“You should have driven this much after owning the car this long, so we’re going to put that in the odometer.”

Was my guess.

Probably to void warranties, make cars come back sooner for preventative maintenance, and come back sooner for leases.

Or found it on mobile and didn’t have access to right click

I’ve started using FreeCAD for CAD work, I’ve used Fusion 360 for 5 years before trying FreeCAD (again, I tried it a few years ago) and it works pretty good.

It’s different and it’s taking some getting used to but it’s working out quite nicely so far.

Slavery never ended in the US, it just got better PR.

“Only prisoners can be sentenced to slave labor.”

Makes a while bunch of stuff punishable by prison time and makes prison sentences longer.

Holy fuck!

That’s fucking awful!

How I’d do it is basically

72 * (10+3)

(72 * 10) + (72 * 3)

(720) + (3*(70+2))

(720) + (210+6)

(720) + (216)

936

Basically I break the numbers apart into easier chunks and then add them together.

On the note of “keeping your phone in airplane mode”:

No Bluetooth enabled devices is a good point too.

Those devices broadcast identifiable data whenever Bluetooth is enabled, and that data can be logged very easily. If an app has Bluetooth permissions it has the capability of logging that info. Or a simple device that logs nearby Bluetooth devices. About 2 years ago I placed a device in my apartment next to a road and within a week I had the habits of my neighbors logged with accurate timestamps. I took that device apart after that, it’s a macropad now.

So for the sake of privacy, no Bluetooth headphones, watches, etc near your “Go bag” phone when it has a battery in it. IMO avoid such devices in general.

I’m liking Linux Mint and Kubuntu personally.

Especially Kubuntu for my main desktop PC, Linux Mint for my little clunker PC I use to run my 3D printers.

Drinking soap makes my stomach upset and drinking alcohol makes me upset, that means I’m a human right?

Basically Lightroom is for editing photos in a specific format, there’s a couple alternatives that work well on Linux. Primarily Darktable and RawTherapee.

It’s really good at what it does and is basically an industry standard.

But Adobe being Adobe I really want to stop giving them money but I need to replace it first.

Mine that’s still on Windows is while I’m transitioning away from Lightroom.

It’s the only thing left at this point that’s holding me there.

I would just dual boot a system for when I need to use it but I really wanna stop using Adobe software for a number of reasons.

I’ve already switched my mom and grandma to Linux, and I’ve personally only got 1 PC still on Windows. Its days are numbered though.

I’m shocked!

Shocked I tell you!

Only 60%‽

Blows my mind that it’s so low.

I had completely forgotten about those movies!

Cheesy action flicks that I remember loving, I’ve got to watch them again

Thank you for reminding me that they exist!

God the fear of accidentally sleeping through the alarm would probably keep me from sleeping at all

“When you hear the beeping you need to swap out the battery because if you don’t you’ll die. Goodnight.”

Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

Ain’t no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.

NGL I usually only do component level repairs on the power boards (or in the case of appliances most of the components are easy to find docs for and are much larger) but I usually find stuff by poking around with my multimeter or looking for obviously blown things. But my experience is more from the realm of appliance repair (and all from experimenting).

Testing capacitors can be done (and if they’re big enough) something I’ll do as well. I ain’t gonna test capacitors that are smaller that a grain of rice.

There are times though that it’s easier to just buy a new board rather than do component level repair.

Good news is that when it comes to TVs those boards are usually really cheap.

Usually if it’s a charging port, it’s pretty common that there’s like dirt in there or something.

But soldering a type C connector is pretty tough due to the size. Especially for my (lack of) experience level.

It could be a learning opportunity for you though.

NGL when it comes to that kind of fault I usually just replace the mainboard, they’re usually dirt cheap and it’s a hell of a lot easier to swap that whole board than it is to poke and prod for an hour just to find out it’s some 40 pin monster with micro-soldiered pins.

The power board is usually what I do component level replacements on. The t-con board and the main board I usually just swap.

For TVs it’s usually really simple, like internal fuses or blown caps. And a few with bad backlights or mainboards that are dead.

For 2 of them it’s been shorts in the LCD itself which meant I had to block the clock pin from the TCON board for the specific part of the screen with the short. Basically killing a line of pixels to get the TV working again. In general if the TV is 4k and smaller than like 45 inches you’ll never see it unless you look for it.

That’s a super involved fix (involving A LOT of trial and error to find the right pin) but it keeps it out of a landfill.

In general fixing a TV is always cost effective unless the actual LCD has physical damage.