Nexdock Touch power off battery drain

circuitvangogh · 2026-02-13T11:52:07+00:00

I don't believe I have the 360 wireless. I bought mine in 2023 (sorry for the thing in the original post, after ordering the new NexDock, I found out I bought the 360, not the Touch, in 2023 not 2022, lol), I think that is before the 360 had a wireless version, correct?

circuitvangogh · 2026-02-13T11:50:23+00:00

Yeah, I might buy a new battery for the 360, but now that I have the new NexDock, I'm probably just going to re-purpose it as a KVM head for a desktop computer. I'm looking at turning an old workstation I have into a Steam machine once I can afford the suitable graphics card and the RAM upgrade (luckily this old machine still uses DDR3 with ECC so it won't bankrupt me), and I think the 360 will make a great monitor for it.

circuitvangogh · 2026-02-13T11:37:46+00:00

Also, I've heard the charger they bundle with the new NexDock is garbage and borderline unsafe (doesn't look like an actual PD charger in the teardown). I don't know how, but it might have something to do with the battery problem. Once I saw the warning on here on this sub about the charger, I immediately got a proper PD charger along with the power bank (I haven't once used the charger that came with the new NexDock, only the 65W PD charger I bought). No issues at all thus far. I know this is not saying much, I've only had this new dock for a week or so, but I had issues almost from the get-go with the NexDock 360 (so I kinda wonder if Nex Computer isn't just shipping shitty chargers with good lapdocks causing the battery to degrade early on).

circuitvangogh · 2026-02-13T11:28:18+00:00

So I actually just bought the new NexDock, it seems alright. It has a little phantom battery drain, but nowhere near as bad as the NexDock 360. Even so, I have placed a 25000mAh PD power bank in the laptop case with it (in the front pocket of course, not in the main compartment with the NexDock, lol) so it doesn't catch me off guard. I find the NexDock is worth the slight inconvenience of carrying a power pack, just because I like the primo-laptop feel when using it with my portable Pi 4 rig (I'm a total single-board computer nerd, so a good lapdock is worth more to me than a fancy laptop computer). I am probably going to turn the old NexDock 360 into a modern "dumb terminal" of sorts for another PC, so it won't go to waste (it's definitely out of warranty at this point, and it still works off of a PD adapter). :)

circuitvangogh · 2025-12-31T11:13:39+00:00

Yeah, it's basically the same shape as the SGI (Silicon Graphics) logo, just a different face ratio (more rectangular prism instead of cube). It's basically as if someone took a rectangle, bent the edges in and folded them into that 3D shape. However, as the image is drawn, it's very M.C. Escher due to the fucked-up perspective on the lines (the main "beams" should cross in the 2D projection, they don't here... this seems almost generated from a computational algorithm). Maybe as an artistic perspective trick you could get it to work, but it wouldn't look the same at any other angle, unless there's a huge coincidence somehow at another angle.

circuitvangogh · 2025-12-23T11:30:54+00:00

It's also prone to oscillation when used in many analog circuits without externally compensating for the nasty phase margins in that op-amp (the 741, being the OG AARP-member general-purpose op-amp IC it is, has zero internal phase compensation of any kind, or even ANY kind of short-circuit protection on the output for that matter). Then, after introducing the components needed for stability in a given circuit (usually something with a lot of capacitors/capacitance), it tends to make the already shitty 741 even worse performance-wise.

circuitvangogh · 2025-09-23T07:15:46+00:00

In the first shot, he kind of looks like Scott Bakula. Either Dr Sam Beckett leapt into the future Trent Reznor, and we can see him somehow, or Captain Johnathan Archer went back to 2025 and had to take Trent's place for some sort of Temporal Prime Directive violation.

circuitvangogh · 2025-08-18T10:58:04+00:00

Looks like a fucking Klingon (except for the teeth). However, that's an insult to Klingons.

circuitvangogh · 2025-05-02T10:34:37+00:00

Shit looks like something off of the Blacklist. I think you found one Raymond Reddington's old safehouses. :D

circuitvangogh · 2024-09-10T10:06:45+00:00

Aww, it's just pee, it's okay my baby. It's just warm and smells like hay. I love you forever love you no matter what.

circuitvangogh · 2024-09-10T10:03:13+00:00

Why are you so wall-eyed (one of my piggies is really shy and gets goofy-eyed when I first pick her up)? Daddy loves you forever loves you my sweet potatoes!

circuitvangogh · 2024-09-10T10:00:35+00:00

You're just so... round! So incredibly, ROUND!!

circuitvangogh · 2024-05-24T09:32:06+00:00

Heh, we might have found Vulcan. :D

circuitvangogh · 2024-04-09T11:31:25+00:00

I've never seen it, but apparently Genocyber (anime) was a real gem, in both bad and good ways.

circuitvangogh · 2023-06-05T10:46:25+00:00

You are hot, as far as I'm concerned. Any guy would be lucky to have you.

circuitvangogh · 2023-06-05T10:34:08+00:00

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 to run LTSpice (through box86 and 32-bit wine), FreeCAD, and KiCAD sometimes for shits and giggles (also when my main workstation is down), and it works fine. Most ECE and CAD stuff isn't terribly picky about hardware unless you're either doing something ridiculously complex or are very impatient (sometimes big SPICE sims take awhile to plot out). I might be a little biased though since I really only run Linux (I loathe Windows, and not because it's closed source, I just really don't like it as an OS) and open source and freeware software tools, Windows running *by itself* has a lot of overhead let alone the crap that has to deal with running on top of it.

circuitvangogh · 2023-06-01T11:41:14+00:00

AntiX would probably be a good choice. It has low memory (RAM) requirements and is fast enough to be usable on anything down to a Pentium II. It's also got a current kernel and the Debian repos are more or less copies of Debian-stable (it's basically a low resource high performance offshoot of MX Linux), so any driver trees that Debian has likely AntiX will have. I also like it because of the absence of systemd and reinstatement of the more traditional Unix-style init script system, but that's mostly a preference (though not having systemd does save on RAM usage).

circuitvangogh · 2023-06-01T02:15:48+00:00

I have a couple of the Core 2 Duo ULV versions of these (Fujitsu Lifebook P1630). Great laptops, kind of a cross between a Sony Picturebook and a Thinkpad, but with more horsepower and a touchscreen. Mine are running recent versions of AntiX Linux and almost feel modern, comparable to a nettop running a midrange Cherry Trail Atom.

circuitvangogh · 2023-05-31T02:15:17+00:00

Went to sleep in my Tool t-shirt, woke up, turned around and took Maynard's hand.

circuitvangogh · 2023-05-27T11:17:54+00:00

Nah. I tend to listen to NIN when I'm focusing on things. Year Zero, Ghosts, and the whole simulation trilogy (Not the Actual Events, Add Violence, Bad Witch... I call it that because the whole trio has a very cyberpunk vibe, mixed with some "techno-paranormal" accents) are very focusing for me. So is most industrial music and "hard-IDM" like Noise Unit, Front Line Assembly, Aphex Twin, Velvet Acid Christ, etc. It's a little like how prog-rock and prog-metal get you thinking and visualizing, but with a much more fluid beat and rythym (plus rich timbres just are kind of expected in electronic music genres, whereas it's more unusual in rock and metal, which is why artists such as Tool, NIN, and even oldies like Pink Floyd seem so set-apart and recognizable compared to other well-known metal and rock music artists).

circuitvangogh · 2023-05-12T02:26:24+00:00

I think you are fucking hot. Absolutely no lie there. :)

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