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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I was a Unix #sysadmin for 25 years and I'm slowly recovering.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
This lil guy, F2, is the object of my hatred now. Dunno what the gloop across there is, but it wiped off with some alcohol. Was it a factor in the thing blowing? No idea.
Seriously why would you put a single use surface mount fuse in a spot like this except to be mean and cruel?
I might end up bridging across it by accident anyway but I'll at least try to do a little better than that. It's not like the DS is going to do anything else unless I fix it anyway, and it's not going to get any more useless. Might as well take a crack at it.
I'm getting back to my DS Lite shenanigans tonight, but I've got a feeling we might end up with the Nintendo of Theseus here. Seems that one of the surface mount fuses blew while testing the second screen replacement. Dunno how, but there's no continuity across F2 now.
I'm not keen on hand soldering a tiny fuse, but rather than just bridging across it and hoping, I'm going to try dropping a resettable fuse into the spot instead.
But haha, if I need to get a replacement board I'm absolutely going to do that, and swap out everything else original too because we've come too far now!
I need someone to place a bottle of champagne exactly 101km from my house please.
I'm going to read this article to Meech tonight so he knows how he got that way.
https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-behind-orange-fur-cats-found-last
"No smoking" just doesn't mean a fucking thing anymore, does it?