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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah lmao. the article itself is not that bad, but gosh, the title really does make it seem like these people have never ever heard of the exotic and far-flung country of... Hungary, ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the clear and concise answer, my man. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I also thought that was the issue at first. I've tried reconnecting and putting more slack/less slack but the symptoms stay the same. Plus, if it was worn out from open/closing the screen, I think it'd affect the backlight as well as the display when I wiggle the screen back and forth. But they're both is stable from what I see.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm confident it's that capacitor since I can see the pads aren't rounded but jagged (there are rounded ones on the board, and I know those are supposed to be empty). That would suggest that the capacitor was torn off by the plastic of bevel of the display assembly being pushed in too far. I can also see that there's a hole in the protective tape covering board, right where the capacitor should be. It's a bit awkward to describe but yeah. Plus, the previous owner also described scratching that bevel and symptoms showing up after they did it too often. So all in all, I'm pretty sure it's the cap. Still, thank you for the answer!

 

So, I've got a laptop screen that's giving up on me. 2/3 of the screen runs alright but the 1/3 on the left edge is acting weird. Half of the broken section displays an image but the image smudged and weird, while the other half is just dead. I opened it up to see what's up and, lo and behold, a wee tiny capacitor is missing (I know it's a capacitor 'cause I looked of the board marking, C248).

Now I'm wondering, since ordering a single capacitor just for fixing this screen is not worth the effort, can I just... put some solder in there to at least get power to where it needs to go? I know it's definitely not ideal but, this is an ancient laptop. Putting in the effort to fix it perfectly is not exactly a great value proposition. What I want to know most is, will the screen be damaged if I do this, or what could go wrong if I do this?

I'm pretty new to DIY electronics fixing so sorry if this is a stupid question. Thanks in advance y'all. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Greenway suggests that the Wobblies stumbled upon this modus operandi as a means of combating the street bands of the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America, who frequently would drown out Wobbly speakers in a "cacophony of cornets and tamborines." One enterprising IWW organizer, wishing to combat the forces of obscurantist "pie in the sky" theology, "retired long enough to organize a brass band of his own.

Denisoff, R. S. (1970). The Religious Roots of the American Song of Persuasion. Western Folklore, 29(3), 175. doi:10.2307/1498356

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

probably, why didn't you install it through the package manager?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Crawl OST by Alex Yoder. All his other stuff is pretty good as well, but this one is my absolute favorite. Too bad he doesn't release stuff very often.