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Hi, I had a douche tip a beer on my MacBook in an airline lounge and all seemed to be working so I let him off with buying me another beer. A few days later all the keys started sticking so I attempted to remove a few to clean them with alcohol and then had to buy a few replacement buttons. I’m sure all who have tried before me will attest to the new butterfly mechanism being a PITA so after it got worse and worse I ended up just buying a whole new keyboard. I have successfully replaced the keyboard physically thanks to ifixit’s toolkit however the MacBook doesn’t recognise it (no buttons work). Is there something else I need to do to achieve this or have apple duded me again by not allowing DIY repairs? Any help is appreciated

Dumbass over here forgot to push down one of the ribbon retaining bars. All fixed now