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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
tautech:
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--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 04:48:28 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 05, 2022, 12:22:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 09:02:39 am ---Ok, then that video does sort of make some sense, but here is another angle, what would happen with all that natural gas if we don't use it for heating or cooking? It's going to get released into the atmosphere and do what? Build up to become a huge big gas cloud that we are going to be breathing in and then one day a lightening strike ignites it and the entire planet erupts into a huge fireball and incinerates everything and everyone or worse, the planet blows apart and ceases to be a planet any more. :-// :-// :-//
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You must be pulling our plonkers. Natural gas that has happily spent millions of years underground is suddenly going to start floating up into the air if we don't use it?
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Undersea methane clathrate/hydrate? (Note the question mark)
Methane in permafrost.
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And methane rising from landfill sites, sewage works, cows and other sources, and yes it was a bit of tongue in cheek but it does make you think, and don't forget that now we have drilled into the earths crust and disturbed the balance, so there is always the possibility of leaks and blow outs, even from capped wells, at some time in the future I'm sure that there will be a major event, but when is the question.
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Landfill sites and sewage works often "harvest" the methane now. Cows I'm suspicious of, but I've never bothered to investigate whether there's any more substance than PETA/Greenpeace propaganda.
But there is a hell of a lot of methane in permafrost and in clathrates/hydrates.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/colossal-crater-found-Siberia-what-made-it
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=siberian+methane+craters+2020&t=ffsb&iar=images
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You nailed it, propaganda and nothing else.
Here, the rage is restoring wetlands, that is undoing all the hard work our forefathers did in the last century or so by fencing all the streams and rivers which while providing habitat for desirable species also provides habitat for vermin. ::)
But that's not all folks, as adding fences to waterways to protect them also restricts maintenance of them where over time they return to the marshes and swamps of old....that release significant quantities of methane ! :palm: |O
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 05, 2022, 08:16:38 pm ---TEAMS sorted... friend paid me a visit this evening, passed me his old work laptop.
We connected to the interweb via the Wifi of my ADSL box. First time I use that, works fine, was not terribly difficult to get working, it's auto-detected by the laptop then you click on it and it asks you for a password, that's indicated on the ADSL box (well, you press a button and it displays it on its tiny crappy built-in LCD ).
Opened my Gmail account from there so I could click on the link / invite I was given.
Opens up the web browser and it works, I can see my ugly mug in the frame, sadly.
Same friend also brought me a fucking TV to repair... for a friend of his. Said friend has a bucket truck which I could use to do a massive hair cut to my biggest tree at the back of my garden. 10 meters high by the looks of it, too big for my tiny back yard... an ash tree, if Google served me correctly. It grows fast...
Anyway, I will trade this TV repair for a bucket truck job. Seems fair to me.
It's a gigantic 55" Samsung (model UE55NU7026K ) LED 4K "smart" TV. Got Ethernet and USB, and a couple HDMI ports for inputs, which means I have no way to send a signal to this shit.
But that's OK, TV works fine, it's just a backlight problem.
The right half of the screen is in the dark. left half works just fine and shows life.
Have already fixed one LED backlight problem a year or so ago, on here (TEA helped), so I am not a virgin in this matter, which is good (increases the chances of fixing it, and not destroy it when taking it apart, if need be).
Previous TV I remember had a LED driver chip on the SMPS board, that had 4 independent current controlled outputs, but the TV used only one output, all the LEDs were in series in one giant string. One LED was open circuit, and 4 others failed short-circuit.
OK so this other TV I guess has two strings one for each half of the screen, and one of them is down. So is it the driver chip that's got only one of its outputs failed, unlikely I guess, or more likely, since they always fail... one or more failed LEDs in that string.
I don't have the high voltage low power adjustable power supply I dream of in my lab... to test this string. But luckily since we have two strings and one is working... I guess I can just swap the two strings on the power board, and see if the fault changes side... if so, I need to take the screen apart and remove the LCD... which means high likelihood of damaging it when handling it. So hopes are low for a successful repair.
Wish me luck.
You shall now resume your normal banking / iphone / climate / gas / oil activities, sorry for the interruption. ;D
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Good for you getting your Teams on! Break a leg, brother! :-+
As for your TV BL issue... Yeeeah, this is one of my pet peeves in the right to repair battle. Every-fukkin'-thang nowadays has a cheap LCD in it (aside from a few bastard OLED devices... even worse for the landfills), and all of them are designed to be cheap to build first, not to have that BL replaced. In fact, you'd swear they were designed to thwart it.
All you "Right-To-Repair" guys wanna do some real good? Sponsor and push a bill to force manufacturers to make LCD displays serviceable so the device can stay out of the landfills for a sensible timeframe instead of the LCD being a built-in doomsday clock on every gawddamn household device they infest.
mnem
"Fuckkin' fuckity-fuck-face fukkin' fuckers... FUUUUUCK!!!" ~bd139
mnementh:
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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2022, 02:59:57 pm ---Try Santander. They have actually had the most clue I've experienced so far.
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On a quick skim, Santander's login security is solely pin/password, without the possibility of a "what you have" number generator.
While I regard that as sufficient in the past (e.g. my account that I've had since 1975), and it might be OK for the intended use, for the future I'd like something better.
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Nope, if you have a more modern smartphone, you have the option of fingerprint scanning as well, which works really well.
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... until you need to revoke all 10 certificates. Or can toes be used too?
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It says nothing about using your fingers. There's a good supply of them out there if you have to get another one.
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Haha, that reminded me of this
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Why does Serge the Psychotic Seal have Dexter's voice? Is Dexter hallucinating all this?
mnem
And worse... when does Mandark crash this party...? :P
mnementh:
--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 05, 2022, 08:42:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 05, 2022, 08:16:38 pm ---TEAMS sorted... friend paid me a visit this evening, passed me his old work laptop.
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While I think another poor soul in Teams is not a thing to celebrate per se, this is excellent news for you as it's a potential stepping stone.
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1000x this. We all have to get our hands dirty to make the world a better place... Teams is Vince's Pandora Box Shithole, just like MS Ticketing once was mine. ;)
Please take a moment to say a prayer for both our tarnished souls, my brothers; before the old ones carry us off...
mnem
I am not my pants. No, I am not your pants, either.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 05, 2022, 07:13:20 pm ---Roger Needham used to recommend that your passwords should be "shocking nonsense", the shocking bit intended to make you think twice before telling someone your password. On that basis perhaps one should use one's 11th digit, the middle wicket so to speak, so that you aren't tempted to reveal your *ahem* original biometric in public. Of course revocation would be particularly undesirable.
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I can think of people for whom it would benefit mankind. Much like retrospective abortion.
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