stoy
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- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
My mina home computer will allways be a desktop, though I do like a laptop as a complement.
In general I don’t want batteries in everything, I am very weary of lithium batteries after having seen videos of them going pop.
I have thought about building a dedicated charging cabinet, devided into separate charging lockers, with active cooling of the bottom plate in every locker.
I am concerned everytime I buy a new light for my camera setup, as I like the fexibillity of an integrated battery, but don’t trust the brand to know if it is safe.
I would love to have a carging cabinet as described above…
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
There are plenty times when custom solutions are better than generic ones.
Weather or not this is one such time can be debated.
All I noted in my last post was to explain reality.
Generic battery cells in laptops have been dead for a many years now.
Customers won’t accept a laptop thick enough to fit a battery of 18650 cells anymore.
I recently ordered a high power workstation for a user, a Zbook with a U9 cpu and 64GB of ram, that was just maybe 5mm thicker than the normal EliteBook 840 we buy, and holy shit, it felt really old when carrying it.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
- Customers demand thinner laptops, standard cells won’t fit.
- on HP and Dell’s professional laptops you can fairly easily replace the battery, they even publish service manuals with pictures showing how to do it.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
Are we going to tell him to crack open the pack and replace the individual cells that go bad, it’s usually safe with decent soldering, and an average volt/ohm meter to verify.
No.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 day ago:
The most important question about if you should replace the battery doesn’t concern the battery stats, it concerns the physical health of the battery:
Has it started swelling?
If it has, then yes, it is important to replace the battery, if it hasn’t, now you can consider the stats.
I am a professional IT technician, and this is professional advice.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Based on this evidence, I’d counter that he has ONLY done shit.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 1 week ago:
I did, but I can’t read Arabic text.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 1 week ago:
I don’t see a date?
- Comment on Opinions 1 week ago:
Swede here, Taco Bell recently opened here, and I went to try it last weekend.
It was disgusting, I had their recommended meal, some flat soft tortilla with minced meat, corn, cheese, salad and some sauce, with a side order of nacho crisps, and a Fanta thing from the machine.
The Fanta was ok, but tasted too much of sweetener, the nacho crisps were disappointing, and the wrap was just disgusting.
The cheese had a taste/smell similar to that of acid reflux, the meat was tasteless, the salad was basically non existant, the corn was there, I saw them, didn’t taste them at all.
The whole texture was like a soggy mess in a tortilla wrap.
For the rest of the day, I would feel sick at random times after eating it.
Sorry for the rant I have been wanting to complain for about a week now and when ai saw the logo I just had to.
For me, it is back to the Swedish classic, Taco Bar.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
Remember that watch history has the largest impact on what recommended videos will appear in his feed.
Curating the watch history is insanely effective, I have done it for a decade and it has helped me keep my feed 92% politics free, and 98% toxic masculinity free, I never knew about Tate until I started seeing reddit posts about what a terrible person he is.
I would actually show him this when he is old enough.
My strategy about this was to remove any content I don’t specifically want recommendations from, but has shifted to a more permissive stance where I will focus on removing videos that specifically harms my recommendations.
- Comment on life hack 2 weeks ago:
I think Helvetesgränd sounds far more dramatic than “hells alley”, mostly due to it containing the letter “r” so you can roll it in your mouth for added effect.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 2 weeks ago:
This is unrealistic, dead man switches has been a common part of trains and trams since the 1930s or so, it is therefore highly improbable that any tram operating would lack that critical piece of safety equipment.
Thus it is ridiculous to assume that the tram would continue on after the driver has been killed.
I refuse to participate further with this preposterous charade.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 2 weeks ago:
Why would a cigarette talk?
/s
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 2 weeks ago:
I would imagine that there are way more 360 discs out there in America
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 3 weeks ago:
I can see two reasons to pick an AIO over an air cooler, none of which has been a concern for me.
- Using a small case. In a small case you may not be able to fit an air cooler large enough to cool the CPU, an AIO is more flexible and is a great alternative in these cases.
- Needing to move your computer from place to place. The traditional tower air cooler puts a LOT of strain on the motherboard, this is fine for when the computer is in a static place, but when moving a computer, especially if you are driving, any bumps can cause the cooler to pull on the motherboard, possibly cracking the motherboard. An AIO with it’s smaller footprint is far less susceptible to that. I have a Noctua D15s as my cooler, and if I had to transport my computer in my car I would either remove the cooler and GPU before loading the computer in my car, or lay it down flat.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want water in my computer, simple as that.
- Comment on All Delisted Steam Games 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see it listing Microsoft Flight, I had it on steam for a while, and then it got removed…
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 4 weeks ago:
That is incorrect, they are just comically evil when it comes to protecting/creating business opportunities and preserving their power/influence, which is just 99.9%
Eh, who am I kidding, the US government is so tightly intertwined with business that their diplomats might as well be marketing officials for private industry.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 4 weeks ago:
When I grew up here in Sweden, milk came in these containers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra_Brik
The design of milk packaging is quite interesting;
kommerduihag.se/kommer-du-ihag-hur-mjolkpaket-sag…
15 years or so ago the Brik was changed to this:
www.arla.se/artiklar/var-vanligaste-forpackning/
It was apparently done for two reasons:
- EU regulations started requiring that milk packages were sold in resealable containers.
- Customers had requested the same to enable storing the packages lying down.
A smaller version of the tetrahedron style package is still in use for coffee milk.
- Comment on Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way. 4 weeks ago:
I recently discovered Turbo Overkill, it has some brilliant arcade shooter feel, a great 80s style, and some unique quirks.
I highly enjoyed it.
My favorite FPS is however Unreal Tournament 2004, which I heard will be handed off from Epic Games to a fan community, so the fan community maintains it. I don’t know if that means it will be open source, but it sounds good.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
Paying back quickly reduces the amount they can earn, lowering your credit score.Straight-up lie.
No, it doesn’t fit the definition of a lie, I didn’t know any better, so it was ignorance, not a lie, it would be nice if you could edit and correct this line.
The way I understand it, to raise your credit score you need to slowly pay back your loans, so you pay back maximum interest.You don’t understand it.
I wholeheartedly agree with you there.
Overall you do seem to know the subject better than me, so I will mostly defere to your judgement (apart from the thing about me lying).
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
I get what you mean, and agree to some extent, but the reality is that handling cash is expensive and dangerous.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a large wave of high profile armours car robberies in Sweden.
Some even completely blew up the armoured car.
This lead to a debate and a deliberate effort to reduce the ammount of cash used in Sweden.
I remember reading something about 97% of all transactions inside Sweden are now done electronically.
This has lead to banks having offices that don’t handle cash, and that banks are looking at cash deposits with suspicion, since you can’t trace cash.
This, as usual, only really affects normal poeple, and criminals have ways around it.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, I have been training daily
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
Here in Sweden, that would also have been rejected, most stores won’t accept cash at all.
I had to pay for my car using a wire transfer a few days before I picked it up.
I do think that it would have been funny to just use tap to pay, but apparently that would have increased the cost by a lot.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
Credit scores are used to tell companies how much they can earn on lending you money.
Paying back quickly reduces the amount they can earn, lowering your credit score.
Not paying it back obviously lowers the score.
The way I understand it, to raise your credit score you need to slowly pay back your loans, so you pay back maximum interest.
Note however that I am just a cynical IT guy in Sweden with zero actual exposure to US/UK style credit scores, and that I may be talking out of my ass.
- Comment on Uphill both ways in the snow, too! Ong, no cap! 4 weeks ago:
Not in Sweden, we use proper sugar in our ice creams
- Comment on Sign the Petition: Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide 4 weeks ago:
This has been done too much, I’d like to see a campaign to ban sodium chloride instead.
- Comment on I wish manufacturers would make a dPMR446 with a keyboard for texting 5 weeks ago:
Alright, thanks for a detailed answer, I don’t know much about radio, but I have been looking into meshtastic
- Comment on I wish manufacturers would make a dPMR446 with a keyboard for texting 5 weeks ago:
What about meshtastic?
- Comment on life hack 5 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the northern part of the current Prästgatan, “Priests Street”, in the Old Town in Stockholm.
Before 1885 that part of Prästgatan was called Helvetesgränd, “Hell’s ally”, which is an amazing street name in Swedish, and a brilliant metal album name in English.
The entire block was known as Helvetet, “Hell”.
This is the location:
maps.app.goo.gl/DGCAT98vZ7e8HwDUA
This is where the gallows were located.