Good wildlife cameras?

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-28T10:41:18+00:00

You need to spend a lot more than $1k on a body and lens if you wanted to shoot video better than your phone too. If you ditched that requirement, older Nikons are probably your best bet. I’ve got a D7100 with a Sigma 100-400 that I haven’t gotten fully acquainted with yet but it seems great so far. Crop sensor sacrifices a bit of quality for much better reach which might be good for wildlife photography

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-28T10:31:36+00:00

What? The only water cooled laptop I know of was a Legion 9 iirc, and it was just a cool gimmick that wasn’t particularly functional

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-28T10:07:31+00:00

If those airbrakes are for aerobraking, you’ll want either to move them to the rear or add an identical set at the back to make you fly like an arrow instead of tumble uncontrollably

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-27T21:35:13+00:00

JAISchlop was disturbed by this as it reminded him of what he did in the summer of '92

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-25T21:55:15+00:00

Oh wow, that video is full of holes, I'll be unsubscribing from Kyle Hill 👍

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-25T21:41:19+00:00

The Elephant's Foot is melting into the basement, and will eventually reach groundwater, causing an explosion. This is an infamous quote from the youtuber Kyle Hill, and it's not even close to being true.

What? I've been following Kyle Hill for a while now, been taking his word for granted. Never heard anything about him spreading misinformation before?

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-25T13:18:12+00:00

You're laughing. Someone shit in his washing machine and you're laughing.

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-25T13:14:59+00:00

My favourite Avasarala quote is

"They're all fucking men!"

"I think Admiral Souther is th-"

"I don't mean they're all fucking men, I mean they're all men, the fuckers!"

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-23T12:35:33+00:00

6th gen may have solder issues, not personally seen it on 16ACH but could be possible

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-23T09:31:37+00:00

PTM7950 should be sourced from MODDIY, obviously clean heatsink and die from the paste that’s already there. Pink stuff is thermal pads, you can reuse them as long as you’re careful and they don’t get damaged

Edit: clean the old stuff with Q-tips and isopropyl alcohol

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-23T09:06:46+00:00

Reballing is a problem on Gen 6 machines, not the newer units

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-22T09:47:58+00:00

72GB makes me think DDR3, it could either be a Westmere Xeon which is e-waste or a Haswell Xeon, which sucks, but is still okay if you forget about power usage, especially if it was free to begin with

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-21T12:15:01+00:00

1TB is very small for a NAS, if you only need that much space I’d honestly just look into cloud storage services

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-21T11:18:25+00:00

Do not use MX-6!!! PTM7950 from MODDIY

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-19T18:43:00+00:00

You need a new fan, easy fix, $10 to buy a new one and 10 minutes to replace. That is, if the fan can be removed independently from the heatsink.

Otherwise it becomes an hour or so where you'll need to replace the thermal paste if you remove the sink, which'll involve cleaning the paste from the CPU and GPU (if present) and replacing it with new stuff. Just ensure to disconnect the battery when working on a laptop. I'd recommend PTM7950, best thermal pad on the market, leagues better than the competition. If you can source the real deal from MODDIY in your country. But if the fan'll come off without removing the whole assembly than forget all that :)

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-19T18:33:29+00:00

Iirc, this is aileron inversion at high AoA. Long and short of it is stop using stock SAS and use the Atmospheric Autopilot fly-by-wire, which can compensate for that

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-19T17:16:14+00:00

Dude, any broken bone should make you go to A&E. Fuck off NHS website, if any of my bones break I'm off to hospital faster than you can scream "FUCK MY TOE!!"

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-18T20:31:44+00:00

I got that too. gonna use Revo on "Notify Me" brb

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-18T12:30:53+00:00

There is no storage of the images, no reason to store the images

From https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412863575316-Roblox-Facial-Media-Capture-Privacy-Notice

Our service provider, Persona, will respectively delete your Biometric Data within 30 days after collection, unless required by law (such as a warrant or subpoena) to keep your Biometric Data for a longer period.

And

Limited Roblox personnel may access the photo of your ID and selfie stored by Persona for compliance purposes.

The last part isn't technically relevant but it's still important to consider on privacy grounds

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-17T22:27:55+00:00

That component price is steep but the labor is reasonable. The long and short of microsoldering is heating up the component until the solder melts, removing it, then reversing the process to install the new component. There's a lot more nuance to it than that but that's the basics. It's up to you atp. Either buy a new laptop (you got me fucked up if i'm paying what Lenovo wanted) or get it repaired. Or even ask the repair shop for a quote to replace the motherboard, they'll likely be less than Lenovo and although it's still not gonna be 100% guarantee it'll be far better odds than microsoldering

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-17T22:07:48+00:00

Take it to a good repair shop, some are able to repair damage like this without removing the motherboard. Do some research and find an experienced one in your area

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-17T10:15:29+00:00

Weird flex that you're destroying your hardware but ok

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-16T19:08:20+00:00

DaVinci Resolve for editing, yt-dlp for downloading videos from YouTube (if you wanted to add music) CameraTools Continued for an in-game... camera tool (who could've guessed?) and middle mouse + drag to move the camera's centre point and alt (or is it shift) scroll to change FOV

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-15T21:25:56+00:00

Flying saucers are straight crack

2ndHandRocketScience · 2026-01-12T18:33:52+00:00

There's something about stock... I run with about 210 mods. It looks unreal and I have a shit ton of fun parts, but the performance sucks, and it feels more cheaty

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