doingthestuff

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I guess Marx joined the NRA now?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The proletariat must not be disarmed

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago

That link isn't working for me in this app, I'll see if I can find it.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago

It depends on the article and the type of event. Eyewitness accounts always have inconsistencies.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 4 days ago

Link doesn't work for me.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Is there video of this?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago

Came here to make sure someone had added this. Got mine in '99, it's still hooked up to my main TV today. I have a spare too.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's called the Whodat because that's what everyone asks after it has maimed your corpse beyond recognition.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I go snowshoeing during the day, or maybe drive around in the snow, my car is very capable. We don't have mountains nearby to ski or snowboard, and I don't care for cross country skiing.

Sometimes I'll drive to town for a meal in a local diner, or I'll spend some time cooking a nice meal at my camp. I don't spend time in my tent except to sleep or change my clothes, maybe roll a joint away from the wind.

I can sit comfortably outside in a chair for hours at -20C without getting cold. I like to stand by the fire sometimes, maybe listen to some music, there's never anyone right next to me it will bother. And yes a fire is nice, but I don't need it to stay warm. I do like to cook over the fire also. A campstove is efficient, but cooking some meat over a fire in the snow is a vibe.

Sometimes I have data coverage where I camp, and I might spend a little time on my phone or on a tablet. They don't mind bitter cold, although batteries don't perform quite as well. I have lots of options for power sources if needed. But honestly I prefer when I'm outside of data range and no one can reach me.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago

I don't like cold rain, so Spring is out for me. Fall is DRY here. Like the only temporary drought we ever get. Summers are a mixed bag, mostly unbearably hot and humid, but we do occasionally get strangely cool and dry days where it is too chilly to be standing outside wet in a swimsuit. Winter is great as long as it's below freezing, which it mostly has been. It's not even winter yet and we've had four good snows. It was -19c yesterday morning, and we're at the same latitude as Portugal. Sometimes we get a warm winter day with that 2 or 3c rain and that can fuck right off.

 

Is it just a picture from the cool market near me, or is it more?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by doingthestuff@lemy.lol to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

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