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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoretrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Testing the CPU and RAM boards from the badly damaged Apple Lisa
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    2 days ago

    Damn, that’s hella corrosion!

    That wouldn’t stop me though, I already have half an arsenal of techniques stemming from salvaging flood damaged and house fire damaged boards. I’d probably try to tackle such boards something like this…

    • Ultrasonic cleaner with vinegar
    • Rinse thoroughly and empty the vinegar
    • Ultrasonic cleaner with baking soda and water
    • Rinse thoroughly and empty the soda water mix
    • Spray the boards thoroughly with WD-40
    • Pressure wash the boards
    • Air compressor to mostly dry
    • Heat the boards with a hair dryer to finish drying

    Then it’s obviously a matter of good luck, inspection, testing and tackling any particular issues that the above process didn’t quite clean up. I like dude’s use of phosphoric acid, but I’d rather keep away from the extra strong chemicals until the end stages as spot cleaning only.

    It would be cool to see if he ever manages to actually get all the boards running again. Obviously they’ll need new capacitors and some soldering touchups and whatnot, but still these are rare relics of the past…

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•kittypillarEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I absolutely love jumpers too!

    Random story, sorta sad, but has a good ending…

    One day a jumping spider landed on the back of my neck. I didn’t see it, but of course I felt it. Out of instinct, I slapped my neck. I got the little bugger alright, but I was all too sad when I saw that it was a jumper ☹️

    I put the little guy on the park bench, two legs broken off and not moving. I was so sad that I sat there for a while, occasionally blowing on it to see if there were any signs of life. After probably like 40 minutes or so, it actually got up and ran away 👍

    I hope it went on to eat more flies, lay eggs and have lots of babies…

    🕷️❤️

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOPtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Happy Thanksgiving!
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    13 days ago

    I hear ya, you’re basically right.

    My thought process is more like people with a food stamp card will still have the card, but it’ll be useless without being reloaded with benefits funds.

    Note that for once the orange shitstain actually did something to help in the meantime, not long after I made that meme, Turnip announced he’s approving the use of emergency funds around $5 billion for SNAP recipients, which is around half of what typically goes out to people, but hey it’s something at least, for now…

    He probably only did that because even in his demented cranium, he’s gotta understand that his ratings will plummet through the floor if he doesn’t do something quick so even the poor and low income families can have a decent meal for Thanksgiving.

    I dunno, I haven’t had food stamps in over 5 years. It’s hardly worth the waste of my time to only qualify for a lousy $27 a month, it costs more than that in gas to get back and forth to their office to comply with their work program requirements.

    Edit: Update, I guess the orange turnip changed his mind… 🤷

    https://lemmings.world/post/36462070

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Me, when doing error handling
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    15 days ago

    Me while doing error handling?

    Well shit, all my functions both take and return memory addresses. When one of those blocks of data happen to fail the data sanity check, the function returns either -1, -2, -3, -4.

    See, you’ll never get such numbers as proper memory addresses, they’re assigned as blocks, larger than 4 bytes…

    So, if one of my functions returns a -1 through -4, that tells me which argument to the function failed the sanity check…