Gormadt @ Gormadt @lemmy.blahaj.zone

I do a lot of photography and I share it on my DeviantArt and Pixelfed.

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Like maybe cut those executive salaries down a significant amount to start Mozilla because holy shit does Mozilla pay it's executives a lot vs how much the company makes.

And Into the Spiderverse for some stuff

Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

Ain't no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.

NGL I usually only do component level repairs on the power boards (or in the case of appliances most of the components are easy to find docs for and are much larger) but I usually find stuff by poking around with my multimeter or looking for obviously blown things. But my experience is more from the realm of appliance repair (and all from experimenting).

Testing capacitors can be done (and if they're big enough) something I'll do as well. I ain't gonna test capacitors that are smaller that a grain of rice.

There are times though that it's easier to just buy a new board rather than do component level repair.

Good news is that when it comes to TVs those boards are usually really cheap.

Usually if it's a charging port, it's pretty common that there's like dirt in there or something.

But soldering a type C connector is pretty tough due to the size. Especially for my (lack of) experience level.

It could be a learning opportunity for you though.

NGL when it comes to that kind of fault I usually just replace the mainboard, they're usually dirt cheap and it's a hell of a lot easier to swap that whole board than it is to poke and prod for an hour just to find out it's some 40 pin monster with micro-soldiered pins.

The power board is usually what I do component level replacements on. The t-con board and the main board I usually just swap.

For TVs it's usually really simple, like internal fuses or blown caps. And a few with bad backlights or mainboards that are dead.

For 2 of them it's been shorts in the LCD itself which meant I had to block the clock pin from the TCON board for the specific part of the screen with the short. Basically killing a line of pixels to get the TV working again. In general if the TV is 4k and smaller than like 45 inches you'll never see it unless you look for it.

That's a super involved fix (involving A LOT of trial and error to find the right pin) but it keeps it out of a landfill.

In general fixing a TV is always cost effective unless the actual LCD has physical damage.

I'd say TPU

It's a lot less gnarly than ABS and depending on the hardness you get can it can be anything from a pain to a cakewalk to print.

Plus IMO it's got more uses due to it's durability.

In the last few years I've fixed about a dozen TVs, they can definitely suck to fix at times (especially the really new ones) but in general the fixes have been simple. And all of them were snagged out of the dumpster at my apartment complex.

And that's just the TVs I've fixed. I like to fix things.

In terms of phones they're a nightmare though. I'm keeping an eye on HMD phones and Fairphone though as both of them are a LOT easier to fix than other brands.

In the event of my current phone breaking I'd love to get either one of those brands.

I still recommend it with a little asterisk:

Disable a bunch of shit in it or download a privacy focused fork of it (like Librewolf)

I've got a few accounts for interconnectedness basically, Beehaw is fun but not being connected to the largest instance (lemmy world) is a bit of a hurdle.

Personally I think I might make my slrpnk account my main one due to it's connectedness and having downvotes enabled. Don't get me wrong I dig blahaj but not having downvotes enabled is a bit of a sticking point for me. (though my blahaj account is the one I spent the most time on)

So gravity is like economics, accumulate too much in one area without the appropriate amount of external force and shit starts collapsing real quick.

NGL I'd love this too

Unfortunately I have no recommendations as mine have been primarily physical journals

Also a quick cliff notes on what each is would be greatly appreciated

I only recognize the Chromium icon...

Getting my friends to shift over is a pain in the ass for sure

Whenever I download a new version of Blender I typically throw them $10 - $15.

Just like with other open source software I use, I give it a shot and if I like it I'll throw them $10 - $15 each time I update.

Edit: It's not much but it's not nothing. No raindrop feels reasonable for the flood and all that.

Considering how often Google's AI hallucinates some garbage for an answer this is going to be terrible

So far so good

I did a photoshoot for a local screamo band at the beginning of February, and sent the pictures off last Friday. The band got back to me with their first batch of proofs for parts of the album art on Tuesday and they're super happy about the shots I gave them. They're not going to use all of the shots I did but they do want prints of a few of them that they're not putting in the album art book which is cool IMO.

Also as part of the agreement to do the shoot I'm free to share the shots as long as I link back to the band.

So I'll be sharing a bunch of them leading up to the album's release starting soon.

Though some subs I've been banned from over there the reasons were as simple as "criticizing China and/or Russia" or "participating in a specific other sub"

The subs I hang around in are currently the same to right wingers (downvoted to oblivion) but that's partly because attempting to participate in a lot of lefty subs over there you get banned for talking about China in a negative way. The other subs aren't political so those ones aren't too bad.

That repo doesn't, hell it mentions that you need to dump them yourself not even mentioning the possibility of other means.

Not sure about the others though.