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Anna’s Archive: The New One

My family income fluctuates a bit more than average so we tend to withhold a bit more just to be safe & make budgeting easier.

Whatever comes back in the refund gets invested either in stocks or renovations for our creaky old home. Mostly the old home.

Sure it’s not a perfect system, but it works well enough for us.

Also people are bad at budgeting (which is kinda math, but really just self restraint). OPs mom is probably upset about the tax bill because that extra cash in her bank account encouraged her to spend more. If it was paid slowly and never seen it would have been harder for her to justify some level of spending.

This is true for so many things.

Free shipping? That business didn’t somehow solve labor and fuel costs - they’re just buried in the price of the products (and why they want you to spend a minimum)

No difference in price between card and cash? It’s because the 2% Visa fee is baked into the price. But hey, the price is the same and you get 1% back in “points” so definitely best to keep using the card. Very classic prisoners dilemma.

“Free checked bag” on your flight? Guess what…

Ive also noticed this with new EV buyers who are shit at budgeting. “Why is my electricity bill $300???” Well sweety you were spending $60/wk on gas +$120/mo on electricity beforehand, but that was several smaller bills soooo…

People are just really bad at processing long-term information.

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What strange times we live in.

Even in very cold regions heat pumps maintain a COP>1, so even running it as a space heater may not be free if you have access to a more efficient alternative. Also that may be a responsible justification for Folding@Home, but I doubt OP is turning off their LLM in the summer.

The adapter I shared has no solder except that which you put into it. It solders into place just fine with a little flux, I’ve had 0 issues in ~20 games from this.

Be sure to clean your iron tip, I had a little bit of difficulty on the first one I did because I have had the same iron tip for like 10 years. A $2 replacement made life much easier. Probably also could have just hit it with sand paper. And double-check polarity on the connection points - watch a couple of YouTube videos to confirm you’ve got +/- right. I think it’s wonky on some carts.

The ones that are soldered and often suck are the ones OP posted. Be sure to check the battery voltage before you install those ones because they use cheap batteries and duds are common.

I’ve also seen people go the cave man approach and just un-solder/pry off only the battery (from the attached “arms” that connect to the board) on old carts and just tape a new battery in place but that’s an approach for monsters and psychopaths.

I’m a bit foggy on the details but I think Pokémon Silver / Gold were a little trickier because the RTC changes the PCB layout and the battery is actually mounted on top of a chip, so space gets a little tight and you have to build a bit of a solder bridge up to the connectors.

No, not free, OPs power bill just climbed behind the scenes to match. Probably a discount but definitely not free.

Just one more AI revolution and we’ll have AGI, trust me guys. This one is gonna be like 100x better at… well, AI stuff obviously.

FYI on the next one - they make CR1616 battery holders (like this) which allow future you to swap in new batteries whenever you want without additional soldering

I figure if I’m gonna do it, may as well just do it once

Enjoy having your old games back!!

Oh I love a good bolt plug.

Not true. I came here to shit on how bad KitKats are.

That’s a lot of security theater to protect $10-worth of chocolate-like substance.

Domain is <2 weeks old, any chance you have a DNS adblockers? It may get flagged as a new registration for safety.

FWIW I was browsing on Proton VPN with their DNS adblocker enabled, and I also got nothing from the link. Disabling made everything OK again.

I would love this for my home, as well as at a smaller scale for my homelab, and even potentially things like power tools.

Just recently a friend doing a home reno project had one of their drill batteries achieve thermal runaway, fortunately while they were home. Made me really think twice about the pile of tools in my garage.

I’d trade in just about every portable-scale Li-ion battery I own for a slightly less energy dense but safer alternative.

Having been in many a Chinese Didi, the touch screens aren’t just bad for UI, they also have things like video backgrounds and advertising built in. Distracted driving waiting to happen.

I like to imagine the opposite scenario

Scientist 1: DEAR GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Scientist 2: Go away you weren’t supposed to -

Scientist 1: Wait, wasn’t that mouse blind? How can it see the -

Scientist 2: Yeah uhh… I was doing a uhh… An experiment… Look at that, it worked! Praise be! Better document everything for science! Good thing somebody left this camera here… Recording…

Great, which animal’s semen did we use to cure this one?

Is there a built in serrated cutter? If so, use that. If not, use box, it tends to be sturdier than the lid.