| penguin42 | worst UK plug yet: https://dowdon.en.made-in-china.com/product/wCiQAjMblchI/China-110-250V-6A-500W-Us-EU-to-UK-AC-Power-Plug-Travel-Converter-Adapter.html | 15:49 |
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| zxmpi | people who have purchsed this have also bought... fake eyebrows :-P | 15:52 |
| davef | I'm busy hiding key-combos in code to keep the Quebec language police happy. Law changed meaning I have to provide Windows computers with a french language OS.. but so I don't have to waste time manually changing it all back to English if they've signed a waver, I added a listener for a keycombo that skips the Install-Language function 🤠| 18:39 |
| daftykins | lol, nice | 19:16 |
| penguin42 | can someone please switch the streetlights off, I can't see anything here | 23:19 |
| daftykins | are your curtains down? | 23:31 |
| * penguin42 was looking out with them aside | 23:35 | |
| daftykins | hehe | 23:41 |
| daftykins | my original xbox, produced 2004 blew a capacitor the other day at power on - got some panasonics on the way! | 23:41 |
| daftykins | can't wait to crack out the soldering iron :) | 23:41 |
| penguin42 | go with a particularly good pop? | 23:42 |
| daftykins | i powered it up and heard a bit of a crackle, then a bit of a popcorn kinda pop, before quickly yanking power | 23:43 |
| daftykins | it took a while to spot it, as i had assumed it was in the PSU to begin with (on one end) | 23:43 |
| penguin42 | oh, non PSU one, a little rairer | 23:44 |
| daftykins | https://imgur.com/a/APntzxM | 23:44 |
| daftykins | still power related, just on the receiving end :) | 23:44 |
| penguin42 | oh the bulgy one at the front? | 23:45 |
| penguin42 | probably worth doing that set of 5 | 23:46 |
| daftykins | that's the plan :D | 23:49 |
| daftykins | interestingly these things rely on a "supercap" (in gold back there in the opposite corner, left of the yellow tails) instead of a coin cell battery, so that's probably past its' sell-by date now | 23:50 |
| penguin42 | I'm not sure if they degrade at all | 23:50 |
| daftykins | definitely tales of them all leaking and finishing off these museum pieces | 23:52 |
| daftykins | these are meant to be the best of them, though | 23:52 |
| penguin42 | ah, the backup batteries leak as well, so shrug | 23:52 |
| * penguin42 has a couple of 2.7V 10F supercaps I bought in the maplin implosion | 23:54 | |
| daftykins | does anywhere even exist in the UK now to just drop in and buy things like components casually? | 23:57 |
| daftykins | obviously never had anywhere like that on the island, i tend to just go straight to ebay rather than even trying to search some big chain | 23:57 |
| daftykins | although i did have a browse of mouser/digikey UK - neither took my fancy | 23:57 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I don't think many; RS and CPC have trade counters in 2 or 3 places you can drop into | 23:59 |
| daftykins | ah yeah farnell, of course... used to order my network patch panels from them before i discovered a more recent option | 23:59 |
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