a splann thing - laptop keyboard

This will sound like nothing to more computer hardware oriented folks, but I am so pleased (because I am very much not that) I will have to post this under the 'splann' tag. Splann is Cornish for splendid, and I talked about using it for things I thought were splendid in this post: https://skryblans.com/splann-is-splendid/ I use an old Thinkpad T-495 laptop as my sofa-bound computer. Can't be doing with a phone or a tablet computer, with their assorted sawn-off apps and touchscreen keyboards. I want a computer that works just like my proper computer, with the full programs, and a real keyboard, but smaller, so that I can use it on my lap on the sofa. So a laptop seemed a good fit. Over the last few weeks, maybe a couple of months, I had noticed it occasionally missing a letter from my typing. At first I thought it was me, then I realised it was a single letter. The A had gone WOL. But it was only sometimes. Sometimes it responded to many, increasingly frustrated presses to try to get…