The shadow of the van feels… Off to me. Like yeah, at a certain angle you won’t see the slope of the windshield, but I don’t think the light is low enough for that?

It was about that time…

Similar story here. Just no YouTube.

My only mistake was buying the motherboard first, without actually thinking about it or considering what components would go in it. I knew the components needed to match, but I didn’t think “what’s the best performance for the money”.

I was a kid, so I went on eBay and bought the first motherboard I saw, and then researched what components I would need to make it work.

I’ll spare the specifics, but let’s just say I ended up with a system that was significantly aged and underpowered for its time and how much I spent.

Good learning experience though.

Makes sense. I work at a different type of repair shop, we just had a brand new $400 battery go up in smoke on first power up. Ridiculous.

They got away with it. I bought the part months ago after bodging a fix on the stock connector. By time the bodge failed, the return window closed. It was $5 so unfortunately not worth my time fighting it.

My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.

I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.

I should’ve known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it’s just a headlight 🤷‍♂️

Now I’ve got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.

4k to 720p is what I’d call a significant reduction.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

Sorry you’re having so many troubles. Glad they are taking care of you.

I have two steam decks. One bought on pre-order, the other was aftermarket with a broken screen, so I swapped it to DeckSight OLED. That second one was abused hard by its previous owner, inside and out, but it’s still working great. So for what it’s worth, I think the hardware is solid, if you don’t get a bad one. Every product line has occasional duds

That’ll do something alright

I believe you. But it’s funny, I have both, LCD and DeckSight. I can tell the difference if they’re side by side. But often times I forget the OLED is an OLED 🤷‍♂️

Same. SO is on 512gb, plenty big for them, depends on what you need I guess. I wanted to never think about it again

SSDs are being affected too. Not as much, and I forget why exactly, maybe because it’s all silicon and shares some manufacturing resources? 🤷‍♂️

Recommendation?

We use tidy cats stone pellets with the pee pads liner.

Not environmentally friendly, but it’s the first time I’ve actually not minded dealing with the box.

We never used normal litter, it’s terrible. We used to use the tidy cats brand scoop able stuff. And that worked… Fine. Solids came out easy enough. But urine was either too gummy if you tried scooping it too soon. Or it broke up into stinky little bits too small for the scoop, if you waited too long. And God forbid the cat dig to the bottom before peeing, so the clay glues itself to the bottom of the bin, amplifying the goo/break problem.

And eventually, no matter how well you scoop, the little bits of urine build up and start to stink like ammonia, until you have to throw all the litter away and wash the box. Which is extra unpleasant if it’s winter.

But the stone pellets and pad? The solids are easily scooped. And the urine is trapped in the pad, locked in, never smell it.

And no matter what you do, cats will track litter around the house. But the stones are so big and heavy that they almost all fall off the paw before they make it 5 feet from the box, so the area to clean is much smaller. And the stones are surprisingly less annoying to step on.

My friend has the cedar pellets, and it’s better than litter, yes, in some ways. But I still smell the ammonia.

I will say we’ve never tried the crystal cat litter, and some of our other friends swear by it.

Smart, maybe a foot pedal to hot swap between them. Make your second computer something small and powerful like a nuc, but off brand so it doesn’t look cooler or more fancy than a piece of networking gear

Brilliant

To prepare that perfectly popped popcorn, purportedly.

It’s not gatekeeping. I’m not saying only I should have it. I’m saying that radio is a two way street. It doesn’t help to have more power and be louder, blast your signal further, if you can’t hear anyone’s response to you.

It’s a common problem in ham radio. People buying 600, 800, 1000 or 1500w amps, and plugging them into their low hanging, compromised antenna.

Sure, you’re getting heard 7000 miles away, but can you hear them back?

Instead, get a better antenna, get it up high, something with some gain like a yagi is even better because gain works in both directions. Your signal will be stronger, (the mouth) AND you’ll hear better (the ears). Add an amp to that if you need a little boost, but don’t run it unless you have to.

Literally the one of the most important rules, from the FCC, is to use the minimum required power to get the job done.

I’m sure there are legitimate use cases for 1w Lora radios, absolutely there are. And people can do what they want. But I’m calling it now, this is gonna make more problems than it solves, simply because a lot of people who get into Lora have yet to learn how RF actually works 🤷‍♂️

Great, they made a crocodile, all mouth, no ears…

Every bozo is gonna think they need this thing in their pocket, we’ll have more congestion than ever.

Opposite directions? That explains why mine never worked!

V3 is esp32, bad for solar unfortunately