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@ganjaman Thanks for the advice, but I don't even know what a 'capacitor' is nor how to replace it. I really don't have more than the most basic understanding about hardware
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lastNick5776y@c64forthewin Capacitors are these parts where the angry pixies hide even when the device is switched off and they look like tiny cans laying or standing on the PCB.
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rant1ng45676yso i picture myself in your place, and I ask myself, what am I so pissed off about?
seems like the years and years of all night work, learning this and that, the bug nobody else encountered, with 1 answer on a forum nobody has visited since 2008, yet somehow that propels you to the right answer, and the adrenaline, and you code on..
many more sleepless nights of work later, you finally get to where you want to be and you're proud of yourself, you want to share with family, friends.
Then you get this.
It's demoralizing.
I get it.
Everyone here gets it.
We might as well be cia, programmers. -
LinkedIn full of tech-related messaged from recruiters who have no clue what that even means
A techie doing hardware maintenance and diagnosing "the bad transistor" w/o having an idea what that is
yepp, it's 2019 allright :D
P.S. Have you tried to plug it into the mains tho? :) -
Dixtosa05yI kinda was expecting you to have actually found the underlying source of the problem. But, meh.
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github95615yThis always happened with me. My grandfather will always ask me to fix his radio whenever I visited his house.
I guess, sometimes, they just want us to spend time with them.
On a technical note, the first step to fix ANYTHING is to turn it OFF and ON.
Works out most of the time magically. -
@github it may help to extract some information before turning off though. Eg. I usually check if this is the first session after an update on computers.
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