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beyond trivial issues

I'd argue that 10-15% of issues are trivial issues and are worth investigating even without a schematic if the alternative is just throwing something away.

I can top that. I got a broken $100 BlueYeti microphone for $10 on eBay. The USB cable they shipped it with was bad.

You don't have to fix everything, but just doing stuff like replacing connectors and capacitors could probably save 10% of the shit that we throw away, and it's not that hard to try.

pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.

My point is that in a better world, people could fix this kind of thing themselves. Like offer a discount for their trouble and have them or their mechanic aunt come by and fix it.

What's the joke here?

Meanwhile, my Wi-Fi router requires a PhD in reverse engineering just to figure out why it won’t connect to the internet.

I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn't boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn't anything too important on it that I hadn't backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).

All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).

I think the "black box" nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn't turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.

She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to "fix" including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.

Yet there's zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn't work, trash it.

Scroll through maker TikTok

This guy might be looking in the wrong places.

You might just be in the market for a moped.

The license requirement of a vehicle is for the safety of everyone on the road, and a 20+mph vehicle is inherently dangerous no matter the shape and should be subject to regulation.

Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

I used to ask "what did you do?" when there was a guy just buying a bouquet. Got a few chuckles.

So in Seattle last week there was a man who accidentally shot himself in the leg while driving his car. He called 911 because he obviously needed help, but tried to tell cops that he was shot by a stranger while driving. They asked why there were no entry holes in his car, and I think he went to jail for being a dumbass.

Anyway, how do we know JFK didn't accidentally shoot himself and then try to cover it up because he was so embarrassed.

I grew up in Virginia. When I was in the 3rd grade, Jim Gilmore won on a "no car tax" campaign in 1998. Funny how we still have car tax hmm...

In the original, you pulled them out, but parents probably got sick of losing the teeth.

Edit: This concept is demonstrated in this historical document https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aEpGsH0a8

The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.

The best smelling one.

I just re-read Man in the High Castle which was written/takes place in the 60s.

One of the characters wants to know the name of the naval vessel that is currently in port in San Francisco. To do this, he has to call the local newspaper office on a telephone and ask them. Then they call him back with the answer.

Many parts of the book are anachronistic (because in this alternate reality, the Nazis are colonizing Mars), but I believe that part was accurate because I don't know how else you could get that information.

TIL thanks

I assumed they were generally against the concept of sex not strictly for the purpose of reproduction.

• Auswitch statement
• V2latile variable
• Goebboolean
• Zyklon C++
• Left shift, Reich shift
• Open and close Parenzer
• Iron Cross-compiler

I'm aware. Just funny that you can't have sex for fun apparently when you're pregnant.

While not every player is not privy to the nightmare of every person in their game becoming with child, those who have the bug are finding a large number of Sims randomly marked as pregnant.

Who the fuck wrote this?

Once a character is pregnant, they can’t Woo-Hoo anymore,

Never pegged The Sims for being so Puritain.