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- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 days ago:
‘It’s the best Bible ever Bibled, I wrote it in my own orange blood…’
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- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 days ago:
What, you don’t believe in Alien Lizard Jesus?
Have you been living under a rock?
😂🤣
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 6 days ago:
Where I’m from, they’d probably confiscate said dirt as evidence, charge the person with trespassing and some sort of misdemeanor property theft, and you’d never see your dirt again, as it was evidence in a crime.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 6 days ago:
I don’t have any significant distrust in society in general, just a heavy distrust of the greedy oligarchs in positions of power.
Meanwhile, the orange turd posted an AI generated image of himself as the next pope…
youtube.com/watch?v=5AvLxeTvivY
Go ahead and read some comments there, he done offended even the atheists out there!
I’m not a governor, attorney, judge, senator, etc in any position to directly do anything about the crooked powers in charge, but as a citizen, I guess this is the best I can do, share the news.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Interesting perspective, I’ve never really looked at it like that.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Do you pay property taxes?
You don’t own it.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
I’ve helped the NSA return stolen laptops, and risked my life putting out a forest fire with my hoodie before it got a chance to reach the dead grass field.
Of course there’s things I can and have done to help change the world, but politics ain’t quite my thing.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
The real propaganda is money.
Like, whoever designed the idea of rent (which is basically a safe place to perform the biological function of sleep and store your stuff).
You don’t own a damn thing anymore, nor do I. But for real, whoever invented the concept of rent, invented the concept of taxing humans for the right to sleep in a safe space.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
I don’t have anything influencing me except my roommate and my mom, and that’s usually just helping keep their vehicles running, carrying groceries, taking the trash out, and bathing the dog.
I see the politics and propaganda every day, I just don’t give a fuck. Nothing I can do about it anyways.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
I believe in mathematics and schematics. I also believe in the right to repair.
I do not believe in invisible deities and I don’t trust most politicians.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
There’s a third type. People like me see the propaganda everywhere, get a sad laugh out of it every time, and go about my day dodging rain drops and replacing alternators.
IDGAF
- Comment on A 9th planet in our solar system might be found — and no, it’s not Pluto 1 week ago:
Your archive link doesn’t work where I am…
- Comment on What's the worst ice cream flavor? 1 week ago:
Pickled Jalapeno
- Comment on Has JD Vance ever tried a tree? 1 week ago:
I caught 3 squirrels in the process, and got a free circumcision!
Good luck 🤞
- Comment on Has JD Vance ever tried a tree? 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_furniture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrophilia_(paraphilia)
Why did I open up this
rabbittree hole? - Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 25 comments
- Comment on Sitting on the toilet 1 week ago:
You spelled butt licker wrong.
- Comment on Sitting on the toilet 1 week ago:
Good advice, I’m always standing at the urinal when I forget and shit myself 💩
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 week ago:
Those all sound like a good set of options indeed. I’m kinda hoping to be able to use silicone glue, but any which way, I’ll be testing on sample cards first before applying anything to the board.
Unfortunately, even if I find the metal trace it connects to, the very end of the carbon trace is a dead end, it functions as one side of the rubber plunger button contact pad. So the fix has to be carbon trace friendly, soldering simply isn’t an option here.
Thanks for the thoughts and advice 👍
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 1 week ago:
Also don’t forget…
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Can you fix my phone screen?
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Sure, a new screen will cost $X, plus my labor cost $Y.
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Wait, it costs money? Well nevermind, I’ll just get a new one.
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- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 week ago:
You do make a good point, which I was already aware of though.
But you also just reminded me that I bought some new heatsink compound about 5 years ago and put it up somewhere in one of my parts bins.
I actually haven’t tested the conductivity/resistance of the new compound yet, but whenever I find it, that’s probably going to be the first thing I check.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 week ago:
I have over 25 years of professional electronics repair experience. This is my own device, so I’m game to think a little outside the box from time to time. You don’t learn shit if you’re not game to experiment from time to time.
Pepto Bismol contains bismuth, which like other metals, is conductive. There are videos online demonstrating people extracting the raw metal itself from Pepto. Plus the stuff dries sort of like a paint, so I figured it might be worth a try.
So I tried it, on a sample test card, so what? I didn’t know what to expect but I lost absolutely nothing by trying it on a test card.
Results: It was partly conductive while still wet, but effectively lost all conductivity once it dried out.
What did I lose? About 5 minutes of my time to set up the test card experiment. What did I gain? Knowledge, about a thing I haven’t seen tested anywhere before.
I wouldn’t dare try such oddball things in a professional shop, I’d use the right materials. Just figured I’d test something random from around the house for shits and giggles. Woulda been funny if it actually worked, but oh well.
If I really want to do a quick fix, I’ll slap down a piece of wire and piece of Kapton tape. But I would like to extend my knowledge to a better point where I don’t need to buy a $20 bottle of conductive paint to fix a single spot where I only need like 2 or 3 drops of the stuff, just figured I’d try making something up at home.
But the people offering me alternate solutions are not answering my original question. I would like to learn homebrew ways to make conductive paint similar to what the manufacturers use, both for this project and possibly other future projects. I wasn’t asking alternate ideas.
Did it ever cross your mind that maybe I’d like to be able to do repairs with materials more similar to what the manufacturer used rather than a lick-and-stick approach?
TL;DR - I’d never try such random experiments in a professional setting.
Sigh, I guess I’ll go hit up YouTube, at least some other commenters have provided links to some valid and relevant resources.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 week ago:
Ah, gotcha. I’ll keep that in mind and double check his channel later this evening.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 1 week ago:
Nah, no need for a new device, all the actual game controls actually work after I glued the crack and solderes bridge wires over all the broke copper traces.
The only button that doesn’t work is the Mode button, which swaps the D-Pad and left analog. Its default mode is the normal mode you’d expect anyways, so fixing the Mode button is totally optional.
It’s just a bit tempting to get the controller back 100% functional, but it’s not terribly important.
I was kind of curious to dabble around and learn ways to make conductive paint at home, and use the controller as a first test try.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
Hey I hear you there.
I’m still game to give it a try though. Besides, whatever fix I end up going with, I’m still going to cover over that with brand new Kapton tape to protect it.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
While that idea sounds good on paper, the crack runs right by the edge of the button plunger, so the fix is gonna have to be about as flat as possible, and well adhered with conductive paint.
At least it didn’t crack directly under the button traces themselves, but it’s right next to it…
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 2 weeks ago:
I hate that I happen to have the reputation of a tech nerd, only to get basically 2 different sorts of requests, both of which I rightfully refuse to touch…
- Can you unlock this
stolenphone? - Can you fix my 72 inch TV? The kids broke the screen.
- Can you unlock this
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
Man, I got lost in a different world last night, watching his videos about 3D printing and gearboxes and stuff, good stuff 👍
But do you have any particular link where he covers conductive ink/paint? Most everything I’m seeing is all mechanical contraptions.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
The crack is right next to the left analog stick, in a spot that will receive random pressure and mild board flexing while in use. Sure the plastic shell is still intact and all the supports are still there, but this particular spot is still a bit of a sensitive spot.
I’m all about the idea of a little piece of patch wire, but I want to actually adhere the patch wire to the trace with a conductive paint. I don’t want to just tape a piece of wire on it, only to have the wire micro-sliding back and forth and just wearing more carbon off the board over time.
And soldering is completely out of the question, you can’t solder to a carbon trace.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 weeks ago:
This is interesting and good to know. I’ll try to keep this in mind whenever I get ready to set up shop to finish fixing it, I do have a couple busted phones around and should be able to find a section of copper tape in one of them. 👍
