>>107797944
>My soldering station is the same as yours, but with another brand name.
I have a few. When it comes to soldering stations, don't spend a lot of money on it. Spend money on a hot air station. I use a hot air station 85% of the time. You also need a good DMM and a programmable power supply. Not to mention a microscope or some kind.
>What kind of jobs are the most common for notebook repair?
Broken ports, liquid damage, dead caps, dead ICs, broken screens, hinges. Stuff like that.
>I've done that for family and friends but I never did motherboard repair. I feel scared of doing it professionally if I only know the more basic stuff, even if most of the time that's been the problem.
Start like I did. Buy broken stuff on eBay or Craigslist (or whatever is popular around you), try to fix it and flip it. You will learn quickly and confidence will grow with knowledge you acquire.
>Also how do you repair keyboards on the ideapad and I think the newer thinkpads, the ones with fused keyboards? Is it viable in your country to buy the whole top carcass? In here that's ridiculously expensive so I get just the keyboard itself and glue it to the old chassis.
I don't repair that stuff. I just do a top case assembly replacement. No one would pay for my time to remove all those welded rivets and the keyboard would never feel the same after anyway. Like so many things today, they're not meant to be repaired. One time a customer did bring me his laptop the same day he spilled soda over it and I did save the keyboard by putting it in an ultrasonic cleaner with hot water for 15 minutes and then I rinsed it and let it dry for 2 days. That worked well. But if you leave it for even a day, it will corrode the traces.
>Have you ever done battery repair? I've been looking into recelling my battery for a while.
Yes but only for friends and long-time customers who specifically asked me to fix it. I don't do it because of liability.

>>107798125
I'm too amateur to have some of the fancy toys. So no hot air station or microscope for me. I have a cheapo digital multimeter and a power supply (goes up to 30 V at 10 A) I quite like that thing, even if most uses are for some heavier stuff. Only does straight DC, though, no signal generator. I also have a handheld oscilloscope, needed one for a job a while ago and wasn't at a spot where I could get a proper bench top unit.
>dead caps and ICs
Those I don't touch cause no hot air.
>liquid damage
As in the traces themselves corroded to shit so you gotta retrace it with wire and that UV solder mask goop?
>flipping shit off of eBay and Craigslist
Those are shit in here but we have our local alternatives, I keep an eye on them on occasion. Hopefully this year I'll get to do more of that since I finished some big project last year and should have more time now...
Which brings me to the battery repair. I got a x230 a while ago, cleaned it up, upgraded it and now it's my on the go computer, love that thing, real portable and easy to carry around.
Problem is the battery. I've seen around here that the BMS might die if it gets disconnected from the battery the wrong way and since it's an older model with the original battery, I don't want to ruin it and have to order some chink replacement, I gotta do it right the first time. Can you teach us how to do it? There was some anon in this threads that wanted to build a website with this sort of info for the x220 I think, but then he disappeared and I never seen him again.

>>107775377
Thanks man
>microjeet's 4 GB minimum
Who actually still use this unless you're running TTY session only.

>>107798125
>Start like I did. Buy broken stuff on eBay or Craigslist (or whatever is popular around you), try to fix it and flip it. You will learn quickly and confidence will grow with knowledge you acquire.
I watch guys like TronicsFix on YT and when they do multimeter tests I'm just dumbfounded like - I have a good head for abstract spatial awareness and I can envision water flowing through pipes but - how do you know the power goes here, then it goes here, and so on when you have a multi-layer PCB? How do you know that a voltage reading on pin 1, 2, 3, etc is "good"? If there are specs/data sheets online I have no idea where to find them.

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My work is sending these out to new employees

>>107800782
Best way to run hyprland on Debian stable. You can use home manager and flakes to pull and build hyprland straight from the devs github repo and it doesn't interfere with your base system because it's separate from the base system.

I heard Nix nukes your drives

>>107800960
usecase for drives??

>>107800960
if anything it saves them since you can pin to a release for 6 months. archtards come by and rebuild unstable every day and wonder why they have 30gbs of write a week.

>>107801014
How is that any different than just choosing to not update any other distro for 6 months?

OH MY GOD YOU JUST TYPE IN "flatpak install gamescope" WHY WAS CHATGPT TRYING TO GET ME TO BUILD IT?

Also doing the gamescope command still just prevents the game from launching.

I'm using systemd-networkd on Debian 13 and I'm trying to add a routing policy rule to a macvlan interface but it won't take effect.

This is my scenario: I have two WAN interfaces over a single link (don't ask), both of them are macvlans with different MAC addresses, DUIDs, etc. Inbound connection packets reach the macvlans, but then the replies try to go out the default gateway and connections fail. So I'm giving the macvlans their own routing tables with:

[Route]
Gateway=_ipv6ra
Table=1234
GatewayOnLink=yes

... and trying to add routing policy rules to match, but my settings in the .network file are not being applied unless I match on the IP address, for example this works:

[RoutingPolicyRule]
From=2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1
Table=1234
Priority=200

But this, which doesn't require knowing the IP address ahead of time, doesn't:

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>>107800757
It won't launch with the gamescope command.

Fucking Linux, it's nice but I randomly have to spend hours a day trying to get one stupid game to run because it decided to shit the bed.

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What is the middle point between something like Damn Small Linux & Tiny Core and something like Mint?

>>107800978
Minimal debian install and just install the packages you want/need

>>107800733
skill issue
works on my machines

>>107800533
I just wish they added an interrupt pin to it. Would've sold decades of latency problems and CPU usage spikes.

but the USB consortium is full of complete utter faggots who just make sure the standard is as completely fucked as possible, and they only do any upgrades whatsoever when there's some competition. They made USB3 (last sane version) to counter Firewire 800, and then the hot garbage that's.. every later version, to counter Thunderbolt.

>>107800909
Holy no thanks.
USB devices firing off interrupts at will? Jesus what a shitshow that would be.

>>107800733
try micro usb

The design is fine.
The blame for the shittiness of USB falls on The People(tm), for being retarded and not holding manufacturers accountable.

>>107799662
Read the whole post retard before submitting yours

>>107795596
I have reported all of the above and my reports were ignored

>>107799391
>BON
kek

> I finally made Gemini write me a script that silently updates my Deluge Daemon with my VPN's forwarded port and monitors to check for a new port every 15 minutes and only updates the Deluge Daemon when it detects a new port is assigned.

I've been putting this shit off for years because I was too lazy to write the 30-40 lines it would take, but now I don't have to.

Yayyyyyyy

>>107795497
same

>>107800071
i got raided, cops asked me nicely for the password for my veracrypt shit, i denied.
never heard anything again, this was like almost 10 years ago.

>>107800071
Why did you forget the password to your CP stash?

true!

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Should I be encrypting me pedo games?

>>107800071
>>107800157
What the fuck. How on earth did you get to that point?

>>107799005
Spare space and unrecoverable errors are your real problem indicators
>is it pointless because they can just one day ACK on you with no signs
This is also true

>>107799104
You only need more and more RAM because the average consumer's RAM keeps going up as new buyers enter the market and hardware refreshes. If it stays the same or goes down, that's just one more metric devs have to spend time optimizing for.

I'm trying to run live Linux USB so I can fix something, but it keeps freezing up or hanging.

Already tried different thumb drive, different USB port, different Linux distros, different laptop (works!), Ventoy and Rufus, so it's a problem with my Lenovo Legion. This is a new problem and I didn't have this problem at least a year ago when I installed Windows and Linux on two different NVMEs.

>>107800538
could be RAM, I would test with a different stick if you have one, I doubt NVMe since live USB's can boot just fine even if there is no storage installed at all

I want to mirror my Android phone screen onto my smart TV. I can use the screen sharing feature, but it's very laggy. Is there a better option here? Would a male to male USB-C to HDMI cable work? This is for playing smartphone games on my big screen.

it's not loaded but it's still taking up a browser tab
why not bookmark it again?

>>107800678
you have to right click a bookmark to delete it

>>107800216
I spent less than that on 32GB. But I didn't need 32 necessarily, it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to stick to 16.

>>107800216
Unreal Engine games have been using over 20gb for a while now anon and we both know nobody is going to optimize shit for Unreal games and if you think Unreal Engine 6 or gaming in general is going to be light on RAM I have bad news for you.

>>107800216
It is only when you trying to shoot for 32GiB or larger UDIMM DDR5 where prices get really crazy. The issue that all current DDR5 desktop platforms force you to use 2xUDIMM or you will get a massive hit on clockspeed as memory controllers cannot handle it. So you are forced to get aforementioned 32GiB if you want more than 32GiB of memory without taking a massive hit on memory clockspeed.

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>>107800553

>>107800730
>Cherry picking a SKU that is massive priced and discontinued.
NGMI, /g/

>>107800033
Money. What else?

>>107800033
because video games are useless shit for children. he wants to make real tech.

>>107800690
>defends jews first
lmao. happy haunakka.

>>107800077
It’s a slippery slope of evil. When he betrayed EVGA, he could betray everyone.

>>107800077
Nvidia is one of the shittiest companies to do business with. Why do you think most consoles use AMD?

>>107797124
Fuck off, Sideshow Bob.

So much for chinese capitalism and free trade

>>107799925
Soviets have something called a five year plan. A reelection chasing junkie wouldn't know.
You're a drug addict chasing reelection on short-term results.

>>107796305
Are chink GPU's good enough to do AI at scale?

>>107799580
Well no shit, nVidia has a bigger ecosystem of tooling for compute needs. There's been periods in the past when AMD cards have outperformed nVidia, and yet companies still buy nVidia. Companies give more of a fuck about what works rather than what's more performant

>>107786093
Mass unemployment and job scarcity without UBI is a recipe for disaster.

>>107800845
No it isn't.
It's a problem that solves itself.

>>107800847
Human civilization is only nine missed meals away from total chaos.

>>107786093
>The public
The public doesn't care
The only people who do are the terminally online minority
And you know why they're terminally online?
Because they're losers. Nobody wants to be with them, nobody listens to them.
No normalfag with a job, bills to pay and a family to care for is seething about ai on twitter
That's why you never hear from them and they're called the "silent majority". They have things to do in real life that actually matter

>>107800884
Welp, look on the bright side: feminism and all the other bullshit kikery will soon come to an end under such circumstances. As long as reasonably-competent warlords come out on top, then the days of Current Year will be over. :D

>>107797660
>(me and team) kept backups off the server and recovered all the damage
so you did the company's work for FREE, once again, and let them get away with their hiring decisions, AGAIN. You should have told them to go fuck themselves

>>107796395
Should have asked your supervisor to make this idiot prove it works. It clearly does not.

>>107796415
Never share this script with anyone. Ensure jobs security for yourself.

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>company starts hiring remotely in India to replace my team
>have to start training my replacements (I did get another position at the company)
>they have no idea what they're doing
>one of them asks "if we can't fix an issue, who do we go to for support"
>tell them "you are the support for anyone who can't fix their issues"
It's been a few months, AFAIK they're barely keeping things running over there. Had to get called back into that team a few times because they don't know what they're doing.
Heard this week through a coworker that the linux image building process is starting to fail.

>>107800797

Like compiling some custom Linux, or just creating a custom Linux container?

>>107800814
Company specific changes to standard distro images. For example, setting config files and ensuring cybersecurity policies are applied. It's all automated, but it does require maintenance.

Nobody ever seems to want to critically dissect why Aero and skeuomorphism looks good, instead they just want to post about nostalgia and "aesthetics."
One of the major reasons is that device homogeneity allowed pixel perfect design. Now a designer needs to care how their work looks on a multitude of displays, with differing DPI, sizes, variable scaling settings, and form factors. It's like how pixel art went hand in hand with CRT displays. You cannot go back to that world nor is it desirable to do so.
I'd much rather have typefaces that aren't squashed into tiny squares than glass buttons and colorful single pixel edges on icons, actually.

>>107783537
i coomed.

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>>107800037
and their art on frutiger aero subreddit looks like some sort of north korean propaganda like (picrel).

>>107800037
yeah, this thread literally became an nostalgia thread for tiktok zoomers with their own version of "only 90's kids remember".

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part of the draw is that it was promising a calm utopia

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>godschosenlist
>goyimlist

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>>107787392
Damn, between this, Windows enhittification, and AI everywhere, Nadella really is trying to crash the plane.

>>107800358
The only thing in there are some resumes and statistics homework.

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>>107787392
God, I hate the left.

Bill gates.... Save us.......