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About themaniac

  • Birthday Sep 15, 2000

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    Formerly The North Star State Now Wisconsin
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    Animation, Game Development, Tech, and more.
  • Biography
    I'm a 20 year old guy that likes games and tech
  • Occupation
    Fast Food
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    LTT unofficial official Zoid Of Geeks Co Creator

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    Main:I5 7400 Laptop:I5 6200u
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    Main:HP propietary Laptop:Dell proprietary
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    Main: HP GTX 1060 3GB(Igpu Intel HD Graphics 630) Laptop:Intel HD Graphics 520
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    Main:HP Pavilion Power 580-023w Laptop:Dell Inspiron 15 5559
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    Main:1TB WD Blue 7200rpm Laptop:1TB 5400rpm
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    Main:Acer Curved ED242QR wi Laptop:Dell(probably)
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    Main:Stock Laptop:Dell
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    Main:CM Storm Laptop:Dell(probably)
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    Logitech MX Performance
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  1. TFW you visit a different location for your job and it makes all the issues with your location look like nothing.

     

    I'm surprised that location hasnt been shutdown by the food safety people and osha yet.

  2. so to give context to my previous status(completely forgot about it after changing tabs). My dad has a shed in the drive way thats right not being used for storage. I recently got the idea that I could turn it into a little workshop of sorts. So before I empty it out i need a place to move everything. So I thought about building a loft in larger shed my dad has. Materials cost money.

     

    Then once I empty it I need to run power to it, but I also remembered I have a 3d printer and an older pc i can set up. So I'll also want to run internet to it. AND I live in wisconsin, so the winter gets quite cold(not this year for some reason) so I'll want to insulate it and heat it. Along with putting up sheeting for a bit of fire resistance. So more money.

     

    MONEY IS THE PROBLEM OF EVERYTHING

     

    IDEAS COMPOUNDING ON IDEAS ARE THE PROBLEM OF EVERYTHING

    1. soldier_ph

      soldier_ph

      30 minutes ago, themaniac said:

      but I also remembered I have a 3d printer

      How do you forget that you own a 3D Printer ? I mean a 3D Printer is the cool kid, unlike yestern-decades 2D Printer.

    2. themaniac

      themaniac

      its such a cool kid that it got shamed into the closet and forgotten. But soon it shall come out of a closet with new founded confidence.

  3. I idea, ideas that out idea my ideas so much that my ideas wish they never idea'd

    1. soldier_ph

      soldier_ph

      That sounds like an idea.

  4. first two went decent, went, but then the white bastard, THAT WHITE CABLE just had to ruin my success

    its disgusting so dont look if you want to be safe

    Spoiler

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    pretty sure the left cup is slightly louder as well because of it.

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    2. Moonzy

      Moonzy

      If I had to guess what happened, you didn't use additional flux and you had to heat it up so much the flux that's included in the tin (usually) just vaporized and the insulation melted

      And the solder doesn't bead up nicely as well

       

      Additional flux is very nice to have if you want clean solders

    3. themaniac

      themaniac

      11 hours ago, Moonzy said:

      If I had to guess what happened, you didn't use additional flux and you had to heat it up so much the flux that's included in the tin (usually) just vaporized and the insulation melted

      And the solder doesn't bead up nicely as well

       

      Additional flux is very nice to have if you want clean solders

      I had my soldering station set to 400F, i had looked up the temp for the 60/40 solder i used, what i found said 400F was a good temp, so maybe it was lack of flux, since i just reused the solder that were already on the pad

    4. Moonzy

      Moonzy

      13 hours ago, themaniac said:

      I had my soldering station set to 400F, i had looked up the temp for the 60/40 solder i used, what i found said 400F was a good temp, so maybe it was lack of flux, since i just reused the solder that were already on the pad

      if you dont wanna buy additional flux, just remove the old tin from the wires, then heat up the area before applying new tin, it should melt the instant it touched the things you want to connect.

      this will minimise the amount of time the flux included in the tin have to vaporize
       

       

  5. so my cats had chewed through my headphone cable a few times last year, i've put off replacing it this time for a few months at this point. Decided to get around to doing it now. And now i remember why i put it off.

     

    There's very little slack in the wires to move the driver into an easier position to solder, plus due to how headphones are and like to clamp back together, its tough to get it in a position to both have the drive be somewhat possible to solder AND not clamp back together.

     

    Now i want to stab myself with my soldering iron

     

    this is the best i can get and im still gonna hate every second of it

    Spoiler

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    2. SansVarnic

      SansVarnic

      electrify that wire it will teach them... hehe

    3. themaniac

      themaniac

      3 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

      electrify that wire it will teach them... hehe

      nah, the electricity probably tastes good to those weird tastebuds they got.

    4. Senzelian

      Senzelian

      Beyerdynamic ❤️

      Made in Germany, good quality and repairable. They have just turned 100 years old!

  6. seems like its not possible to use an nvme based m.2 in a sata adapter, was thinking of putting one in my laptop to give it a little boost. Since the drives are just sitting collecting dust. But guess not

  7. totally not scrolling though my steam library all day, occasionally loading a game and closing it after 5 minutes

    1. emothxughts

      emothxughts

      I did not buy Cyberpunk 2077, nor did I play it and test out the path tracing option...

  8. Somedays i just dont

    Somedays i just cant

    somedays i just dant

    somedays i just cont

    Today i just dont cant dant cont

    1. Murasaki
    2. themaniac

      themaniac

      Me too "Just fucking had it" catgirl, me too....

    3. SorryBella

      SorryBella

      Sometimes i just wanna throw brick to the face of life.

  9. So totalled my ford focus on the 3rd, i've been driving my dads truck to get to work for the time being. I really don't like how big modern trucks are(i say modern even though 2014 is 9 years ago). And maybe its just that I don't have a replacement yet but I miss my Focus, never thought I would even say that. I could be that I just don't have a replacement, that the only car i have actual experience with driving was the focus, or I actually liked the focus, but I miss it.

    1. bmx6454

      bmx6454

      they are nice little cars imo. reliable engines, and transmissions(if manual). rip focus..

      edit: glad you weren't injured in the accident btw.

    2. Techstorm970

      Techstorm970

      On 7/12/2023 at 3:34 PM, themaniac said:

      So totalled my ford focus on the 3rd, i've been driving my dads truck to get to work for the time being. I really don't like how big modern trucks are(i say modern even though 2014 is 9 years ago). And maybe its just that I don't have a replacement yet but I miss my Focus, never thought I would even say that. I could be that I just don't have a replacement, that the only car i have actual experience with driving was the focus, or I actually liked the focus, but I miss it.

      I remember how jarring of an experience it was to go from driving my little Kia Spectra to driving my grandpa's Chevy Silverado one night.  I couldn't tell where the lane lines were relative to the truck's sides and it was anxiety-inducing.

    3. themaniac

      themaniac

      12 hours ago, Techstorm970 said:

      I remember how jarring of an experience it was to go from driving my little Kia Spectra to driving my grandpa's Chevy Silverado one night.  I couldn't tell where the lane lines were relative to the truck's sides and it was anxiety-inducing.

      pretty much exactly how it felt and then you also add on to it how i just crashed my car, which made it even worse.

  10. I really hope that the arc a770 doesnt get bottlenecked during processing stuff such as encoding/transcoding on pcie gen 3 x8.

     

    The hdd cables are gonna be on the tight side if i keep it in the x16 slot 20230629_015710.thumb.jpg.d2b9e284e6eb2f79f23533f026edd372.jpg

    ignore the mess of cables

    1. Bombastinator

      Bombastinator

      Pcie3x8 is good enough for a 3070.  Twitchy for a 3080.  It’s the pcie4 x4 stuff that can have problems.  Because often it isn’t pcie4 x4 it’s pcie3 x4  and that isn’t fast enough for even a 1650.

  11. most effective ad i've seen in a while

    1. Bombastinator

      Bombastinator

      Ummm…. So basically any sponge mop made after 1990.

  12. I don't have windows pro unfortunately and I'd would rather not buy the pro upgrade for both systems.
  13. I've been slowly getting an old pc set up into an amalgamation of a nas/media server, server, streaming pc/encoding pc. And I wasnt sure what would be the best way to control it. Would it be best to get a teamviewer like program or should I just get a hdmi switch and have a dedicated mouse and keyboard for it? For the time being its gonna be windows and its gonna be mounted under my desk near my main pc so distance isnt an issue(if that could be an issue)
  14. Never hear anything a out Global Foundries anymore, wonder how they are doing.

    1. AlTech

      AlTech

      1 hour ago, themaniac said:

      Never hear anything a out Global Foundries anymore, wonder how they are doing.

      I think they're doing stuff for car companies and companies using the 12nm node and older.

    2. themaniac

      themaniac

      7 hours ago, AlTech said:

      I think they're doing stuff for car companies and companies using the 12nm node and older.

      are they trying to develop smaller nodes?

    3. AlTech

      AlTech

      32 minutes ago, themaniac said:

      are they trying to develop smaller nodes?

      They gave up on 7nm cos it was too expensive.

       

      Since then they haven't gone smaller than 12nm.

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