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Congratulations on your Gayness !
 
iykyk

Are you dead yet?

@TVwazhere

Congrats to @GDRRiley @Kilrah @Skiiwee29 and @minibois for killing the other 15,996 combatants in this years Gladiatorial race to become a mod. Pray there is no sudden death...

Congratulations on your Gayness !
 
iykyk

new battery for the old inspiron Dell Inspiron 15-7567.. old batt was becoming a spicy pillow already ... then a brief power on test to confirm its working .. old laptops are defnitely better when it comes to swapping out batteries 
 
 
 
 
 

2 iphone  plus 128gb .
for my mother and her brother.

As mentioned previously, I'd gotten an SMS from the game shop downstairs, collected my personal GOTY....

 
Installed it, but had no time to play except a brief run thru the first few minutes, runs perfectly smooth....going out now for lunch with my bud....on him of course.

Do I get like a 3 year anniversary for how MIA I’ve been? Lol 

Science, man!

2019 was NOT 5 years ago ;-;

Happy 5 year anniversary to me

My favorite Lego kit from 2003, the international space station 
missing one piece, the 2x1 flat smooth top plate that goes on the tiny Endeavor 
the super annoying part is the original kit came with two of those and both are missing 

 

I looked up the PCB and all the replacement vendors mentioned that I would've had to swap the BIOS IC anyway. Since the board was pretty much useless the way it was, I tried soldering the wires from a sacrificial USB chord I had lying around directly to the PCB. The data pads were completely beyond repair, at least for my skill level, so I had to go for the traces. In fact, you can tell that I had to bypass that one surface mount components (I'm guessing it's a resistor) because I couldn't attach it from the port side and just hoped that it works. I'm terrible at soldering and I probably also don't have a soldering iron suited to working with small stuff like this, but I managed to wrangle the wires in place for the connection to stick and get all the data off of the drive successfully after securing it all with a bit of hot glue.
 

 

 

WD still does it... Seagate tends to have regular SATA drives.
 
But yeah, soldering wires and using a breakout as temporary connector the time to get the data out would be the solution. PCB replacement is much less trivial.

Bigwig: "Hey Avocado, I got this external hard drive. Someone brushed past it and dropped it off a table while it was plugged in. Think you can fix it? It's got some data on it that I need."
Me: "Maybe, depending on the drive I may have an adapter, if the drive itself has the typical SATA interface."
Samsung: "Hold my beer"

 
Yep, that's a broken off USB port that's soldered directly to the PCB of the harddrive. And this is why I keep telling people to ask me first before they go out and buy this stuff, because I would've told them to just buy an internal drive and stick it in an enclosure. But no, bigwigs need to just go out and buy whatever. And of course, the data on it is nowhere on the corporate network, because people still insist on bringing their shit on physical media and never back up anything. So yeah, time to buy a replacement PCB and pray to any deity willing to listen that there are no other security or lockout measures that prevent simple swapping.

Priciest PC component I've ever bought. But it's good.
Have to live off noodles for a few months I think. Just to recuperate.

As I'd mentioned, here's a couple of pics of my purchases:

 
The Gigaworks T40 Series II speakers, excuse the mess as I was simply testing it on my coffee table just to ensure that the speakers work. Sounds pretty good actually....

I love when people make fun of the genius ideas of the world's richest baby. Even his only good idea out of this whole debacle, which was to open up community notes (which already existed before he took over, so he doesn't get to take credit for that, because everything he touches already existed) to the public is used to make fun of him whenever he spews constant nonsense. Heck, even just the fact that it has been almost a year since the rebrand and everybody is still just calling it Twitter, with media publications doing the "X, formerly Twitter" thing is hilarious. We let Facebook get away with their Meta rebrand, and yet, Elon just can't manage to convince people that "no seriously guys, X is like the cooles letter of the alphabet, so we gotta use that as our umbrella". 

Summary
 X, formally known as Twitter forces url substitution to X.com, making users potentially vulnerable to phishing.  Twitter rolls back feature after community pushback.
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
 This article is a few weeks old, but it would be a really interesting WAN Show discussion.  This is another example of Twitter/X making sudden decisions without much thought to how it would impact the platform.  At what point do users decide to leave the platform, in search of one with more stability?  I love how the user base has become unpaid employees of the platform, since they have reduced their workforce so much that no one seems to see issues with these features until they make it to production.
 
Sources
 https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/xs-enforced-url-substitution-to-x-com-domains-an-invitation-to-phishing-attacks/

Philips Fabric shaver:


 
I of course use my own rechargeable Batteries and not this green washing Scam of Single use Batteries:
 
For 30 Bucks this thing is amazing. Just tested it out on my LTT Underwear since I had a lot of those Stupid fabric pills on the elastic strap on all of my pairs and now they're like new. Handy little tool, glad I finally bought one.

Philips Fabric shaver:


 
I of course use my own rechargeable Batteries and not this green washing Scam of Single use Batteries:
 
For 30 Bucks this thing is amazing. Just tested it out on my LTT Underwear since I had a lot of those Stupid fabric pills on the elastic strap on all of my pairs and now they're like new. Handy little tool, glad I finally bought one.

Bought myself a Creative Gigaworks T40 Series II for laptop usage, as well as a PS5 + Stellar Blade preorder, I will setup my PS5 tomorrow and post some pics when it's done.....

The images with the lighting don't do it justice, the lighting actually gives it a very subtle orange glow that really goes with the wood on the front, makes it look super clean!
But anyways, specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Deepcool AK500 Zero DARK Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX G.Skill X5 32GB 5600MHz RAM Inland Professional NVMe PCIe 3.0 256GB SSD 2x Inland Professional 1TB SATA SSDs Gigabyte Windforce OC 3X RTX 2070 Super Fractal Design North Thermaltake Smart Pro RGB 750W PSU Gigabyte M27Q monitor HP Omen 25 monitor Arzopa portable monitor Redragon K631 Pro (customized) Logitech G502 Hero

How old are these people?
I didn't think a lid latch is so incomprehensible.