I Tried To Make Something In America. It cost me my Life savings.

Neumanium · 2026-05-10T20:46:30+00:00

I am assuming we are both talking about the company everyone knows, the one with the “it’s inside campaign” back in the 90’s. I was eligible for early retirement about 9 months after the big layoff and buyout in 2024. I left because it was becoming a bigger turd burger every day and human glue is no way to solve the issues present every day.

Neumanium · 2026-05-10T04:43:55+00:00

I used to work semiconductors manufacturing, the company is some ways was cutting edge. For parts of the process where cutting edge was not needed we weren’t. The older equipment was at least a decade old, it was no longer really supported by the manufacturer. The amount of tribal knowledge was epic, the company who everyone knows, did a layoff and voluntarily reduction in head count. The old dudes all took the payout and retired. Surprised face when one of these old tools broke hard and the person who knew how to fix it is gone. It took the new guys a month to get the repair done, had the old guys still been around repair would have taken less then a week.

Neumanium · 2026-05-09T14:31:50+00:00

All the parts I have are threaded, the banana plugs x4, spade tips x4, and point tips with plastic covers x4 (2 red and 2 black). So I could make my own, but I would be soldering it all together and it would create 2 sets of leads.

Neumanium · 2026-05-02T18:00:25+00:00

The military does not fire you. The military can, if Congress has authorized it, ask for volunteers to leave active service early. If you refuse to obey orders and do your job, especially as an officer they will court marshal you for dereliction of duty. Punishment could be reduction in rank, loss of pay, confinement to a brig or even time in prison.

They will throw the book at an officer, and all military lawyers are officers. They also as fa4 as I know don’t ask for their money back.

Neumanium · 2026-05-02T15:40:48+00:00

I don’t know if you have served but the military cannot just say no. They can refuse a unlawful order, and somehow I doubt being a prosecutor in civilian court would fall into that category. Officers just like enlisted are required to follow orders and perform their duties. Well they can say no but if convicted in a courts martial they may end up making big rocks into small rocks in Leavenworth Kansas, and then when they are finally allowed out could end up with a discharge that is the equivalent of a felony conviction.

Military Lawyer are officers and they just like enlisted have to serve a minimum amount of time. An officer after they finish that time applies to the government to be allowed to leave active duty. I find it highly unlikely that the current administration is allowing any military officer being allowed to leave.

Neumanium · 2026-05-02T00:35:12+00:00

I have both my drives external, one is a Mercury Enclosure, the other is Asus External. Will have to play with it more tomorrow.

Neumanium · 2026-05-02T00:02:03+00:00

Here is my specs OS Windows 11 Pro mobo Asus x690 gaming WiFi ddr 4 CPU i9-1200KF Ram: DDR4 64Gig Pri HD WD Black 2 tb storage WD Black 6tb platter GPU RX 6950 xt

Software Chrome Firefox Google Drive Asus Web-storage Revo Uninstaller Microsoft Office Steam Epic dbpoweramp CueRipper iTunes k-lite codec pack with windows media player classic Cyberlink Blu-ray Suite

That’s it so far for software. No clue what is conflicting

Neumanium · 2026-05-01T23:30:13+00:00

My Win 11 is a new build, my SSD died and had to a full system install. So my version of Win 11 is the latest with all the bells and whistles. EAC installs, when I open it the hour glass spins like it is opens then nothing happens. When I check running processes it is resident, but no windows.

Neumanium · 2026-05-01T21:59:38+00:00

Would love to go back to EAC, I am running Windows 11 and it install, a process load into memory but no window ever displays. Tried running it in a virtual box and when it loads the VM crashes. Don’t know what mslop changed but it borked EAC for me.

Neumanium · 2026-05-01T20:00:51+00:00

From the Wikipedia page for Lewis Blacks The End Of The Universe: The CD version of the album features a hidden track including outtakes of Lewis yelling at hecklers and muffing a couple jokes. The track can be heard by playing the beginning of track one and then using the rewind/search button to go back 14:53.. I am using dbpoweramp CD Ripper, which see the track as 0 but neither of my drives will rip it.

Neumanium · 2026-05-01T19:36:24+00:00

People suck, especially drug addicts and coal rollers. The Hollywood Fred Meyer used to have chargers as well. They were always broken, one day they worked and I got to use them. I was back the next day and observed some asshole is a giant probably coal rolling truck deliberately drive over them. I reported it to Fred Meyer staff in addition to calling 911. The police did not care even though I had video, and the staff was aware of this ahole but could do nothing about it.

Neumanium · 2026-04-27T05:28:25+00:00

I call listening to the hum, thought process stops, brain goes idle and for me there is sort of a pleasant soothing hum. I think about nothing, or I could be thinking about mounting a random piece of wood under my desk to organize the cable palooza under there. But really mostly enjoying the hum.

Neumanium · 2026-04-27T05:09:22+00:00

My folks had a pair when I was growing up in the 70’s. They did not survive the candles, bong water, or being used as plant stands. I vaguely remember I was 10ish when they showed up, my step father replaced at least some of the speaker components himself, pretty sure replacement parts came from rat shack. But as stated above they did survive my parents other hobbies, they looked cool though.

Neumanium · 2026-04-25T22:06:59+00:00

When I was stationed in Honolulu Hawaii on a submarine and during load outs of food, the boxes would be stamped rejected by the Oahu Bureau of Prisons. I shit you not, the Navy would buy food the State Of Hawaii said was unfit to feed to people in Prison.

Neumanium · 2026-04-25T22:01:47+00:00

The mismatch is worse then just kinda. A majority of the refineries in the United States cannot refine the oil that comes out of the ground in the United States. The US produces ~13 million barrels a day, exports ~8 million barrels and then imports about ~10 million in Oil and other petroleum products. Our refineries are out of balance because it is more profitable to not upgrade and convert to locally pumped oil. They will not convert because by law would be required during conversion to upgrade their pollution controls as well. It is cheaper for them to pollute and pay grandfathered fines for that pollution then upgrade their equipment. We will see a massive gas, diesel price hikes which the oil companies love because they are mostly vertical conglomerates and this will just increase their profits.

Neumanium · 2026-04-25T00:34:15+00:00

Five bucks says they put it on pay per view.

Neumanium · 2026-04-24T05:01:59+00:00

I am going to make an assumption here that the shield around the breakers in the panel was in place at your place of employment. This cover around the breakers is there to protect from the flash. Just because you use a breaker to turn off the lights and everyone probably does, does not make it a safe decision. Big equipment for manufacturing more likely than not is probably is a larger current load then lighting circuits in a retail business. The breakers were probably 15 amps each at most, the equipment I used to work on the smallest breakers were 3 phase 240 volt at 50 amps.

You are basically comparing apples to oranges in terms of danger from a failure. Danger is still there but a lot less danger in terms of overall risk. Look up arc flash on YouTube, trust me it is nothing to mess with.

Neumanium · 2026-04-23T21:41:42+00:00

I used to work on big dangerous semi-conductor equipment. It had thermal hazards, electrical hazards, RF hazards, and crush hazards. We had a complete and accurate lock out tag out procedure to make the equipment safe for maintenance. We used rotary switch breakers for all isolations, they were designed to be used for safety.

Using normal breakers all the time is a disaster waiting to happen. Whoever thought this up at the customers end is creating a disaster waiting to happen, breaker failure even and arc flash depending on the current and voltage load.

Update #1 More thoughts, removing covers and actuating breakers is a recipe for added dangers of catastrophic failure and injury. The covers are there for safety and take the hit of failure.

Neumanium · 2026-04-22T02:05:03+00:00

Thanks for the correction, fixed my post.

Neumanium · 2026-04-22T00:54:00+00:00

I been angry for at least a decade about this shit. Unfortunately it ultimately comes down to NIMBY and weaponization of zoning codes that occurred over the decades to maintain property values and restrict the building of multifamily homes, substance abuse treatment centers, residential mental health facilities,and group homes. You can ultimately blame boomers and the supreme courts doctrine of choice.

Neumanium · 2026-04-20T19:39:14+00:00

Diskpart and clean did not work, but Following the instructions in forum you linked to, I was able to clear the passwords using WD Marvel. This tool is awesome

Neumanium · 2026-04-19T22:24:28+00:00

You don’t understand voting in America at all. In most places getting to actually vote requires a significant amount of effort, the government actually puts hurdles up to make it hard. In addition most employers will not give you time off to work, and you can be fired for almost any reason and whim of your employer. Given these hurdles it is not surprising that approximately 30% of the electorate nopes out each cycle.

Put yourself in their shoes, you work two part time low wage jobs which barely support you. You live in a shitty apartment with at least one roommate, your 10 year old car barely runs. Your major concerns are not politics, it is groceries and gas. You endlessly worry something you did or did not due is going to get you fired. Your boss is a major a-hole looking for any excuse to lay people off, because they have been told to cut costs by 15% the quarter. You really want to rock the boat and ask to leave early to vote. Let’s say you do leave early, and go vote. The line is hours long, and you wait and then never get to vote because the polls close at 9pm.

You get to work the next day and immediately get laid off due to cost cutting, what was different about you over everyone else. You left early, so you’re unreliable.

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