i have a busted computer power supply from my parents' computer
i kinda want to take it apart, that's supposed to be a good way to learn about computers, right?
but i feel like i'd most likely just be like, 'i've taken it apart, wow, there sure was a lot of stuff inside' and learn nothing
Electronics are a little harder to "learn" by disassembly since you won't recognize any of the parts. But if you're bored you could still learn a thing or two about how electronics are sealed by doing so, which will make you more comfortable should you try to open something more important later.
Taking it apart and maybe looking on the internet to see PSU components or something could be more educational, should you be interested in the components of a power supply. I'm pretty sure it serves a a transformer for the computer (I guess you would also learn what a transformer is by doing this search).
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Jane that joke was bad and as punishment I have to make you shine my wand before you're allowed back in the Band of Brats' clubhouse
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ms. Studentteacherson is the best teacher at Dame A's, imo
Somehow it's weird to me that the President has the power to just rename mountains
Apparently everyone there called it that already, so it might be more accurate to say he had the power to recognize that the name had never really changed?
Although the president could also nuke a mountain and rename it a hole in the ground. (Day 50 of President Trump's first hundred days, because on day 49 someone on that mountain tweeted something that pissed him off.)
Somehow it's weird to me that the President has the power to just rename mountains
Apparently everyone there called it that already, so it might be more accurate to say he had the power to recognize that the name had never really changed?
Although the president could also nuke a mountain and rename it a hole in the ground. (Day 50 of President Trump's first hundred days, because on day 49 someone on that mountain tweeted something that pissed him off.)
Most power supplies these days are switching; they rectify the mains power (convert it to DC using diodes), then run it through an oscillator that converts it to a high-frequency wave. This lets the designers use smaller transformers that are also more efficient. On the other side of the transformer, the high-frequency, lower-voltage AC is rectified again, filtered to remove any "ripple" (buzz, essentially), and then sent out to whoever needs it. When a power supply dies because of "bad caps", it's because the capacitors in these filters failed, and it's sending out a constant buzz instead of nice, clean DC like you'd get from a battery. (There's also a transformerless version called a buck/boost converter; it either lowers (bucks) or raises (boosts) the voltage using a transistor, a capacitor and an inductor. These are what all those nice, big copper coils on most motherboards made in the last 20 years are about.)
Older power supplies (and a lot of very small DC-DC supplies, like on add-in cards) are linear; they regulate the voltage by burning off the difference as heat. They're not as efficient as switching power supplies, but you still see them in places where there has to be as little noise as possible (audio and instrumentation), or in places where the amount of power they'd be burning off doesn't justify the extra parts of a switching supply.
didn't he say something like "women soldiers are better because men soldiers are teh gay" in one of the later dune books that i never got to
There is a scene where a person who has already seen and knows that Leto II is a horrible tyrant decides that the last straw is that he lets his honor guard of women soldiers be lesbians.
This is treated as worse than the point where he has someone publically whipped for something he didn't do.
THe worst for me was the Honored Matres and their sexual hypnotism that gives them mind control over men. That's where I stopped reading and didn't want to see where else that trainwreck could go.
I thought the first Hunger Games book was alright, but the second one was just her rolling her eyes constantly at people sacrificing their lives for her, which was unintentionally hilarious. I do want to steal its set up for a D&D game or something though.
I personally enjoyed the author's other work in the Underland Chronicles a little more, but I liked them too, and I appreciate the movies' faithfulness to the source material.
I'm required to hate it for making oppression a class - only issue (like every other bloody YA novel) instead of being realistic and adding a racial or sexist factor to it.
That said, it's unique stupid bits are less stupid that Harry Potter's stupid bits, afaik, so I'm willing to be forgiving to it. Until someone adds in time travel, at least
And Aliroz, just because I disapprove of the Time Turner and the whole Slytherin thing and a few other worldbuilding tidbits doesn't mean that I look down on you for not liking it. Or anyone, for that matter.
I'm just a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to young adult novels these days. They keep reminding me of why I really don't like the X-Men
it's an extremely popular YA novel series featuring a character who is plucked from a rather sad existence into a world of trials and tribulations and danger and they both got made into movies?
my issue with harry potter is that i feel like as it went along JK Rowling tried to make them more "mature" in a not very effective and not very mature manner. plus she got famous enough that she got like total editor immunity so everything turned into a sprawling mess and i didnt really like the worldbuilding to begin with and yadda yadda yadda
the first 3 books are still definitely like good "things to read your kid as a bedtime story" type things though
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will have been either physics class or music tech class, i think
either way it was long enough ago that i can't remember, so i will have to look it up
Although the president could also nuke a mountain and rename it a hole in the ground. (Day 50 of President Trump's first hundred days, because on day 49 someone on that mountain tweeted something that pissed him off.)
evil twins
anyone got one? or are YOU the evil twin?
THe worst for me was the Honored Matres and their sexual hypnotism that gives them mind control over men. That's where I stopped reading and didn't want to see where else that trainwreck could go.
My dad is 58.
There are better YA/teens stuff than Hunger games, though.
The movie was pretty mediocre.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
That said, it's unique stupid bits are less stupid that Harry Potter's stupid bits, afaik, so I'm willing to be forgiving to it. Until someone adds in time travel, at least
Although now I'm wondering what it is that made us both think of HP, even though we had the opposite reaction to the comparison
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I'm just a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to young adult novels these days. They keep reminding me of why I really don't like the X-Men
#consumingcontent
...now I'm just imagining a Battle Royale where the kids were abducted on the way to Hogwarts.
the first 3 books are still definitely like good "things to read your kid as a bedtime story" type things though
The third HP book is my favourite because of the time travel elements.
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I'm a sucker for time travel.