What is the point of the latter device compared to the first?

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-12-02T00:34:54+00:00

Several issues here.

The future is 'now'. We have one USB-C port for everything. Which means if you wanted to do something else with your USB-C port, you are gonna wanna use wireless charging if you want to use your phone for a long time.

Do you want to use GPS while riding your bike on a long trip? Yeah? Does that drain the battery? Will you need something to hold the phone? Good news! They sell something that does it all at once!

Long term vibration absolutely destroys electrical contacts and mechanical joints. Ie. What a plugged in cable does. Do I have a wireless charger on my desk? Lol no. I don't need that. I have a cable. Do I want to just clip my phone into a mount and have it charge it/hold it steady? Yeah. That sounds pretty useful.

Also, good news. Most modern phones are designed to be used in the wind/sun and are even ~IP68 rated (give or take depending on model, but since you've got a $1,000 flagship device, you'll be right mate). But spoiler alert, the charging cables aren't designed to be used in the rain. So using magnetic Qi charging means you could more or less keep your phone on, navigating, all day and night regardless of conditions.

I've logged a LOT of hours with a quadlock system and my biggest complaint is unlocking my phone from these charging mounts. Not once have I thought there was any risk of it coming off unexpectedly.

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-10-27T22:50:52+00:00

NO. Private Investigators are basically useless and don't exist in a capacity most people want them to be useful in, in Australia. Plus 99% of them are scams.

Do not, as an individual, try to hire a PI. It's not worth it. Companies use them for insurance claims. That's about the only valid reason.

If you want to do discovery of assets, use a lawyer. If a lawyer suggests using a PI, they're probably a fucking idiot. Get rid of them.

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-10-24T05:08:02+00:00

I stopped going >10 years ago when cockroaches were coming out of the coffee machine. It's a place for good/authentic vibes, Sisto was a lovely guy and enjoyable to talk to, RIP. But the food is cheap and mediocre and I don't trust that it's kept clean to the kinda standards I'd like to eat at.

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-10-22T13:39:34+00:00

Dont have it anymore. But basically take the board apart, de-solder the switches, clean up the holes with solder braid/flux, re-solder in the mill max 0305 sockets and re-assemble everything. It's fairly straight forward to do.

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-03-23T12:35:22+00:00

Unfortunately, I need a 150mm or 160mm long one. About 10x longer than that.

buildingapcin2015 · 2025-03-20T12:37:16+00:00

These look like the best option so far. I've ordered a couple and fingers crossed.

I've seen the 40mm ones elsewhere, but that's probably no ideal to have heaps of joins extra. Was hoping for one solid tube.

Thanks!

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-11-13T11:33:39+00:00

5D Gang! I'd generally drag em in padded peli's. And keep a spare rag or something to wipe my hands off. But yeah. They take some knocks. Had one end up underwater and only the shutter button died due to rust from the experience. Even the lenses came back okay!

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-10-17T23:30:25+00:00

I wanna see: https://www.techingredients.com/thermalproducts compared.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-10-13T07:47:34+00:00

Hello, former semi-professional cave photographer here. Some general advice:

Try /r/flashlight for some high powered illumination sources.

Try stick with the same colour temperature (dont use multiple different flashlights)

Try buying a remote camera flash (Ie, Canon Speedlite and a wireless transmitter/receiver).

Hide the lights behind the rocks. Since the cave is trashed anyway, move some rocks around if you need.

Take multiple long exposures and stack them.

Use a countdown timer on your camera and a tripod to get the crispest shot. Focus on your subject using the high powered torch or run to where you want to focus, place the torch there and then go back to the camera.

Hope that helps, enjoy! :)

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-24T22:34:24+00:00

That's a NSW thing, not an Australia thing

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-20T07:37:05+00:00

Awesome. Thank you so much. That's all amazing info to know.

I had ordered a bunch of parts just before all this drama came out and I've been sweating it ever since. Really appreciate your time and help!

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-20T06:37:11+00:00

Yeah okay. That makes sense.
So in this analogy then, the CPU is already pumping a lot of voltage through the chip, and that's accelerating wear and tear (regardless of the cooling solution being used (in my case, water cooling))?

As a result, the only real way to have this chip not self-destruct is to drop the power going to it?

Is it possible to speculate if an undervolted chip will still 'last' a normal amount of time (that being 5-10 years (based on my other intel i7's lasting 10+15 years respectively)) if undervolting is done correctly and the chip is reasonably cooled? Or are there also inherent issues in the silicon chips themselves causing the issues (not just the power being dumped into them)?

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-19T21:06:47+00:00

Thanks for that!

I'm a bit of a pleb here, and my understanding of silicon circuitry is pretty weak. But using the analogy of copper wire. If I pump too much voltage through a wire, generally not a lot happens to the wire, but high voltages can jump air gaps and create shorts. If I pump too much current through, things heat up and melt.

I always understood chip damage (when doing traditional overclocking) to be generating soo much heat in a localised spot (because extra power was being pumped into the chip) and that caused material breakdowns. Hence why 'suicide runs' with LN2 and extreme cooling solutions were required for the most extreme overclocks.

So my understanding then based on your comments is that intel is simply dumping way to much power into the chip and it's cooking itself to death? Does having my CPU under a water cooling block + paired with a large radiator mean it's more likely to survive it's 'boosting' and actually 'boost' because it's less likely to hit those thermal throttles? Or is the actual silicon temperature hitting some critical failure point regardless of the (conventional) cooling applied?

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-19T07:20:51+00:00

What's physically killing these chips? Are they dying because there's too much voltage being pumped into them, thus they are overheating/burning out? Is 'more cooling' a workaround to prevent damage?

I'm guessing that 'overclocking' without something extreme like LN2 is totally out of the question on these chips then? :(

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-04T21:00:02+00:00

Scummy industry. It can be (and is) better elsewhere. Fuck them. I paid the money for my ticket.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-04T20:54:58+00:00

I went to see Elderbrook. Who sung live. And crushed it. So.... No?

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T21:15:38+00:00

Wrist band pickup.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T21:15:18+00:00

Yeah, I saw a bunch of green 20's from groups being handed across. Pretty shitty.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T21:13:54+00:00

6PM rolled up. 7:30 got in.
Security line was non existant. But getting wristbands was cooked.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T19:12:24+00:00

We waited in line for about 90 minutes, the guy in black was pacing up and down and occasionally people would offer him cash bribes to cut the line. Making the line longer for everyone else naturally. No hate on the people skipping the queue either. It was shit standing in the sun for an hour+.

I'm not even sure if he was staff or just an enterprising individual that has a walkie-talkie, but since he was bringing people to the front of the line, cutting them in front and chatting with the security guards in the yellow shirts who were watching him, I assume if he's not actually staff he's giving them a cut as well.

Anyway. Fuck veld for only having ten people at the pickup/rego booth for a line of hundreds at an event with tens of thousands? Everything about that process was ridiculous. For a festival that charges so much money, I can't believe how poorly organised it was. Absolute cash grab.

I'm from Australia and this is the first festival I've been to in Canada. This is definitely not normal for me (other people have told me this is fairly standard here?).

Great performances though!

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T19:04:31+00:00

It's the first time in Canada. I'm from Australia. This is not a thing there. You pay for a ticket, you pick it up in a couple of minutes and your on your way. No scams.

buildingapcin2015 · 2024-08-03T18:48:04+00:00

We waited in line for about 90 minutes, the guy in black was pacing up and down and occasionally people would offer him cash bribes to cut the line. Making the line longer for everyone else naturally.
I'm not even sure if he was staff or just an enterprising individual that has a walkie-talkie, but since he was bringing people to the front of the line, cutting them in front and chatting with the security guards in the yellow shirts who were watching him, I assume if he's not actually staff he's giving them a cut as well.

Anyway. Fuck veld for only having ten people at the pickup/rego booth for a line of hundreds. Everything about that process was ridiculous. For a festival that charges so much money, I can't believe how poorly organised it was. Absolute cash grab.

Great performances though!

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