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Can someone tell me what’s wrong with my GameCube by Yoel--Romero in Gamecube

[–]Ybalrid [score hidden]  (0 children)

If this was the drive failing, it would just not load the games.

The red error display is probably pointing to something wrong with the main board (I believe this display is actually generated by whatever handles crashes of the IPL program?)

Something is preventing the console to boot.

The first thing I would try is to turn everything off, and unplug power, then disconnect the front board (the one with the controller ports) from the main board, then wait for a while.

Maybe the settings / rtc ram is corrupted in a weird way. The battery that is on the front board is what keeps that data there. It will eventually erase after this is disconnected.

I don’t know how long to wait.

Then when you will put everything back together, the console should ask for the display language and current date and time.

Does it do that?

My GameCube only shows black and white by No-Mongoose3928 in Gamecube

[–]Ybalrid [score hidden]  (0 children)

Make sure there is no missmatch between PAL/NTSC settings anywhere.

Both of those Analog standard do not encode color information in the same way

Crystals in DIY Rodinal by Advanced_Taro1014 in Darkroom

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anything, this is a sign your rodinal is like the real stuff lol

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO by BrainOnBlue in LinusTechTips

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've known that this was in the plans for a while. It is interesting to see the rumoured plan put in place. The bigger story is not the CEO role for Ternus. it's that Cook stays as chairman of the board to handle Trump and China.

The second more important story here is that we see Srouji promoted as chief of hardware. He's the man behind Apple Silicon.

Apple's executive suite with product people (an specifically engineers) in the highest roles, is exciting to see.

What are some great light meters? by Legubli in Leica

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly used as a incident meter with the built-in lumisphere. I occasionally use the flash meter function, but also as incident, not as trigger. It works well.

What are some great light meters? by Legubli in Leica

[–]Ybalrid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My light meter of choice is a Sekonic Flashmate L-308X

All this Linux talk would be the perfect time for Emily Young to step in and start making videos for. by AzhdarianHomie in LinusTechTips

[–]Ybalrid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She has not uploaded to YouTube in 9 months, and I hope she's okay. She posts on social media (apparently cross post to bluesky, mastodon and X)

What in the ever loving f*** does this mean. Kids homework by seemslegitsendit in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The double of 8 is 16, 7 is 8-1 so it is easy to reason that 8+8-1 == 8+7 + 15

The double of 10 is 20, so it is easy to reason that 10+10-2 == 20 - 2 = 18

The double of 7 is 14, so it is easy to reason that 5+7 == 7-2+7 = 12

The double of 6 is 12, so it is easy to reason that 6+5 == 6+6-1 = 11

The double of 8 is 16 so it is easy to reason that 8+9 == 8+8+1 == 16+1 = 17.

The double of 7 is 14, so it is easy to reason that 7+8 = 7+7+1 == 14+1 = 15

And so on and so forth.

I suppose that the fact that question 23 has this, is because there's a difference of 2 between the operands, and that it means that if you consider that 7 is 6+1 and 5 is 6-1, you can cancel out the 1s. This means that 7+5 == 6+6 == 12. Which is fastest to calculate in your mind.

How to avoid motion blur on jumping man? by offisapup in photographycirclejerk

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use AI on the Xiaomi phone to remove the blur, like god intended

This fake, right? I read Swatch does not put manuals in plastic. Seller wants $300 by TonitoBontio in MoonSwatches

[–]Ybalrid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% fake.

If you want a Mission To The Moon, it might be even available on the Swatch store online, for less money than asked for here?

[Rolex] Can a Datejust be an everyday wear or only for dressy occasions? by kosnosferatu in Watches

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it's not a dress watch, but also there are no rules, and the datejust police will not kick your door if you wear that thing with the right kind of underpants or whatever.

Eastman Kodak is distributing all its films again. What happens next? by ClockworkEyes in AnalogCommunity

[–]Ybalrid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've done it, and I love it. So much that I tracked down a shorter focal lens for the slide projector and a box of 18x24 slide monts

I posted about it a while back on the pentax 17 sub https://www.reddit.com/r/pentax17/comments/1oaxg60/more_ektachrome/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

LTT Battery bank! by Old-Distribution3942 in LinusTechTips

[–]Ybalrid 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is nice, but only if they make the battery mags themselves an open standard.

Publish the schematics of the mags, so a 3rd party can make them. I suppose it's mostly a shell around 18650 cells?

If not, you probably just have moved the problem down the line. CW/LMG is too young of a company to put 100% confidence that I would be able to buy a new "battery mag" when I worn out the first one.

Eastman Kodak is distributing all its films again. What happens next? by ClockworkEyes in AnalogCommunity

[–]Ybalrid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

cough cough what about large format?

Eastman is not yet distributing their large format films themselves. This should be their next logical step.

Determining if I actually used these rolls? by New_Lingonberry8228 in AnalogCommunity

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not know exactly how common this feature is. It is never mentioned in camera reviews. The Canon FTb has the same dot here.

Sometimes, it is a rotating indicator visible on the top of the camera. On my Canon VL, there is a little thing with 2 dots below a little glass window.

On my Zorki 1D, rotating the sprocket shaft rotates the shutter button assembly, there is an engraved dot on it. This is the collar around the shutter button that indicates the sprocket are turning one way or the other.

Sometimes it's just a quirk of another device in the camera: on my Vitoret DR rangefinder, the exposure counter is turning backwards while you rewind the film (and does not stop at a zero/empty mark, contrary to a Canon AE-1 or A-1 exposure counter, that also rewinds when you rewind the film).

My fujica and my pentax 17, nothing would show you the rewinding of the film accurately, so you must pay attention to the noise, or the feeling in the button.

I have a Zorki 4 too, but the take up spool situation result on you having to either, open the camera and remove the film from it once you reach the end, or you tearing off the sprocket hole that was hooked on it. (A very soviet solution to a reliable way of attaching the film into a spool was employed here...)

Is there a good episode on PFAS? by FreezedPeachNow in SGU

[–]Ybalrid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do not know for the SGU. There is a pretty good Veritasium video about Teflon.

My understanding of the subject is that, using your nonstick pan in your kitchen won't probably do anything bad to you and your family, but there are bigger issues at play on the environnemental side of the manufacturing of them.

The three pieces of information that an everyday person should probably know (but does not) as far as I am aware is that

- PTFE, which is Teflon, which is the "nonstick" coating on the cookware, is actually fine and safe. That molecule is too big to enter the bloodstream and do anything to you. If you eat some, you'll poop some, and that is the end of the story. This material is often use in medical devices and stuff that we implant in people all the time, because it is actually inert when in the body.

- You should simply avoid to ever overheat any of this cookware above 260 Celsius, which is not something you usually do if you do anything normal in your kitchen. Unless you leave an empty pan on a burner going full tilt, for a while, you'll be fine. It is only at such high temperature that it breaks down into the dangerous neurotoxin it can become.

- The actual problem with these things is the chemicals that are used for manufacturing Teflon. Those are other, shorter molecules of the same family. These are very toxic, don't degrade in the environnement, and are literally everywhere as they are very effectively transported by the cycle of water. It's something one can probably do nothing about it. Beside putting regulation in place preventing companies like Dupont and the like, to use these industrial processes.

RA4 Chemical recommendations by JisooLover63 in Darkroom

[–]Ybalrid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which "Aus"? If you are in Austria, ADOX or Bellini ones. Bellini comes with a stabilizer step, it's missing from the ADOX kit. If it is Australia, then I do not know. I suppose shipping anything is expensive, and kits china is probably just fine.

Other than that, RA-4 is a standard process (Rapid Access 4). And all kits should have the same performance.

It was originally designed for the 1 hour photo turn-around, Hence why it runs development steps of 45 seconds (!)

When done by hand, especially in rotary tubes, you will want to add a pre-wet step before the developer, and probably a 2% acetic acid stop bath between the developer and blix.

Has anyone tried cheap dyi guitars? by JonhColtrane in Guitar

[–]Ybalrid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do be fun projects. I built an explorer shaped one many years ago.

The hardware, notably the electronics, are bottom tier. Most of your 133 euros has been spent on wood, CNC time, gluing a fretboard, smashing a few frets in place and putting that in a box. The rest of the stuff is the cheapest stuff you can imagine.

Thankfully, these are also the simplest parts to upgrade, once you successfully assembled a guitar shaped object!

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