[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Very much so. They just call them "gifts" from "friends" and that's the end of it.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Who wants to bet they just had their fingers bent when they stenciled them?

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Yarp, secret service used to get Uzis

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

I will absolutely eat a whole can of olives and not regret it a bit.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If it's not responding when plugged in correctly, you are almost certainly fucked. I have never seen this level of physical damage to a CPU and had it still be functional. This is severely bent for a PCB, it has a visible crease in it, which means a break. You have likely broken circuit traces and/or solder connections between the silicon and the PCB. I doubt you'll be able to return it with this level of damage, so I guess you might as well try bending it back, but you will probably just break it further. The bend is preventing the contact points in the ball grid array from touching the corresponding contacts on the motherboard, so there is a very slight chance that if you bend them back so they all touch when you clamp it down, it could work, but I would keep my expectations low.

It's a shitty way to learn the lesson about taking your time and paying close attention when assembling your computer, but hey, now you know and hopefully won't do it again. All PC components are made to fit only in the correct orientation, and forcing them to fit in the wrong orientation will usually destroy the component, the motherboard or both.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

You should be able to hit the power button while on a call and turn off the display, then put it to your ear. Much less effort than the people around you have to make to keep from slapping you

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

This link is absolute cancer on mobile, unusable

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you're on a VPN, it reloads about every minute, meaning you can't even scroll through your game library, or read the summary or watch a video for a game you're considering buying. Their shoddy, clueless coding literally makes it impossible to shop in their store without disconnecting from my VPN, which is not happening.

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Distillation is not the only way to remove water. You can distill ethanol up to 95.5% and then remove the rest of the water by chemical drying

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Whoever ronbeehive on tiktok is, they're a loser for stealing an Onion headline and then putting their own watermark on it

[-] treesquid@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

It wasn't flight-worthy, it just hadn't crashed yet. If your jet stopped properly responding to controls and you had the opportunity to eject and probably not die rather than crash and almost certainly die, what do you think you would do? Also if it lost power, it would still fly for a bit because momentum and airfoils and physics and such, but not be transmitting its position because no power, which makes it kinda hard to track because like, y'know, stealth aircraft

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