[X] My Assistant

I'm almost tempted to try this, it cant be super unsafe with an atx psu since they have a current cutoff and usually lock for a second after they go into overcurrent.

might as well bake it at this point it might work for a bit till you pull the trigger on replacements and you could sell it later

Might also want to just try a heat gun if there's components on both sides of the card.

Speaking of legends, this guy

Instead of the pencil lead, a carbon rod works pretty well at making a hot sizzling spark. Many years ago, I opened up the top of a depleted carbon zinc battery. I pulled out the carbon rod attached to the positive nub and used that to experiment with. The power supply was a 12 volt car battery charger.

Might also want to just try a heat gun if there's components on both sides of the card.

I always assumed the main point of people putting their hardware in the oven was they didnt have hotair nor some hotplate. when equipment is available I'd always go for drowning chip in flux + hot air

Only on topic in that this is where dragontamer would see it.
New avatar, unsure how long I'll keep it.

Only on topic in that this is where dragontamer would see it.
New avatar, unsure how long I'll keep it.

Ah, from [tcrf.net] https://tcrf.net/Puzslot ?
Nice.

What was your old profile pic again? I might try redrawing it on the pixel grid for fun.

Damn, that game has some decent art on it.

I probably have it on my flash cartridge, actually… Even if some of these pics are unused, I should try it on my famicom.

And it'd look better if you cropped it so it wouldn't get rescaled; I think the upper limit for donors is 180x180?

160x128:
(IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/roNEvLD.png)

(IMG:[tcrf.net] https://tcrf.net/images/0/0a/Puzslot-05.png)
(IMG:[tcrf.net] https://tcrf.net/images/4/44/Puzslot-0B.png)
(IMG:[tcrf.net] https://tcrf.net/images/1/19/Puzslot-06.png)
(IMG:[tcrf.net] https://tcrf.net/images/0/08/Puzslot-07.png)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 6 2020, 03:15

you could always pick up a replacement battery from ebay/alie that'll roughly last a year for ~20 bux. if its at all still worth it.

one of my ebay batteries actually has lasted about two years now. My other ones lasted a year and a half (well, still technically working but only for short periods) and one DOA.

I wouldn't buy from Alie if living in the US just because unless they offer free return shipping you'll get screwed on it.

I uploaded a 155x128, but I think it upscaled? Your crop is more accurate though.
Never actually played that game, and unsure where I found that image, but a reverse image search turned up that same site for me.

I uploaded a 155x128, but I think it upscaled? Your crop is more accurate though.
Never actually played that game, and unsure where I found that image, but a reverse image search turned up that same site for me.

There's one other method you can try, although it looks like mine worked for whatever reason.
Maybe yours was exceeding the file size and triggered an automatic conversion?



This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 6 2020, 05:03

I did switch to the one in your initial reply, thanks btw. It looks fine on my laptop, but a bit off on my phone. Because mobile browser, things get dynamically rescaled with zoom and screen size, so it can be hard to get a feel for what an lower resolution image looks like- or if an image is actually an absurd resolution.

I did switch to the one in your initial reply, thanks btw. It looks fine on my laptop, but a bit off on my phone. Because mobile browser, things get dynamically rescaled with zoom and screen size, so it can be hard to get a feel for what an lower resolution image looks like- or if an image is actually an absurd resolution.

I run imagemagick (and GIMP in XSDL, actually) on my phone for those kinds of situations.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 6 2020, 10:35

one of my ebay batteries actually has lasted about two years now. My other ones lasted a year and a half (well, still technically working but only for short periods) and one DOA.

I wouldn't buy from Alie if living in the US just because unless they offer free return shipping you'll get screwed on it.

my logic was always that I wasnt sure where to get legit oem batteries so I might as well get ones that are honest about being some chinese replacement. majority of them only lasted 1 year but that was through uni times where I charged/discharged it a lot, cant recall how long my current one has lasted me but its doing alright for way longer when its charging 99% of the time.

is shipping to US from china that bad these days you you specifically advice against it? I know they get slightly screwed over with import tax now but I didnt think it was deal breaking.

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 6 2020, 15:23

Also saw a 2070 for 300$
LATE EDIT : now i found a 1080ti for 170$, my wallet is itching

Yeah people are panic selling 1000 and 2000 series cards. The pricing on 2000 series was a joke here. 3000 series hopefully will have okay pricing.

my logic was always that I wasnt sure where to get legit oem batteries so I might as well get ones that are honest about being some chinese replacement. majority of them only lasted 1 year but that was through uni times where I charged/discharged it a lot, cant recall how long my current one has lasted me but its doing alright for way longer when its charging 99% of the time.

is shipping to US from china that bad these days you you specifically advice against it? I know they get slightly screwed over with import tax now but I didnt think it was deal breaking.

No, shipping from US _TO_ china is bad, and I had a dead on arrival battery. The only way to get a refund is to return the battery, which I would have to pay to ship. Shipping to china is more expensive than shipping from china.

I took that risk, but since the same batteries on ebay from US-based sellers are only a few bucks more and arrive faster I'll probably do that again in future.

Deliveries from china are subsidized by china, that's why it's free.

It's a ploy to gain global influence and to export more products to make money.

No, shipping from US _TO_ china is bad, and I had a dead on arrival battery. The only way to get a refund is to return the battery, which I would have to pay to ship. Shipping to china is more expensive than shipping from china.

I took that risk, but since the same batteries on ebay from US-based sellers are only a few bucks more and arrive faster I'll probably do that again in future.

ah, I dont think I ever recall trying to send something back, if its brokenon arrivel you can usually get at least half the money back or the item sent again. which is enough for me

Deliveries from china are subsidized by china, that's why it's free.

It's a ploy to gain global influence and to export more products to make money.

whatever gets me cheap electronic doodads

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 7 2020, 15:48

I consider china direct shipping to be a deal breaker, generally. Only thing I can recall ordering that way is a pair of electrode water heaters to play with, ala Big Clive's 'coffeecuter'.
I have a 2000VA or so torroidal transformer with 4x 80VCT windings, comes in handy as an isolation and/or step up transformer. I usually just keep all the windings in series, and get 40 to 320VAC isolated from ground in 40V steps.

I figured out what happened with my avatar. I used the default photo gallery ap on my phone to crop it, in the process I think it rencoded to jpg- it got blurrier and the file size increased. Lesson learned.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Sep 8 2020, 18:36

My powerbook's rechargeable coin cell RTC battery appears to be working again mysteriously. Glad I didn't immediately order that new one.

I wonder how much additional circuitry it'd take to install rechargeable coin cells in Game Boy game paks. Might be kind of neat to have a copy of Pokémon with a battery that might actually last a few more decades theoretically (assuming you power it on occasionally for the battery to charge up again).

Also, i finally got around to moving my alsa config file over to my powerbook, and actually made a few improvements to my setup in the process.

Unrelated mostly, but I wish I had access to an old Moog and knew all of Mort Garson's patches so I could make a version of this tune without the vocals over it (it's from 1968).


This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 9 2020, 03:23

once again I find myself without AAA batteries and wondering why things that couldve easily fit regular AAs are designed to take AAAs. this time its the LED magnifying glass

once again I find myself without AAA batteries and wondering why things that couldve easily fit regular AAs are designed to take AAAs. this time its the LED magnifying glass

I remember Nintendo did that with the Game Boy Pocket.
The GBC is roughly the same size, uses two AA's, and subsequently gets battery life at least as good despite having a faster CPU clock. Still pales next to the original with four AA's, though.

On another unrelated note, I actually really hope Wayland stuff doesn't take over anytime soon; I don't like the directions of any of the compositor implementations I've seen and I'd miss FVWM's scriptability/configurability dearly.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 10 2020, 08:12

I actually really hope Wayland stuff doesn't take over anytime soon

dont think theres any need to worry there, maybe some major DEs and distros will switch to it as a default option but the [drewdevault.com] inherent terrible experience with nvidia, [github.com] the crippling limitations for ''security'' reasons, and that still after all these years there isnt one goto wayland implementation so everyone is just doing something on their own(unless everyone starts using wlroots over night) would make it very unlikely.
I really doubt it'll be the thing that drives out X11.

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Sep 10 2020, 13:25