So you were not entertained by the Arielle live-action remake with underwater scenes that had such barebones lighting you barely could see anything on the screen? Or the Wish movie that just took out elements from a lot of their existing movies and slapped them together in a half-assed way?

…yeah, that’s understandable.

Group work is really nice when you’re working with intelligent, competent and reliable people. I have worked in amazing groups before and sometimes, I really miss it.

But I absolutely hate when I am forced to work on a project with unmotivated colleagues that do their bare minimum and use ChatGPT for everything. In my last job I was often fixing or doing their work, increasing my own workload.

At the moment, I am working alone and remote. I’m getting loads of shit done and I can finally breathe. Sometimes I wish I had at least one competent colleague again, though. But times are tough and good employees cost money…

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I guess that sounded way funnier in your own head.

tl;dr: Skill basic reading comprehension issue

This guy just never stops. He’ll be selling low-quality game consoles in 2050 if it continues like this. :D

Thank you, that’s really insightful. Especially this:

As it turns out, Kagi was founded originally as an AI company, who later pivoted to search. And going by their comments in their Discord, AI tools seem to be what they spend most of their time on these days.

I’ll enjoy it as long as it lasts. Which probably won’t be very long, but we’ll see. :D

What’s questionable about Kagi? I switched to it last month and the search results are amazing, it works just like Google worked before the enshittification. Which makes sense, since they actually pay Google for access to their API.

I used DDG for a while, but they get increasingly bad. They started to aggressively replace keywords with similar sounding keywords, which really messes up the results. Absolutely unuseable garbage.

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I haven’t heard that name since highschool. Great it’s still going.

I think Linux enshitifcation will happen when Linus Torvalds is no longer the benevolent dictator.

I hope not. Linus surrounds himself with good people (like Greg Kroah-Hartman) who will take over the reigns and most likely continue the legacy in his name.

IMDB is also pretty good, still.

Sure, it’s still useable. But the redesign a few years ago made it harder to use and I’m still mad about them removing their forums. Who dares to talk about movies and TV shows on a platform meant for that.

https://premiumize.me/

They have always provided downloads from filehosters, torrents, Usenet and a VPN. And at the end of the year, there has always been a good deal to get the service for a whole year (or even two).

It’s too good to be true and every year I wonder when they’ll enshittify. But they haven’t done so, yet.

Can you post a gear list?

• Hotair / Soldering station: Aoyue Int 986A
• Solder Sucker: Aoyue Int474A++
• Preheater: Aoyue Int853A Pro
• Solder: Sn62Pb36Ag2 (lowest melting point, hard to get because of regulations, but available on the Praud store from Poland for example)
• Flux: Kingbo RMA-218 (available on Aliexpress, the variant in syringes is very easy to apply)
• Convenience:
  • a brass wool sponge for removing the solder from the tip
  • a very long and thin drill bit if too much solder ever gets stuck inside the solder sucker (cleaning one of those out is a bitch)
  • tweezers

Have a lot of fun! Soldering get’s really easy if you have the right gear. Swapping out the crappy amazon solder with the good stuff from Praud made the biggest difference, imho. You can already solder a lot of stuff with a 30W soldering iron from the hobby store, but flux and solder are what’s really important.

There’s a lot of really cheap solder on amazon with way too high melting points. Sometimes the sellers just lie on their datasheet, I once fell for CFH fake solder which barely melted, even when I had my iron on overdrive. It wasn’t me, it was the crappy and fake product!

How difficult would you say reflowing one of the OG 60GB models is?

If you need to swap the RSX out, you’ll have no chance with a hot air station. You will need an infrared rework station. Reflowing the RSX is only a short-term solution, because the underfill of the chip itself has a defect. All 90nm RSX chips are bad.

There are people putting a 65nm (or 40nm) chip from the later models into the FAT PS3’s. This is called the “Frankenstein mod” and some repair shops in the US are providing that service. If you want to have a FAT lady that will last forever, I’d say this is the best solution.

I was really lucky, because I got my model going by swapping out the Tokin capacitors (but I’m aware this probably won’t last when the RSX finally gives up). The FAT PS3 board is very thick and sucks away a lot of the heat. I needed to put the board on the preheater and then used hotair combined with that to remove the caps.

Oh yeah, I also did that. ISP’s are enshittifying all over the world, mine here in Germany is doing this crap, too. They’re even a little more evil, because the first year is “free” and they bet on people forgetting about the fee after the first year.

(And also, they only send out the unlock code for your own router per snailmail letter. Dickheads.)

I got a hot air rework station with a soldering iron many years ago.

The things I’ve repaired with it are so numerous, I cannot even recount them all, but here are a few:

• an assortment of gaming controllers
• a ghetto blaster from the 1970’s
• a few gaming consoles (Xbox 360, PS3 “Fat Lady”)
• retro technology (at least two 3Dfx Voodoo’s and a rare Abit motherboard)
• a full-metal eBook Reader (Sony PRS-505) that will probably survive an atomic fallout
• a Panasonic broadcasting camera from the 1990’s (because it looked cool and I wanted it to work)
• a few LCD monitors

Even though some of that work was just replacing old capacitors, I have saved so much money by buying “broken” stuff and fixing it up. No regrets. Over the years, I paired the station with a hotplate and a solder sucker and now I could probably open up an electronics repair shop. But I mostly do these repairs for fun. Fixing things calms my mind and soothes my soul.

What was he supposed to do? He was out of mana!

Google doesn’t fucking work anymore.

True, but that is by choice. kagi.com has an agreement to use Google’s API directly and they have much better search results than Google itself.

I watched the Borderlands movie at the cinema. The most entertaining part was how disappointed the audience was. I mean, I knew it was trash. I hoped it would at least be entertaining trash, but no, that movie is just extremely boring.