[15:49] <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
[15:52] <zxmpi> people who have purchsed this have also bought... fake eyebrows :-P
[18:39] <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 🤭
[19:16] <daftykins> lol, nice
[23:19] <penguin42> can someone please switch the streetlights off, I can't see anything here
[23:31] <daftykins> are your curtains down?
[23:35]  * penguin42 was looking out with them aside
[23:41] <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 :)
[23:42] <penguin42> go with a particularly good pop?
[23:43] <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)
[23:44] <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 :)
[23:45] <penguin42> oh the bulgy one at the front?
[23:46] <penguin42> probably worth doing that set of 5
[23:49] <daftykins> that's the plan :D
[23:50] <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
[23:52] <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
[23:54]  * penguin42 has a couple of 2.7V 10F supercaps I bought in the maplin implosion
[23:57] <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
[23:59] <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