i mentioned previously that i wasn't sure if my keyboard difficulties were the result of a spill - which did happen, but seemed minor - or the consequences of accidentally installing this "adobe update" that seemed to be pushed down from some kind of intelligence network via the google servers (i'm on a chromebook, so google controls my os via a network domain relationship, which i clearly need to get off of), and was obviously absurd.
see, i spilled a little water on the keyboard and in the process of drying it mashed the keys a little. maybe you've done that - you're more concerned about getting the water out at that point, and you stop worrying about the state of the machine. i should have turned it off, first. nonetheless, i think i ended up pressing one of the shortcut keys to install the update being pushed down. oops - but it might be a big oops, partly because i'm now in the awkward position of being able to point to the spill as occam's razor (you spilled water on your machine jessica, deal with it), when it just doesn't add up as the cause. i fully realize that i sound ridiculous acknowledging that the keyboard stopped working after the spill, and not believing it caused it. but...
first, this seems to be coming from google, so i think it's government that's going after me, and i don't know what level or even what country. that was a few weeks ago. the adobe update - which showed up every time i rebooted and sat in the system tray - has since stopped. chrome banned flash years ago, and nobody's used it for anything in eons.
i mentioned that the keys that stopped working were also curious and showed no real pattern. so, the t button - nowhere near the spill - stopped working, meaning i can't launch crosh. backspace, in the far corner, stopped working, but delete didn't. the refresh key stopped working, so getting to developer mode was impossible. the shift, ctrl & alt keys stopped working on only one side, which seemed like a half-finished job. so, if it was about the local spill, it didn't add up; if it was about the internal logic, it didn't add up. it seemed more like somebody picked specific keys that would stop me from utilizing the machine fully, and also seemed designed to stop me from editing my own writing.
which means that the entire usb channel from the keyboard in is compromised.
so, i tried to reformat it a few different ways, ran into some roadblocks and put it aside.
when i came in today, it seems like they finished the job. the mousepad doesn't work anymore, the function keys that were working have ceased functioning, both delete & backspace are broken and even the arrow keys are out. i haven't done anything further - and that was all fine before i left. so, if i were to get into the bios on the device, i wouldn't be able to do anything in it.
initially, the keyboard didn't work at all, but i took the device apart and realized they plugged the ribbon back in upside down. that didn't just happen, obviously.
so, i don't know what to do next. what would you do?
what, exactly, am i doing here that is drawing this kind of attention to me?
is this all really the consequence of being an independent thinker? are they really this fearful of independent thought? or, are they so incompetent that they actually, truly, honestly can't figure out that i'm not a russian spy?
i couldn't call the cops if i wanted to do; it's the cops doing it.
i have a usb mouse, and am using a usb wireless keyboard. they destroyed the last wired usb keyboard i bought. i guess i will have to buy another one.
in the meantime, i'm going to see if there's anything i can do to try to retake control of this. it's now entirely useless as a mobile device, and i'll have to find a way to get another laptop of some sort, it seems (i do not want a phone - you can't type on a phone, so it's useless to me). but, that's hardly a priority for the moment, given the pandemic.
it's clear enough what's happening, but i really don't get it.