Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Valve1138]

I've had three Mac laptops over the past two decades. None of the slot load optical drives ever broke or had issues.

 

[Jehannum]

I've had three Mac laptops over the past two decades. None of the slot load optical drives ever broke or had issues.

Well aren't you a special snowflake.

Our IT department had a fucking stack of spare slot loaders and probably a hundred mac laptops to support. The first course of action was to swap out the drive when it wouldn't work.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Couldn't they get some car stereo maker to make the damn Apple slot loading drives.

CDs get loaded in and out of CD players all the time with fingers covered in takeout grease and weed resin, in dirty ass cars that never get cleaned... but rarely ever fail. Whoever engineers those CD mechanisms are gods.

Mine failed after 8 years in my truck. 8 fucking years of dirt roads, dust, and semi-hellish conditions.

 

[Valve1138]

Well aren't you a special snowflake.

Our IT department had a fucking stack of spare slot loaders and probably a hundred mac laptops to support. The first course of action was to swap out the drive when it wouldn't work.

Good for them.

 

[fly]

Just got a new Ledger Nano S cryptocurrency wallet. Pretty sweet. Moving all my cold storage shit to it.

https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s

 

[my little brony]

nerd

 

[fly]

nerd

I wish I had more play money to throw at it. I'm up like almost 50% in the past two months.

 

[Valve1138]

I wish I had more play money to throw at it. I'm up like almost 50% in the past two months.

I'll be watching football for free for years!

 

[fly]

I'll be watching football for free for years!

And there's even more money to be made in the altcoins.

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

If I fucked up the Windows partition on a UEFI machine while installing Linux, will it automagically fix itself if I uninstall Linux?

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Windows doesn't boot. Something about the M** (not MBR).

 

[Valve1138]

And there's even more money to be made in the altcoins.

Flycoins now trading at ƒ12038080404030070485 jigganuts!

 

[Josh]

If I fucked up the Windows partition on a UEFI machine while installing Linux, will it automagically fix itself if I uninstall Linux?

Which version of Windows?

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

Which version of Windows?

10 I think, maybe 8?

 

[Domon]

Windows doesn't boot. Something about the M** (not MBR).

mft?

 

[Valve1138]

Had an issue with my ATSC modulator. Picture was breaking up bad. Turns out the coax output jack ground had come loose because they used one thats cheap as fuck and didn't add a lock nut to secure it to the chassis.

So I added the lock nut, now it's all better and ready for SPORTSBALL!

 

[Josh]

10 I think, maybe 8?

How do you not know which Windows OS you are running?

 

[my little brony]

Windows doesn't boot. Something about the M** (not MBR).

"My car isn't working. One of the lights is blinking."

always supply the entire error code

 

[my little brony]

10 I think, maybe 8?

 

[my little brony]

How do you not know which Windows OS you are running?

buggy layer 8 interface