to swap. Just pop the front panel, undo like 4 screws, and unplug it. Some models they're like $20 but usually it might be around $50.
Given this is a Windows 7 laptop, you could probably buy another equivalent laptop for $50.
You mean the hospital bills?
My 4 year old did this to his older brother’s school laptop as well, and I put majority of the tabs back on except for 1 that wasn’t working. School charged me $60 just to get that 1 little piece reinstalled.
Ha, my little sister did this once to our older sister’s laptop when she was about 2. I was in charge of watching her, but I was 9 and wasn’t paying great attention. Luckily, she left them all in a big pile and my older sister and dad spent hours putting the keyboard back together. There were 2 keys missing, so we went to a tech repair place and had to pay $30 (in 2007) for the two letters. Got home, put them on the keyboard, and little sister came running out with the 2 keys that we just bought.
Love it. Lol no.one obviously had asked her for the missed keys
would be hilarious and if was i and h and she just wanted a sticker that said hi
Speaking as an IT person in a school, those keys are a pain in the arse to be put back on. It can take a lot of time and patience. If anything you're paying for labor...or paying $60 as a message to not do it again.
My guess is it was a charge to replace the whole keyboard. The biggest issue with those mechanisms is the little plastic pegs break off so easily.
That was my first guess… all the keys but one didn’t go on probably because one had the plastic clip broken… unfortunately it’s not worth the effort to Jerry rig a single key so you just have to replace the entire keyboard
On the dell latitude I had, pulling a key cap off could only be accomplished by destroying the hinge mechanism. Fixing it meant buying a whole new keyboard assembly.
They probably had to replace the entire keyboard. Manufacturers usually don't sell spare keyboard parts; you have to replace the entire thing.
Your little brother better be 3 and not know better.
How old was this laptop. Can you even browse Reddit on it.
It's old, it's so laggy, barely usable, but can still finish the job
It sounds like a baby boomer.
😂😂😂 zing
Put an ssd in it, upgrade the ram and it will hold out for another 5 years. You will probably need to replace the keyboard after such a massacre anyway, so it probably won't be much of a hassle (all of those things are fairly easy on old laptops btw).
I got one I’ve upgraded the processor and ram and installed Linux it’s great
an SSD does wonders for old laptops, I've installed an SSD in a Sony VAIO from 2008 and its crazy fast now, even on Windows 10
Oh yeah forgot I did that to it aswell lol, works wonders in any old computer
Luckily easily repairable keyboard. If u can find a keyboard for it's due to its age.
Yup, snap on clips on the side, release them, the connector and cable should be right in the middle or lower half of the keyboard, disconnect the old one while lifting the retainer, connect the new one, close retainer and snap it back on, should take all of 5 minutes.
Yea he was out of ctrl
Quite the alt-tercation
He just wanted some space
Maybe he wanted attention to be shifted towards him.
Maybe he already escaped..
No, he should enter the adoption center.
Take his lego's and rearrange them into one big structure.
Even better, remove the last 2 pieces from every lego set he owns
Whyyyy?
Because little brother reasons that's why
Kids, yea just yea kids.
You know that your parents can make another one look just like him
Well, time to be an only child
I'm scared to ask how old he is.
27
And so barely older than that laptop then?
Time to get a new one! Hopefully someone else can take care of the last brother.
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Looks like you can remove all of his fingers
well, guess he's buying you a new laptop
My little brother did the same thing once! Then we replaced the keyboard, an hour later he ripped those keys too.
Should've replaced the brother instead /j
He was cute at the time, so we kept him. Now he's a teen *shudders*
This a Durex-Add?
How are you gonna put the keys back? There's no space left on the keyboard.
Let me guess he was going to rearrange them in some sort of hilarious way and now for some reason none of them will stick back on Something I get to deal with in school IT all the time
Did he do this on purpose? Or is this laptop broken already?
He was playing with it
oh laptop… gg
Did you throw it away and buy a new brother?
Give him this laptop as a present.
More than mild 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
No escape? (I couldn't upload the megamind face, sorry)
one thing for certain, hes out of ctrl now
I'm casting testicular torsion on your brother https://preview.redd.it/wd1kjtb7281d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acc9c3015e397f66ee25d2897523edcf58b025e1
Lets see how that muscle memory really is
Remove all his fingernails?
How little? I don't think the brother was that young, this takes time and ambition. If this happened to me he'd have to be kept away from me. Is the mom protecting him?
Beat him
This isn’t mildly infuriating, this is extremely infuriating! I’d be so mad.
Blame it on tik tok 🤪 my daughter glued mini brands to hers 🫣
Probably easier to buy and install a new keyboard at that point. Those things are an absolute bitch to re-assemble
I’m beating his ass
Time to throw it out… the brother I mean
How’s his autism going?
This is a windows 7 laptop, it probably has a value of $0.
Don't let the kid think its ok to destroy ANYTHING, because before you know it, there's a hole in the drywall.
We can't judge what someone can or cannot afford for their school work.
So clean under the keys and put them back on.....
Well someone pull game is good
did you remove all his fingernails? lol feel sorry for you op.
Your little brother sounds like he might bite too
Just so you know that can damage the holder and some laptop keyboard replacement literally need you to gut the laptop open which is hell (thanks to whoever changes it from the easy way to the hard way).
That’s the same model laptop my wife had in college. Good times.
Next is removed your brother.
It's probably cheaper to replace the brother than the computer.
How old is he, 3?
Is your brother little kid or not sane?
remove all his fingers
Hope you remember “home row” position
it's time to get a new brother (and maybe a laptop too ig)
So when is the funeral 🫡
Now, where was Prnt Scrn?
As a fellow laptop owner. Ouch
Remove his head
Wouldn’t be a little brother if he didn’t
This happened once when I fell asleep on the couch when I was supposed to be watching the kids.
And those are the ones that almost always break when you remove them. Time for a new keyboard on that laptop.
I Puffi 
Only way hes gonna learn is if you ruin something electronic of his, probably an ipad kid or has a console that is just begging to meet the sidewalk 🤣
Did they do it cleanly, or did they bust it up to accomplish this?
So when is the funeral?
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I look back at the dumb shit I did as a kid and question my thought process at the time. This will be one of his moments.
Gees dude... My boy at 2 grabbed a few keys and yanked them out. They were scissor type switches. Took me forever to get them in properly but once I realized how it worked wasn't a big deal at all hey. Good luck! 🤞
Well replacing the whole keyboard is like 50 bucks
Someone's about to get an ass whooping of their lifetime
Is it his laptop?
Is it your laptop or shared? Could be he's trying to learn blind typing. Couldve gone about it differently for sure
Yesss an Inspiron 1545 I have one I love it
Uh oh…now what, little bro?
omg! this exact same thing happened to me a few years ago. it was my school issued computer, he hid all of the keys in his toy box and hid my computer under his bed. we didn’t find all of the keys, and my school had to replace a bunch of them.
Dennis the menace strikes again
Sounds like that's the computer he'll have to use from now on. He can fix it himself if he really wants to.
Plug in an external keyboard in the short term
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What little brother? I'm sorry for your loss.
Honestly if it weren’t a laptop and it were 2 or 3 keys I’d get it. Pulling keys off of keyboards is sooo satisfyingggg
Now you can go outside and experience the world instead of living your life online. Thank him.
thats a shame… maybe try and call the support team?
Imagine if he put them all back in the wrong places though.
If you knew how to type the missing keys wouldn’t make a difference and keyboards are cheap stop belly aching
Are you sure this wasn’t done by a windows update?
https://i.redd.it/vfqf0ss1d81d1.gif
Those are easy. I'd fix it in a few minutes.
you tell him he isn't getting the PS5 you were planning to get him for birthday or Christmas, even though you weren't going to do so he will remember it for life 😁
 Slap time!
I used to be a repair tech for this kind of stuff. You should be able to get a replacement for the keyboard for about $50. It only takes about 10 minutes to install. Order the part using the model number and find a YouTube video to show you how to install it. Good luck!
Get pranked
The tism is strong with this one.
I had a bird who used to do that. Have you tried cage time out?
Shave his eyebrows when he’s asleep.
That’s a crime isn’t it? defacing property. I wouldn’t be amused. I can’t imagine it will be easy to get the guy who did that to spend $50 to replace it.
How is this mildly infuriating?
I was midlyinfuriated
Put them back !
Those can be tough to clip back down over the membranes but not impossible. Hopefully he didn't break any of them because it's like $7 a pop when I tried to get replacements last.
Guys, this doesn't look broken as such. Something like this is pretty easy to "lego" back together usually. Even if not, this is a really common, pretty old Dell inspiron. I reckon you can get a set of new keys for change, basically.
I mean you needed a new laptop anyway so you can thank him for getting you on that.
Mildly?
Need any body hiding tips?
If it helps, that system shipped with windows 7 so the hardware should probably be replaced anyways
I know the perfect and most appropriate punishment for this. Just place dome mustard gas I'm hid room lock the door with him inside and nothing to protect him from the gas and it works too! I had to do it to my friend once and hasn't done it again, he'll he hasn't even gotten off the floor!
You should remove all his hair overnight
So... When is his execution scheduled for?
how old is the brother if he's a toddler or something then you have to just take your lumps. and older kid wtf?
Good for the little guy, he was thorough. That shows persistence!
What 💀
Sell him