Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Hello people,
I am so happy that I found this amazing forum. You can't imagine! I write out of a very special situation. Me and my girlfriend, together with about 400 other tourists, we are trapped in by India/Goa since the 22nd of March. That's 5 months now and it will go on for many more months. Many people planned to stay a couple of weeks only and now have to manage a serious surivival situation. Goa is located 600 km away from the next international airport which is in Mumbai. From there sometimes there is the offer for a repatriation flight back to Europe (I am from Germany), but we have no chance to come there. Also, these flights are canceled many times. So if you make the way somehow, and find your flight is canceled in the last minute, you are trapped in Mumbai which is currently the most dangerous to stay in India. Besides all the disasters we have here like Cyclones, heavy rainfall, being arrested at home, having no normal access to food and water for the beginning two months after lockdown, I am in a very lucky position: I found the love of my life here and I am locked down with her since 5 month. My situation is very ambivalent: scared and full of sorrows on one hand and in total love mood the same time.
Back to myself and why I need now help from people like you are:
All of us lockdown tourists are extremely dependent on communication with the rest of the world for social and survival reasons. In the area, I am locked down in now, I am the only one with some deeper experience about fixing computers. This is because I had a media production company for 14 years and we had to learn to fix hardware stuff ourselves. But I never had to fix on chip level or start to measure amps, voltages, and ohm. Here I HAVE to learn this help people in a very delicate situation and nobody else is around. The point is, most spare parts are missing. Most people have Macbooks and you can imagine how difficult it is to get a replacement part in a country, where Windows hardware is around but rarely Macs. Most problems here are pretty simple: humidity and moisture shuts down the systems, when I open up the macbooks it floded with dirt and so a simple cleaning is mostly the remedy. I could get a dry box here and an industrial peltier element from a friend. So I could make a kind of dehumidifier which really helps a lot with all this water problems here. With my last money I ordered tools from Amazon India if they were available. Soldering station, hot airgun station, a set of shitty but fittiing screw drivers, electronic cleaner and isopropyl and a didgital micorscope. People sponsor me because I could help 30 Macbooks just with a toothbrush, Isopropyl and the drybox in the beginning phase which is only 5 weeks ago. So now everybody here with damaged systems put their full hope in me and partwise I have no fucking idea where to start.
Anyhow, I made a school for electronics when I was young which gives me a rough idea about the components, soldering and measuring. But this is more than 30 years back in time. I focus on Macbooks first because of the quantity of the Tourist Macbooks here in the area and I am familiar with these laptops from Apple for about 15 years. So can understand perfectly what's going on the user level, upgrade, replace elements. That's easy for me. Now I need to learn to go one level deeper which means measuring, identifying problems on power rails etc.pp. I hope to get support here. My aim is to help people here in a survival situation and not to make benefit on them.
I guess i speak in the name of 400 trapped in tourists and hope to get as much support as possible from this forum to keep us in contact with the rest of the world and get our chance to escape this nightmare as soon as it is possible.
International flights are forbidden in India and we have no idea when this will end. Worst case we need to stay until next spring and see how we can survive this.
That's me, our, story so far. Forgive my wired English. I am a German, so I speak and write Germish :o)
Hello people,
I am so happy that I found this amazing forum. You can't imagine! I write out of a very special situation. Me and my girlfriend, together with about 400 other tourists, we are trapped in by India/Goa since the 22nd of March. That's 5 months now and it will go on for many more months. Many people planned to stay a couple of weeks only and now have to manage a serious surivival situation. Goa is located 600 km away from the next international airport which is in Mumbai. From there sometimes there is the offer for a repatriation flight back to Europe (I am from Germany), but we have no chance to come there. Also, these flights are canceled many times. So if you make the way somehow, and find your flight is canceled in the last minute, you are trapped in Mumbai which is currently the most dangerous to stay in India. Besides all the disasters we have here like Cyclones, heavy rainfall, being arrested at home, having no normal access to food and water for the beginning two months after lockdown, I am in a very lucky position: I found the love of my life here and I am locked down with her since 5 month. My situation is very ambivalent: scared and full of sorrows on one hand and in total love mood the same time.
Back to myself and why I need now help from people like you are:
All of us lockdown tourists are extremely dependent on communication with the rest of the world for social and survival reasons. In the area, I am locked down in now, I am the only one with some deeper experience about fixing computers. This is because I had a media production company for 14 years and we had to learn to fix hardware stuff ourselves. But I never had to fix on chip level or start to measure amps, voltages, and ohm. Here I HAVE to learn this help people in a very delicate situation and nobody else is around. The point is, most spare parts are missing. Most people have Macbooks and you can imagine how difficult it is to get a replacement part in a country, where Windows hardware is around but rarely Macs. Most problems here are pretty simple: humidity and moisture shuts down the systems, when I open up the macbooks it floded with dirt and so a simple cleaning is mostly the remedy. I could get a dry box here and an industrial peltier element from a friend. So I could make a kind of dehumidifier which really helps a lot with all this water problems here. With my last money I ordered tools from Amazon India if they were available. Soldering station, hot airgun station, a set of shitty but fittiing screw drivers, electronic cleaner and isopropyl and a didgital micorscope. People sponsor me because I could help 30 Macbooks just with a toothbrush, Isopropyl and the drybox in the beginning phase which is only 5 weeks ago. So now everybody here with damaged systems put their full hope in me and partwise I have no fucking idea where to start.
Anyhow, I made a school for electronics when I was young which gives me a rough idea about the components, soldering and measuring. But this is more than 30 years back in time. I focus on Macbooks first because of the quantity of the Tourist Macbooks here in the area and I am familiar with these laptops from Apple for about 15 years. So can understand perfectly what's going on the user level, upgrade, replace elements. That's easy for me. Now I need to learn to go one level deeper which means measuring, identifying problems on power rails etc.pp. I hope to get support here. My aim is to help people here in a survival situation and not to make benefit on them.
I guess i speak in the name of 400 trapped in tourists and hope to get as much support as possible from this forum to keep us in contact with the rest of the world and get our chance to escape this nightmare as soon as it is possible.
International flights are forbidden in India and we have no idea when this will end. Worst case we need to stay until next spring and see how we can survive this.
That's me, our, story so far. Forgive my wired English. I am a German, so I speak and write Germish :o)
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