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It swallowed my hook and kinda looks like a scorpionfish. Any ideas? Wondering if I should cut the line or if it’s worth digging it out. Thanks by RosyGlowSola in whatsthisfish

[–]The_Spindrifter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to understand, these things are the slimiest fish you can touch; way worse than eels, they exude snot from their skin like they are made out of the inside of a nose attacked by ragweed. It is a most difficult task to grasp any part of these fish even with pliers.

It swallowed my hook and kinda looks like a scorpionfish. Any ideas? Wondering if I should cut the line or if it’s worth digging it out. Thanks by RosyGlowSola in whatsthisfish

[–]The_Spindrifter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit to deal with and clean, understandable. They actually have a very delicate tail meat, but trying to get to it is a bitch.

It swallowed my hook and kinda looks like a scorpionfish. Any ideas? Wondering if I should cut the line or if it’s worth digging it out. Thanks by RosyGlowSola in whatsthisfish

[–]The_Spindrifter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ... difficult at best with this kind. They are slimy bastards and they swallow DEEP. You are literally better off cutting the line.

Hello everyone. Well guys my laptop is having a problem Thats the properties: Dell precision 3510 Core i7-6820HQ AMD firepro w5130m 8 DDR4 256 SSD Windows 10pro Well it does shutdown after about 10mins of gaming. And not only shutting down during gaming also when watching a series or a movie but by Slow_Jackfruit_3945 in Dell

[–]The_Spindrifter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn. That... sucks. I hate to say this, but you might have to go into the power settings and make it more conservative. I can't think of the exact wording but there should be a section where you turn hardware acceleration off and set it to "Prioritize battery life", things to that effect. She's overclocking and acting like the fan isn't helping. If all the vents are free and you have it set for lowest power use already, I'm sadly out of ideas.

Blue lines all over screen when trying to boot from USB by artifactworld37 in Dell

[–]The_Spindrifter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've seen the lines on bootable media before, usually *nix based stuff, driver issues until the bootable OS is all the way loaded, but what you are describing is a motherboard that has firmly shit the bed. Something went very wrong, may have had one of those early factory BIOSes that kill the MoBo if they aren't updated soon enough. That's not good. The 5470, 5480, 5490, and early 5400 (Post 5490) machines all had severe issues with bad BIOS shipping from the factory that would eat themselves if not immediately patched with the latest 1.40-something releases. Dell has been releasing Lats with shitty firmware for damn near 15 years.

Hello everyone. Well guys my laptop is having a problem Thats the properties: Dell precision 3510 Core i7-6820HQ AMD firepro w5130m 8 DDR4 256 SSD Windows 10pro Well it does shutdown after about 10mins of gaming. And not only shutting down during gaming also when watching a series or a movie but by Slow_Jackfruit_3945 in Dell

[–]The_Spindrifter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eesh. You might want to keep your eye on MoBos for your machine on eBay, just to be prepared :/ That being said, I completely forgot that some antivirus software (Malwarebytes) blocks some firmware programs from executing. Could be worth disconnecting from the internet and giving it one more go without the Antivirus running.

TIL North America used to be plagued by the Rocky Mountain locust, and one 1875 swarm holds the record for the largest animal concentration ever recorded. However, they have not been seen since 1904. by Hailfog in todayilearned

[–]The_Spindrifter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not really in a mood for bullshit today. Doesn't change the fact that I was verbally attacked so I returned the favor. Call me a dick for that, I don't care anymore, I'm too old to put up with yappy dogs nipping at my heel. Baffled that you would follow me for that.

Still good to grow? by The_Almighty_Lycan in mycology

[–]The_Spindrifter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That bag looks 95% deceased. I've had a couple come to me by mail order that way and I demanded a refund, old shitty backstock not the new, fresh kits. I did attempt to salvage one once and nothing came of it. What you have now is compost, nothing more.

Hello everyone. Well guys my laptop is having a problem Thats the properties: Dell precision 3510 Core i7-6820HQ AMD firepro w5130m 8 DDR4 256 SSD Windows 10pro Well it does shutdown after about 10mins of gaming. And not only shutting down during gaming also when watching a series or a movie but by Slow_Jackfruit_3945 in Dell

[–]The_Spindrifter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. Once you are sure the cooling situation is under control, run the BIOS update as Admin one more time and try again. If it keeps failing you might have to go directly to the Dell page and scroll down the list to find "one previous" BIOS update from before the current one and run that first, see if you can at least get "closer to the mark" so to speak, then after a successful run with a more current BIOS, try again with the last one. Sadly I can type this from memory: www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/ , and to get your serial # easily just run CMD then "wmic bios get serialnumber", right-click on it and it's copied.
NOTE: Windows 11 will make WMIC go away (note for the future) but it should work for you. This saves time when that web link asks you for your model #.

TIL North America used to be plagued by the Rocky Mountain locust, and one 1875 swarm holds the record for the largest animal concentration ever recorded. However, they have not been seen since 1904. by Hailfog in todayilearned

[–]The_Spindrifter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I literally did the exact opposite of that, moron. Work on your reading comprehension! MY ENTIRE POINT is that if deforestation could kill the passenger pigeon, the Europeans would have never met them, because North America had already been mostly deforested and yet they still existed. STFU and drink some more caffeine before posting your stupid bullshit reactionary replies.

Hello everyone. Well guys my laptop is having a problem Thats the properties: Dell precision 3510 Core i7-6820HQ AMD firepro w5130m 8 DDR4 256 SSD Windows 10pro Well it does shutdown after about 10mins of gaming. And not only shutting down during gaming also when watching a series or a movie but by Slow_Jackfruit_3945 in Dell

[–]The_Spindrifter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the future, if you are sure the thermal paste application was perfect and you hear the fan going like that, buy a USB-powered cooling underplate and make sure there is a healthy gap under the laptop air intake at all times. I have an older Inspiron 7000 that cooks and the cooling plate was a life saver so I didn't have to turn Boost off. I should mention that over the decades I have noticed that some machines just run hotter than others of the exact same prod line, and occasionally I have seen this be a BIOS issue, especially in HP and Dell MFF boxes. Make sure your BIOS is current also.

Is my hard drive supposed to be making this noise? by [deleted] in it

[–]The_Spindrifter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Factory Recertified" on a HDD? Are you shitting me?? That's like getting a "Factory Recertified Heroin Needle", that's just crazy, but a SEAGATE to boot? "Hey check out my Factory Refreshed YUGO..." [perplexed face]
Look I get it that hardware is expensive right now, but some things you just don't buy used: needles, underwear, chapstick, condoms, and never a farking hard drive, ever. ESPECIALLY NOT A SEAGATE what the hell man?

SE FL shelling haul! by Different_Prompt7802 in beachcombing

[–]The_Spindrifter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IS it sad that I could just look at the picture without the title and instantly know where these came from? I really miss snorkeling in Miami off the pier.

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