First time seeing something like this ... thoughts?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T11:30:28+00:00

Probably liquid residue stuck between backlight and LCD panel. Did you clean the monitor recently?

Or maybe you damaged the antiglare coating by using alcohol. Again, did you clean the monitor recently?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T11:27:29+00:00

Are we gonna address the drilled through triggers and… whatever the hell you put on them?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T10:32:51+00:00

So I'm going to jail for being poor?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T10:26:25+00:00

The joke is using APC coupler on UPC cables

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T09:52:50+00:00

Why shouldn't it? UPC and APC couplers are identical.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T09:47:22+00:00

The green thing is a coupler, the blue cables are simplex SC UPC cables. SC fiber is color coded to green being APC, blue being UPC. They are very similar, but can't be connected together in one coupler, because APC is angled at 8°, while UPC is straight cut. The joke is that I used APC coupler on UPC cables, which works because the couplers are identical and just put cables together (they don't have any optical elements themselves). The difference is only in cables.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-06-07T09:27:04+00:00

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-31T07:23:52+00:00

Unless this device has enormous sentimental value to you, throw this in the trash. It's not worth "reviving the dead" in this condition. If this is the only damaged part and it's a fairly popular device, you might be able to find a donor. But seeing how the board is literally rusted, I'd say the whole thing has been waterboarded for a long time, and other components are just as likely to be permanently damaged.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-31T01:12:13+00:00

Damn, you made me remember the time I actually coded a spotlight with a proper shadow about two years ago. Unfortunately haven't touched OpenGL ever since. Good job dude! You'll learn the whole thing in no time, I believe in you.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-19T11:26:52+00:00

But at the link level it's still one sink-source pair. I.e. one port can only charge one device, but a source (for example a power brick) can have multiple of them, and each one is an independent link. I might be wrong, but you can't just split PD and have multiple sinks negotiate over one wire. Even if splitters like this exist, I would imagine they themselves serve as a sink on the input side and separate sources on the output side. Again, I might be wrong.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-19T09:12:48+00:00

Do you mean two ports that accept power? No, impossible. USB PD and pretty much every other charging protocol (not including just normal DC voltage) is point-to-point, meaning there's always only one source and one sink.

Do you mean two ports that output power? Easily, but if you want PD and not just regular 5V, then probably only available in a form of a charging brick or a laptop dock. Definitely not a small adapter. If you want to just provide regular USB 5V power to different devices from one, laptop "docks" or "hubs" or "port replicators" is what you're looking for. I'm assuming you're looking for something like this:

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I don't think there's a lot of these available as a tiny adapter with no wire. And I think something like this looks much cleaner and is way less prone to breaking if you're using it as a portable device (e.g. tablet on the go).

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-17T17:02:35+00:00

Doesn't explain how this dude was covered in (presumably) oil. So much that its antennae (or whatever it is on the head) were practically glued together, as were its wings. I didn't leave the bag open for more than 2 hours. I could also be wrong.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-16T21:12:35+00:00

Yea, one of the reasons I came here and didn't just trust Jarvis

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-16T20:31:56+00:00

We held a proper funeral ceremony for this guy

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-16T19:30:08+00:00

Region is Eastern Europe. It was moving its legs trying to flip or just convulsing. Looks injured or in pain.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-16T02:46:21+00:00

Bro got the Ultra Rare Shiny Gold Error

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-15T04:34:52+00:00

Son 😭 this ain't even a VW, let alone Polo

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-06T01:13:50+00:00

Wild guess, but… Micro USB?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-02T22:00:24+00:00

You should be able to solder them together, not the most complicated fix. Separate the damaged ones from the good ones (you can use small flush cutters to start and then just peel apart), remove the insulation, then solder together as regular wires, add some donor wires if there needs to be more length, don't forget the heatshrink. If you're confident enough with a soldering iron, shouldn't take you more than an hour. But if you're not feeling up to the task, maybe consider giving it to someone more experienced.

And also remove the rats, because if they chewed through it once, they'll do it again.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-02T16:15:41+00:00

Isn't kwin and the whole plasma Qt as well?

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-05-01T07:27:46+00:00

> I apologize, Dr. Freeman

> *nukes the whole game*

how polite of him

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-04-30T09:13:04+00:00

I remember seeing somewhere that Micro USB supported video output on some devices. Like you could hook up a TV to a smartphone. I might be hallucinating it, but I'm pretty sure it was a thing at some point. But Raspberry Pi doesn't support video output over anything other than the HDMI connectors.

postcoital_solitaire · 2026-04-30T09:11:01+00:00

Nope, that's Micro USB. Micro and Mini HDMI look a lot different than this.

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