The Tech Random Crap Thread

Hah! Knew what it was going to be about just from the thumbnail. I’ve been telling people (mostly my immediate family...over and over and over again) about fake DOWNLOAD buttons and other “UI hacking” for years!

—Patrick
 

GasBandit

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He doesn't even have the water flow going across the fins of the cooler.
Well, you don't strictly HAVE to, as to a degree, water with a temperature gradient will move itself. Yes, the heat transfer interface between the stock air cooler fins and the water medium isn't the best (and frankly there's still probably air bubbles fouling up the works between several of the fins), but the main issue is it adds an extra step between the CPU and heat removal, which is that many more components to risk malfuction - and any malfuction at any point will lead to complete failure with damage very quickly. If his DIY acrylic tank springs a leak, his motherboard's toast. If he mounts it in a case, it's going to turn the center of gravity 90 degrees, and change the stresses on the glue holding it together, which could lead to leaks, or put additional flexing stress on the motherboard where the cooler is mounted, or separates the interface plate from the CPU just barely enough to impede heat transfer.

The pump might go out, but at least that would be a slow failure, and isn't any more of a risk than a conventional water cooling solution (which I already think is more trouble than it is worth in 99% of builds)... And like he says, he's going to face heat saturation at some point when his ice melts, if he doesn't switch to some kind of cooling radiator - which begs the question, will it continue to cool well if the water is NOT near 0 degrees C?
 
So. I shattered my phone screen.

My research hasn’t really given me a solid answer as to price of it getting fixed? (There’s no warranty so it’ll all be out of pocket.) Can anyone ballpark it for me just so I know what to expect? It’s an iPhone 6S Plus. I don’t know if that matters but, yeah. Just curious. I want to see if it’s worth it to fix the screen or if I should save up and buy an entirely new phone?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
So. I shattered my phone screen.

My research hasn’t really given me a solid answer as to price of it getting fixed? (There’s no warranty so it’ll all be out of pocket.) Can anyone ballpark it for me just so I know what to expect? It’s an iPhone 6S Plus. I don’t know if that matters but, yeah. Just curious. I want to see if it’s worth it to fix the screen or if I should save up and buy an entirely new phone?
My local guy would do that for 90 bucks, same day.
 
My research hasn’t really given me a solid answer as to price of it getting fixed? (There’s no warranty so it’ll all be out of pocket.) Can anyone ballpark it for me just so I know what to expect? It’s an iPhone 6S Plus.
Apple’s official pricing page quotes $169+tax, Genius (another fixit chain) looks like it’s $100 or a little over, a couple other places I checked just said “Lowest price guaranteed.” IFixIt will sell you the parts to do it yourself for about $75.

—Patrick
 
So. I shattered my phone screen.

My research hasn’t really given me a solid answer as to price of it getting fixed? (There’s no warranty so it’ll all be out of pocket.) Can anyone ballpark it for me just so I know what to expect? It’s an iPhone 6S Plus. I don’t know if that matters but, yeah. Just curious. I want to see if it’s worth it to fix the screen or if I should save up and buy an entirely new phone?
About $100 at any decent shop, but Apple products get touchy because Apple hates other people repairing them, and make it as difficult as possible. The 6S shouldn't be much problem, though.
 
When we have the Canadian Government actively trying to change what laws we have so that they are all subject to Cabinet approval (C-69 - will require ANY infrastructure project to be approved of by the minister of environment - even if they are obeying ALL laws, doesn't matter, you have to kiss up to cabinet, aka: no rule of law), and our Supreme Court in the 80s ruled "ya, we can interpret anything we'd like into the constitution, no matter what it says" then how is this a surprise that others are actively trying to get in on this?

The whole point of Rule of Law is that even Caesar (Emperor, King, Sultan, whomever) is subject to it. Given Lavscam, clearly many others are also trying to undermine it. Facebook is just more prominent than SNC-Lavalin.
 
I've read enough SciFi to know we're in a post-democratic world ruled by transnational/supranational megacorps. Sure, in theory the Canadian government or the EU could block Facebook until they complied with the law...But end-users - aka citizens - would be up in arms and in favor of Facebook.
 
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