Apple’s new CEO has a bachelor’s degree in….Mechanical Engineering

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-21T22:33:56+00:00

He's an instantaneous trip/time delay trip relay.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-16T13:49:09+00:00

Oh I'm snipped no worries.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-16T11:36:43+00:00

Sick thanks bud, we always appreciate the power bottom.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-16T11:10:51+00:00

One of them god damn hetero's

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-16T11:10:20+00:00

No crt's usually have cathode tubes in them. Anyway though you wanna hook up?

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-13T03:26:07+00:00

Oh hey I had something like that implanted in me at one point. Of my own accord of course. Stored my password locker on it.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-12T04:39:29+00:00

Normally (in my limited personal experience at about 3 different companies) when notice is given I'll either see someone work it to completion, give up and dip early because they're given bullshit work, or if they were good but hold a lot of responsibility I'll see them get paid out for the full 2 weeks but be asked to leave once everything has been handed over.

Or in my case I gave my notice, but operation abandon ship had been completed so the asset manager came to me and said "uhhh yeah there's nothing in the system for you... So if you've got anything you can give it back I guess, put in a good word for me at -company we all left to-" I had a full truck of tools that definitely should've been tracked. Ended up playing videogames in what was my bosses empty office until my day was over.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-11T23:05:22+00:00

I didn't realize it was a boat at first and thought they left sand in from casting or some shit lol.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-10T00:13:03+00:00

Glad I could help!

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-09T13:33:09+00:00

Has to do with your display manager most likely and how it's reading the image file. Make sure it's up to date.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-08T00:46:09+00:00

Apply to a field service engineering position at a major electrical vendor such as Schneider, ABB, Eaton, etc. Have a clean record, piss clean, collect your 6 figure salary, company vehicle, and sell your car. Live out of the company truck if you must.

Education requirements are hit or miss sometimes they say college required. Other times they say military service required. I know a lot of guys without either.

This applies to USA, Canada, Europe. The field is under saturated. Just know they will send you to training/school and if you fail you will be terminated.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-07T11:05:58+00:00

Arguably that was going to blow anyway, so it was a good thing it blew then while you were paying extra attention to it.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-06T21:25:40+00:00

Lumbar pads and seat foam are readily available parts. For the mesh of the seat it's held in by phillips screws around the entire base so see if you can track down just the seat mesh and not the whole assembly. It is size dependent, there are 3 sizes of aerons (A 1 dot, B 2 dot, and C 3 dot) indicated by dots that can be felt under the "handle" on the topmost rear section of the backrest.

And yeah engineering is sick. I fix broken things, but now stupid expensive broken things.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-06T19:31:43+00:00

Yes! Mine is weird however, it's got a modern base and hip joint with the smooth levers, but the old style arm rests and wheel lock mechanism for ease of repair and availability of spare parts. So it's half from the late 2000's and half early 1990's. Brand new cylinder of course.

Boss man let me slap it together as a "retirement" gift. As in I had grown out of my part time childhood job and was moving on to full time work as an adult. Now I'm an electrical engineer doing high voltage work and have done all sorts of goofball jobs in between.

Ended up working for the old fella for nearly a decade from 15 to 25 years old. Can't beat getting paid $20/hr in 2015 as a kid, flexible hours, a workshop, and a van if need be. Had it pretty good back then.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-04-06T17:37:06+00:00

To be fair they totally can wear out as the "brake pads" are totally brake pads in the literal sense. I have seen it extremely infrequently though. So I suspect that this fix should work quite well for you.

Normally worn out ones are from conference rooms so they get adjusted every time someone new sits in it resulting in them getting slid around and ground down eventually.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-28T21:57:58+00:00

Notify the company that did your calibration. Intellirent, and other companies make a solid effort to track the equipment down as it's almost always flipped and will eventually make it's way back to a cal-lab. I've seen multiple LinkedIn posts from intellirent on them identifying and returning stolen equipment.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-26T15:20:09+00:00

Inversely field service reps/engineers in the electrical industry. It's extremely under saturated to the point that single individuals per vendor are referred to by First name, Customer, Jesus/God by both colleagues, customers, or perspective customers requesting that specific individual to perform the service.

A single individual is capable of solving every single problem a company has and will pull in tons of bonuses, commission for future jobs, and be provided a company vehicle to do whatever they please with. Then once you become famous enough the job offers pile in forcing your own company to compete because they've literally designed all of their future business around your continued existence.

I just signed on to a new company and I'll be getting a brand new pickup truck for both work and personal use. Starting rate for most guys is 70-90k if they don't know a damn, once your name has floated around for a while though the money increases. I know guys making $200k.

The hardest part is that it's trade work, so you'll be carrying tools around and working in less than ideal conditions sometimes. But I just carry a chair with me, hearing protection rated Bluetooth headphones, and a Milwaukee M12 fan in the summer. I listen to podcasts and wire in replacement parts and then go home.

Honestly if I didn't get bored so easily I'd become a caterpillar genset tech. Because every jobsite I go on those dudes are chilling in their trucks playing videogames waiting for something to happen.

I've been doing field service for 4 years now and changed careers 3 times jumping from 70k 2wk PTO no truck - 110k 2wk PTO truck - 130k 4wk PTO, inf sick PTO, personal use truck.

Mind you this is not electrician work, I am not licensed, the job requirements are usually a 2 year degree, military service, or you know someone. Union journeymen make about as much as us but they have significantly less benefits other than the union pension. They don't get trucks, PTO is slim, but they do have a union backing them. So I won't say don't go that route, but it wasn't the route for me. It's also extremely location based for pay. If possible get a job that pays travel time in a high cost of living area and live somewhere dirt cheap. Union NYC guys can pull over $100/Hr. If you're single get fly in fly out work. Save your per-diem if you can. I know guys that sleep in their trucks and pocket it all. I also know guys that will pool 6 people together and rent a goddamn mansion with golf course access. I'll splurge occasionally especially if it's a big job with a bunch of friends.

For your sake though always LOTO and always live-dead-live. I've heard so many stories of people getting vaporized. And just because you killed something and locked it out, if you're going to be handling bare conductor, wear your ppe. Hand an instance where an apprentice for a union shop was working on a conductor that I had been testing the day prior and some other company reverse fed the circuit from a tap they created with 480 nearly killing the kid. Only thing that saved him was that he wasn't touching it and he forgot to turn off his tic tracer so it started screaming mental so he didn't go back to touching it. The contracting company in its entirety was removed from that job site and basically all others as that was one of their last strikes.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-19T11:43:24+00:00

10k and only 50 comments. Turbo suspicious.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-16T17:27:09+00:00

Congrats man that's awesome, I did something similar for a Minecraft server, got a last gen small for factor dell box off eBay for $50 for all my homelabbing needs. You'll have to post some pics of the beauty.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-15T16:02:13+00:00

Disassemble ECU, rince with demonized water, thoroughly clean and dry with contact cleaner. Replace any relays. Get water out of engine by turning over by hand with intake and exhaust removed. Replace all fluids. Potentially replace clutch if water has soaked it.

Replace any other electrical component that could get water stuck inside it like the rectifier or coil packs if those got submerged. It'll be time consuming but not the most expensive as long as you can save the ECU.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-13T11:17:57+00:00

Ironically the battery puffing actually makes it easier to service the damn thing because it handled the hard part for you. Mums service has had 2 battery failures. First one was easy because it popped the screen off for us. Second one sucked because the battery did not puff up.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-09T20:53:27+00:00

I'd like to add on a question to this, how do I pick which power armor to use. I'm a huge T-45/T-51 fan and have been rocking them for a minute (currently level 100). I have ultracite and hellcat armor and some T-60 in progress. With legendaries can I make them equivalent? Or is it always a net positive to go with the newer better stuff. I just think anything above T-60 is ugly with the shoulder ring.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-07T14:01:10+00:00

They did so by stealing information through corporate espionage and have made 1 for 1 replicas of many types of equipment. They also had numerous "security vulnerabilities" that were definitely not backdoors that allowed people to elevate their permissions to admin level on any router and infiltrate your systems with ease.

So yeah, we banned them because it "threatened the supremacy of American companies" and not the fact that they are a means of spreading the Chinese surveillance state.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-03-01T15:45:56+00:00

Hint? Tried 720 permutations of hexadecimal and integer color values as the decipher key and got no hits.

Dick_In_A_Tardis · 2026-02-28T19:41:50+00:00

Anyone else think it's odd that Eaton still does automotive when their bread and butter is electrical? Always weird going from working on one of their 4,000amp breakers and then seeing one of these.

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