Perhaps you could share what is the model of your thin client? So we can get a grasp of what we’re dealing with.

Good starting points: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

I would use $ too for the example you’ve posted - it is just assuming a different user.

As long as it is not root, I wouldn’t put it with #.

I had good results with microwaving a bunch of beads in a microwave safe non-plastic bowl on mid-low.

It drives out the moisture, and you can see the bead colour indicators change.

But be careful, they’re hot!

Looks like one of those recorded message things you find inside greeting cards - the glob of stuff below the black epoxy blob (the ic), looks like a badly corroded button.

Can try cleaning the button up a bit, or removing it entirely, and bridge the connections beneath it.

Agreed, the external connections like USB-C/USB4 will probably last a good long time.

I was thinking more of the internal stuff like the display connector (not sure what framework currently uses - eDP/LVDS/something else?), and all the input connectors for keyboard and trackpad.

Think this is more of a pipe-dream though, considering that 10 years is a long time for PC interfaces and internal interconnects. Swapping between different laptop manufacturers will be unlikely to happen, I feel.

Framework allowing for the whole mainboard to be replaced seems like a good halfway meeting point, and each case size being a constant chassis that hopefully will be supported for a long while.

Hope that other manufacturers follow suit, and at least have their own lines of upgradable laptops.