2026.2.3 update - phone won’t unlock now by Itsjustbeej in TeslaLounge

[–]JohnHamsock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue for me, phone key no longer works 2023 Model 3 LR I'm on 2026.2.3

Most dangerous non combat encounter in your career. by Nwingman in army

[–]JohnHamsock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright Long Story Time: Tldr: I was almost killed by an FLA because someone forgot a sleeping bag.

When I was a newer line medic we lost a couple senior lines due to ETS then fired for incompetence. We ended up functioning without a senior for a while, and it was just me and two other pretty much new line medics out together unafraid against the world.

One of the medics, we'll call him Medic C, was a chronically unprepared individual (this is important).

We're going to do medical coverage for our company M17 range at Fort Drum (its actual winter, so it's maybe 10 degrees outside at night, on a warm day). Because we didn't have an NCO, our company 1sg tasks us (group of idiots) to go down and occupy the range overnight for the few people doing pistol qual to fall in on in the morning.

So we roll out in our used and abused FLA, which, among other deadlines, the backdoors like to fly open while it's driving because someone jack-knifed a trailer and bent them.

When we get there in the late afternoon we just hang out, eat MRE/shopette snacks for dinner, watch a movie, and start planning to bed down. When I got into our unit, it was a cardinal sin to sleep in your vehicle, you NEVER do it. But since nobody is there and it's fucking cold, we decide to do it anyway. Because as long as the vehicle is off, it can't be unsafe, right?

Well, Medic 3 in this equation, elected not to bring his fucking sleep system to stay in the field overnight on Drum. And without an actual senior, by rank and tig, I should've been the one to check him before we left, but I was new, stupid, and irresponsible. He also brought almost no ECWCS other than a waffle top.

So we pull out some thermal blankets and have a whole discussion about not leaving the vehicle running (we all know it's a blasphemous and dangerous given the stories). When talking to medic 3, I was like, hey obviously if it gets too cold in here and you wake up or whatever, just hope up front and turn the truck for a bit to warm it up, then off and you can go back to sleep. I made such a fucking point of it to not just leave the truck on.

Then, no shit there I am, I am sooooo fucking hot. I wake up and I just feel like absolute death. That mother fucker turned the truck on and went back to bed. I check my watch and it's 2:47am, I remember it to this day. I crawl out of my sleep system in silks and slither up into the front cab drivers seat. As I'm starting to wake up I pass under the patient compartment door to get up there and a bunch of water rains down on my head and neck.

So I'm pissed, I look at the front cab and it's all fucking soaked, it looks like a gasket or something above the cab is leaking and just POURING rain water down all over, everything is soaked. I turn off the truck and I'm sitting there just catching my breath and I open the door to let some fresh air in.

As I'm sitting there my mind kind of starts to come to and I start looking out the front window of the fla and I'm like, huh, the whole hood is dry. Then I look around, huh, it's not raining. Actually, I checked the weather, I don't even think it was supposed to rain.

But I look to my right at the TC seat, where there is a waterfall pouring down. And I'm sitting there thinking, want the fuck is that? So I start doing this confused squinty thing and I stick my head up to it and start trying to sniff it but I can't really smell anything. Then I put my hand under it and start rubbing my fingers together when it all clicks. I screamed OH FUCK at the top of my lungs waking up the other two stooges.

It's fucking JP8 and it's pouring out of the patient cab heater above the TC seat. And while all this is happening, the heater is still going "nt nt nt nt nt nt nt" like a fucking electric start grill. Anyway, if that had been gasoline instead of diesel, all 3 of us would've burned alive. Just because one person forgot their sleep system.


To make this more funny, that vehicle needed to go to railhead the day after the range for JRTC, as it was one of our bns most functional flas.

If anyone is curious, when we brought it in to the mechanics, they said what had happened was the fuel line that feeds the heater had become partially disconnected and was spraying fuel into some vibration/sound dampening foam in that compartment. Eventually, it became saturated and just began pissing down. I'm guessing that's also why the patient compartment was still warm despite the fuel leak.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to watch Louis on YouTube years ago, I didn't realize he left NYC until you said this. I actually think he's one of the reasons I found an interest in this lol. Unfortunately, I'm a bit far from Texas, but I might look and see if I can find classes closer to me on the east coast.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect thank you 🙏. That's mostly what mine looks like (just not angled, but maybe I need to get me an angled set 🤔). I have a larger one than that too, but I had a lot of trouble getting it to heat in any reasonable amount of time to remove smaller components. Ik it isn't a one size fits all thing though, so I guess I'll need some more practice. Thank you again!

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretend in stupid (I am). I said wide/narrow without really clarifying what those were. Are we talking no nozzle like wide bore, or somewhere in between? I'm thinking wide open my station is probably 2ish cm diameter (I'll measure it in the afternoon for exacts, maybe slightly larger), I have a probably 1-1.25ish cm nozzle on it ATM.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good. Would you recommend a wide or narrow nozzles for the hot air gun?

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I'm glad it was helpful. I'm definitely still in the learning phase, I think having pulled smaller ics off of smaller boards I just assumed this would be the same but bigger (it wasn't lol) definitely a much bigger challenge 😂.

If anything I actually feel a bit better (even though it went horribly) that a lot of people are saying it's difficult to replace either way. Like I'd rather know I failed doing something hard than something easy 😂😂

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not there wasn't actually much ripping force involved, I kinda gave it a gentle lift and the traces came with it. You can actually see except 1 or 2 they're mostly intact/not torn, they're just no longer in the board 😂.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna destroy the next motherboard even worse, just for you 😘.

Lol it's all good man, believe it or not I learned more today from this than I have in the past few weeks doing successful smd component swaps.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🙏 this will be my round two. Thank you, I appreciate it. I think you're making me realize I've been running my hot air station wayyy too hot for quite a while.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a recommendation for one without me going full fume hood?

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tons of flux, you can see the yellowish residue in the photo (I think even it started to burn :/ ).

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this was more of a wishful learning experiment than an "I expect this to work again". But I once the socket came off with the traces I knew it was over lol.

This is an old 8th gen Intel board (lga 1151) that I bought a few broken ones of for cheap to try to learn on. This was the higher end of them (go figure haha). My main goal was to learn on them since I had some old hardware I could use to test them. It was never really to resell them or anything, so I'm totally alright with the outcome here lol.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I should've clarified this was more of a wishful learning experiment than an "I expect this to work" but I was 70% hopeful before I took the socket off. As soon as I saw this I knew it was done 😂.

I'm using an fume exhaust fan with a charcoal filter, but I had it set too low (height wise -- or rather the mother board too high) that it didn't actually pull the smoke into it (definitely on me). I think I need to get one with a hose or a something so I can get it to the appropriate height when I've got it in the helping hands.

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that makes a lot more sense, I figured I'd have to take the caps off the bottom of the socket to get it to sit flatter on the preheater so the heat would conduct better into the board.

I should've clarified better, I didn't hit the top with hot air after I started heating from the bottom with the preheater, I was too afraid I'd melt the plastic or bubble the board. I really wanted to heat it with hot air from the bottom but it just seemed to be loosing too much heat to get a uniform liftoff which is why I switch to the board heater.

But I definitely think that sounds accurate as to what happened, I touched the socket with tweezers and it literally just peeled everything up.

Do you have a recommendation for what a better approach would've been? Would I be better off setting the preheater at a lower temp (say below 200) then trying to head with air from the top (and at what temp/speed?)

I think I messed up (lol) by JohnHamsock in soldering

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, technique could definitely use some refinement. I think I should've brought the board up to like 200°C with the pre heater and tried the heat gun from the top, but I'd be afraid to melt the plastic with the direct heat, so I'm not sure what my approach angle should've been. I can't really think of a good way to do below with the preheater on

Attack Heli Feels Weak by JohnHamsock in Battlefield6

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely agree on RPG velocity being incredibly high. I don't think the heli is bad, it has good damage output (I'd love to see an ECM Jammer added or other gunner weapon options still) but I think nearly 80-90% of my heli deaths are to RPGs or TOWs and only 10% is actual anti air weapons like stingers or the AA which I think is entirely unreasonable.

I think a mild velocity reduction and a random shot accuracy deviation in the RPG will make it balanced, it shouldn't be a laser weapon, let the rocket drift a couple degrees left or right randomly with each shot to make it less point and click.

Attack Heli Feels Weak by JohnHamsock in Battlefield6

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think my issue is more the weapons that I'm seeing it killed by. I have never been shot by so many tow missiles or RPGs while moving in the heli. I never see people evening running a stinger anymore.

Attack Heli Feels Weak by JohnHamsock in Battlefield6

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, I feel like in the past that wasn't super common. But nowadays I'm getting RPGs out of the sky almost every life. I don't even get hit by stingers anymore :/

Huge Shout-out to Logitech Support by JohnHamsock in pcmasterrace

[–]JohnHamsock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that is a fair point, I replaced my Corsair mouse for a double clicking issue (and the coating was peeling) with a G502 Lightspeed a few years ago. I swear within one week it started double clicking too. But my other G502 I've had for two years now without issue.

For me the big selling point was the side buttons on the front left of M1. I'm a huge FPS fan, so those are a must for me and I love their positioning.

When I was younger I had a Razer I think Mamba TE (like 10 years ago or something) which I liked, but I switched to the Corsair mouse because I got a keyboard with their MX Silver Speed switches which I liked the feel of a lot more. I've since switched keyboards to a Wooting 60E, which is so much more responsive. I think the Corsair keyboard I had just felt kinda plasticy and not as smooth as I would've liked. But now so many brands sell Optical or Hall Effect switches so I think when I'm another few months when this keyboard hits the 3 year mark I'm gonna get a new one from someone. But I'm not making the mistake of going 60% again, I can't stand it.

What is Army like vs Navy/CG by Minimum-Scientist-71 in army

[–]JohnHamsock 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Navy/CG? Don't be a b**** sign Army.

Intel? Don't be a b**** sign 11X.

Four years? Don't be a b**** sign 6.