[X] My Assistant

honestly if its just a small spill a lot of the times cleaning it off gently with isopropyl and a toothbrush will do it, it turning off will have just been a short somewhere or an ic not liking the moisture.
realistically, unless you dumped and entire glass over it theres really not that many places where the water will have gone with how covered the board is in heatsinks, could just be some (partly) shorted connections in one of the connectors or some moisture in the coils. if it did get into more and theres moisture under all the heatsinks it might be slightly more of a challenge, laziest solution just let it sit in rice for a day or two then keep debugging when you're sure theres little to no moisture.

if all easy steps dont work its usually a case of checking what gets hot (assuming power it doesnt trip psu instantly) and then replacing or reflowing that part. rarely parts will die in less useful ways like fully open or ic packages that take no current but I'd say at least 9/10 some package shorts internally and it'll call itself out as being fucked thermally

how not working is it anyway? nothing? some frozen on leds? bootlooping?

It was an entire glass of water.
Not sure how they fucked it up this badly.
-_-

Anyway, I will have to ask. The impression I got was "nothing."

What you describe is my typical experience. Things don't die from water around me - not permanently anyway.

But I am not there to see it firsthand.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 5 2024, 06:20

I really like that Nijie hasn't changed its UI in forever, and that it performs somewhat well on my computer, but I really wish the download rate limiting weren't so draconian.

Meanwhile I just found another site that seems to only host images in webp format unless you pay for a full size download.

[www.perplexity.ai] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Ya-til-des...n7l4bzjBxVg?s=c
Okay, my discussion with this AI was in french, but it probably isn't hard to translate (especially if the AI use Google Translate in the first place rather than natively supporting foreign languages) to understand what went hilariously wrong (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I really like that Nijie hasn't changed its UI in forever, and that it performs somewhat well on my computer, but I really wish the download rate limiting weren't so draconian.

Meanwhile I just found another site that seems to only host images in webp format unless you pay for a full size download.

They did change a bit a few years ago and broke the tag download function on nijiedownloader I think. Also throttled a lot recently. I'm getting 429 for almost all my batch jobs now, had to add a minute or 2 of sleep time to get them done.

They did change a bit a few years ago and broke the tag download function on nijiedownloader I think. Also throttled a lot recently. I'm getting 429 for almost all my batch jobs now, had to add a minute or 2 of sleep time to get them done.

I added 30-40 seconds and that seemed to be enough here.

malware you mean. I had to install it to config my LEDs since each light plays by their own rules and the only thing that works for me is ASUSSY armory crate. Tried openrgb, the GPU LED doesn't work.

if the uninstaller actually works, that's a big step forward. from their 12 miles backward with the stupid app.

Yeah pretty much malware. It toggled all the RGB back on, now I need to figure out how to turn it off. Forgot my computer had so much. I think because only RGB parts were available.

If I had to buy RGB LED hardware (which I have never done), I'd have desoldered, cut traces, or otherwise put electrical tape over every LED on the thing.

If I had to buy RGB LED hardware (which I have never done), I'd have desoldered, cut traces, or otherwise put electrical tape over every LED on the thing.

I only rewired one item, which was the Chinese CPU waterblock / res / pump combo unit. Everything was high quality except the RGB which was hardwired to be powered on. The factory that produced parts for a large water cooling brand had their own side brand where they did niche products out of borrowed parts / designs.

It made my ITX water cooled build possible.


For resale for everything else, I wouldn't damage the RGB if it could be turned off.

I also went with clear liquid and long lasting black tubing. Means I only need to change the coolant every 2-3 years.

I think people that use colored coolant that needs to be changed every 3-6 months are insane.

I only rewired one item, which was the Chinese CPU waterblock / res / pump combo unit. Everything was high quality except the RGB which was hardwired to be powered on. The factory that produced parts for a large water cooling brand had their own side brand where they did niche products out of borrowed parts / designs.

It made my ITX water cooled build possible.
For resale for everything else, I wouldn't damage the RGB if it could be turned off.

I also went with clear liquid and long lasting black tubing. Means I only need to change the coolant every 2-3 years.

I think people that use colored coolant that needs to be changed every 3-6 months are insane.

To me, stuff has added value if the RGB is inoperable. That way it can't randomly turn back on after an update.

I might be able to add a toggle switch or a header or something for the RGB. Something that you could stick a jumper on to re-enable it. That'd just be a straightforward enhancement.

I don't resell my stuff. I keep it around for decades.

I'm also planning to drill a hole in the back of a pristine Japanese Mega Drive to add an S-Video outpit. On American units I just swap out the RF modulator, but Japanese units don't have a built in modulator, nor the hole in the back for one like I usually use as the mounting point for an S-Video mini-DIN.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 7 2024, 02:44

I hope lots of websites selling hardware and things related to computers, will soon be able to fire their web developers, and use an AI for search instead.
I understand people worrying about Artificial Intelligence replacing Human Intelligence, but when the only thing present is Human Stupidity, let's jump into it like Scrooge jumping in his money.

I loathe the idea of "fully-AI-based" searching because it makes searches even less predictable and useful than before, since they no longer care about my exact wording in the slightest.

Though they use natural language processing (AI) already.

I hope lots of websites selling hardware and things related to computers, will soon be able to fire their web developers, and use an AI for search instead.
I understand people worrying about Artificial Intelligence replacing Human Intelligence, but when the only thing present is Human Stupidity, let's jump into it like Scrooge jumping in his money.

I loathe the idea of "fully-AI-based" searching because it makes searches even less predictable and useful than before, since they no longer care about my exact wording in the slightest.

Though they use natural language processing (AI) already.

what about both, you can use ai to automagically tag things for a tag based search. and then alongside also have the regular search. boils down to ai never replacing technical jobs since some expertise will always be needed to fully integrate whatever garbage is generated.
as in my work even when we pay some other company to do the software I'm still needed to integrated with our own mess of systems no one knows about anymore, pretty sure I'm safe forever in this field

Gotten three of these in the last ten minutes.

What the fuck, tenboro.

(I hope cloudflare goes to hell.)
[files.catbox.moe] (IMG:[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/y5jtki.png)

(Ah. I was using Tor and forgot. Never mind, I guess. But I still hate cloudflare.)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 12 2024, 21:50

OpenStreetMap's server is under tremendous load right now. First the website won't load, now I couldn't save any of my map edits.

I should make a video titled "I used 1980s technology for my entire life" to respond to this thing.
I loathe these kinds of videos. Turns out that stuff that you could use then can still do what it did then now. And also that expectations of people have changed over time. Ghasp.
[files.catbox.moe] (IMG:[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/y0wrmk.png)

Boot time is the big one I appreciate.

I remember switching my PC on and it would take like 5mins to boot. Go off to do something else whilst it loads.


People are saying Youtube has implemented counter measures that slow youtube and massively increase CPU / RAM usage like malware and potentially cause chrome to freeze. Even people subscribed to youtube premium and use adblockers can be affected.

Could be chrome though? I had some issues with extensions with firefox and chrome at one stage.


Edit: Could just be a an issue with the latest version of adblock.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 16 2024, 12:39

Boot time wasn't that bad on my amiga or any of my other 80s stuff. Though admittedly these are 90's 7200 RPM disks. I think boot time only got REALLY bad in the windows era.

Though without SMARTDRV it was worse for sure.



Just dumped the BIOS ROM (and font rom, and both my sound card ROM's) for my Epson PC. Seems like a good dump; wish I could figure out where on the motherboard the BIOS chip was though. Every time I think I've found it it turns out I've found more static ram instead.

I hope it's not buried inside one of the ASIC's they're using for the PC-98 chipset. But I have the distinct impression it is - either that or it's on the underside of the motherboard, which I suppose is possible.

Thought: I'm running really, really low on capacitors for recapping projects. Even for super common values.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 16 2024, 13:20

Boot time wasn't that bad on my amiga or any of my other 80s stuff. Though admittedly these are 90's 7200 RPM disks. I think boot time only got REALLY bad in the windows era.

I remember when 5400rpm HDD was an upgrade. Cassette was slow AF.



Also in funny? news, the RTX 4090 fail rate remains high due to the power connector, board cracking, and old school ball cracking. Cards are needing reballing like the old lead free days because the board design + card weight is leading to microcracking.

In theory they were supposed to move the gpu and ram further up the board to mitigate the issue but on the 4090 the design means sag can cause this issue after a year or so.

I remember when 5400rpm HDD was an upgrade. Cassette was slow AF.

This was an early Seagate Barracuda SCSI drive.

Also in funny? news, the RTX 4090 fail rate remains high due to the power connector, board cracking, and old school ball cracking. Cards are needing reballing like the old lead free days because the board design + card weight is leading to microcracking.

Ahh. I remember 2007. What a shit year for graphics cards.
It's even funnier the second time.

In theory they were supposed to move the gpu and ram further up the board to mitigate the issue but on the 4090 the design means sag can cause this issue after a year or so.

Meanwhile, I gifted a friend one of my IBM Model M keyboards (a January 1993 one), and we discovered that it would only work on an old Windows XP computer they had; not in Windows 10.

Then, after talk of modding the keyboard to add pull up resistors and all sorts of other shit, we discovered this.
[answers.microsoft.com] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...29-94d4e3985947

PS/2 keyboard devices are governed by a kernel-level service called i8042prt, short for the technical name for the PS/2 keyboard port. When a USB keyboard is added as a replacement for a PS/2 keyboard, the i8042prt service is forcibly disabled. This is to prevent a conflict between PS/2 and USB devices, but if a PS/2 keyboard is reinstalled, the service is not automatically restarted.

To switch back to using a PS/2 keyboard, the user needs to edit the Registry to restart thei8042prt service. To do this, In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt , edit the "Start" value and set it to a hex or decimal value of 1. Reboot and change to a PS/2 keyboard via the Keyboards section in Control Panel.

I have several questions.

"A conflict between PS/2 and USB devices

• When has that ever happened to anyone, ever?? This is clearly just to make people throw away working PS/2 keyboards. and distrust PS/2 ports so they can get rid of them, or something similarly retarded.
• Why did that not happen in Windows 9x, NT, ... up through 7?
• Why the fuck do you have to use the control panel to change keyboards??
• Why the fuck is my friend still using this dead-on-arrival excuse for an OS?

Don't forget that you need to hold shift to make the shut down button actually make the "shut down" button shut down modern windows, now (else it suspends to disk/ssd), so rebooting will be annoying. You can't just use the restart button, either, since you aren't supposed to hot-plug PS/2 keyboards. Power on the PC should be off when plugging in. If you don't have a working USB keyboard to shut down windows with, you might be forced to either go to the on-screen-keyboard under accessibility tools and type in 'shutdown /p /t 0' or whatever at the command prompt, or else just yank out the power cord.

BTW it's called i8042 because the intel 8042 chip controlled the keyboard in the PC AT. Calling it "a technical term" is more vague while not actually being less confusing. All it does is make people more scared of their computers.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 17 2024, 13:29

Hurray, the web just got a little worse again.

(click for full size)
[files.catbox.moe] (IMG:[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/h00eo8.png)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 18 2024, 09:18