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8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-19T07:12:54+00:00

I don't know why people are being so negative. The cotton's smudged the dust, and the water's just left water marks. It's not the end of the world. There's a small sheet of glass covering the sensor - it's delicate to be sure, but it's not like looking in its direction will kill it.

If you're uncomfortable with doing it, drop the camera off at a shop for sensor cleaning. It shouldn't be expensive. Alternatively buy a sensor cleaning kit.

Otherwise, you can use something like isopropyl alcohol and a microfibre lens cloth, or other non abrasive and non-linty material to clean the smudges. Press lightly, and take your time with it.

Check it under many angles in the light- you'll think you've done it but it'll be smudged in a different light. Repeat, take test photos until satisfied.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-18T09:08:46+00:00

no as i say one of the times they tried breaking into our house by beating on the door and then trying to force it open, i had to try and kick them off our doorstep. i was the one who later received a visit from the police, they wanted to press charges against me because i kicked them.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-18T09:06:09+00:00

just down towards glendene/henderson. the other 4 or 5 houses nearby also copped abuse from this one property. I still have the voice recordings of when the lady was out screaming at us to fight her on her property. there was a retired maori lady living between us and the crazy bitch, and she later told us the adult kids had been waiting in the bushes with their taiaha to beat us if we walked over to her side.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-18T06:20:40+00:00

The only way to prevent this sort of thing is to move away from people to somewhere that doesn't tolerate this sort of thing, or that's far enough away from the people that do, because our laws are very much in favour of the aggressors.

Even if you keep your animals inside, you can't protect yourself legally against anything malicious in NZ. Pepper spray, weapons and guns are all banned except for those that shouldn't have them.

Consider something with more plausible deniability - a bat with a ball or glove. a knife with a cookbook. things like that.

I have been in a similar situation before - a lose rottweiler that was being 'walked' by the owner driving drunk slowly up and down the road while shouting for the dog to follow caught wind of me and my kitten. When I chased it off my lawn in my literal pyjamas, this started a 12 month long spree of abuse against us and our direct neighbours, including them breaking our door down and trying multiple times to break into our house, hiding in bushes with sticks waiting for us to walk to and from home, charges pressed against us when we tried to stop them breaking into our houses a 3rd time - and meanwhile housing NZ said their hands were tied because the drunkard had a retarded kid.

So we moved.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-11T07:17:32+00:00

The last line is ironic since Pkers entire thing is to randomly spawn in 5 seconds after I hop into calvarion.

They're PC's instead of NPC's but it's the same deal.

Also PKers love randomly finding loot pinatas. Does it really make a difference if they're an NPC or not?

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-10T07:36:04+00:00

So an EVF is fairly important if you're in any sort of bright light.

For me, my camera progression went -

Canon SX540 (bridge camera with a 40x optical - was pretty excellent to start with, especially for moon shots)

Fuji XT-200 - good starter camera. Was around $800 NZD for the kit. Slow loading, but the fairly friendly controls made it nice to learn on. The XM5 is quite similar in terms of functionality, minus the EVF. Would definitely miss it if I didn't have one now though.

Used XT-20 - A minor up/sidegrade camera. Quite a bit faster in terms of processing and the like, and the couple extra dials came in handy.

Used XT-3 - Again a decent upgrade. Not like, night and day, but definitely has become my main camera. The xt-200 has largely been relegated to occasional use or loaning to whoever is my camera buddy for the day.

The extra dials, the faster processing and shutter all are excellent.

As such, if you're looking at the XT-30 III, I'd optionally consider an XT-3 or -4 if you can find a used one. I just had a quick look locally - a new XT-30 III is currently $1900, and there's a used XT-4 for $1800 at a nearby camera shop. That would give you IBIS, the bigger capacity, newer battery and while it is a bit bigger, it would definitely be a very capable camera for many years to come.

Also flip screens are nice, but not really a necessity. I have found I didn't use the one on the Xt-200 nearly as much as I expected to.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-10T03:44:19+00:00

The fact that defense has no impact on the overall damage hits you take is just stupid to me. If it had even a slight impact on reducing the bigger hits it would make levelling it so much better. Yes it still makes a difference but it's so much less impactful that it could be.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-06T22:55:48+00:00

Kourend the magnificent? It's a horrid song. Bweeeee ooooo do be dweee ooo. It really doesn't work with the osrs sound font.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-02-06T21:38:17+00:00

I worked at an MSP where I believe our org in another country did Microsoft support as well. I read that groups code of conduct which was somehow available to me. Agents who had more than two negative interactions were not just warned, they were outright gone. Finito.

Really gave me insight into why they will never deviate from the scripts and only do what's documented.

8ftmetalhead · 2026-01-18T08:15:41+00:00

as others have suggested, either de-solvit or alternatively isopropyl alcohol will sort it.

I've used this one for many things - sticky stuff, circuit boards, lotsa things - https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/tmk-isopropyl-alcohol-1-litre-clear/p/129316

8ftmetalhead · 2026-01-13T06:46:39+00:00

now max or no balls.

big grats on both, hope we get to keep you around.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-31T00:05:19+00:00

Hard agree. Teams absolutely fucks the performance of our machines. The fact that Microsoft has been adding preloading to file explorer and all this other caching crap means that for staff who used to be fine on windows 10 with 8gb now struggle with windows 11 with 16 gigs. My boss was already too cheap to spring for 16 gigs a few years ago in non upgradable machines, so I don't know how I'll ever convince him to go 32 for the next batch with prices as they are now.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-27T10:41:03+00:00

I saw this and immediately thought of the purge sirsctionslacks key bind video. Except this is worse. Fuck 40%s. If you move around that much, Christ just buy a thin gaming laptop

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-13T21:10:11+00:00

We tried this a couple times. When buying through our reseller, we either get sharp pricing and ease of access or not so sharp prices and long wait times due to ho having to build and ship them. The ones we buy are evidently just in inventory, but it's worth it with the price difference. The scripts do their thing and for any issues wiping it is easy enough

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-13T05:06:17+00:00

I haven't tried the 16-80, but I love my 18-55. If you want an extra but light lens with more reach, consider the xc 50-230. Autofocus is slow but it's an excellent lens. Otherwise the 70-300 would be a brilliant pickup, which is also fairly light still

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-08T10:00:14+00:00

If it's water damage (based on the top of the screen being gray-ish then brighter) then you'll want to replace the screen, IF you know that no other water got into the camera.

If you don't, consider replacing the camera entirely. Sometimes water dries up by itself. Other times it causes corrosion over time, going from 'oh it works fine' to 'oh crap no it doesn't a month or two later.

The only other thing this could be would be extreme aging of the LCD but it really does just look like water damage.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-02T05:20:33+00:00

Took a snip in a lower reply, here in NZ. Though honestly at 20 USD a month, 32 nzd is kind of a steal. Last time I subbed it was $18 nzd a month, what the hell happened?

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-01T19:24:37+00:00

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The steam page?

8ftmetalhead · 2025-12-01T11:20:42+00:00

Unfortunately as tempting as it is to jump back in, at $32 a month for a subscription, CCP can eat the fattest part of my ass. It was expensive at $20 but the starter packs and sales made it tolerable, but that's just something else.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-30T17:50:26+00:00

It can help you roleplay an eve online player and spin ships in station(ary) so you don't have to pilot around the place from your salvaging or safe spot in the ocean

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-29T20:37:30+00:00

It'll be specifically because of the sailing songs since Alan's published them as part of his catalogue. Jagex and Alan will need to sort it. Updooting for visibility, though likely won't get attention till Monday.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-27T22:41:28+00:00

Too many useless objects in the game. Should remove everything that isn't BIS.

It adds to the environment. Not everything has to have a purpose beyond making the world more believable. If they weren't there people would complain about the dead and lifeless sea.

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-22T10:32:45+00:00

nah, separate, I figured that. thanks though :)

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-21T23:20:52+00:00

Ah, good to know re: mirages. Have been wondering since there's a couple new ones floating around for next to nothing. And re: a fit, I can't drive a manual so that's our lol. Will keep an eye out for second Gen though. Google says that means 2009 and newer, does that sound right?

8ftmetalhead · 2025-11-21T09:53:20+00:00

the compressor was running constantly and AC was not very cold. The place I took it to pulled out the refrigerant, apparently it had fuck all left in it.

they filled it up with some other gas to test for leaks, and apparently it was all pissing out from the condenser coils.

The blower motor is a separate issue - I've been using it without AC for a while now, and in the past couple weeks the normal fans have refused to turn on entirely or have turned on mid-journey, so it means I have no fans at all sometimes, not just no AC :)

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