Similar story here. Just no YouTube.
My only mistake was buying the motherboard first, without actually thinking about it or considering what components would go in it. I knew the components needed to match, but I didn't think "what's the best performance for the money".
I was a kid, so I went on eBay and bought the first motherboard I saw, and then researched what components I would need to make it work.
I'll spare the specifics, but let's just say I ended up with a system that was significantly aged and underpowered for its time and how much I spent.
Good learning experience though.
Makes sense. I work at a different type of repair shop, we just had a brand new $400 battery go up in smoke on first power up. Ridiculous.
They got away with it. I bought the part months ago after bodging a fix on the stock connector. By time the bodge failed, the return window closed. It was $5 so unfortunately not worth my time fighting it.
My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.
I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.
I should've known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it's just a headlight 🤷♂️
Now I've got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.
Sorry you're having so many troubles. Glad they are taking care of you.
I have two steam decks. One bought on pre-order, the other was aftermarket with a broken screen, so I swapped it to DeckSight OLED. That second one was abused hard by its previous owner, inside and out, but it's still working great. So for what it's worth, I think the hardware is solid, if you don't get a bad one. Every product line has occasional duds
That'll do something alright
I believe you. But it's funny, I have both, LCD and DeckSight. I can tell the difference if they're side by side. But often times I forget the OLED is an OLED 🤷♂️
Same. SO is on 512gb, plenty big for them, depends on what you need I guess. I wanted to never think about it again
SSDs are being affected too. Not as much, and I forget why exactly, maybe because it's all silicon and shares some manufacturing resources? 🤷♂️
Recommendation?
We use tidy cats stone pellets with the pee pads liner.
Not environmentally friendly, but it's the first time I've actually not minded dealing with the box.
We never used normal litter, it's terrible. We used to use the tidy cats brand scoop able stuff. And that worked... Fine. Solids came out easy enough. But urine was either too gummy if you tried scooping it too soon. Or it broke up into stinky little bits too small for the scoop, if you waited too long. And God forbid the cat dig to the bottom before peeing, so the clay glues itself to the bottom of the bin, amplifying the goo/break problem.
And eventually, no matter how well you scoop, the little bits of urine build up and start to stink like ammonia, until you have to throw all the litter away and wash the box. Which is extra unpleasant if it's winter.
But the stone pellets and pad? The solids are easily scooped. And the urine is trapped in the pad, locked in, never smell it.
And no matter what you do, cats will track litter around the house. But the stones are so big and heavy that they almost all fall off the paw before they make it 5 feet from the box, so the area to clean is much smaller. And the stones are surprisingly less annoying to step on.
My friend has the cedar pellets, and it's better than litter, yes, in some ways. But I still smell the ammonia.
I will say we've never tried the crystal cat litter, and some of our other friends swear by it.
Pictured is my most recent victim, some free e-waste from work. It is now a mesh extension for my garage.
My main router is an old Google WiFi:
I'll upgrade eventually, but I'm not being restricted in any way at the moment so I'll save the money 🤷♂️
Update: Pretty sure we're gonna go with a RailPass and just rough it, to maximize how much we can see! We're young enough.
Plan is to leave Chicago in January, and spend about 2 weeks away from home. Ideally 11 days, but if needed, 18 is possible.
Initial thoughts are to take the California zephyr west at least as far as Sacramento. As west is the best direction to go, I've read.
After that it gets muddy.
We want to see some Sequoias, so an overnight stop somewhere in Sacramento or LA would be necessary I think.
We also want to see the Grand canyon, which seems doable on the southwest chief, but...
We've got family in NM, so it'd be nice to see them, the sunset limited gets us closest, but doesn't run daily and also isn't the sunset chief. I see there's a bus connection from Flagstaff to Tucson, maybe we could catch the sunset limited if we timed it out right? Seems scary, trying to time anything... I haven't looked closely at the time tables to see how tight that would be. Maybe we could rent a car? Or time it so we show up a day early for the sunset limited east bound?
Also we wanted to end up in new Orleans at some point, so that's another vote for the sunset limited.
As a stretch goal, we could take the crescent up to Connecticut, we have friends there, and then take one of the several trains that go there, back to Chicago. Lakeshore limited? This probably isn't going to happen and isn't important. I'd rather emphasize staying a night or two on each of our west coast stops, than trying to cram as much riding as possible in and get to the east coast.
Additionally, we're not opposed to going north on the coast starlight to Seattle and taking empire builder home, never been out that way, just not sure how much it has to offer in the winter. Especially compared to redwoods, maybe the canyon, and family.
Anywho these are the rough plans! Please let me know what everyone thinks!
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We've never been on a trip before, we booked a roomette to Tucson once before, but missed our train because an employee looked at our ticket and told us to sit and wait for him to call us. He never did and our train left, then he was very rude, convinced us to cancel our ticket (which was the wrong advice). It's a long story, needless to say, we got our money back, plus repayment for last minute flights (we needed to be in Tucson), plus this voucher for another trip.
The trip can be any time of the year next year, not February, March or April. Assuming summer is best?
The plan is to ride out west somewhere, California? And then rent a car to road trip home. It'll be the first and probably only time we can afford something like this, so we wanna make it count. It might make more sense to drive out and train back? But... I worry about missing the train... Again.. no no, we're leaving from Chicago.
I know some routes are better than others, and I know they change sometimes, what they're offering, what they used to offer, etc.
We'd like a roomette, and we wanna see the sights in one of those glass roof cars, and I know the food options vary too, so whatever the better of the food options would be ideal.
Bonus points if you have suggestions of things to check out on our way back east. We've never been out west before, besides Tuscon. Maybe see the Sequoias? Grand canyon? We like backpacking so the return trip will probably involve some car camping, or real camping, for the fun of it.
Thanks!
Location of the tree is roughly the middle of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46601463
Swing your legs out one side, stand on stones. The other side? Stand in water 😅
Usually you wouldn't camp so close to water, but this was such a cool spot I couldn't help it. Plus it was on a fairly busy trail, in good weather, so.. 🤷♂️
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46601463
Swing your legs out one side, stand on stones. The other side? Stand in water 😅
Usually you wouldn't camp so close to water, but this was such a cool spot I couldn't help it. Plus it was on a fairly busy trail, in good weather, so.. 🤷♂️
Swing your legs out one side, stand on stones. The other side? Stand in water 😅
Usually you wouldn't camp so close to water, but this was such a cool spot I couldn't help it. Plus it was on a fairly busy trail, in good weather, so.. 🤷♂️
This is a lightweight wool shirt, smartwool brand. I think it's 90 or 100 percent wool, I forgot to photograph the tag.
I use it as a base layer while camping, so looks aren't that important, but I don't want it to fall apart.
I got a couple of snags on my last trip, and I poked most of them back in without issue, these two were bigger and I tried stretching the fabric slightly to pull them in. I did it gently, but they both broke 🫠
Should I use a patch? Or sew a few loose stitches to hold things together? Or just leave it alone?
The underside of the shirt is bright orange, the hole is only the top layer, if that makes sense?
Thanks!
I loved this glass bed. After so much time trying to get anything to stick to the stock ender 3 bed, this glass bed has things sticking almost TOO well.
It was fine enough for PLA, but I've been playing with PETG lately and it sticks a little harder.
Well today I printed the entire bed flat for a little hiking table I'm experimenting with.. and this happened when I tried to get it off...
Suggestions for replacement? Should I go glass again? I don't have bltouch so I like how flat glass is, set it and forget it. But I've seen those magnetic plates that allow for super easy removal but just flexing the plate, but this bed is aluminum I think. Plus that seems similar to the stock ender 3 plate that I despise.
It was about that time....