Lemmy is responsible for corrupting me. So I do owe it a socks shot soon.

Top corner (white) is a motion sensor. Bottom corner (black) is a vent.

There is a camera watching directly behind me. But it’s just there so I can look and find where my ADD ass put something down.

Dead asleep. Only one hip joint.

Oh, no. Cheap knockoff SOGs. The knife is there for everything you shouldn’t use a knife for. Screwdriver, pry bar, toothpick, etc. Keys are in the same pocket tho and are usually the first thing I find.

I always have a pocket knife but I still end up using my keys to cut open boxes.

I know that is true for AC stuff, but is it for DC?

Also these are high end, $500+ video cards, is another $5 in material going to change much?

XT connectors are designed for two big conductors.

Most of these melty connectors are only carrying 2 rails, 12v+ and ground. There isn’t a need to have 12 connections do the same thing as 2.

Why can’t we just use more robust connectors (xt60 for example)? Or higher voltages? Trying to send low voltage, high current through a bunch of tiny connectors and hoping none of them melt seems silly. Is it just because no one wants to challenge the standard?

Yoga 11e here. Fedora (Plasma Edition) worked perfect right out of the box.

Well I didn’t start out putting it in the oven. I just noticed on cold days, it took a really long time to turn on. But when it was hot, it worked normal.

Eventually it got worse and wouldn’t come on at all. So I tried warming up the insides with a hair drier, and it worked. It took a long time, but as long as I kept the monitor on, it would keep working fine.

Then the hair dried died. And it was a weekend off of work. I’ll be damned if I give up that prime gaming time. So I chukked that puppy in the oven and set it as low as it would go (I think it was like 250). Once the preheat timer went off, I pulled out the monitor, ran it to my PC and fired it up. Worked instantly, and was way faster than a hairdryer.

Lather, rinse, repeat until the inevitable happened.

I doubt it was anything special. But I did have to put the rack all the way to the bottom and lay it screen down. Was a Dell branded 21" trinitron IIRC.

Also in college, I had a “gaming” CRT that I refused to let die. Towards the end of it’s life, it wouldn’t turn on if the temperature got too low. But would work fine if I “preheated” it in the oven. Once it was on it would stay on.

It rocked on nearly a year like that until I decided to smoke a bowl while it warmed up and came back to monitor shaped blob.

I set the power to 50% and then double the cooking time. Takes longer but everything turns out better.

Mine comes from a cistern collected from roof water. If you wanna chug a nice tall glass, be my guest.

You don’t have to join an instance to participate in their community.

This little light of mine. I’m gonna let it shine…

If you have the spare time, it’s worth a shot. I’ve repaired countless electronics over the years just by disassembly, careful cleaning, and reassembly.

I definitely wouldn’t start throwing parts at an inkjet tho; they were made to be disposable loss leaders whose purpose was to sell ink.

Good. Because they aren’t presenting it as such.

Drop-off vote abnormalities across multiple swing states indicate potential manipulation at the county level, and a consistent underperformance by Candidate Harris across five separate states warrants further investigation.

(Emphasis mine)

They were about the only hobbyist level drone manufacturer that was doing any sort of geofencing at all. Unsurprising they stopped when none of the other companies saw repercussions for not doing it.