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The Mountain Dew “Game Fuel” tie-in wound up being perfect for a bunch of us high-schoolers too

Halo 3 multiplayer remained a staple for us for years, we’d often go right back to it after wearing out other games like Call of Duty 4 MW

Some older TVs from that era were finicky about certain HDMI signals, notably those coming from PCs.

You sure this is USB-C?

A USB-C port has 20 pins, two rows of 10.

Your image appears to only have two traces leading up to the ripped off pads. I would assume that perhaps there are vias to the other side of the board that aren’t visible due to lossy image quality, which would more closely match USB2 Mini or Micro B (4 Pins).

Ultimately, this is fixable with the right tools and skills. It looks like the main ground pads for mechanical support of the receptacle are still there. You would then need to expose parts of the trace on the PCB, solder jumper wires to the pins of the receptacle, and then solder those jumper wires to the corresponding trace.

The best “guide” is going to be watching a multitude of videos of how it’s done. Look up USB Port or Receptacle replcement.

Your supply requirements: Fine tipped soldering iron Solder Flux Thin enamel wire Magnification (I prefer a microscope) Fiberglass pencil or small blade (scalpel, x-acto, that sort of thing) Tweezers

I’ve already had a Plex pass for ages, so I’ve just been running both concurrently.

Plex is a lot more accessible for my friends and family that are less tech inclined.

I have a bunch of this specific line of Sabrent dock from different generations.

For some reason, some of them are super finnicky about certain high capacity (over 2TB) drives. What’s even weirder is that I have two identical enclosures purchased at the same time, and for any given drive one dock will be weird but not the other - and it’s not consistently the same dock either.

If you must use the disk externally, I recommend that you try another dock or enclosure. Probably not a Sabrent one, lol.

Static electricity doesn’t mess with wires, replacing the wiring seems to be an odd choice. It can and does mess with integrated circuits, so I would sooner be looking at mainboard replacement.

Still, this behavior seems almost mechanical in nature. Someone else already asked this, but knowing whether or not the same region of the printhead is consistently affected is going to be critical. You might do a few prints of a 5mm high square with an X through it, using the whole bed.

If it is consistent, I would be inclined to suspect a reassembly issue - maybe something loose at one end of the gantry?

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.