I took a look at OP’s machine and it appears to be one of those deals with one big central hinge cover with upper and lower clamshell halves. So, we’re both sunk. It’s symmetrical in this case, but there is nothing to mirror. They will need to have an existing one (or all the bits and pieces of their busted one, maybe) to measure up and clone.

But yes, I have also seen laptops where the left and right hinges and/or their covers are different from each other.

Or if the parts are mirror images of each other for the left and right hinges, carefully measure the remaining intact one and flip it.

Uh… Has anyone checked to make sure this one isn’t explosive, too?

I imagine Musk is far too big of a pussy to actually abolish all Federal regulations. And if he does I’m installing an auto sear, a suppressor, a short barrel, and a pistol brace all on my gun at once. It’ll only take a couple of us doing that for you to see the fastest U-turn on that idea in history.

I can only imagine that the intent is to leave all of the regulations that restrict personal individual freedom in place and just gut all the ones preventing big businesses from exploiting you however they want. Or maybe just specifically the ones that are holding Musk’s own enterprises back, which is even more plausible.

You’re in the same boat as me, except swap 70’s for 1920’s. I have to tear down all the plaster – not drywall, actual literal plaster, on lath – to get at the ground floor wiring. I decided it’s fine where it is for now.

You used the magic word, “modern.”

Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn’t exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920’s or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn’t have all of our current appliances, TV’s, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn’t accomplish anything, especially in OP’s case.

My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.