It’s going to haunt you for years. Wife: “why doesn’t this iot thing work?” Oh its on the wrong network. “I don’t understand it just doesn’t work”. Then I go add more exceptions in pfsense and the cycle continues.

I have a c920 and it’s complete poop. Random hiccups and stutter and the auto focus fails.

Took a 6 day vacation with the wife and our only child, a five year old. Long story short, we learned vacationing with an only child is a lot of work and next time to bring her a friend or cousins to occupy her attention so that responsibility isn’t on a parent. Still learning how to vacation!

throws poo

My wealthy relatives bought a summer home last year on the Florida west coast. That hurricane rolled through and messed up their entire neighborhood and they bragged if the tide went up one more foot their new home would have been flooded. I asked if they had second thoughts to which they quickly responded oh no, hurricanes never hit the west coast this is a freak event it will never happen again! The cognitive dissidence is insane.

I’ve gone rogue at work and formated my windows laptop with Debian which I’m also extremely comfortable in with stripped down servers. Running Wayland and using Microsoft teams and tools via the edge browser (mandated) has been absolutely pleasant. There are still initial headaches initially setting everything up and getting the drivers to work and thunderbolt docks to work but now its awsome. Best part is the 10 second shut down time when I run between meetings.

Deleted the certs from the sshd daemon which locked me out of a remote server that required and a 2 hour drive to fix.

This moment is exactly what those Tabasco leather belt holsters are made for.

It’s getting worst though. A lot worst. They keep adding more and more layers to make it so difficult and convoluted you give up. Last year my insurance started using an external pharmacy for my meds. Fine. But my meds to need to be administered by a nurse in a hospital. So I need to get prior authorization from my doctor to my insurance who then approves the pharmacy to do the meds. But there are 30% copays now so I use a third party company that works with the company that makes the meds to comp the 30%. Then I need to get the hospital to call the pharmacy to order meds on my behalf and send it to the hospital, not me. Then I can finally schedule my appointment to actually get the shot in the hospital. I do this circus once a year, every year because they change one layer every year and so I have to figure out the new rules. It’s pure madness.

Thanks for the reminder. Just signed up for monthly donations.

I can 100% see that in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Super white washed and no industry to bring in fresh faces, just generational residency.

No outdoor advertisements/billboards, very few national chains, very protective of local business, everyone is very connected with the land and their community. Vermont is awsome.

Sound dampening. Common feature on high trim cars or electric vehicles.

Every link should open a separate pop up window. Add an under construction gif of a dude digging.

Have you froze it recently though? They bury the fucking options and make it as painful as possible all while trying to sell you $20 a month monitoring services. Seriously equifax? Why would I PAY your backward, half assed company money to sell AND leak my data? What the christ!

Bingo. My company sub-leased some downtown office space to get out of it and will bail on it completely in about 5 years when the lease expires.

As someone from MA, I think Shiner Bock should be on that list.

I’m naturally charismatic. I’m lucky, don’t know how or why it just comes natural. But I hate getting complements. It makes me uncomfortable, I don’t need or want them. What drives me is my own desire to be better and get better. I don’t need external influence, my internal pressure is already many times greater than what most get exposed to. At least that’s my interpretation.

Bingo. Give everyone a safety net in terms of mental health and finances and I’m convinced the vast majority of our problems go away. Even topics outside of this one.

Wow OK, great pictures. First I will say the PCB and components look super clean and the design, components and overall design looks very high quality. I’m kind of surprised this isn’t working because it doesn’t appear to be low quality, quite the opposite. The board is also super clean and well care for. I didn’t expect all the PCBs to be broken out, there appears to be a dedicated PSU board and I assume an amplifier board separate. Usually everything is all on one board. Perhaps you can order a new PSU from a different vendor if you figure out what voltages it should output, is there any clear marking on the output where there is no voltages to tell you what should be there?

OK so you tested the MOV and its 470kohm that is GOOD. It should be high resistance unless its damaged and then it typically fails as an electrical short. Also you would see physical damage and blackening. Next thing I would check is the fuse, but your PSU is fancy and uses an NTC. It will be low resistance until too much current flows which heats it up and then it’s resistance climbs higher and higher to choke the current flow to a safe/manageable level. You should check that and make sure its resistance is low, less than 20ohms or so. Capacitors also look good and you tested them. Unfortunately for you, this might be a vexxing or random failure :(

Did you happen to call the company and ask for help or a repair program? It looks high enough quality that they might stand behind it and mail you a new PCB.