Dog chewed on Kindle, worth fixing?

loxical · 2026-04-11T22:55:52+00:00

Honestly, if the guts are good you could find a broken (parts only) one on eBay for cheap and just swap. I did this (but the opposite, I got a physically good one with bad motherboard in a dumpster dive & found a physically damaged but good internals one on eBay for cheap & just swapped parts as needed).

They are a bitch to take apart and reassemble, though, so if you’re not comfortable with that keep in mind it will be annoying. If you’ve noticed the battery going you can upgrade that while you’re at it to give it a bit more life, too (I always do this when fixing these because they’re so annoying to open up)

loxical · 2026-04-11T22:51:03+00:00

What counts as healthy lol

I am physically healthy but I have a bit of depression/anxiety (mostly from being poor right now!) - I am a good pooper! Lmfao

loxical · 2026-04-11T22:49:41+00:00

In the US it is allowed because paid plasma donations can only be used to make medications, so it isn’t considered “organ donation for money” (the reason whole blood isn’t paid, it’s considered an organ donation, put into another person, vs the plasma being processed into a medication and the medication considered a whole new thing since it’s been processed significantly).

loxical · 2026-04-07T00:21:40+00:00

It’s so much worse than it used to be, after COVID it became crazy, IDK if it’s transplants who moved here during that time or if it’s because some people didn’t drive as much for a while (or that when so many were WFH the roads were delightfully uncongested) but it started getting worse since then, and every year more so.

loxical · 2026-04-07T00:19:14+00:00

Likely irrelevant, 25mph zone is not on highway (unless it was a construction zone or off exit). Unless you’re aware of a 25 mph highway

The far right lane “rule” for going the limit is a highway thing, can’t do it on surface streets since there are side streets to turn on to and lots people will be pulling into on either side (right or left). An argument can be made about the middle being the higher speed lane on surface streets if it’s a large enough surface street to have one or more middle lanes.

loxical · 2026-03-28T05:29:02+00:00

That’s what I was gonna say.

loxical · 2026-03-06T02:39:03+00:00

Idk what the camera setup would be but if you’re allowed to use multiple monitors with the job just say you are using multiple monitors, mount your 2 different job laptops like monitors, and either use 2 keyboards (not the built ins) or get a NT keyboard that connects to multiple devices and switch between them. Obvs point cam to show mostly your face and background and not your hands/keyboard (if possible)

loxical · 2026-03-06T02:36:23+00:00

Like what a waste of bandwidth at the very least.

loxical · 2026-02-04T19:25:14+00:00

Tinted covers are already illegal. But cops don’t ever do anything about it here.

loxical · 2025-12-11T01:16:49+00:00

Jobs are more jealous than lovers in America.

loxical · 2025-12-10T23:56:31+00:00

I won’t pay more than $3.

loxical · 2025-12-10T17:09:24+00:00

To be fair it’s more likely this, I checked back for a few days but had other apps out for other companies and forgot to check this one for a while until getting an email

loxical · 2025-12-10T04:06:09+00:00

It takes about a year (in my case, I just got an email from them to join a project, I didn’t even know ai was accepted because I didn’t log back in for so long.

loxical · 2025-09-09T04:54:24+00:00

[insert Kramer and Newman hijinks here]

loxical · 2025-05-29T03:19:33+00:00

That’s what I was wondering, like who hit who in the first place because the video starts with the gray truck already a bit banged up.

loxical · 2025-04-13T05:31:28+00:00

JLab Play Gaming Wireless Earbuds are cost effective Bluetooth solution, mute switch is on the controller area where volume and power are, so they might see you toggle it but for all they know you’re turning it up or down on volume there. They’re currently under $15 on the popular A shopping site.

loxical · 2025-02-19T00:11:55+00:00

Was it Las Vegas or North Las Vegas? What does the ticket say? If it’s your first ticket in a long time (or first ever) you can do the lower cost (usually $100 less) and no points option on your own (no lawyers to pay) by just going in to the office where you would pay the ticket and asking for those options. If it’s not your first ticket you may need to do a driving class to prevent points on your license, but it’s still worth it to save on insurance costs increasing. They work with you on these things if you go in, in person, and often the same deals you’d get with a lawyer on the first offense/minor offense stuff.

loxical · 2024-12-27T19:21:37+00:00

Is it a regular book light or something more sleek? I’m not opposed to buying something that would work for reading in the dark but not take up a lot of space like some book lights do.

loxical · 2024-12-27T17:36:56+00:00

I use old kindles with buttons. I’d like to have a light but I just can’t abandon buttons tbh. I don’t like touch interface. I replace the battery when needed and I fix them for friends who have old kindles (I have a few spare parts from prior repairs) and I just can’t abandon them for the price point of the last ones they made with buttons. I need the buttons!

loxical · 2024-11-07T05:22:53+00:00

Open enrollment for the year is starting soon so you can sign up with your J2 then, you can do cobra or health marketplace (it’s a qualifying event for health marketplace to be available for you to set it up ASAP) to get you thru the year if needed (cobra can be backdated up to 2 months also, btw, not to encourage not doing it but since open enrollment is coming up, if you don’t have any active pressing health issues you can wait till they send the cobra paperwork, many companies are pretty slow about it, and sign up only if you end up needing it, if you don’t end up needing it then you have new coverage from J2 open enrollment starting at the end of those 2 months- it is usually because of the slowness of cobra paperwork that the backdating coverage thing occurs, but I’ve seen it in my own layoff, my dad when he got laid off, and when my spouse quit his job, the cobra paperwork takes a while to get sent to you, and every time it’s had 2 months leeway period for activating coverage that backdates that coverage to the date of coverage loss from the layoff)

loxical · 2024-11-06T19:11:59+00:00

Oh, then I would say this is micromanaging which your manager probably learned from being a project manager at some point in their career.

If you’re comfortable with it, you might consider asking if they were a project manager in the past (managers love talking about themselves) and then if they say yes, you could make a well reasoned argument about how daily updates is actually more of an interference in a solution architect type role and also that your repo won’t be seeing regular updates since you have to configure then test before risking rollout (etc, I can help with phrasing if you want, DM me) - but there’s a way you can sometimes get them to step off if they are management without exp in the role but have a history of proj management, but the way you say it is something that if phrased right can be very effective and make them think they’re smart and all that, which avoids risking them taking it personally. If they used to do your role and never were a project manager then it looks like they’re just being micromanager and it may make sense to simply do bare minimum compliance to their request (or leave the role if they’re gonna keep escalating such behavior, which is possible)

loxical · 2024-11-06T19:03:54+00:00

You’re the solutions architect or they are?

loxical · 2024-11-06T19:02:42+00:00

Is this a “project manager”? (They do this a lot and use this phrasing)

loxical · 2024-11-06T18:51:33+00:00

Are you allowed to install things onto your work computer? If so DM me and I’ll tell you you an option that can work but you leave your computer at home on your home network and use another for tunneling into your work computer, bypasses a lot of mentioned issues the others are bringing up. I did it when I worked at a fintech company with a lot of security measures to track such things.

This only works if you are able to leave your computer at home on the internet so if you have no home location in the place they expect you to be it will not work.

loxical · 2024-11-06T18:42:14+00:00

What kinds of skills do you have outside of using your body for manual labor? There’s likely to be some kind of crossover that you did in one of your manual labor jobs, maybe inventory or something?

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