> "Although 11 new papers have recently been published that do not show the downstream effects of power posing on behaviors, Cuddy is still fighting for power posing."
> not-very tech-savvy people adding RAM, swapping a hard drive, replacing a keyboard
The ram and ssd are soldered to the board. Access to the internals is blocked with a special pentalobe screwheads. These computers are not designed to be user serviceable
Maybe the "genius" wasn't a technical wizard, doesn't realize he is talking to John Gruber, and is offering an explanation that seems to be recognizable to most laypeople: maybe your spacebar isn't working because something is physically interfering with it
Sounds like straight up bad science to me