doingthestuff

joined 6 months ago
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 8 points 6 hours ago

I'm laying here in bed in Harambe's home town of Cincinnati with nothing on but a T-shirt and a blanket on my chest. My dick's out. RIP.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 6 hours ago

The kids will be fine. They always land on their feet. I know this because I have thrown many kids from rooftops.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 5 points 6 hours ago

I don't mind that it isn't only poor brown people who feel this way. Too many people in power think they're untouchable and their shit don't stink.

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

I usually read the title first. As I comment this, I haven't actually looked at the post yet.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But can you fit four 200kg people in the Miata?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 8 hours ago

Nope, been working twelve hour days. But thank you for the pic. That's some bullshit.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah their impact has mostly been lost too. I've never had a job where I worked less than 55 hrs/6 days. Pensions don't exist. Most jobs in my area pay around $12/hr. Even skills like welding pay $15. You need three incomes per household just to survive on those wages.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn't speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 0 points 13 hours ago

This why I drive anything less than 2500 miles. That's two days of driving and I get to see the country. Flying would take a whole day anyway, and then I'd have to get a rental car on the other end anyway. Plus it's difficult to find a decent lifted 4wd rental, and I usually travel to spend time in the mountains on unimproved roads and hiking and camping. Probably similar carbon footprint to flying anyway.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 13 hours ago

I'm inside the 275 loop in Cincinnati but can't get downtown without getting a ride in a car to a bus station. At that point, might as well just use the car to get downtown. Or to wherever else I'm going. Train travel is WAY too slow in the US. I've never had a vacation longer than a week, I'd barely be arriving at anywhere interesting and I would already be due back at work.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

What was the shirt?

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 points 14 hours ago

The angriest people I see on the road these days are people driving five year old Teslas.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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