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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

swiss people can't swim, silly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That kind of looks like how a machine would look if the RAM is loose in the socket or otherwise have a bad contact. And since you mention that it's random and sometimes there are no vertical lines, that'd be my guess rather than anything to do with graphical software. Is the RAM on your machine soldered on or is it detachable? If it's the latter, I recommend taking the RAM out and reseating it to see if things improve (try this a couple of times, just to be sure the RAM is properly seated). If the RAM is soldered on then it might have something to do with out of memory. Does the system slow down a couple of seconds before freezing entirely? If it does then it's likely it's a OOM thing.

Oh, and for good measure, can you get to the tty (ctrl + alt + f2) when the system freezes? If you can then it's probably a graphical thing and you can try restarting those processes. If the system is in a complete freeze then I'd say that's another point for the OOM hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I understand you correctly, I think you can manually create symlinks to the HDD. For example, if you want libreoffice suite to be on HDD, you would go into where the libreoffice suite is located on the SSD, move it to some location on the HDD, and create a symlink in its place pointing to the new location. This way, the data is stored on the HDD but all programs still find its way there.

I would also recommend upgrading your HDD to a SATA SSD. But of course, that costs money so, up to you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

me if i was Tails, or "The Amnesic Incognito Live System", a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity against surveillance, which connects to the Internet exclusively through the anonymity network Tor and is designed to be booted as a live DVD or live USB and never writes to the hard drive or SSD, leaving no digital footprint on the machine unless explicitly told to do so.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

fitting, considering HP products are ass

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah lmao. the article itself is not that bad, but gosh, the title really does make it seem like these people have never ever heard of the exotic and far-flung country of... Hungary, ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the clear and concise answer, my man. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I also thought that was the issue at first. I've tried reconnecting and putting more slack/less slack but the symptoms stay the same. Plus, if it was worn out from open/closing the screen, I think it'd affect the backlight as well as the display when I wiggle the screen back and forth. But they're both is stable from what I see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm confident it's that capacitor since I can see the pads aren't rounded but jagged (there are rounded ones on the board, and I know those are supposed to be empty). That would suggest that the capacitor was torn off by the plastic of bevel of the display assembly being pushed in too far. I can also see that there's a hole in the protective tape covering board, right where the capacitor should be. It's a bit awkward to describe but yeah. Plus, the previous owner also described scratching that bevel and symptoms showing up after they did it too often. So all in all, I'm pretty sure it's the cap. Still, thank you for the answer!

 

So, I've got a laptop screen that's giving up on me. 2/3 of the screen runs alright but the 1/3 on the left edge is acting weird. Half of the broken section displays an image but the image smudged and weird, while the other half is just dead. I opened it up to see what's up and, lo and behold, a wee tiny capacitor is missing (I know it's a capacitor 'cause I looked of the board marking, C248).

Now I'm wondering, since ordering a single capacitor just for fixing this screen is not worth the effort, can I just... put some solder in there to at least get power to where it needs to go? I know it's definitely not ideal but, this is an ancient laptop. Putting in the effort to fix it perfectly is not exactly a great value proposition. What I want to know most is, will the screen be damaged if I do this, or what could go wrong if I do this?

I'm pretty new to DIY electronics fixing so sorry if this is a stupid question. Thanks in advance y'all. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Greenway suggests that the Wobblies stumbled upon this modus operandi as a means of combating the street bands of the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America, who frequently would drown out Wobbly speakers in a "cacophony of cornets and tamborines." One enterprising IWW organizer, wishing to combat the forces of obscurantist "pie in the sky" theology, "retired long enough to organize a brass band of his own.

Denisoff, R. S. (1970). The Religious Roots of the American Song of Persuasion. Western Folklore, 29(3), 175. doi:10.2307/1498356

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