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If your phone is having problems charging - your charger won't go all the way in, is loose, or sometimes your phone won't charge...

 

Take a toothpick or other small non-metallic item and try cleaning the built-up lint and/or dirt out of the charging port.

 

 

I just spent all morning trying to figure out why my phone hasn't been charging the past two days, and then a two-second google solved the problem for me... :rolleyes:

 

How many of us keep our phones in our pockets? Do we ever think about how much lint and other pocket-crap gets into our phones?

 

 

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34 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said:

The most corrupt CEOs are those of the pretzel companies.  They're always so twisted.


I am pondering starting a bank considering the SVB collapse. Figure I would call it RBB (Rat <yeah> Bank), and start out by stating that we would only take complete RBs as customers and investors, and only invest in “sin” stocks and other “bad” investments. Phillip Morse has been paying 8% for decades and has always been 2-3 years  from “being banned from sales” completely.

 

But, then again, I would be happy working for a Super Villain as long as the work was interesting. Death laser satellite? Interesting engineering problem.

 

13 minutes ago, Mad Jack said:

 

 

   PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

If your phone is having problems charging - your charger won't go all the way in, is loose, or sometimes your phone won't charge...

 

Take a toothpick or other small non-metallic item and try cleaning the built-up lint and/or dirt out of the charging port.

 

 

I just spent all morning trying to figure out why my phone hasn't been charging the past two days, and then a two-second google solved the problem for me... :rolleyes:

 

How many of us keep our phones in our pockets? Do we ever think about how much lint and other pocket-crap gets into our phones?

 

 


Have had the lint problem since my Motorola Razr two decades ago. 

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Anne shut down her Pro Tips stream a little early due to Twitch having repeated lags, stops and restarts.  Tomorrow's mini (new to the stream) will be the Cathy Wappel tribute mini.

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The Police Department of Sunnydale were “deeply stupid”.

        (— Buffy Summers)

 

The tech people at SparcTrubble internet are also deeply stupid. 

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Oh, I shouldn't browse foreign (in this case Japan) hobby sites....ha ha

 

Found a bunch of hobby stuff for really good prices. The downside of course is int shipping costs, thou maybe if enough is ordered it'll offset the price of the product here in the US. A couple of items I've had my eye on are a combined $20 bucks, here in the US that almost be just the price of 1 tool.

 

I will have to think about this.

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3 hours ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

I just heard this on the news and had to look it up:

 

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/pickaway-county/man-hospitalized-after-pickaway-county-zebra-attack/

 

Yes, A ZEBRA Attack!

In Ohio.

 

GEM

I'm always saddened to see stories like this. A lot of the time, I'll just keep going 'cause I don't want to know the particulars. Sometimes, I will read the story, but the first thought in my mind is always "What did the human do to deserve it?" ; at least half the time it was a wild animal doing wild animal things and the human did something stupid that resulted in them being injured, and the 'vicious wild animal' being killed. I've been bitten a handful of times by domesticated animals; each and every single one of them it was my fault, for doing something stupid. Therefore, if I hear of a wild animal biting someone, I tend to assume the human was to blame.

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5 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said:

I'm always saddened to see stories like this. A lot of the time, I'll just keep going 'cause I don't want to know the particulars. Sometimes, I will read the story, but the first thought in my mind is always "What did the human do to deserve it?" ; at least half the time it was a wild animal doing wild animal things and the human did something stupid that resulted in them being injured, and the 'vicious wild animal' being killed. I've been bitten a handful of times by domesticated animals; each and every single one of them it was my fault, for doing something stupid. Therefore, if I hear of a wild animal biting someone, I tend to assume the human was to blame.

Reasonable assumption in a lot of situations.

In this case, not so much.  The Zebra came back for a second attack, after paramedics and police were on scene.

The question running through my mind is two fold.  A.  What was wrong with this Zebra, it sounds like an animal with an equivalent of hydrophobia. and   B.  How did it get loose from wherever it was before the attack?

GEM

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