Can I borrow someone's time machine?

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An ethernet switch, with no cables connected to it. There's one port where the link light is on.

Guess which was the lucky port to get zapped by the thunderstorm!

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A full view of a Sega/Stern WhiteStar pinball CPU board

Closeup of a PCB with battery leak damage and jumpers over the damaged parts.

Closeup of a PCB with battery leak damage and jumpers over the damaged parts.

Closeup of a PCB with battery leak damage and jumpers over the damaged parts.

Every now and then when I buy boards to be repaired, people throw in a total loss board or two. These are good for extracting parts that I might not have at hand or just to have a good laugh before pressing F for the poor, manhandled board.

I previously posted a […]

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A partially parted out PCB with a huge burnt hole in it, with some grey wires poking from it.

Back view of a burned PCB, with some jumpering over the burned to black area around the hole in it.

So you replace a fuse with an iron nail, which causes a transistor to run so hot it burns a hole in the PCB. So what do you do? Apparently some fine repair tech came to this problem and the apparent solution was to jumper over the now totally burned traces and […]

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We had a severe thunderstorm today. Fortunately at the arcade the only casualty was this smart power socket. #thunder #techgore

WorkSource website with placeholder text everywhere.

Can't reset my password. It says I don't meet the requirements when all of the boxes were checked. Then I go back to the sign in page and see this.

How do I get a fucking job in this world?

I hate everything.

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When the file is so big that it can’t be recycled and has to be deleted.

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KDE, love your work and the projects you operate...

But what the heck is this?

It upsets me enough that I'm already pilfering through GitHub and the kinfocenter source code just to find the part that controls this module so I can get rid of the ugly.

#Linux #Techgore #UI

A closeup of a PCB that shows extensive burn damage and has a gaping hole big enough to put a finger through.

A closeup of a PCB, with a huge burned area in the middle and a big, gaping hole in the middle. There's wires, jumpering the completely burned out PCB traces.

Going through old pics I came across this. This is a driver board I parted out, it was in a Striker Xtreme pin that arrived from Italy. Its high power circuitry was fused by several iron nails, thus when a transistor shorted, the PCB traces and the transistor […]

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some companies should outsource their IT operations...
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Lmao caught this at Cumberland Farms #techgore