Spontaneous numlock

[ab1jx]

The dishwasher's not a bad idea if you can get it apart to be sure no pockets of water with sediment are left when it dries.  A chemist once told me the best way to clean something like that was to flush/soak it with distilled water and let it air dry.  The soda will leave behind a syrup which won't go away by itself, you need to flush it out.  It may conduct electricity or not, pure water won't.

I didn't get far, still trying to figure out what happened.  I blame it on git.  I was determined to write out what was in flash, so I carefully commented out all the writes in the updater that might endanger its 8-write life.  Added a routine to dump that memory out to a file.  Got it compiled and running.  I didn't fuss with trying to put the USB back to the correct state.  So when I ran it I couldn't type anything afterwards, so I sshed in and shut it down,  Booted it back up and my program was competely gone.  No output file, just a log I made by redirecting stdout through tee while it was running.  I had done a git clone and then started modifying what I had downloaded,  In the same directory under git's control.  When I booted back up git had restored everything to the way it was at the end of the download.  I  think, I couldn't find my changes anywhere, I even checked to see if the immutable flag had gotten set but it hadn't.