Comment by pmarreck
3 days ago
I lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID.
Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked, and within like a minute, a certain capacitor (that is a common and well-known failure point) fried, and it was dead. I brought it to a computer repair store to fix, and then COVID and its lockdowns hit.
When I returned months later to see what was up after my phone calls weren't returned, turns out the whole place had shut down and I to this day have no idea where my Mac Plus went. :/
"RIFA madness"?
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How
Capacitors die. The original Xbox notoriously suffers from this issue; very few will boot up nowadays without a hardware fix.
Sounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
Unless they edited their comment, they never said it died from COVID, but because of COVID.
out of curiosity, did you really think the GP thought COVID killed the computer which is an inanimate object that required this level of pedantry?
He was making a pun on the common practice during COVID of attributing death in death to certificates to COVID whenever the patient presented a positive PCR test, no matter the real cause of death, the actual existence of COVID disease in clinical terms or the existence of more preeminent factors in the death.
This usually happened due mostly as a result of federal policy of paying out extra money for hospitals based on the number of covid patients, thus creating an incentive of diagnosing anyone with a positive PCR test as sick from covid, whether they presented actual clinical symptoms of the disease or not.
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