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KLin

Lifer
Feb 29, 2000
30,186
550
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You know you can turn off the breaker right?

Yea, I'll be sure I do that before attempting to replace it lol. I turned off all of the 15 amp breakers when I removed it because I wasn't sure which one was affected.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
59,237
9,743
126
Pro tip:
You can take one of those kitchen tap faucet filters apart, and remove the charcoal. Replace that with shaved lead, and reinstall. Makes the water taste sweet. Kids love it!
 
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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
34,481
1,662
126

Pretty affordable. Are you stocking up before the price increases for whatever reason(s)?

Is it wrong for a man to love a metal alloy? Just because "society" doesn't understand it, doesn't make it wrong.

Actually, I just want to cast some stuff and create molded weights which are somewhat non toxic. Most of the very low melting point alloys contain cadmium which is... sadness.
 
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BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
65,765
14,182
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Got a phone call this afternoon from one of my neighbors. She’s almost 90, and I do lots of handyman chores for her. She’s been in the hospital…diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer that’s metastasized into her bones and lungs. (she never smoked cigarettes or pot) They have her in some kind of rehab facility for now while she decides whether to do the chemo/radiation bullshit, or just hospice. At her age, hospice makes more sense. It’s unlikely she’ll ever be back in her house.
I’m hella bummed. She’s my friend and I’ll miss her.
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
14,788
9,688
136
Bought a 1.5TB sd card. Can't get it to work. Don't know if it's the device it's in (it's not a standard kind of device), or if the card is fake (was direct from Amazon, which is usually safe). Fully testing one this size with h2testw will take 20 hours at least. The alternative card that I ordered (that I could use to confirm if it's the device or the card) has been "delayed" with the courier and now won't arrive for days.
 
Dec 10, 2005
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Bought a 1.5TB sd card. Can't get it to work. Don't know if it's the device it's in (it's not a standard kind of device), or if the card is fake (was direct from Amazon, which is usually safe). Fully testing one this size with h2testw will take 20 hours at least. The alternative card that I ordered (that I could use to confirm if it's the device or the card) has been "delayed" with the courier and now won't arrive for days.
I thought Amazon is not safe for SD cards because they mix inventory, thus it doesn't matter if the seller is Amazon or someone else using Amazon to ship their stuff.
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
14,788
9,688
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I thought Amazon is not safe for SD cards because they mix inventory, thus it doesn't matter if the seller is Amazon or someone else using Amazon to ship their stuff.

Dunno for sure, never had a problem with a "sold by Amazon" card before (I avoid anything that's listed as 'sold by X, delivered by Amazon' - very often those are hilariously-obivious fakes, insanely cheap or capacities that don't actually exist yet, with brand names you've never heard of). The reviews seem to follow the same pattern, it's always non-direct-from-Amazon ones that you occasionally get a rare non-shill, non-idiot reviewer warning that it's fake.

It just takes so damn long to test larger cards though. Just tested 150GB of it (took 2 hours) and that much was reported as good. I think that usually fake cards are really very small capacity ones, so maybe it isn't the card (there are several other components that might be the problem).
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
14,788
9,688
136

Hope you didn't get a Sandisk one as someone there is describing it as a turd. Samsung seems to have better reputation but you need to get the EVO Select one. Just searched and there doesn't seem to be a Samsung 1.5TB card so you most likely got the Sandisk one.

Damn, there might be something in that. I half-suspect it's actually a fake, though, given the weird way it behaves. It's so hard to work out what's going on when there are multiple components involved. (I guess "overheating" is a possibilty, given how erratic and inconsistent its behaviour is). And the damn courier seems to have lost the 1TB card that I could have used to test things. Complete PITA. I hate the counterfeit card thing.
 
Jul 27, 2020
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(I guess "overheating" is a possibilty, given how erratic and inconsistent its behaviour is).
Oh yeah, the heating up part definitely sounds like a familiar Sandisk problem. I once got a tiny 32GB Sandisk drive (barely larger than the USB-A connector) and it lasted only a day or two. Froze in the middle of the transfer and went into permanent write-protect mode so now it contains some of that data and I can't write anything more to it. When I took it out of the USB port, it almost burnt my finger. That's also probably why their all metallic USB drives fare better as the heat has some surface area to actually dissipate rather than cook the PCB and chips.

Maybe you can try it again by blowing a fan on the card?
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
69,970
13,473
126
www.anyf.ca
I didn't realize they even went that high now, that's nuts. Definitely would not trust Amazon for that though and that price seems too good to be true.

Also random thing to know, some SD card readers can only read up to a certain capacity. I learned this the hard way after going through a bunch of SD cards and returning them thinking they were faulty, as they sorta work then start to throw errors. New SD card reader and they were fine.
 
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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
34,481
1,662
126
My argon drier still has a small leak. Fortunately Flex Seal Max has my back and the more I spray it in this room, the less I can remember my problems. It's a win win.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
25,944
24,262
136
I requested my medical records from my orthopedist for stuff on my knees - an MRI and x-rays included. They sent me a fucking CD lol I can't remember last time I had an optical drive. Even my five year old laptop has no optical drive.

SO now I have to buy a USBC optical drive
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
99,147
17,467
126
I requested my medical records from my orthopedist for stuff on my knees - an MRI and x-rays included. They sent me a fucking CD lol I can't remember last time I had an optical drive. Even my five year old laptop has no optical drive.

SO now I have to buy a USBC optical drive
Library might still have a computer with cdrom drive
 
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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
25,944
24,262
136
I requested my medical records from my orthopedist for stuff on my knees - an MRI and x-rays included. They sent me a fucking CD lol I can't remember last time I had an optical drive. Even my five year old laptop has no optical drive.

SO now I have to buy a USBC optical drive
So I bought a USB optical drive to grab the data off of the CD, figured I'd return the drive afterwards, and the CD won't work. It launches the built in app to look at the images with, but then gives an error code. Both on my desktop and laptop, whether direct from the CD drive or after copied to a hard drive.

They have to mail me another disc lol

Then I called my optometrist at Costco yesterday - I've been trying out a couple different monthly multi-focal lenses the last month and a half, and I picked the one that has been the best I've ever tried - the prescription has to be written for a specific brand and lens model - so they called me today that the Dr. wrote it, could I come and pick it up. I said can you just email it to me? They said no, but they could fax it.

Fax? LOLOLOL wtfffffffff

I'll pick it up next week at Costco but wtf is up with our health professions these days? CD's - no cloud links, faxes - no emails. Oy.
 
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