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Jauso

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Jun 2, 2025
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I bought a used macbook 12 and the shift key was not activating unless i press down hard dead center.

I used a guitar pick and pried open the top 4 clips and put 3(?) layers of masking tape over the center (not shown), now it works (a bit mushy)

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