Notices by commandelicious (commandelicious@qoto.org), page 2

Follow @MominRasool
At the moment: Beautiful pictures of pakistani mountains.
Thank you!

@lvl39nerd
Give this fine person some positivity. <3

On this day (23rd of August) William Wallace, scottish rebel commander (or freedom fighter, depends on your point of view), was hanged, drawn and quartered.#history #scotland #england

@Nyoei @freemo
Second qoto meet up in Germany confirmed then :D

Remember the gravitational waves?

Prof Rana Adhikari is a hero of mine. People like that make science fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10

@freemo @Nyoei
First qoto meetup in Scotland confirmed then ;)

What I get here: Nice people. Information about stuff I really enjoy. Tons of cat pictures. Interesting people and engagement. Friendly conversation. I am having fun sharing stuff I made or knowledge I aquired.
Good to have you all!

@freemo
Life lesson from XKCD
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/grownups.png
I am pretty sure you know it, but one never knows :)

#introductions

I have posted some pictures somewhere but I've found the best picture I have of me. It was 2008. Time flies.
Then something to smile, and the last one is me now (or well, a month ago)

Cats. >.>

Culture is fun.
So there is this brit who moved to Germany 20ish years ago and produces videos about culture in Germany, differences random fun facts and all that.
Cool guy, Andrew Bossom, Rewboss. Love his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/rewboss

Sidewink to @freemo => If you find the time, I'd really like to read or hear about what your experiences as an american in the Netherlands are. If you haven't already, otherwise: GIMME LINK <3

Disclaimer: I am a socialist and I love writing. Writing nice stuff.
Anyway, to train I wrote the darkest horror I could think of.
They told us late.
http://commandelicious.de/index.php/blog/105-they-told-us-late

@freemo @Surasanji
My grandfather was son of a jewish mother and in the Wehrmacht. A year ago I got his picture diary and I decided to make it accessible to the internet. I left it mostly uncommented.

http://commandelicious.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-grandfathers-picture-wardiary.html
#history #ww2
I decided for a new thread and not derailing the discussion there. <3

(I will write this as if you were stupid, of course none of you are, but I want to communicate this to as many people as possible, with or without previous knowledge)

I learnt to repair electronics (tube TVs and VCR … don’t say anything) in my apprenticeship. Most of that job is now obsolete. Nobody buys an tube TV or let someone repair their old flatscreen. Of course electronics are interesting, but the job demand is down to nearly zero because unlearnt people can switch boards in modern electronics.
But that’s not the topic of this. The topic is: People throw away their flatscreen after 2-4 years without even opening it to see what’s wrong.
In case of modern tech screens, or well, every electronic device really usually one thing happens: In the power supply the electrolyte condensators lose capacity and the power supply won’t work any more.
So I have a Samsung flat screen as a second monitor and in January 2018 it didn’t start up but the power LED was blinking.
Won’t start up usually means “Power supply is broken” but most people won’t know that. But it’s really the only thing that will break because condensators. ;)
Anyway, you can easily google that as well and find the answer in modern search engines. Be aware, that at least one answer (the answer with the most clicks …) was wrong.
What you have to do if a piece of hardware won’t work and you don’t have warranty: Open it up. Don’t be afraid, it’s broken anyway. All you will do is maybe damage some of the plastic.
Then you will have to look for the power supply and find the condensators. These are cylindrical little guys with usually a big white line on it showing MINUS.
At the bottom I will show pictures of a broken one and one intact one.
To repair your device you literally only need a soldering iron and solder, maybe a desolder gun and/or desolder wick.

The pieces I needed to repair my screen were literally ten bucks. Euros that is, so like dollars.
Of course I learnt this for three years but it’s really easy, you can do it. Everyone can do it if bodily able.
Condensators get a bulge on top. The surface has to perfectly flat, otherwise it’s already damaged or will give up soon.
If you check and see if the parts are broken just put the values, volts and capacity, into a trusted traders website or a search engine to find a trader. I ordered my stuff from a local German electronics company of course so I can’t give you any tips there.

If you need a soldering tutorial, check YouTube. Everyone can learn to remove or replace an electronic part in maximum an hour. Again: Don’t be afraid.

A man hour is about 80 euros here, that means it’s about 92 dollars. The parts are usually 20 bucks or less. Companies charge more for the parts as well.

I also will link you my tutorial video for my device to show easy it is and the condensator pieces I mean. Enjoy, repairing stuff is fun and cheap and people throw away too much stuff which is basically perfectly fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnV5KNla2eg

#electronics #repair #youtube #fixing #tutorial #condensators #savingmoney

You know that feeling when you "fall into the wiki hole"?
Mastodon is the same thing. You talk about interesting stuff with just SOMEONE (TM) and just get carried away oO

It's easy to be mean, especially if you are frustrated with your own or other peoples mistakes.

I have a book suggestion for you
"How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

Well, I restart-restarted to restart writing my book. I was planning to write it, made the universe over the course of ten+ years.
Then I wrote 39 pages (in two weeks) and now I can't get back into it because I consume too many great books.

So, any tips how to get going? A book is on my bucket list. The serious bucket list, not the "well, visiting Mars be nice, not serious bucket list"
#writing

Today (22nd of August) is the national flag day of Russia. Established in 1994 it celebrates the victory over putschists in 1991.

A little tootorial (Can't stop that pun ... I am sorry) about Content Warning (CW) and how to add hashtag tabs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frW9zgQahMo&feature=youtu.be

So now I have pinned uh, tabs? for #games #gaming #youtube and #europauniversalis
Not much content for EU4 and #heartsofiron4 though.

So, come my minions, I will be one of the first and famous. Or something :)