SpikesOtherDog

Bug Report

Describe the issue: Please describe what happened:

Clicking on comments, read or unread, leads to the white screen in the image.

What you expected to happen:

Connect moves to post, focused on comment and immediate replies.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click notification or visit inbox and show all
2. Click comment
3. Flash bang

Additional information: the issue resolved briefly when I cleared my cache, but it quickly returned.

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Device Information

• App Version: 1.0.371 (371)
• Platform: android
• OS Version: AP3A.240905.015.A2.G996USQSIHYL1
• Notice: Using legacy Shared Preferences

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

• shouldAlwaysOpenInDefaultBrowser: true (default: false)
• shouldDisplayTitleAbove: true (default: false)
• shouldLimitCardImages: true (default: false)
• shouldLoadCrosspostComments: false (default: true)
• postTitleTextStyle: titleSmall (default: titleMedium)
• customColoursPreset: 3 (default: 0)
• enableExperimentalPostSwipe: true (default: false)
• enableCommentNavigator: true (default: false)
• shouldHighlightNewComments: false (default: true)
• defaultRoute: /community?postListingType=Subscribed&hint=Frontpage (default: null)
• defaultPostSort: New (default: Active)
• nsfwView: hide (default: blur)
• cardType: fullwidth (default: card)
• postActions: [comment, save] (default: [comment, save, none, crosspost])
• shouldRemembercommentPosition: false (default: true)
• shouldShowFeedInstanceThumbnail: true (default: false)
• shouldForceBlackImageBackground: false (default: true)
• theme: dark (default: system)

Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, I decided to make use of a case I got late Summer from an online transaction. The buyer was someone purchasing a computer and insisted on providing several items along with the cash payment I requested. The computer case smelled like smoke, contained cockroach carcasses and frass, and was still otherwise filthy. I ended up putting it in a trash bag, spraying Raid in the bag, and leaving it in my garage. The weekend after Christmas I finally got it out, removed the board, and began cleaning it up. After a few rounds of cleaning over a few hours, I got all of the brown sludge out of it and it started smelling clean. The hardest part was getting the gross brown tar dust out of the creases of the plastic front cover.

With the house to myself, I gathered all the parts, lay them out on the table as above, and began. That's when I met my first hurdle: the rear panel does not come out and the ports do not match.

That saddened me deeply, but then I got over it and decided that cutting holes was the best idea ever. Before I got to cutting, I decided to give it a little test. Don't mind the state of the monitor. I snagged it for $0.63 at a yard sale 15-20 years ago. The scuffs were why it was so cheap. Why the weird number? It was just something in the moment I guess.

That was when I noticed that the case had no cabling. Nothing for power buttons, nothing for LEDs. I guess I'll need to figure something out.

Confident that something was working, I got to cutting. It wasn't pretty, but it fit. To make it more pretty, I added some epoxy putty. After letting it settle, I eventually sanded it down.

I'm not a huge fan of the holes, but it's not completely ugly. Testing, I still need to fix the holes for the PS/2 mouse, but that's not really a concern. Maybe I'll borrow the kid's tools and give it one more go.

Having finally mounted the board, I get to work fabricating a power button. I don't have pictures of the button pieces, but for the cable I used the coded cable from a DVD player. For those that don't know, DVD drives used to require an external decoder card to play DVD disks. That technology is obsolete, and I'm pretty sure I don't have the cards, so I don't really need it any more. I ended up epoxying strips of aluminum from soda cans into the plastic holder for the power switch and then later wedging the contacts from the cable up against the aluminum strips. The power signal only needs a momentary close, and the exact resistance doesn't matter. On the backside of the power button I epoxied a small loop of copper to press against the aluminum contacts I made. The button has built-in springs, so a momentary switch is born.

From there, I had just enough to work with, so I installed a case fan to address the error messages, installed a SSD and then installed Fedora Linux. Why Fedora? Well, that's because Mint crashed from the desktop shortly after boot and I didn't feel like doing real troubleshooting.

It started to feel real, and I had ordered some sets of switches and LEDs. The original Dell switch had the power LED built into the power switch. Drive activity LED or reset switches were not part of the original build, and while I wanted drive activity, I wasn't interested in a reset switch.

I didn't document the process much here, but here is testing the LEDs.

I had to wedge the power LED near enough to the power button to allow the light pipe to pick it up. The drive activity LED is shown here wedged into the case near the vent.

I wasn't a fan of that location and ended up carving out part of the plastic case and using hot glue to keep it in place.

Here it is from the outside, looking pretty. It's 9MB, so I don't blame you for skipping this one.

I was pretty happy with that, so I took a few more minutes to clean the board well and do some cable management.

On the software side, I initially tried playing Minecraft, but it was terrible. This was paper MC on a network server, but I hadn't disabled enough to play well.

Eventually I had nearly everything turned all the way down and it was playable.... more or less. (SUPER NINJA EDIT! I forgot I put an AMD HD 4530 in there, and that's why it was so playable)

No matter what I did, reducing the resolution and using mods to disable most effects, Hollow Knight was still unplayable.

Using Firefox was fine. It even played Jellyfin without any complaints. Videos do seem to need to take a little bit to buffer or they end up skipping frames.

The last thing I tested was LibreOffice and then Opened a Sheets .xlsx in excel.com. The Sheets was a test of patience, and crashed several times trying to use larger data sets. It even caused Firefox to crash due to OOM. I had to use a smaller data set (50k lines instead of 100k) and everything was much better. I did not have the patience to find where it really started to struggle, but MOST spreadsheets are not that large.

I had to put it down for a couple weeks, but after asking people's opinions of what games to test on it, I was given the following:

Doom: No problem! I would be concerned if I couldn't get it to play Doom.

Elder Scrolls Arena: It was perfectly playable, but the audio was a little bit crackly.

Elder Scrolls Daggerfall: It was laggy in dosbox and the audio was terribly crackly.

More testing to be done in comments, but for now I'm pooped!

I was spell checking myself and the auto-generated summary of results told me that the phrase didn't exist.

More problems resolved:

The Bowden tube was not seating fully, leading to clogs in the hot end. I reversed the tube due to the damage where the coupling held the tube and slight deformation at the end. I cut and sanded the tube for a better fit.

There was a clog inside the hot end and I cleared it partially with a wire. My guess was that the tube wasn't seating properly, causing the filament to bunch up in the wrong point. I heated up the hot end again to 250 and when I fed the tube in the clog loosened and both went up the tube and out the nozzle. After clearing the tube, I fed the filament and lowered the temp until it came out consistently.

Also, my esteps were not calibrated properly. 93 value gave me.... about 93 mm. Setting it to 100 gave me 98 mm. At 102, it appears spot on.

Finally, since the extruder gear appeared to be biting into the PLA, and due to the gear skipping, I loosened the tensioner some.

The fact that anything came out previously leaves me scratching my head. The saving grace had to have been that I leveled the bed before I began the previous print.

Not a request for help—yet, at least. Just showing off the gore from getting the printer working again.

It was living on the floor of the basement where my son dumped it after moving down there. I finally picked it to and gave it a home on my own work bench.

Initially, it was printing fine, but after the first dozen mm of PLA, it clogged up. Son didn't have the tool, so after trying to improvise, I ended up removing the nozzle. That was all good, except there was old pla in the nozzle. Second plan of attack ended up with me heating to 250 and plunging the chamber with fresh PLA until it started sputtering. I then returned the Bowden tube and dialed down the heat to 200. It seemed to hold, so I reassembled the hot end.

Next, I attempted to print again, but I had no tool heat. Power cycle and reconnecting to octoprint resolved that. Then I reversed and fed the filament until it ran properly.

As you can see here, the next problem was patchy, uneven extrusion. I found that the extrusion would continue with a little bit of pressure against the filament to the drive gear. That's where you see the dark patch on the right where it started working again on the second layer.

You can see the big gap in the middle, and it was as it was passing left over that spot I noticed that the drive bearing wasn't moving. so I first loosened the screw that held it in. I paused the print and removed the bearing, lubricating it with some PBlaster. Since that didn't resolve it, I found the tension bolt was loose and put it all the way to max.

Observing the printer further, I noticed that the drive gear was jumping back when it did not appear to need to be retracting. It was here that I realized it was a pressure/flow issue, so I paused the printer again and increased the temp to 205. Once it stabilized, it started printing smoothly again.

Below is the continued/rescued print. It's a rough draft, so the mess won't bother me. I feel safe enough now to walk away again and let it do its thing.

I broke a hard drive.

Also, I took too many liberties in the corner of the drive, but it's the first drawing I have made in a very long time.

I'm trying to encourage my kids to participate. I'll share if they want to.

I have been jamming to a djent musician for the past couple of months, and they have gone from about 10k subs to 40k on YouTube.

I think it would be nice to have content creators posting here, but I'm concerned about people complaining about YouTube and other platforms. Also, after the way Alex from Technology Connections was treated, I'd hate to see us get shitty reputation.

So, again, I ask before inviting them. What do you feel about inviting content creators? Is is invading your space? Do you welcome people just trying to make it? Would you rather keep them separate?