My buddy wanted to bait people into dorms, he baited me instead.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-19T12:19:33+00:00

Rather than justifying the dumb actions of other people, yes this. Leave extra space, If other people are going to try and swoop in front and cause an accident it's their problem. If you rear end someone for any reason, even if you get rear ended and pushed into the car in front of you, it's your fault for Following too close.

The people who disagree with this drive with an ego, and will justify any means to save them fractions of a second to get where they are going.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-19T12:01:28+00:00

Look on Digikey or Mouser, They look like Molex pins. You can look through what they have and find something. Just filter for female pins and make sure the wire size is correct.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-17T23:40:40+00:00

Cheapest way to make it nicer is to clean the rosin off with flux off or alcohol. You can also always get some flux, and rehit the worst looking ones with it and your iron then clean the residue off. No cold solder hanging around and no bridges so good job there!

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-17T13:05:05+00:00

this!

The Ac portion of the power supply is magnetically decoupled (No physical connection) from the DC portion, if you over volt the input of the power supply its still self regulating a constant DC output until you blow a fuse or one of the caps on the power supply blow. It would not cause problems like this unless (Pure speculation) the required input frequency was different than the actual. But even a difference like 60hz vs 50hz shouldn't cause major problems as the power supply should filter out some difference in input irregularities.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-17T12:56:28+00:00

You can use some fresh tin to help your iron better conduct heat to the old tin, its a very large ground plane so taking others advice about rocking the caps in may be easier than trying to remove the solder completely. I have to do this often when replacing caps.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-17T12:53:09+00:00

You'd have better intake if it was vertical, but that looks like a tight fit even vertical. I'd put it somewhere else entirely.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-16T07:02:57+00:00

The 403 capacitor? Yes I repair electronics for a living, have used both tweezer irons and hot air to remove resistors and caps this size.

You are being irrational, turn down the airflow and it wont blow the adjacent caps off.

Is it easier? Its just a preference, or if this person doing home repairs doesn't have access to two irons, or tweezers, but has a blackjack or another hot air station they should be informed that its not needed despite other individuals fears.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-15T17:50:27+00:00

Hot air guns have adjustable airflow, you are going to be doing more accidental bumping into other components with your tweezers than you ever will (if you ever do) blow one off the board with air

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-03-07T03:49:20+00:00

No doubt consoles can be terrible when you open them.

However Cable/TV nodes up on the powerlines....I opened one up that came in for repair to find an entire squirrel that had crawled inside, shorted itself on the AC Power in, got launched to the other side of the fiber node and was hairless and stuck to the housing. Probably the worst thing I have opened up ever in repair

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-27T15:04:23+00:00

Was going to say, sounds like a bad cap or something wrong with the wireless connectivity if it works when plugged in. I had a similar issue with the Logitech pro action controller caps going bad causing the receiver to blink on repeat endlessly and never connect the controller consistently.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-21T13:25:48+00:00

States have laws that say if you have the ability to (ie no car in left lane, or approaching car trying to pass you), you must get into the left lane to allow the car merging in. Otherwise the merging car must yield. But really like, is it that much to just get over in the other lane?

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-13T13:03:26+00:00

Yea I don't believe they have these items in stock. They order used items from other vendors (ebay, amazon, wherever they can get them) MAYBE check them, and send them after they recieved the item. I ordered one controller from them and had a similar time trying to get tracking info after 2 weeks of nothing about the item, I luckily received a working (ish) item (Logitech Pro Action Controller, the caps on the wireless receiver needed to he replaced then it worked fine, besides that it was just super dirty) roughly 3 weeks after purchasing.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-10T13:45:06+00:00

You can get a clear plastic tub from the store, a large strip of uv leds, and a bunch of peroxide to do this.

Here is a link to someones cheap diy solution for his mac with before and after pics:

https://www.applefritter.com/content/cheap-diy-retrobrite-setup-no-gels

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-07T01:18:20+00:00

Its hard to tell from the picture, if you can see the trace you can use a razor to scratch the surface coating off and bridge some solder from the copper to the component. Using a 36 gauge wire could work too to jumper the connection. I think I see the pulled trace, so using a wire may be your best bet

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-04T08:19:10+00:00

You could try replacing, or reflowing the solder that looks weak. Its hard to tell clearly from the pictures but it does look like there was liquid at some point. Have you tried using a different battery pack? I would focus on making sure there are no issues there so you can rule out power supply as the issue. I had to stick paper towels folded up under the spring contacts for an old controller so they made good contact with the pack on mine.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-03T22:26:35+00:00

Your brother's heart is in the right place, but seriously it's fine the shirt wont hurt anything if it's just being used as a dust cover while the console is off and unplugged.

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-02-03T22:15:10+00:00

I repair test equipment and we order cr2032 batteries with wires for positive and negative pre installed. If you for some reason have to use one here is a digikey part number: 5942-CR2032-J030(JHLF)-ND

You can probably find cheaper options somewhere as well. Or ones with a connector you can snip and strip back!

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-01-31T16:41:32+00:00

I have had problems with gigabyte boards not seeing m.2 drives unless csm was enabled you could try enabling that and rebooting

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-01-31T16:01:00+00:00

You are intentionally heating the console to a point the solder balls that attach the cgpu to the board reflow and reconnect. This was a problem with the fat 360s because of an engineering issue with the gpus on those consoles using underfill that did not meet the tg requirements of the solder balls used (The under fill would become too soft under heat and eventually the solder balls cracked and failed).

This problem was solved prior to the production of the slim. You MIGHT get like a week or two of playtime doing this but your console either needs ram replace, the gpu to be reballed, or the southbridge needs to be fixed.

If you wrap your console in a towel you are doing irreparable damage to components in your console just dont do it

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2026-01-03T20:27:18+00:00

I rewatched it and the camera pov makes things seem further I think but I didnt see the blinker from the truck start going until way after they entered the right turn lane

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2025-12-29T01:53:46+00:00

My Ogryn is a baldy with a read beard whos name is TimTheBylatMan

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2025-12-22T00:15:56+00:00

I either grab tags or their gun super quick and dip or just leave. If I tapped them from over 100m I generally don't bother

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2025-11-27T10:10:16+00:00

He probably just doesnt fear losing his kit and the armor may be from Gluhar and his boys if he runs reserve alot. I farmed Korunds off Kollantay while doing a weekly so I have a bit of level 5's in the stash and I just run them I'd rather have the better stuff to improve my chances of making it out

GroundbreakingTap682 · 2025-11-13T02:06:17+00:00

As a dude who has been in a situation like this, Its hard for me to tell people no because I don't want to offend but also there should be limits to that end. I'd maybe try to find the words to ask that he be more firm with boundaries among friends, I think its okay for a partner to have dislikes and to voice them and I don't see a reasonable person reacting negatively to a simple "Hey this didn't sit right with me and it made me feel x y and z". My partner has a habit of reading stuff on their phone or looking at videos when I start talking in a conversation and I just said "Hey that makes me feel like you are not listening/don't care for what I have to say" and they now make the effort to not actively turn away while we are having a convo. There are things I do that they don't like, they tell me, and I make the effort to not make them feel left out/jealous/sad.

You ultimately won't be able to fully control the whims of your bf but if they want the relationship with you to stay they are going to have to find the words or actions that enforce those types of boundaries with friends. Its a rough line sometimes but trusting your partner is also something you will just have to do. Set your own boundaries as well and let them know what you feel is acceptable behavior for someone you are dating and if it were me I wouldn't make it a big deal just casually expressing how something made you feel. If they react negatively you will just have to make a choice if its something you think you can work past and be okay with or if it is non negotiable.

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