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- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 11 hours ago:
Memory utilization is relative to the user though. For someone who wants to do nothing more than check their email and manage online banking, no specs matter
Just because such a system would not be suitable for your use-case does not mean that it is not suitable for any use case.
Repairing broken hinges on such a cheap laptop practically has to be a DIY repair. I get this exact repair inquiry every now and then, the owner often balks when the repair cost is more than 50% what they paid for the device. For these low-end laptops, I also find that parts are usually less available than those for most Apple devices. Apple tends to use certain part designs / assemblies for multiple generations. Apple stuff is consistent enough that there are plenty of used parts available aftermarket.
Far as your repair scenario is concerned, I can only think of 2-3 times where a Mac came in with hinge related failure and those cases all stemmed from abuse like opening the lid too far / egregious mishandling. Meanwhile, I’ve bread lots of butter with HP laptops whose hinges break through regular operation.
If something costs more to fix but only breaks 1% as often, are you really saving money by purchasing the cheaper solution with the higher fail rate?
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 11 hours ago:
There’s more to a computer than RAM (or even ither specs), comparing what’s shown in the article to the low-cost option you linked the two systems are leagues apart in terms of build quality.
Wouldn’t be surprised if the battery life was miles apart too.
That cheap plastic HP laptop is destined to have its hinge mounts snap away from the upper palmrest through normal day-to-day use.
- Comment on Dreams are just ai slop your brain forces you to watch. 1 day ago:
Back when LLM/AI was fairly nascent in the public eye and largely relegated to image generation, I had a real off character come into my computer repair shop wanting to ask questions about it but not knowing what to call it.
He wound up describing it as “you know, when they make the computers dream”
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 2 days ago:
It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.
Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
Lots of MSPs have already been doing / selling this exact thing for years.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 6 days ago:
I’ve played some tabletop in the past (10+ years ago) as a noob, never quite got super deep - it was mostly an activity to enjoy with friends.
With the way my life is structured these days, I’d be a key contributor to “schedules & conflicts” and don’t want to burden a party with my inability to fully commit to a campaign.
CRPGs give me the advantage of being able to start and stop whenever, short or long sessions.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 6 days ago:
Still haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3
I have several unfinished RPGs and really don’t want this one to get added to the list.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 6 days ago:
AliExpress’ purchase protection is a total farce.
In one case, I was shipped the wrong variant of an item and the seller was totally unresponsive. Submitted evidence, AliExpress closed the case saying that Tracking shows it was delivered. No way to appeal.
In another case, I ordered something to my business and the Chinese courier service left the parcel out front on a public sidewalk. Naturally, the parcel was stolen. The courier service eventually admitted, in writing, that the delivery was mishandled and that the shipper was the only one who could file a claim. Once again, vendor unresponsive, AliExpress closes the case saying @Tracking shows delivered” with no way to appeal.
Meanwhile, I had a $1,000 Amazon package get stolen the other week and they refunded it with minimal fuss. The return policy is so easy might as well be “try before you buy”. I can see why people have a hard time de-Amazoning.
- Comment on What do Computer power supply issues look like? 1 week ago:
👋 Repair shop owner / operator here
The two most common symptom manifestations of a defective power supply are abrupt shutdowns while in use or inability to power on whatsoever.
We’ve had some edge case scenarios with weirder behaviors. In one case, power delivery to the GPU would randomly drop out which manifested as an abrupt cut to a blank screen, almost as though the GPU has been abruptly removed. In another case, a system would occasionally suffer an abrupt reboot when waking from sleep.
Cases of BSODs, stuttering, or other instability diagnosed as the power supply have been few and far between, but they do exist.
Fortunately, that hypothesis is pretty easy to test for. Power supplies aren’t terribly expensive, you can sit one next to an open chassis and satisfy its connections without completely installing it so it’s not a huge ordeal / time sink to isolate for a problem with that part.
For the most part, stutters like you describe are often the result of corruption in the software environment, largely as a result of a defect in storage and memory (though, importantly, not always)
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 week ago:
this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6
It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.
I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.
Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 2 weeks ago:
LN1 and LN2 were made by ThQNordic
Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.
- Comment on DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.
A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 3 weeks ago:
Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.
In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 4 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for all that you do for this instance, and by extension the Fediverse at large! We all really appreciate you :)
Disk space utilization is represented as a graph of percentage - if you don’t mind sharing, what is the actual storage footprint of this instance at this point in time? If applicable, how much of that is content native to Lemmy.zip versus cached content from other federated instances?
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 weeks ago:
I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!
It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.
Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.
Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 4 weeks ago:
friends dont let friends use plex
Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.
storage is very cheap now
In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
John Woo’s Max Payne
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 5 weeks ago:
Grandma doesn’t need to “learn” Linux
Most of the older generation compute almost entirely through a web browser. They often struggle with the amount of notifications / solicitations that come up in a a Windows OS, as they can have trouble discerning between what is real and what is a scam - becoming fundamentally distrustful of everything as a result.
Through my repair shop, I’ve transitioned plenty of older generation folks to Linux Mint with minimal friction.
Main area where that can get a bit more complicated is for those who are clinging to an older piece of software they’re unwilling to let go of.
- Comment on LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work 5 weeks ago:
You’ve confirmed that you have 5V / peripheral devices are being powered
Measure resistance between USB’s D+ and D- as well as resistance between each of them and GND
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 month ago:
Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.
- Comment on GeForce Now’s 100-hour monthly limit goes live in 2026 2 months ago:
That’s about 3 hours 15 minutes per day or 25 hours a week.
I’m sure this will eventually reach a point of actually enshittification. For the time being, it seems like they’re making the highest bandwidth users - who have a part time job’s amount of time to play video games - pay more for their share.
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
It is an NPN, It isn’t flipping when base is pulled to ground / is behaving as expected.
When using NPN, the problems were related to the resistor. I managed to find a “sweet spot” at 330ohms where the module is able to turn on and play without cycling and the resistor sits at a comfortable enough temperature.
I’m going to try timing plugging in the battery so that the resistor doesn’t shed all of its power before the gift is opened :)
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
Probably, I used the term “Tripwire” as an example with relation to the circuit, in this application the intention is that a wire will be cut with snipe.
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s possible place the full module between 4V and Drain (or collector for NPN), so I shifted my focus to just the speaker without all the ICs.
The good news is that it works with both an NPN or a MOSFET - the bad news is that it totally degrades the quality of the audio to a point where the thing I am trying to play is unintelligible.
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
With how I’ve been going about this, technically, the load of U2 / Speaker Module would be on the Drain side of Q3 PMOS rather than the source side - and that’s the key difference between what I’m doing and the Piezo speaker tripwire circuits.
Could this be the reason I’m not seeing success?
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
Appreciate your response / effort! The first diagram that comes up in my post is one I drew of what I’ve been implementing, you can sub the NPN Transistor for a MOSFET to cover attempts with that component type. Base to Gate, Drain to Collector, Source to emitter.
For all three of your diagrams, SW2 exists on the module PCB but it is being bypassed by my circuit. I have the resistor / drain / collector wired to “1” on SW2, “2” is the load of the rest of the Module (in my diagram, “2W Speaker and some ICs”)
The blue wire is my “Tripwire” / pulldown to GND. In the last picture, I haven’t even bothered attaching it to pull down the signal from Gate because I had been experimenting with different MOSFETs and finding they weren’t turning on all the way / letting any more than 2V through, which is not enough to power the speaker module.
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
Nope! Mostly do computer repair / SMD rework, I’ve also tweaked some existing circuits to do what I want so this is probably my first foray into really tinkering and building something.
- Comment on Disconnect wire to close a switch with a simple circuit 2 months ago:
That’s where I think I’m having the biggest issue. I’ve been experimenting with different resistors, 20Ω is the only value so far that doesn’t result in the module power cycling the resistor starts to cook, I think it is rated for 1/8W and I could go with a higher wattage rating but I don’t want to drain the 300mAh battery too fast
- Submitted 2 months ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 17 comments